William Paul Bell Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Australia

• Collaborating with developers of the US Agent-base Model of Electricity Systems and Australian Electricity Market Model called Prophet to improve confidence in infrastructure investment decisions using model averaging.• Investigating the introduction of a Day Ahead Market (DAM) into the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) as part of the above collaboration. • Collaborating with the Royal Society of Queensland on an electricity submission to Queensland Government, see the links below for details• Council member of the Royal Society of Queensland• Assistant Editor for the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland

Brisbane, Australia

• Principal researcher on project "China’s new low-carbon policies and implications for Australia" funded by the Australia-China Council and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade• Lead author on report "Inclusive growth and climate change adaptation and mitigation in Australia and China: Removing barriers to solving wicked problems" (see below project report for further details)• Publishing journal articles from the project "Increasing Wind Power in Australia Project" funded by Australian Research Council and wind generation industry partners (see projects in previous position)• Developing an under-graduate and post-graduate Agent-based Modeling course• Wining funding for a Collaborative Research Center Program from the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science in collaboration with UQ School of Chemistry and industry partners • Tutoring MATLAB component of stage one mathematics course

Brisbane, Australia

Researcher, modeller and EEMG's lead author on the following two projects. • An investigation of the impacts of increased power supply to the national grid by wind generators on the Australian electricity industry: ARC Linkage Project (LP110200957, 2011-2014)• Collinsville Solar Thermal Power Station(See projects below for further details)

Brisbane, Australia

Researcher, modeller and lead author on a report and project titled ‘Analysis of institutional adaptability to redress electricity infrastructure vulnerability due to climate change’ for the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF). This entailed:• writing 9 chapters of the report;• using neural networks to project electricity demand to 2030;• writing a journal paper on solar PV; and • conference presentations.(See project below for further details)

Brisbane, Australia

At the School of Economics tutoring the following courses: • Economics of Business Strategy;• Macroeconomic Theory; and• Macroeconomic Policy

Brisbane, Australia

Researcher, modeller and author on two projects: • 'Market and economic modelling of the impacts of distributed energy' for the CSIRO Intelligent Grid Research Cluster (iGrid) and • 'The impacts of carbon trading on the Australian electricity industry' for the the Australian Research Council (ARC) and industry partner AGL.These projects entailed: • using the Australian National Electricity Market (ANEM) model to simulate the effects of a carbon price and residential solar PV on the National Electricity Market (NEM); • writing MATLAB code to analyse the results; and • writing a chapter in the iGrid project report.• co-authoring the ARC project reports. (See projects below for further details)

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Modelling the impact of changes in policy, climate, renewable energy, transmission, fuel prices, and carbon pricing on the National Electricity Market's prices, emissions, transmission congestion and electricity generation to inform policy decisions. The current project discusses how researchers can augment their traditional publications and share their large research datasets in a format easily analysed by other researchers, while enhancing their own analytic capabilities. The case study is the Queensland Energy and Jobs Plan, and the data portal implemented using Power BI. The data portal presents the results from simulating the effect of implementing the plan on the Australian National Electricity Market, encompassing the eastern seaboard of Australia. The case study incorporates 198 simulations which are parameter sweeps of 9 scenarios of coal generation retirement and transmission augmentation, 2 wind levels, and 11 candidate years representing different weather conditions. The portal development process compares different data extraction, transformation, and load strategies and combines proven processes from Business Analysis and Data Management Bodies of Knowledge. The process result is a portal based on a relational database that provides a template for future projects, is simulation model agnostic, informs simulation model improvements, and provides a foundation for more advanced analytics. Future extensions could address dilemmas in the energy market, such as including generation and storage relying on high-frequency arbitrage within long-term development modelling

Australia

Australia

Longitudinal analysis of datasets

Brisbane, Australia

• Researching carbon budgets by economic sector • Developing a modelling tool and presentation to foster interdepartmental collaboration on carbon budgets by economic sector with Climate Works Australia for the Climate Transition Strategy• Providing support and expert knowledge on Qld’s economy as part of the advisory group to develop regional ‘Climate Change Risks and Opportunities’ economic impact scenarios with Ernest Young for the Climate Transition and Adaptation Strategies• Providing support and expert knowledge on energy efficiency to the ‘Cost benefit analysis for an energy efficiency scheme’ stakeholder engagement workshop with Energetics for the ‘Demand Management and Energy Efficiency Strategy’• Liaising with stakeholders in other government departments regarding energy and climate change• Supporting policy research using the National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting System• Providing executive management with advice through briefing notes and correspondence, key examples include: • Drafting mining sector emissions mitigation briefing paper • Drafting briefing paper on the Australian Energy Market Operator's Integrated System Plan • Drafting Agriculture and LULUCF emissions briefing paper

Brisbane, Australia

• Lead author and modeller on ‘Fuel excise treatment of biofuels including renewable diesel’• Contributing author to paper ‘Bio-futures – re-examine international policy settings’• Lead author on the Marine section of ‘Industry sectors research paper June 2017’• Co-author and investigator on the ‘Auto Innovation Lab Feasibility Study’• Contributing to process improvements on ‘Made in Queensland’ Grants Program and processing applications of which one became a template for the program

Phd, Economics

Four publications, click on the below links to access the publications: PhD Thesis - Brisbane 2009 • Adaptive Interactive Expectations.

Master Of Economics, Economics

Thesis: An evaluation of policies to reduce fiscal pressure induced by population ageing in Australia