Smart Grids Summit

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Smart Grids Summit

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While the long term vision for the Smart Grid may be elusive, we need to come together to define short and medium term goals that are achievable in the next one to five years.

About

NEW INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER CONFIRMED
Conferenz is pleased to welcome Goran Strbac to the programme. Goran is a Professor of Electrical Energy Systems at Imperial College London. Goran's visit to NZ has kindly been sponsored by Meridian Energy. Goran is also:

  • The Director of the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Centre for Distributed Generation and Sustainable Electrical Energy.
  • The Convener of CIGRE International Working Group on Economics of Integration of Distributed Generation.
  • A member of the Executive Team of the IEE Professional Network on Power Trading and Control.
  • A co-author of 3 books and has published more than 100 scientific papers


Other International Speakers involved in this year's Summit include:
Grant Buchanan the President of S & C Electric (Canada)
Mal Coble, Intelligent Utility Networks - Business Solutions Professional at IBM (Australia)
Eric Martinot, Research Director, Institute of Sustainable Energy Policies (Japan)
Adrian Clark, Manager- Intelligent Networks, EnergyAustralia (Australia)
David Prins, Managing Director, Etrog Consulting Pty Ltd (Australia)
Paul Budde, Executive Director, Smart Grid Australia (Australia)

3 Reasons to Attend

1. ONE DAY
As a busy professional you know just how valuable your time is. Take just one-day out of the office and put yourself in front of the leading experts and practitioners

2. ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES IN BREAKOUT STREAM DISCUSSIONS
You’ll have the opportunity to participate in a range of weighty topics and discussion groups, where you and your colleagues can openly explore critical issues directly impacting your organisation and the wider industry.

Who will attend?
Industry executives, policy makers, regulators, consumers, and members of the financial and legal communities, along with thought leaders from outside the industry with responsibility for:

• Transmission
• Distribution
• Generation
• Planning
• R&D
• Strategy and Business Development
• Metering/AMI
• PHEV
• Distribution Automation
• Customer Support
• Demand Response
• Real-time Systems
• Renewables
• Regulatory Affairs
• Outages & Utility Solutions

Agenda

Day 1

8.30

Registration & Coffee

8.55

Opening Remarks from the Chair

Paul Budde, Managing Director, Paul Budde Communication; & Executive Director, Smart Grid Australia

9.05

International Case Study: Smart city, smart customers: Defining and delivering smarter electricity (Keynote)

Adrian Clark, Manager- Intelligent Networks, EnergyAustralia

9.40

Self Healing Networks: Global trends and developments (Keynote)

• Scalable, distributed-intelligence-based fault isolation and circuit reconfiguration system
• Uses the excess capacity available from any alternate source — conventional, wind, distributed energy resource to restore service to unfaulted line segments
• Scalable: readily handles additional switching and protection devices as your system grows as well as multiple contingencies

Grant Buchanan, President, S & C Electric Canada

9.55

Smart Cities, trans-sector thinking and the roll of smart grids

The concept of smart communities is based on intelligent infrastructure such as broadband (FttH) and smart grids. However, the policies and strategies required to build these smart communities cannot come from the current silo structures that dominate our thinking. We require a trans-sector approach which includes environmental issues, energy exchanges for renewable energy and e-cars, delivery of e-health, e-education, e-government services as well as digital media and interest services. In this session Paul will discuss:
• Defining smart grids
• The developments taking place around the world towards building smart cities and communities
• Fundamental questions we need to resolve if we are progress Smart Grids further
• Organising a trans-sector approach to smart grids in New Zealand

Paul Budde, Managing Director, Paul Budde Communication; & Executive Director, Smart Grid Australia

10.35

Morning tea

10.55

Smart Grids: The Regulatory Response

Hon. David Caygill, Chair, Electricity Commission

11.10

Perspectives: Spurring Smart Grid investment

Many believe that if New Zealand is going to make a concerted push around energy efficiency and grid modernisation and see smart grids as a part of our future; we need to achieve a truly cohesive industry view and approach around how we intend to achieve the right outcome. Central to us building consensus on one vision across the sector will be leadership and the question of where that leadership should come from. These speakers will look to discuss this question and some of the other fundamental questions we need to resolve if we are pursue Smart Grids further.
• Where are the distribution companies – what do they think of smart grids?
• What will smart grids achieve in the NZ context, given an existing functional load control system here? – What are the most important value drivers and what is a logical end state?
• Should smart meters and smart technology investment be removed from capping? 
• Finance and financer - who should invest to enable appropriate and beneficial smart grid development and how?
• The means to trade profitably - realistic scenarios for participation
• The regulator’s role in Grid modernisation
• Customer energy usage data ownership issues

Julian Elder, Chief Executive, WEL Networks
Dene Biddlecombe, Chief Executive, Pulse Utilities
Neil Simmonds, Chief Executive, Counties Power
Graeme Ancell, Manager, Planning & Development

12.10

Break Out Streams

A great opportunity to digest, dissect and discuss the issues, break out and attend the discussions that are of most interest to your role.

