Researcher biography
Phillip Wild conducts research at the University of Queensland and brings agent based modelling capability to projects 1 'Control Methodologies of Distributed Generation' and project 2 'Market and Economic Modelling of the impacts of Distributed Generation'. Phillip's previous research experience has been in the areas of econometric modelling of National Energy Market (NEM) spot price and load time series data, 'levelised cost' and 'agent based' modelling of the NEM. Dr Wild has a PhD from the University of Queensland specialising in the field of macro-economic modelling.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
- Bachelor of Economics (Honours), The University of Queensland
Publications
Book
Foster, John, Bell, William Paul, Wild, Phillip, Sharma, Deepak, Sandu, Suwin, Froome, Craig, Wagner, Liam, Misra, Suchi and Bagia, Ravindra (2013). Analysis of institutional adaptability to redress electricity infrastructure vulnerability due to climate change. Southport, QLD, Australia: National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility.
Book Chapters
Wild, Phillip, Bell, William Paul and Foster, John (2014). The impact of carbon prices on Australia's national electricity market. Carbon pricing: early experiences and future prospects. (pp. 101-122) edited by John Quiggin, David Adamson and Daniel Quiggin. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781782547747.00020
Foster, J. and Wild, P. (2000). The detection of evolutionary change in nonlinear economic processes: A new statistical methodology. Commerce, Complexity and Evolution. (pp. 233-252) edited by W. A. Warnett, C. Chiarella, S. Keen, R. Marks and H. Schnald. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Foster, J. and Wild, P. (2000). Detecting self-organisational change in economic processes exhibiting logistic growth. Economic evolution, learning, and complexity. (pp. 159-183) edited by Uwe Cantner, Horst Hanusch and Steven Klepper. Heidelberg, NY: Physica-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-57646-1_8
Journal Articles
Pourmousavi Kani, Seyyed Ali, Wild, Phillip and Saha, Tapan K. (2018). Improving predictability of renewable generation through optimal battery sizing. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 11 (1) 8544048, 1-1. doi: 10.1109/TSTE.2018.2883424
Bell, William Paul, Wild, Phillip, Foster, John and Hewson, Michael (2017). Revitalising the wind power induced merit order effect to reduce wholesale and retail electricity prices in Australia. Energy Economics, 67, 224-241. doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2017.08.003
Wild, Phillip (2017). Determining commercially viable two-way and one-way ‘Contract-for-Difference’ strike prices and revenue receipts. Energy Policy, 110, 191-201. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2017.08.020
Bell, William Paul, Wild, Phillip, Foster, John and Hewson, Michael (2015). Wind speed and electricity demand correlation analysis in the Australian National Electricity Market: determining wind turbine generators’ ability to meet electricity demand without energy storage. Economic Analysis and Policy, 48, 182-191. doi: 10.1016/j.eap.2015.11.009
Wild, Phillip, Bell, William Paul and Foster, John (2015). Impact of carbon prices on wholesale electricity prices and carbon pass-through rates in the Australian national electricity market. The Energy Journal, 36 (3), 137-153. doi: 10.5547/01956574.36.3.pwil
Wild, Phillip, Foster, John and Hinich, Melvin. J. (2013). Testing for non-linear and time irreversible probabilistic structure in high frequency financial time series data. Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics In Society, 177 (3), 643-659. doi: 10.1111/rssa.12037
Hinich, Melvin J., Foster, John and Wild, Phillip (2010). A statistical uncertainty principle for estimating the time of a discrete shift in the mean of a continuous time random process. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 140 (12), 3688-3692. doi: 10.1016/j.jspi.2010.04.034
Wild, Phillip, Hinich, Melvin J. and Foster, John (2010). Are daily and weekly load and spot price dynamics in Australia's National Electricity Market governed by episodic nonlinearity?. Energy Economics, 32 (5), 1082-1091. doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2010.07.003
Wild, Phillip, Foster, John and Hinich, Melvin J. (2010). Identifying nonlinear serial dependence in volatile, high-frequency time series and its implications for volatility modeling. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 14 (Supp. 1), 88-110. doi: 10.1017/S1365100509090543
Simshauser, Paul and Wild, Phillip (2009). The Western Australian power dilemma. Australian Economic Papers, 48 (4), 342-369. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8454.2009.00381.x
