1. RDA Capacity Building –
opportunities for RDAs to facilitate
community engagement in
renewable energy initiatives
Project overview
Igor Skryabin

2. Project Activities
• Scope out opportunities embodied in the Clean Energy
Futures package to support the facilitation of community
involvement by RDAs in their region
• Develop a model of an integrated energy system that
could be incorporated into a regional spatial plan
• Identify knowledge and implementation gaps that may
prevent uptake of these opportunities and suggest ways
of closing the gap
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3. Project Deliverables
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4. Relevant Research at ANU
• Energy and Climate Change Policy
• Environmental and Energy Law
• Energy Storage : ACT and broader
• ACT Advanced Energy Demonstration
Project (roof-top solar + storage)
• Asia Pacific Super Grid
• Solar School Communities
• Technologies
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5. Energy Literacy
• Assessment of technologies – in business
• Assessment and development of
government policies – in democracy
• Purchasing decisions – for consumers
• Energy Literacy comes from local
knowledge
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6. The ANU Energy Change Institute led by Prof. Baldwin
has assembled a multidisciplinary project team.
The project is managed by Dr Igor Skryabin (MBA, MIP)
and involves 3 research subthemes as shown in the
Project Management Structure
ANU
diagram. Each subtheme comprises an ANU honours Energy Change Institute
research project supervised by an academic experienced Director Prof. Ken Baldwin
in the relevant field.
Energy Change
Institute Secretariat
Dr Igor Skryabin
Energy Change Institute
Business Dev. Manager Dr James Prest
College of Law
Dr Maria Racionero
Research School of
Economics
Honours Project
TBA
Honours Project Economics
Anirudh Devanathan Dr Robet Dyball Dr Frank Mills
Model for Integrated Energy Fenner School of Research School of
System Environment and Physics and
Society Engineering
Honours Project
Honours Project Public Policy Engineering
Jemma Williams1 Ashton Walker
Community Engagement Implementation Gaps
p Project contact person

7. Key Dates
Key dates in the project timeline.
• December 2012: Establishment of the project reference group
• January 2013: The project is divided into 3 research streams
with an honours student project established in each stream.
• February 2013: Project Reference Group Established
• March 2013; The first stakeholder meeting at the ANU to
introduce the project to the reference group
• April 2013; Each reference group member will be met and
interviewed
• May 2013; The second stakeholder meeting will be held at the
ANU to present the draft project report.
• June 2013; A Final Project report will be presented to the DRA.
• June- November 2013: Academic content of honours research
projects. Follow-up activities.
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