ANU - Melbourne to lead new energy transition hub

The Australian National University (ANU) and The University of Melbourne will lead the Australian side of a new bilateral research collaboration with top German institutions to build economic and technological opportunities from the global transition to clean energy. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull noted the new Energy Transition Hub, expected to be worth more than $20 million at full funding stage, at the 2017 G20 meeting in Hamburg. The Energy Transition Hub will generate collaborative and world-leading research to help the technical, economic and social transition to new energy systems and a low emissions economy. It will bring together researchers from ANU, The University of Melbourne, and Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Münster University's Centre of Applied Economic Research, and the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). Researchers from Murdoch University, RMIT, Monash University, the German Aerospace Centre DLR, DIW and the Hertie School of Governance will also be involved, with the Hub open for further partners. It will include more than 60 Australian researchers and industry partners. The initiative will kick off with joint research on strategic scenario analysis of energy transition issues, supported on the German side by Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research.