Pourmousavi Kani, Seyyed Ali

School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Adelaide University

MERIT Lab

Markets, Energy Resources & Intelligent Technologies

Where energy markets, resources, and intelligence meet.

MERIT Lab builds the algorithms, technologies, and market mechanisms that let renewable energy, storage, and electrified industry actually operate together.

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90+

Publications

3,700+

Citations

$3M+

Research Funding

PhD Graduates

What We Do

Three strands of work, and the overlap where our contribution lives

Markets

Electricity market design, bidding and settlement, tariffs, aggregation and VPP business models: the economics that decide whether a technology gets built.

Energy Resources

Batteries, renewables, EVs, flexible demand, as well as mining and industrial electrification: the physical assets and how they behave.

Intelligent Technologies

Optimisation, forecasting, and AI that coordinate those assets in real time, under uncertainty.

Most groups work in one of these. Our work lives in the overlap. A battery is only worth what the market pays it, and it only earns that if the algorithm bids it correctly — so we design the asset, the algorithm, and the market rule together.

Dr. Ali Pourmousavi

Director, MERIT Lab · Senior Lecturer in Power Systems Engineering · IEEE Senior Member

Ali leads MERIT Lab at Adelaide University's School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. His work spans battery storage optimisation, electricity market design, smart grid integration, and the electrification of mining and heavy industry, backed by more than $3M in research funding and a decade of collaboration with utilities, network operators, and mining companies. He serves on the board of OptiGrid Pty Ltd, the spin-off commercialising the Lab's work.

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Director — Background

Education and professional career in power systems and renewable energy

Education & Training

2014

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering

Montana State University, USA

2008

M.Sc. Electrical Engineering

Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran

2005

B.Sc. Electrical Engineering

University of Mazandaran, Iran

Professional Appointments

2023 - Present

Senior Lecturer

Adelaide University

2019 - 2022

Lecturer

Adelaide University

2017 - 2019

Research Fellow

University of Queensland

2017

Postdoc

Technical University of Denmark

2015 - 2016

Researcher

NEC Laboratories America

2014 - 2015

Postdoctoral Scientist

NEC Laboratories America

Flagship Projects

Current and completed projects in renewable energy integration, battery optimisation, and sustainable mining

Completed

FRESNO

Flexibility Aggregator Simulation Platform

Adelaide University + Watts A/S Denmark

Revolutionary platform for simulating advanced smart grid operations at distribution level. Facilitating massive renewable integration and electric vehicle adoption.

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