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UQ expert available to comment on electricity changes

3 June 2014

WHO: Professor John Foster, Director of The University of Queensland’s Energy Economics and Management Group

WHERE: Global Change Institute, Building 20, Top of Staff House Road, The University of Queensland

WHEN: 4pm Tuesday 3 June 2014. Professor Foster is also available for live and pre-recorded radio and telephone interviews.  

Professor Foster researches energy economics with a focus on renewable energy and electrical power networks. He has more than 20 years experience modelling electricity transmission and distribution and researching energy policy.

 

Contact: Anna Moloney, Global Change Institute a.moloney@uq.edu.au, +61 (0)478 487 211 or +61 7 3443 3148.

Professor John Foster, j.foster@uq.edu.au,  +61 (0)418 119 320

 

More information:

The Global Change Institute at The University of Queensland, Australia, was established in 2010 as an independent source of game-changing research, ideas and advice for addressing the challenges of global change. GCI advances discovery, develops solutions and advocates responses that meet the challenges presented by climate change, technological innovation and population change.

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