Emily Cooper

Emily is an economist at Frontier Economics who works primarily within our energy and renewables practices with a focus on our proprietary energy42 economic model. She has advised investors, governments and network businesses in the electricity and renewables sectors in the National Electricity Market (NEM). Much of her work is anchored in energy market modelling and quantitative analysis, advising on:

• system planning exercises,
• policy evaluation,
•  wholesale price,
• commercial revenue forecasts, and
• portfolio and facility optimisation.   

Prior to joining Frontier Economics, Emily worked as a consultant at Endgame Analytics providing electricity market modelling advice. She holds degrees in mathematics and data science, with first class honours and the University Medal in applied mathematics from The University of Sydney.   

Energy market advice

Emily uses optimisation and energy market modelling to provide advice on the value of investment within the energy sector.  

Examples of projects Emily has worked on include:  

• Large-scale system planning for NSW Distribution Network Service Providers (DNSPs) on the inaugural NSW Distribution System Plan (DSP) – Opportunities Report. 

• Assessing the impact of Eraring Power Station’s closure to inform the NSW government’s discussions with Origin Energy.  

• Evaluating the impact of enabling and accelerating vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and vehicle-to-home (V2H) uptake in the NEM to inform the National Roadmap for Bidirectional EV Charging. 

• Analysing the distribution of renewable energy lulls in NSW to inform reliability analysis for AusEnergy Limited (ASL)’s Infrastructure and Investment Objectives Report. 

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