Pre-Conference In-depth Learning Sessions | Tuesday 25 October
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:
Future power generation fleet assumptions and scenarios based on policy settings and pricing combinations
This interactive learning session is tailored for senior managers in the energy sector who are directly involved in generating, transmitting, distributing and retailing in the energy market. It is a truism to say the only thing that can be guaranteed about a forecast is that it will be wrong. So while there is a never ending stream of forecasts, understanding the relative impact of policy choices and programs is critical to today’s decisions. This session will compare and contrast the impact on NSW’s possible generation fleet of the actions of others on NSW’s generation fleet (and possible approaches NSW might take on its own).
Key benefits of attending include:
- Gain a comprehensive analysis of scenarios based on possible federal and state policy directions
- Get insights into how both state and federal climate and energy policies will influence on future generation fleet
- Conduct a detailed analysis of the various targets announced by the various States and implications for NSW
- Understand the consequences of DER and prosumers shifting the focus from centralised renewable to PV and battery and other distributed applications
Session facilitators:
Lance Hoch
Executive Director and Chairman
Oakley Greenwood
Greg Thorpe
Executive Director
Oakley Greenwood
In-Depth Learning Session B:
Network services in the electricity industry – what are they, how should they be priced, regulated and made contestable by distributed resources
This interactive learning session is designed for strategic, commercial and technical managers from the electricity industry and its governance and regulatory bodies who want to understand the vital but partially contestable role that networks play in the electricity industry and how that can be best managed to maximize societal benefits from the industry.
Key benefits of attending include:
- Understand the nature of the technical services that networks provide to the electricity industry
- Learn how distributed resources (generation, reversible storage, flexible and efficient end-use) can compete to provide some but not all of the technical services that networks provide
- Understand the underlying theory for an economically efficient pricing structure in the face of uncertainty that should (but presently does not) underpin network pricing
- Assess the merits of current arrangements for network pricing and planning, including the concept of Long Run Marginal Cost, demand tariffs, declining block tariffs and fixed charges for network services and investment contestability
- Gain insights into the design of more economically efficient, technically effective and socially acceptable relationships between network service providers and their generation, reversible storage and end-use customers
Session facilitator:
Hugh Outhred
Managing Director, Ipen Pty Ltd
Senior Visiting Fellow, Australian Energy Research Institute, UNSW