Staff Profile
Dylan McConnell
ARC Early Career Industry Fellow, UNSW Sydney
Dr Dylan McConnell is an Energy Systems Researcher at UNSW Sydney and the recipient of an ARC Early Career Industry Fellowship in collaboration with TSI. This project will focus on developing open energy system modelling to drive rapid decarbonisation and realisation of the superpower opportunity.
Dylan’s work is focused on electricity infrastructure and governance, and the energy transition in liberalised electricity markets. He also specialises in operations research and the optimisation of electricity systems.
His work is interdisciplinary and has been published in forums including the Journal of Energy Policy, the Journal of Applied Energy, the Electricity Journal, and the Journal of Environmental Sociology.
Work
The Superpower Transformation: Making Australia's zero-carbon future
Ross Garnaut and contributors offer compelling new evidence that stronger and earlier action on climate change will be good for jobs and incomes, including in rural and regional Australia.
A Green Iron Plan for Australia: Securing prosperity in a decarbonising world
Australia is uniquely positioned to become a world leader in green iron production. With soundly based policy settings and timely action, this opportunity can underpin prosperity for generations.