Technical Stream Chair:
Martin Sharrock, Chief Technology Officer, Alcatel-Lucent ANZ
(Technical Streams sponsored by: Alcatel Lucent)

Business Stream Chair:
Paul Budde, Managing Director, Paul Budde Communication & Executive Director, Smart Grid Australia

12.10

Smart Grid and Distributed Energy Resources (DER) integration

• International developments
• Challenges of applying DG in NZ
• Implications for the structure of the current system
• Access arrangements for DG
• How can smart grid technologies reduce the cost of integrating DG onto our networks?
• Competing connection standards
• Are there sufficient incentives?
• What we need from the regulatory environment

Alister Gardiner, Manager, Distributed and Hydrogen Energy Team
Graeme Ancell, Manager, Planning & Development
John Gorman, Director & Matt Magoffin, Technical Director
Russell Watson, Network Planning Manager, Northpower
Grant Buchanan, President, S & C Electric Canada

12.10

End-User Value: From Promise to Reality - Do we truly understand future customers?

• The current landscape - where are we now and how can the industry change end-user’s behaviour and perception of electricity?
• Will cost-saving be a sufficient incentive for the consumer?
• Beyond compliance – designing regulatory and non-regulatory incentives to drive uptake and use
• Starting with the end in mind - a demo system for the “end use consumer”
• What could be done by individual organisations, and what collaboration is required by the industry?

Ari Sargent, CE, Powershop
Molly Melhuish, Co-Convenor, Domestic Energy Users Network
Charmaine Watts, Chairperson, REFIT-NZ
David Prins, Managing Director, Etrog Consulting Pty Ltd
Adrian Clark, Manager, Intelligent Networks
Mal Coble, Intelligent Utility Networks - Business Solutions Professional, IBM Australia

1.10

Lunch

2.00

Breakout Streams continued

2.00

Interoperability and standards: Connecting disparate systems, mission impossible?

• Understanding the types of interoperability – technical, informational and organisational
• How open should the communication and networking infrastructure be? And what is the definition of “open” communications standards in the first place?
• A focus on the development of a data exchange protocols
• What are the gaps in standards that need to be addressed?
• How do we achieve wide adoption – what level of regulation would be required?
• How can utilities implement projects now and not suffer from incompatible standards?

Terry Paddy, Managing Director, Cortexo
Richard De Luca, General Manager, Metrix
Ron Beatty, Senior Advisor Retail Operations, Electricity Commission

2.00

Smart Appliances: The state of play in New Zealand

• Current developments internationally and here in New Zealand
• The relationships between appliances and the grid- an opportunity to increase grid reliability?
• What should be standardised?
• Key barriers and obstacles to potential interoperability
• Opportunities and collaborative possibilities that could advance interoperability
• Vulnerability to security and privacy attacks

Robert Harper, Senior Adviser, Energy Supply Team
Neil Cheyne, GM Electronics Design - Product Development, Fisher & Paykel Appliances

3.00

A Broadband Smart Grid?

• Does fibre have a role - what to consider around network options for the smart grid
• How well would the Internet fare as a gateway?
• What you would need to have in place

Terry Paddy, Managing Director, Cortexo
Bill Heaps, Managing Director, Strata Energy
Neil Simmonds, Chief Executive, Counties Power
Martin Sharrock, Chief Technology Officer, Alcatel-Lucent AN

3.00

Integrating Electric Vehicles into a Smarter Electricity Grid

• PHEV trials internationally
• Synergy opportunities EV will generate – new markets and additional energy services
• What do we need to make this work optimally?
- Long term generation expansion modelling & EV
- Common system for NZ
- Load control concerns
- Incentives to drive uptake
• Anticipated customer behaviours

Dr. Magnus Hindsberger, Senior Economic Advisor Economics and Approvals - Grid Development, Transpower
Philip Court, Director, Greenstage
Russell Watson, Network Planning Manager, Northpower
Eric Martinot, Research Director, Institute of Sustainable Energy Policies
Goran Strbac, Professor of Electrical Energy Systems, Imperial College London (sponsored by Meridian Energy)

4.00

Afternoon tea

4.20

Closing Session: Roundtable with Chair and speakers

Paul Budde, Managing Director, Paul Budde Communication; & Executive Director, Smart Grid Australia

5.10

Networking Drinks

Relax, unwind and network with speakers and colleagues over complimentary drinks.

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