Hinich, Melvin, Foster, John and Wild, Phillip (2009). Discrete fourier transform filters: Cycle extraction and Gibbs effect considerations. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 13 (4), 523-534. doi: 10.1017/S1365100509080237
Foster, John, Hinich, Melvin J. and Wild, Phillip (2008). Randomly modulated periodic signals in Australia's National Electricity Market. The Energy Journal, 29 (3), 105-129. doi: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol29-No3-6
Hinich, MJ, Foster, J and Wild, P (2006). Structural change in macroeconomic time series: A complex systems perspective. Journal of Macroeconomics, 28 (1), 136-150. doi: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2005.10.009
Hinich, MJ and Wild, P (2005). Detecting finite bandwidth periodic signals in stationary noise using the signal coherence spectrum. Signal Processing, 85 (8), 1557-1562. doi: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2005.02.008
Wild, P (2002). A spectral-based cusum test of evolutionary change. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 6 (3), 385-407. doi: 10.1017/S1365100599990089
Hinich, M. J. and Wild, P. (2001). Testing time-series stationarity against an alternative whose mean is periodic. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 5 (3), 380-412. doi: 10.1017/S1365100500020034
Wild, P. (2001). Size and power properties of the AH test of evolutionary change. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 5 (5), 748-763. doi: 10.1017/S1365100501031054
Foster, J. and Wild, P. (1999). Econometric modelling in the presence of evolutionary change. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 23 (6), 749-770. doi: 10.1093/cje/23.6.749
Foster, J. and Wild, P. (1999). Detecting self-organisational change in economic processes exhibiting logistic growth. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 9 (1), 109-133. doi: 10.1007/s001910050077
Foster, J. and Wild, P. T. (1996). Economics and the science of synergetics. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 6 (3), 239-260. doi: 10.1007/BF01193632
Conference Papers
Pourmousavi, Seyyed Ali, Wild, Phillip, Bai, Feifei, Yan, Ruifeng, Saha, Tapan and Eghbal, Daniel (2018). Learning from a 3.275 MW utility-scale PV plant project: Update and new remarks. CIGRE Conference, Paris, France, 26-31 August 2018. Paris, France: CIGRE.
Wild, Phillip (2016). Impact of module soiling on the productive performance of three solar PV technologies at Gatton. 2016 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2016, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 25 - 28 September 2016. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/AUPEC.2016.07749342
Wild, Phillip (2016). Comparative assessment of the productive performance of three solar PV technologies at Gatton. 2016 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2016, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 25 - 28 September 2016. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/AUPEC.2016.07749330
Bell, William Paul, Wild, Phillip and Foster, John (2015). The sensitivity of concentrated solar power yield to climate change. Australian Conference of Economists 2015, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 7-10 July, 2015.
Bell, William Paul, Wild, Phillip and Foster, John (2015). The transformative effect of unscheduled generation by solar PV and wind generation on net electricity demand. 2013 IAEE: 36th Annual International Association for Energy Economics Conference, Daegu, Korea, 16-20 June 2013. Cleveland, OH, United States: International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE).
Bell, William Paul, Wild, Phillip and Foster, John (2014). Climate change and the National Electricity Market. Climate Action Summit 2014, Brisbane, Australia, 20-21 September, 2014.
Working Papers
Bell, William Paul, Wild, Phillip, Foster, John and Hewson, Michael (2015). NEMLink: Augmenting the Australian National Electricity Market transmission grid to facilitate increased wind turbine generation and its effect on wholesale spot prices. EEMG Working Papers. 10. Energy Economics and Manegment Group, University of Queensland.
Bell, William Paul, Wild, Phillip, Foster, John and Hewson, Michael (2015). NEMLink: Augmenting the Australian National Electricity Market transmission grid to facilitate increased wind turbine generation and its effect on transmission congestion. EEMG Working Papers. 9-2015. Energy Economics and Management Group, University of Queensland.
Bell, William Paul, Wild, Phillip and Foster, John (2015). The effect of increasing the number of wind turbine generators on generator energy in the Australian National Electricity Market from 2014 to 2025. EEMG Working Papers. 2015-6. Energy Economics and Management Group, University of Queensland.
