Post-Conference In-depth Learning Sessions
Friday 26 June 2015
Registration and morning coffee for both sessions is at 08.30 and sessions will conclude at 17.00. Lunch, morning and afternoon tea provided. Choose between:
In-depth learning session A
Distributed generation and changing consumer behaviour – examining the changing role for generators, transmitters, distributors and retailers, and practical scenario planning
This practical and interactive session is tailored for professionals in the NEM who are directly involved in generating, transmitting, distributing, retailing and regulating in the energy sector. This session will give you the opportunity to examine the future role of the traditional energy utility business and will give you the opportunity to discuss challenges, problems and opportunities that future trends such as distributed generation and shifting customers expectations will bring.
This in-depth learning session will provide you with the opportunity to discuss the latest developments in a smarter electricity grid with more cost effective buyers and sellers where customers generate their own electricity and will give you insights into how other professionals within the industry are dealing with this new prosumer trend. Restructuring the charges for the use of distribution networks, supporting documentation to provide greater choice and control in how customers use the electricity networks and dealing with customers that send their self-generated electricity back into the grid are the challenges of the future NEM. This session will provide related practical scenario planning tools for key stakeholders.
Key topics and take away skills/benefits:
- Strategies to meet changing consumer expectations by implementing a more customer centric retail approach
- Discussing challenges and opportunities of the new prosumer trend
- Learning how to meet the new electricity customer expectations
- Highlighting the implications of distributed generation for the traditional value chain participants
- Developing better distribution approaches to achieve more transparent structural and operational performances
- Analysing increased customer awareness of power use and price sensitivity and their impact on the traditional utility businesses
- Identifying opportunities to transform business models to face the challenges of changing consumer behavior
Session facilitator:
Jim Snow
Executive Director
Oakley Greenwood
In-depth learning session B
Implications for the NEM of the latest developments in battery storage technologies
This value-packed session is designed for all stakeholders in the NEM who want to deepen their knowledge of next generation battery technologies and want to gain insights into the latest developments for making storing power more efficient and less costly.
This engaging full day learning session will analyse the latest developments in battery storage technology and will give attendees insights into the current capabilities of battery storage technology available in the market, the outlook for further development and an examination of possible timeframes for battery storage to become viable for energy storage.
From here, the session will focus on analysing how the development of distributed storage will impact the length of the energy supply chain and what the new role of the government needs to be in regulating this.
Key topics and take away skills/benefits:
- Examining the latest battery storage developments and how these might impact existing players in the market
- Analysing how quickly battery storage might become commercially viable for residential or commercial use
- Examining what sort of uptake battery storage could have among residential and/or industrial users and how regulation would need to respond to properly integrate this into the NEM
- Identifying opportunities battery storage creates for utilities as well as the threats it may bring
- Gaining insights into how solar cars and other battery based innovations may impact the way in which the NEM functions
Session facilitator:
Anthony Vassallo
Delta Electricity Chair in Sustainable Energy Development
The University of Sydney