Peter Kerr

Executive Manager- Growth6 June, 2018

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About Western Power

• Build, maintain & operate transmissionand distribution assets: South WestInterconnected Network (SWIN)

• 1.1+ million customers

• ~264,000 street lights

• ~228,000 solar PV installations*

• ~465 battery systems*

* As at 1/2/182

We’re Sorry

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And we’ve changed…

Engineer

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19th/20th Century Intelligent Asset Equation

Intelligent Asset

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Customer

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21st Century Intelligent Asset Equation

Intelligent Asset=

People Data

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Unlocking available power

• Looking at links to West Kal Terminal

• Piccadilly

• Parkeston

• Boulder

• Mungari

• Black Flag

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Finding solutions

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Virtual Power Plants

• Decentralised energy is playing an expanding role

• VPP technology is still in its infancy

• State Government has announced a study and Western Power is keen to test its application

• Potential application in the Goldfields for:

• deferral of expensive augmentation

• voltage management, improved supply

• peak demand support, freeing capacity for industry loads

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Evolving our physical assets• Changing customer needs, evolving technologies

• Addressing reliability challenges

• Introducing more innovation to improve reliability & control costs

• Developing services,products to meetcustomer needs