Masters and honours dissertation titles
Listed below are dissertations on the topic of energy completed by past students for years 2006 to present, including title and the name of the supervisor involved.
2016
Student name |
Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
Wairarapa Young |
100% renewable electricity - Samoa's pursuit of complete fossil fuel independence in electricity generation |
Bart van Campen |
Rob Omeara |
Market for mobile solar-hybrid PV systems |
Bart van Campen |
| Caity Buther | Benefits of a Smart grid | Steve Poletti |
2015
| Student name | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Twort | An empirical examination of consumer switching in retail electricity markets: A New Zealand perspective | Erwann Sbai |
| Kade Sorensen | Estimating hedge contract quantities for generation firms operating in the New Zealand electricity market | Erwann Sbai |
Jati Permana Kurniawan |
Geothermal regulation and joint operation contracts in Indonesia |
Bart van Campen |
Andres Akamine |
Reducing the risk of geothermal energy investment in Peru |
Bart van Campen |
O'Dane Daley |
Wind farm optimization and economics in Jamaica |
Bart van Campen |
Roby Hermawan |
Optimization of electricity network in South Sulawesi for long-term scenario using linear programming |
Golbon Zakeri |
| Ben Barton | Yesterday’s bread – a culinary resource not worth selling | Steve Poletti |
2014
| Student name | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Fudong Gao | Empirical estimation of firms market power | Erwann Sbai |
| Charles Lilly | Time series study of public transport demand in Auckland | Erwann Sbai |
| Myoung Kim | Econometric study of the NZ government bonds selling mechanism | Erwann Sbai |
Victor Fuentes |
Geothermal electricity generation in Chile: An analysis from the experience of New Zealand |
Bart van Campen |
Todd Douglas |
Business models for more rapid domestic solar photovoltaic deployment in New Zealand |
Bart van Campen |
Guan Tay |
Investigation into the grid integration issues of wind energy in the Pacific Island countries |
Bart van Campen |
Roy Ngunts Daggy |
Potential for regulatory reform and increased competition in the electricity sector in Papua New Guinea |
Bart van Campen |
Gareth Webster |
The competitive effect of transmission capacity in the 2025 New Zealand electricity market |
Steve Poletti |
| Alina Smirnova | Economics of feed-in-tariffs for renewable electricity generation in New Zealand | Steve Poletti |
2013
| Student name | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Qiu Nan Liang | Estimating electricity consumption in New Zealand | Basil Sharp |
| Gareth Webster | Oil and gas development - Analysis of government royalty regimes | Basil Sharp |
| Sandeep Parekh | Resilience of New Zealand's energy infrastructure | Basil Sharp |
| Fudong Gao | How electricity demand responses to spot price | Erwann Sbai |
| Jingjing Ji | How to empirically estimate firms’ Market Power | Erwann Sbai |
| Anna Lau | The impact of swapping assets on electricity prices and share prices in New Zealand market | Steve Poletti |
Samantha Goodhue |
Demand-side participation analysis of a large consumer in the New Zealand electricity market |
Golbon Zakeri |
Damien Sunny |
On electricity dispatch for Papua New Guinea |
Golbon Zakeri |
Michael Leon |
A financial transmission rights simulator for the NZEM |
Golbon Zakeri/Tony Downward |
2012
| Student name | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Huu Tam Nguyen | The impact of wind power on electricity nodal prices in NZ | Basil Sharp |
| Eun Jin Cho | Alternative methods for forecasting short-term demand in electricity market | Erwann Sbai |
| Vladamir Kuzmanoski | Can solar power increase the value of wind generation? | Steve Poletti |
| Yewen Jiang | Modelling electricity prices with hydro inflows and lake levels | Steve Poletti |
| Yan Lau | Intermittent wind generation and electric cars in the NZ electricity market | Steve Poletti |
Ju Liu
|
Modelling the impact of climate change on the NZ electricity market |
Steve Poletti |
Himanshu Rawat |
Modelling electricity prices with large amounts of solar generation |
Steve Poletti (co-supervisor) |
2011
| Student name | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Huang Qi | The direct use of natural gas in New Zealand for small users | Bart van Campen |
