Dr Shukla Poddar
Research Associate
Engineering
Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering
Shukla is a post-doc in the School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW. She is working on ARENA funded project on advanced O&M modelling. Her research focuses on understanding the implications of extreme weather events on energy generation, exploring synergy between wind and solar technology, modelling future PV module degradation rates. She recently completed her PhD from UNSW and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. During her PhD she has explored the impacts of impact of climate change on the PV power production. She is also interested in long-term and short-term energy forecasting, ramp event prediction and understanding variability of solar energy resources.
She is passionate about science communication and science outreach. She has been selected for 2024 UNSW STEMM Champions program where she is involved in several school outreach activities to support and inspire girls to pursue a career in STEMM.
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Location
Tyree , Energy and Technology , Building (TETB)
Level 1-161WS30
- Publications
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- Awards
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- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
- ♦ Awarded joint UNSW Engineering and Australian Human Rights Institute seed funding for designing hybrid solar and wind farm in Fiji and French Polynesia (April 2024).
- ♦ Awarded UNSW Digital Grid Future Institute seed funding for Renewable Energy Assessment & Projection (March 2024)
- ♦ Awarded the UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute travel grant (October 2022) for travel related to decarbonisation and renewable technology integration.
- ♦ Awarded 2022 SPREE school travel grant (October 2022)
- ♦ Awarded the 2023 ARC PGC research candidate award for promoting climate change awareness in energy sector.
- ♦ Awarded the 2022 UNSW Excellence Awards for "Teaching and Innovation" by Faculty of Engineering, UNSW to the Play Energy team for gamification of SOLA1070 Sustainable Energy course.
- ♦ Awarded the 2022 Faculty of Engineering Outstanding Higher Degree Research Student
- ♦ Awarded the 2022 Engagement and Impact Prize (November 2022) by ARC Centre of Excellence of Climate Extremes for communicating science beyond academia by an early career researcher.
- ♦ Awarded the Monica Oliphant Award for best poster by a female student at the Asia Pacific Solar Research Conference (APSRC), 2021.
- ♦ Understanding weather induced intermittency on renewable energy generation
- ♦ Modelling complex Photovoltaic (PV) module degradation processes.
- ♦ Understanding impact of extreme weather events on renewable energy generation and providing optimum management strategies.
- ♦ Climate change impacts on future renewable energy generation.
Some of my media interactions are listed here:
- Interview for Icona Clima on "Future solar resource reliability and intermittency" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br0ljczIMPg)
- PV magazine interview on"Solar power ramps and impact of future climate change on ramps" (https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2023/08/07/modelling-shows-solar-ramps-future-threat-to-grid-stability/)
- Radio interview for PowerFM 5MU breakfast news to share insights on "future PV intermittency in Australia"
- PV magazine Interview on "Long term changes in the future PV potential in Australia" (https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/11/04/future-climate-scenarios-to-adversely-affect-australias-pv-capacity/)