CRC RACE for 2030
"By 2030, RACE and our partners are committed to accelerating change to achieve these outcomes:
- Energy costs cut by $3.9 billion cumulatively
- Committed emissions reductions of 20 megatonnes of carbon dioxide cumulatively
- Load flexibility increased
- Successful Australian energy technology service businesses built
- Job creation
- A legacy of sustainable programs, know-how and capacity to drive ongoing decarbonisation."
Source: RACE for 2030
Griffith University is part of the team comprising government, research and industry partners forming the RACE for 2030 Cooperative Research Centre (CRC). Associate Professor Cara Beal will supervise successful PhD candidate, Cynthia Coyne, along with Dr Melissa Jackson. Cynthia's study is supported by a three-year industry scholarship, working on community approaches to ensure long-term success of renewable microgrids in (non-urban) Indigenous communities. It aims to look at the non-technical barriers to adoption of new technology - often over-looked when engineering solutions continue to be considered in isolation.
CRC RACE PhD Scholarship
Cynthia Coyne is the successful recipient of the CRC RACE for 2030 PhD scholarship provided by Horizon Power and Western Power. Cynthia is a First Nations Australian woman born in Katherine. She has socio-cultural and kinship affiliations to the Yawuru and Jukun peoples of Broome, and Jaru people in the East Kimberley. Cynthia's research will be on socio-cultural aspects of renewable microgrids in Indigenous communities.