Adjunct Associate Professor Monica Oliphant AO – ” A Brief History of Electricity and Renewable Energy in South Australia”

Monica Oliphant is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of South Australia, a University Fellow at Charles Darwin University and also runs her own Consultancy.  She worked 18 years for the electricity utility ETSA as a research scientist in the areas of renewable energy and energy efficiency and was involved in the SA Government’s wind resource assessment program in the late 1980’s.

Adjunct Associate Professor Oliphant is a member of the International Solar Energy Society and was President from 2008 – 2009.  Monica has travelled extensively overseas, speaking at Conferences and meetings.

Adjunct Associate Professor Oliphant has participated on many Australian Federal and State Government Committees and was a Board member of both the Premier’s Round Table in sustainability and then Renewables SA.  She received an AO in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours List in recognition of her work in Renewable Energy and was named 2016 Senior South Australian of the Year.