| Oliver Browne | Optimal emissions of GHG under stochastic catastrophic risk | Basil Sharp |
| Tie Deng | Pump storage, batteries and the NZ electricity market | Steve Poletti |
| John Polkinghorne | Modelling transport energy demand | Steve Poletti |
Bob Tieg |
Pump storage in the New Zealand electricity market |
Steve Poletti |
Oliver Brown
|
The Economics of Climate Change Tipping Points |
Steve Poletti |
2010
| Student name | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Alex John | Simplying the national grid – finding a good model for research | David Young and Golbon Zakeri |
| Alexander Yap | Integration of private electric vehicles into the transportation fleet | Basil Sharp |
| Ben Gusson | Integrating wind generation in the New Zealand electricity market | Steve Poletti and David Young |
Isaac Rolfe |
Auckland Transportation: Roading, Transit & Sustainable Development | Steve Poletti and Basil Sharp |
| Jack Phattaprayoon | Mobile phone termination charges or broadband infrastructure and access | Steve Poletti and John Panzar |
| John Polkinghorne | Factors affecting household demand for energy | Basil Sharp |
| Julia Brown | Pricing and asset valuation issues including New Zealand airports | John Panzar |
| Karla Gardiner | Optimal development of a geothermal resource | Basil Sharp |
| Kin Chung Chan | Evaluation of the Impact of Electric Vehicles on the New Zealand Electricity Market | Steve Poletti and David Young |
| Kittiwut Phathraprayoon | Telecommunication Regulation: Should Mobile Termination Access Services be Regulated? | Steve Poletti and John Panzar |
| Lifeng Daisy Shen | Vertical arrangements and market power in electricity markets | John Panzar |
| Marcus Sin | How to empirically estimate firms’ market power | Erwan Sbai |
| Michael Hart | New Zealand electricity market | Erwan Sbai |
| Nada Al Saeed | Climate Change and the Aviation Industry: A Review | Steve Poletti |
| Rachel Li | Evaluation impacts associated with wind farms and wave energy | Basil Sharp |
| Robbie Turner | A capacity market as part of the New Zealand electricity market design | Steve Poletti |
| Tony So | Evaluation of external impacts and implications associated with energy generation in New Zealand | Basil Sharp |
| Veselina Pencheva | Asset swapping in New Zealand | Tony Downwards, David Young, and Golbon Zakeri |
2009
| Student name | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Ankit Singh | The economics of road building | Steve Poletti |
| Karla Gardiner | Forestry initiatives in carbon constrained world | Basil Sharp |
| Michael Hart | EU carbon markets EU | Erwan Sbai |
| Richard Wilks | Forecasting electricity spot prices | Erwan Sbai |
| Robbie Turner | Bilateral carbon trading | Erwan Sbai |
| Sophie Joyce | ABMS modelling in the New Zealand electricity market | Steve Poletti and David Young |
| Ben Gussen | The Impact of Wind Penetration on the New Zealand Electricity Market | Steve Poletti and David Young |
| Steve Poletti and David Young |
2008
| Student name | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Seong-jin Han | A time series analysis of Auckland bus patronage Using A Vector Error Correction Model |
|
| Aram Ter-Sarkisov | Heuristic approximation of windfarm output using genetic algorithms | |
| Roger Stewart | NZ ETS and the rejected carbon tax system: A comparison | |
| Jordan Ward | Investing in carbon abatement: The gap between public economics and private investment realities |
2007
| Student name | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Luca Ma | Carbon credit exchange trading | Basil Sharp |
| Mel Luen | Forecasting electricity demand | Erwann Sbai |
| Kenneth Gillingham | Economics of distributed generation solar energy in New Zealand | John Panzar and Steve Poletti |
| Aram TerSarkisov | Modelling electricity prices | Erwann Sbai |
2006
| Student name | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Jiani Wu | Variation of electricity spot price in New Zealand: An empirical study and vertical integration in the New Zealand electricity market | John Panzar |
| Renee Casin | Investment incentive structures for electricity transmission and Transpower’s battle with the New Zealand Commerce Commission | John Panzar |
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