ERGO hosted a half-day seminar on 5 March 2004 presented by Professor Tim Mount of Cornell on the present status of electricity restructuring in the United States.

This workshop provided a briefing on the major blackout in Northeast America in August 2003 and the continuing saga of electricity industry restructuring in California. It also discussed current research at Cornell University into remedies for the problems that have occurred. The workshop was structured as two seminars.

 A 1-day Masterclass presented by Hugh Outhred in association with the IRR Queensland Power and Gas Conference on the 27th March 2006.

 a 3-day Masterclass presented by Hugh Outhred in association with IIR Conferences on the 22-24th August.

A 1 day Masterclass presented by Hugh Outhred at the Terrapinn conference in Sydney on the 23rd Nov, 2005.

A one-day Masterclass presented by Hugh Outhred and Iain MacGill in association with the Terrapinn Tasmania Power Conference on the 9th Nov 2005.

Three presentations from this workshop, held at UNSW on 31 January, 2005, are now available: "Introduction and agenda," Hugh Outhred [pdf], "The Electricity Research Centre and potential collaborations" Mark O'Malley [pdf] and "Operation and Planning in an All-Ireland Power System with Significant Wind Capacity" Ronen Doherty [pdf].

A 3-day short course presented by Hugh Outhred in association with IIR Conferences on 17-19th August.

Electricity Industry Restructuring: Lessons from the Australian experience, [pdf] and Electricity Industry Restructuring: Issues for Asian countries, [pdf]. Presentations by Hugh Outhred to EPRI International Conference on Global Electricity Industry Restructuring, San Francisco, May 2005.

by Prof. George Gross, Dept of Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Thursday 23 September 2004. Download the presentation [pdf].