Merlinde Kay is an Associate Professor in the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE), leading the Energy Meteorology group. She completed her bachelor’s degree and PhD in atmospheric physics from the University of New South Wales. She then worked as a weather risk analyst providing weather forecasts for the energy sector. She has experience in short-term weather forecasting, resource assessment (for all renewables), impacts of climate change on the siting of renewable technologies, optimization of hybrid RE systems with storage, integration of EV’s, and the effect of atmospheric particulates on the operation of solar technologies. Her current interest is in extreme weather events and their impact on energy infrastructure and renewables. The large scope of work has collaborators with the Climate Change Research Centre at UNSW, the CSIRO, the University of South Australia, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, and the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO). She is currently part of two ARENA projects working on the soiling of PV modules and the impacts of weather and climate on O&M modeling. She is a member of the IEA PVPS Task 16—Solar Resource for High Penetration and Large-Scale Applications.