Bell, William Paul, Wild, Phillip and Foster, John (2015). The effect of increasing the number of wind turbine generators on carbon dioxide emissions in the Australian National Electricity Market from 2014 to 2025. EEMG Working Papers. 2015-5. Energy Economics and Management Group, University of Queensland.
Bell, William Paul, Wild, Phillip and Foster, John (2015). The effect of increasing the number of wind turbine generators on wholesale spot prices in the Australian National Electricity Market from 2014 to 2025. EEMG Working Papers. 2015-4. Energy Economics and Management Group, University of Queensland.
Bell, William Paul, Wild, Phillip and Foster, John (2015). The effect of increasing the number of wind turbine generators on transmission line congestion in the Australian National Electricity Market from 2014 to 2025. EEMG Working Papers. 2015-3. Energy Economics and Management Group, University of Queensland.
Wild, Phillip, Bell, William Paul, Foster, John and Hewson, Michael (2015). Australian National Electricity Market Model version 1.10. EEMG Working Papers. 2-2015. Energy Economics and Management Group, University of Queensland.
Bell, William Paul, Wild, Phillip and Foster, John (2014). Collinsville solar thermal project: Yield forecasting - Draft report. EEMG Working Papers. 5 - 2014. School of Economics, The University of Queensland.
Bell, William Paul, Wild, Phillip and Foster, John (2014). Collinsville solar thermal project: Energy economics and Dispatch forecasting - Draft report. EEMG Working Papers. 6 - 2014. School of Economics, The University of Queensland.
Wild, Phillip, Bell, William Paul and Foster, John (2014). Impact of Operational Wind Generation in the Australian National Electricity Market over 2007-2012. EEMG Working Papers. 1 - 2014. School of Economics, The University of Queensland.
Wild, Phillip and Foster, John (2012). On testing for non-linear and time irreversible probabilistic structure in high frequency ASX financial time series data. School of Economics Discussion Paper Series. 466. School of Economics, University of Queenland.
Hinich, Melvin. J., Wild, Phillip T. and Foster, John (2010). Testing for the Existence of a Generalized Wiener Process- the Case of Stock Prices. School of Economics Discussion Paper Series. 408. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Wild, Phillip, Hinich, Melvin J. and Foster, John (2008). Are Daily and Weekly Load and Spot Price Dynamics in Australia’s National Electricity Market Governed by Episodic Nonlinearity?. Discussion Paper Series. Discussion Paper No. 368. School of Economics, The University of Queensland.
Wild, Phillip, Hinich, Melvin J. and Foster, John (2008). The Use of Trimming to Improve the Performance of Tests for Nonlinear Serial Dependence with Application to the Australian National Electricity Market. Discussion Paper. no. 367. School of Economics, The University of Queensland.
Research Reports
Bell, William Paul, Wild, Phillip and Foster, John (2014). Collinsville solar thermal project: energy economics and dispatch forecasting - final report. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland.
Bell, William Paul, Wild, Phillip and Foster, John (2014). Collinsville solar thermal project: yield forecasting - final report. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland.
Foster, John, Wagner, Liam, Wild, Phillip, Froome, Craig, Bell, William Paul and Zhao, Junhua (2011). Intellegent Grid Research Cluster - Project 2: marketing and economic modelling of the impacts of distributed generation. Energy Economics and Management Group Working Papers St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland, School of Economics.
Bodman, P. M., Draca, M. and Wild, P. T. (2003). Recent Convergence Behaviour of the Australian States: A Time Series Approach. Brisbane, QLD: Office of Economic and Statistical Research, Queensland Treasury.
Department Technical Reports
Hinich, Melvin. J., Foster, John and Wild, Phillip (2008). Discrete Fourier Transform Filters as Business Cycle Extraction Tools: An Investigation of Cycle Extraction Properties and Applicability of ‘Gibbs’ Effect. Discussion Paper, No. 357. School of Economics, The University of Queensland.
Hinich, M. V., Foster, J. and Wild, P. (2008). An Investigation of the Cycle Extraction Properties of Several Bandpass Filters Used to Identify Business Cycles. Discussion Paper No. 358. School of Economics, The University of Queensland.