For now, researchers from the University of Sydney and Tianjin University and their partners will collaborate on energy informatics and demand response technologies to supply green energy resources to the Australian and Chinese markets which are more efficient, reliable and affordable.

Albert Zomaya, the chair professor of High Performance Computing and Networking at the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney is leading the research center in Australia, together with Li Wei, a research associate at the School of Computer Science.

Zomaya thinks that the research will benefit both consumers and providers of energy and improve the flexibility and reliability of the energy system as a whole.

"Consumers will receive lower energy bills and energy providers will experience reduced capital cost investments and the need for network upgrades," says Zomaya.

"The University of Sydney has been working with Tianjin University for almost a decade on developing technology to improve energy sustainability and affordability and secure our energy infrastructure," he says.

Yang Ting, a professor at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering of Tianjin University, has been working with the University of Sydney since 2009.