Wednesday 17 February
08:15
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!
Nino Ficca
former Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director
AusNet Services
09:35
From basket case to market leader: how South Australia is remodelling its grid
The Hon Dan van Holst Pellekaan
Minister for Energy and Mining
South Australia Government
10:05
Responding to AEMO’s final Integrated System Plan (ISP) from the ‘end of the line’
- Stabilising power through the Dalrymple battery and synchronous condensers
- Coping with being islanded when interconnectors are lost
- Strengthening the grid with Project EnergyConnect - will the net benefits justify the costs?
Steve Masters
Chief Executive Officer
ElectraNet
10:35
Morning tea in the expo hall
Meeting the challenges of integrating VPPs and DER
11:05
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
Stephanie Unwin
Chief Executive Office
Horizon Power
11:35
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
12:05
CASE STUDY: Integrating distributed assets through the world's largest virtual power plant - South Australia’s 50,000-home program
- Ensuring that that distributed assets are able to match the service provided by utility scale assets
- Prioritising customer value in the reforms required to make VPPs and DSOs function
- Addressing the key impediments for DER assets to participate in the existing energy markets
- Learnings from the South Australia Home Battery Scheme
Mark Twidell
APAC Director – Energy Products
Tesla
12:35
Networking lunch in the expo hall
Improving network performance with smart technology
13:35
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:
Simon Camroux
Head of Regulation
SIMEC Energy
Gavin Dufty
Manager Policy and Research
St Vincent de Paul Society
Lucy Moon
Head of Regulation
Energy Networks Australia
14:15
Partner presentation
14:45
Developing IOT-driven networks to deliver a better user experience
- Increasing resilience to faults
- Understanding IOT’s self-healing capabilities
- Linking service desk and self-service capabilities to log faults proactively
- Spotting trends early to maintain service levels
Eva Hanly
Executive Manager Strategy, Innovation & Technology
TransGrid
15:15
Afternoon tea in the expo hall
15:30
Afternoon tea in the exhibition hall
Strengthening grid performance through new infrastructure – interconnectors and transmission issues
15:45
How the Battery of the Nation will impact on energy storage and firming in the NEM
- Battery of the Nation - a whole of portfolio response to more interconnection
- How long / deep duration storage will increase NEM reliability, security and affordability
- Insights in managing short, medium and long term storages
- Actively developing deep storage pumped hydro opportunities – project update
- Synchronous Condensers – a technology already in use in Tasmania
Christopher Gwynne
Project Director – Battery of the Nation
Hydro Tasmania
16:15
Partner presentation
16:45
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:
Tony Callan
Executive Manager Marketing
Delta Electricity
Panellists:
David Edwards
Technical Visionary
Horizon Power
Tony Wood
Energy Program Director
Grattan Institute
Andrew Dillon
Chief Executive Officer
Energy Networks Australia
17:05
Closing remarks from the Chair
17:10
End of Re-engineering the Grid Stream