Mike Roberts

Research Associate
m.roberts@unsw.edu.au

Mike is a Research Associate in CEEM and at the School for Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering at UNSW and a Solar Analyst at the Australian PV Institute. His research includes technical and economic data analysis and policy approaches for distributed renewables and the energy transition. Particular interests include distributed photovoltaics, demand management, energy storage, mini-grids and embedded networks, solar potential assessment and community renewable energy. Mike's doctoral thesis explored opportunities and barriers for deployment of distributed PV on multi-occupancy residential buildings.

The following lists Mike’s publications released through UNSW.

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Publications

Title & place of publication Author Research area Type Links Yearsort descending
'PV in Australian Apartment Buildings – Opportunities and Barriers', APSRC 2015, Brisbane, Australia Mike Roberts , Anna Bruce , Iain MacGill Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation Conference Papers Pdf 2015
'Using PV to help meet Common Property Energy Demand in Residential Apartment Buildings', 2016 Australian Summer Study on Energy Productivity, Sydney, Australia Mike Roberts , Gareth Huxham, Anna Bruce , Iain MacGill Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation Conference Papers Pdf 2016
’Submission in response to the NSW Dept of Planning & Environment Discussion Paper on Consumer Protections’, Dec  Mike Roberts , Iain MacGill , Rob Passey Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation Submissions pdf 2017
'PV for Apartment Builldings: Which Side of the Meter?', APSRC 2017, Melbourne, Australia Mike Roberts , Anna Bruce , Iain MacGill Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation Conference Papers pdf, link 2017
'Submission to the AEMC review of regulatory arrangements for embedded networks’ Mike Roberts , Rob Passey, Anna Bruce , Iain MacGill Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation Submissions pdf 2017
'Submission in response to the AEMC’s Distribution Market Model draft report, AEMC Project Number SEA0004’ Naomi Stringer, Mike Roberts , Sharon Young, Rob Passey , Anna Bruce , Iain MacGill Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation Submissions pdf 2017
’Submission in response to the AEMC’s draft report on the review of regulatory arrangements for embedded networks' Mike Roberts , Rob Passey , Anna Bruce , Iain MacGill Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation Submissions pdf 2017
'Collective Prosumerism: Accessing the Potential of Embedded Networks to Increase the Deployment of Distributed Generation on Australian Apartment Buildings', Energycon 2018, Limasol, Cyprus Mike Roberts , Anna Bruce , Iain MacGill Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation Conference Papers Pdf 2018
'Spatial Analysis of Solar Potential in Adelaide', prepared for the Australian PV Institute Jessie Copper, Anna Bruce , Mike Roberts Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation Reports and Working Papers link 2018
'Analysis of Rooftop Solar Potential on Australian Residential Buildings', APSRC 2018, Sydney, Australia Mike Roberts , Jessie Copper, Anna Bruce Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation Conference Papers pdf, RG 2018
'Opportunities and Barriers for Photovoltaics on Multi-Unit Residential Buildings: Reviewing the Australian Experience’, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews 109: 95-110 Mike Roberts , Anna Bruce , Iain MacGill Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation Journal Papers link, RG, DOI 2019
An Energy Data Manifesto, in Good Data, Edited by A. Daly, S.K. Devitt, and M. Mann, Institute of Network Cultures: Amsterdam. Declan Kuch , Naomi Stringer, Luke Marshall , Sharon Young, Mike Roberts , Iain MacGill , Anna Bruce , Rob Passey Sustainability & general Book Chapters link, pdf, RG 2019
'Photovoltaics on Apartment Buildings', Project report to Energy Consumers Australia Mike Roberts , Anna Bruce , Iain MacGill , Jessie Copper, Navid Haghdadi , Rob Passey , Rebecca Hu, Tyce Barton Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation Reports and Working Papers link, RG 2019
'Impact of shared battery energy storage systems on photovoltaic self-consumption and electricity bills in apartment buildings',Applied Energy, 245: 78-95 Mike Roberts , Anna Bruce , Iain MacGill Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation Journal Papers link, RG, public link 2019