Shanil is a human geographer with a research background in issues of energy justice associated with transitions to renewable energy– in Australia and Sub-Saharan Africa. He is currently engaged in social research that examines the experiences of a range of stakeholders e.g. households and businesses, as they navigate the transition to a more renewable grid. He is particularly interested in how energy users understand and engage with energy systems e.g. solar home systems, and the issues of justice associated with them. He is also interested in the logic, motives and challenges underpinning corporate efforts to procure and promote renewable energy. Shanil is currently engaged in three CEEM projects: 24/7 Truzero, ESKIES, and the Essential Energy Tariff Trial.
Shanil Samarakoon
School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering
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Publications
| Title & place of publication | Author | Research area | Type | Links | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CEEM submission - Response to DCCEEW’s Renewable Electricity Guarantee of Origin Approach paper | Shanil Samarakoon, Anna Bruce, Mike Roberts, Dylan McConnell, Iain MacGill | Electricity Markets & Restructuring | Submissions | ||
| 24/7 TRUZERO submission - Response to DCCEEW’s Policy position paper for renewable electricity certification under the Guarantee of Origin scheme and for economy-wide use | Anna Bruce, Mike Roberts, Dylan McConnell, Rob Passey, Shanil Samarakoon, Iain MacGill, Steve Hoy | Electricity Markets & Restructuring | Submissions | DCCEEW, PDF | |
| Energy Resilience in Bushfires and Extreme Weather Events | Sophie Adams, Mike Roberts, Shanil Samarakoon, Ellie Kallmier, Rob Passey, Anna Bruce, Declan Kuch, Renate Egan, Michael Dillon, Rachel Szczepaniak, Iain MacGill, Alison Potter | Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation, Sustainability & general | Reports and Working Papers | ||
| The right to repairable energy: A political ecology of off-grid solar repair in Zambia | Paul Munro, Shanil Samarakoon, Matthew Kearnes, Courtney Paisley | Journal papers | Political Geography, 106 | ||
| Towards a repair research agenda for off-grid solar e-waste in the Global South | Paul Munro, Shanil Samarakoon, Anna Bruce, Ulrich E. Hansen, Matthew Kearnes, Jamie Cross, Sarah Walker, Collen Zalengera | Journal papers | Nature Energy, 8 | ||
| 'Off-Grid Electrical Urbanism: Emerging Solar Energy Geographies in Ordinary Cities', Journal of Urban Technology, 30 | Paul Munro, Shanil Samarakoon | Electricity Markets & Restructuring | Journal papers | Journal of Urban Technology, 30 | |
| 'The afterlives of off-grid solar: The dynamics of repair and e-waste in Malawi', Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 42 | Shanil Samarakoon, Paul Munro, Collen Zalengera, Matthew Kearnes | Sustainability & general | Journal papers | Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 42 | |
| 'Curtailment and Network Voltage Analysis Study (CANVAS)', Race for 2030, 2021 | Baran Yildiz, Sophie Adams, Shanil Samarakoon, Naomi Stringer , Anna Bruce, Iain MacGill | Electricity Markets & Restructuring, Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation | Reports and Working Papers | Race for 2030, Full Report PDF, Succinct PDF | |
| 'Curtailment and network voltage analysis study', IEEE, PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), 2021 | Baran Yildiz, Naomi Stringer , Sophie Adams, Shanil Samarakoon, Anna Bruce, Iain MacGill, Alistair B. Sproul | Electricity Markets & Restructuring, Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation | Journal papers | IEEE, PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia) | |
| Solar curtailment is emerging as a new challenge to overcome as Australia dashes for rooftop solar | Baran Yildiz, Sophie Adams, Shanil Samarakoon, Naomi Stringer | Electricity Markets & Restructuring, Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation | Articles | The Conversation | |
| The Afterlife of Solar | Paul Munro, Shanil Samarakoon | Large-scale Renewable Energy, Sustainability & general, Technology Assessments | Media | YouTube | |
| 'Somewhat original: energy ethics in Malawi’s off-grid solar market', Environmental Sociology, 7 | Shanil Samarakoon, Paul Munro, Anne Bartlett | Sustainability & general | Journal papers | Environmental Sociology, 7 | |
| 'Energy economics as an energy justice dilemma: Case studies of normative trade-offs in Malawi, Mexico and Germany', Routledge Handbook of Energy Economics, pp.317-327 | Shanil Samarakoon, Paul Munro, Kirsten Jenkins | Electricity Markets & Restructuring, Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation, Sustainability & general | Journal papers | Routledge Handbook of Energy Economics, pp.317-327 |