ARENA INSIGHTS FORUM AGENDA

PULLMAN HOTEL,

HYDE PARK, SYDNEY

25 JUNE 2019

8:30AM – 5:30PM

For more information, please contact: insights@arena.gov.au

8:30am – 9:00am Arrival and registration

PLENARY SESSION

9:00am – 9:10am Opening remarks: Darren Miller – CEO, ARENA

9:10am – 9:40am Keynote address: ‘Lessons from Hawaii, a high renewables grid’ – Lorraine Akiba,

former Commissioner of the State of Hawaii Public Utilities Commission

9:40am – 10:20am Panel discussion: ‘Managing the Transition, large and small scale’

UNSW Energy Institute, AEMC, Horizon Power, CEFC, Lorraine Akiba

10:20am – 10:40am Morning tea

SESSION ONE

Stream 1 – Large Scale Projects Stream 2 – Distributed Energy Resources

Large-scale energy storage: services and value streams

Virtual Power Plants: creating value, overcoming challenges and what comes next?

10:45am–11:30am Presentation: Aurecon

Presentation: AEMC

Presentation: AGL

Presentation: Reposit Power

11:30am – 12:15pm Panel discussion: AGL, Tesla, CSIRO,

Genex Power

Panel discussion: AEMO, GreenSync, Simply

Energy, SA Power Networks, Lorraine Akiba

12:15pm – 1:15pm Lunch

SESSION TWO

Stream 1 – Large Scale Projects Stream 2 – Distributed Energy Resources

High penetration grids: lessons and opportunities from off-grid and fringe-of-grid projects

DER integration: challenges and opportunities

1:15pm – 2:00pm Presentation: NT Power and Water

Corporation

Presentation: Cardno (Lakeland Solar and

Storage Project)

Presentation: Solar Enablement Initiative

(University of Queensland)

Presentation: Monash Microgrid (Net Zero

Initiative)

2:00pm – 2:45pm Panel discussion: Hydro Tasmania, EDL,

Ekistica, University of New South Wales

Panel discussion: Solar Analytics, CSIRO,

TasNetworks, ZepBen, RACV

2:45pm – 3:00pm Afternoon tea

SESSION THREE

Stream 1 – Large Scale Projects Stream 2 – Distributed Energy Resources

Forecasting in a changing energy system Demand response: RERT & beyond

3:00pm

– 3:45pm

Presentation: AEMO

Presentation: Fulcrum 3D

3.00pm

– 3.15pm

Presentation: ARENA

3:45pm

– 4:30pm

Panel discussion: Energeia, Greenview

Strategic Consulting, Fulcrum 3D, AEMO,

Proa Analytics

3.15pm

– 4.00pm

Panel discussion – Residential DR: Powershop,

AGL, Pooled Energy, Monash University,

Amber Electric, AEMO

4.00pm

– 4.45pm

Panel discussion – Commercial DR: Flow

Power, EnergyAustralia, Intercast & Forge,

Oakley Greenwood, United Energy, AEMO

4:30pm – 5:30pm Networking