Wednesday 26 May
08:05
Registration and welcome coffee
08:50
Opening remarks from the chair
Mark Paterson
Chief Strategy Officer & Managing Director, Australia Pacific
Strategen
Maximising the effectiveness of existing grid infrastructure
09:05
KEYNOTE: Grid transformation - opportunities for improvement and innovation
- Putting energy consumers at the centre of grid reform
- Adapting the grid to meet the growing challenges of reliability and decentralisation
- Integration of the electricity and gas markets
- Accurately gauging the outlay necessary for reform – and who is likely to end up paying!
Adrian Hill
Acting Executive General Manager, Regulation & External Affairs
AusNet Services
09:35
Preparing for the grid of the future – designing a blueprint to transform Queensland’s distribution networks
- Ensuring a safe and reliable intelligent grid
- Grid scale storage strategies to manage the impact of Minimum System Demand
- Transforming Fringe of Grid electricity supply – an efficient solution for isolated networks
- Electricity, data and communications to provide solutions for customers and distribution businesses
- Demand & Energy Management programs
Rod Duke
Chief Executive Officer
Energy Queensland
10:05
IT Operations managing the re-engineering of the grid
Aleks Mitrovic
Chief Technical Officer
DeployPartners
10:55
Morning tea in the expo hall
Meeting the challenges of integrating VPPs and DER
11:25
Optimising consistency of supply in isolated grids – the Denham solar powered hydrogen plant
- Accurately calculating hosting capacity
- Feed in management and DER orchestration
- Machine learning, predictive analysis
- Integrating renewables into existing grid structures
Darren Hill
General Manager Commercial & Business Development
Horizon Power
11:55
Working within the existing grid model to allow domestic imports - overcoming challenges of integrating intermittent resources into the grid
- Structuring hybrid grids to allow for intermittent DER imports
- Encouraging behavioural demand response
- Improving the engagement of installers to ensure inverter standard compliance
- Transitioning to more sophisticated connection options for customers
Bryn Williams
Future Network Strategy Manager
SA Power Networks
12:25
Batteries’ role in providing grid services – opportunities and challenges
Mark Twidell
APAC Director – Energy Products
Tesla
12:55
Networking lunch in the expo hall
Improving network performance with smart technology
13:55
PANEL DISCUSSION: Creating a more effective financial structure to enable the future grid – tariff reform
- What regulation do we change to make a two sided market possible?
- How can we co-ordinate renewable energy zones to avoid concentrations of DER?
- How do we resolve equity issues for consumers who cannot participate in DER?
- What needs to happen to ensure that transition is orderly and timely?
- How can we build a service regime for exporters that is clearly understood by both sides?
Moderator:
Mark Paterson
Chief Strategy Officer & Managing Director, Australia Pacific
Strategen
Panellists:
Gavin Dufty
Manager Policy and Research
St Vincent de Paul Society
Jill Cainey
General Manager, Networks
Energy Networks Australia
Stephanie Bashir
Non-Executive Director
Australian Energy Foundation
14:35
Improving network performance with smart technology
James Colbert
Regional Director East Asia & Pacific - Digital Grid
Schneider Electric
14:55
Transforming the grid to lead the transition to a clean energy future
Eva Hanly
Executive Manager Strategy, Innovation & Technology
TransGrid
15:25
Afternoon tea in the expo hall
Strengthening grid performance through new infrastructure – interconnectors and transmission issues
15:55
Moving Tasmania closer to Battery of the Nation (BotN)
- Analysing the Battery of the Nation’s contribution to Australia’s to a clean energy future
- How a comprehensive hydropower portfolio response to more interconnection will increase NEM reliability, security and affordability
- Capitalising on the benefits of synchronous condensers
- Innovation for the future market – introducing virtual storage
Prajit Parameswar
Commercial Lead, Battery of the Nation
Hydro Tasmania
16:25
Update on the role Marinus Link can play in the future grid
- Providing access to Tasmania’s cost-competitive renewable energy and storage resources
- Delivering the low cost reliable and clean energy that customers expect
- Putting downward pressure on wholesale energy prices for all NEM regions
Bess Clark
General Manager of Project Marinus
TasNetworks
16:35
PANEL DISCUSSION: Building the physical infrastructure to ensure reliable supply – overcoming the challenges to stability
- Can we integrate the grid through transmission upgrade projects?
- Are interconnectors in dispersed locations appropriate in a joined state grid?
- How do we build system-wide resilience against links being knocked out in crisis situations?
- What is the impact of the loss of coal-fired power over the next decade?
- How feasible are the proposed KreangLink, Marinus link, Project EnergyConnect and East-West link?
Moderator:
Gloria Chan
Executive Director - Future Grid
Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC)
Panellists:
Jill Cainey
General Manager, Networks
]Energy Networks Australia
Prajit Parameswar
Commercial Lead, Battery of the Nation
Hydro Tasmania
Bryn Williams
Future Network Strategy Manager
SA Power Networks
17:15
Closing remarks from the Chair
17:20
End of Re-engineering the Grid Stream