About Us

The PEC provides access to a core of power, control and mechanical engineers and linkages to other disciplines as required to deliver high quality power and energy research. PEC has a strong customer focus and endeavors to build a strong partnership between its researchers and the energy industry through high quality research, continuing professional education and consultancy services. PEC has expertise in remote and rural power supply, power electronics applications in the distribution system, renewable energy integration, railway power systems, power systems harmonics, low-carbon transportation, energy efficiency in industrial, commercial and residential settings.

Research projects are carried out by research academics, professional research staff, project engineers and postgraduate students with support from technicians and software developers. This provides an excellent environment for postgraduate level study and research.

The Centre also offers applied research, technology transfer, and continuing education opportunities to the wider community within and outside the Central Queensland region. The Centre aims at developing state-of-the-art technologies necessary for improving the economy, efficiency and safety of Australia’s energy infrastructure through research, education and innovation.

PEC operates an impressive array of laboratory facilities including 750kVA dedicated AC and 500kW dedicated DC equipped heavy current laboratories.

Vision

PEC endeavors to engineer a strong binding of the academia and energy industry through quality commercial-in-confidence and generic research, research-training, continuing professional education and consultancy services, which will provide benefit and growth to all sectors.

Mission

PEC will have a strong customer focus and to this end it will effectively equip itself to meet the objectives of the wider energy industry through a range of research and staff development programmes. In particular the areas of our current strength will be further enhanced and new and emerging areas related to all aspects of the power and energy industry will be supported.

Focus

Our staff will provide high quality research, research training, information, and consultancy services to the wider power and energy industry. Our students will provide innovative outcomes in their industrially relevant research projects commensurate to the standards and ethics of our universities and to the complete satisfaction of our industry clients.
We partner with industry, large and small businesses and manufactures, government, and other research organisations to ensure we deliver useful and useable research for our customers and the community.