Registration and arrival coffee in the Exhibition area

Terry Lampard – EESA National President

Presented by Scott Bulliman, Siemens

Opening Session – Progress with the NSW Electricity System Transition
Session Chair – Shabir Ahmadyar (Chair of the EESA NSW/ACT Chapter Committee).

• The implementation, connection, and operation of Renewable Energy Zones in NSW – Lulu Shao – Executive Director, Engineering Delivery at EnergyCo.
• Transmission System changes to cope with the retirement of base load power stations and the connection of Renewable Energy Zones, Storage systems, gas fired generators, pumped hydro etc - Kasia Kulbacka, General Manager of Network Planning at Transgrid.
• Distribution System changes – managing domestic solar exports, home batteries, load and voltage variations and power quality and the connection and operation of Community batteries and the creation and operation of Stand-alone Power systems etc – Colin Crisafulli - General Manager Future Grid & Asset Management at Endeavour Energy
• Customer impacts – the challenges with balancing Reliability, Affordability & Sustainability for a safe and reliable supply from an extremely complex network particularly during the ever-increasing extreme weather events - Tim Jarratt, Group Executive, Market Development and Strategy at Ausgrid.

Panel Discussion Session and audience Q&A to close.

In the exhibition area

1.1 "Utilisation of Screening Methods and EMT Simulations in System Strength Planning”
Navid Aghanoori and Jeffrey Yong Kwen Chong - Transgrid

1.2 "Implementation of flexible exports connection agreement, supporting tariff and emergency backstop provisions”
Barton Hellyer - