Dr Steven Percy

Biography

Steven is a Senior Research Fellow at the Victorian Hydrogen Hub (VH2) at the Swinburne University of Technology. Steven leads VH2's research in hydrogen infrastructure modelling and works on numerous research projects with VH2’s industry partners. Steven's research focuses on assessing Australia's potential to become an internationally competitive green hydrogen producer and how this will interact with our current energy supply system, and the role policy and regulation will play in this transition.

Steven is a 2020 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow in hydrogen research. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Melbourne in 2018 and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Sydney in 2009. Before joining Swinburne, Steven worked for three years at the Victoria Energy Policy Centre at Victoria University, leading research in energy storage and wholesale electricity markets. Steven has expertise in providing advice to governments, industry, regulators and interest groups.

Steven worked as a Research Engineer at CSIRO Energy Technology, Australia (2009-2014) and has held research positions at IBM-Research, Melbourne, Australia and the University of California, Berkeley, USA. In his career, he has worked on renewable energy transitions, renewable energy modelling, microgrids, electricity market modelling, battery storage economics, energy policy and distributed generation.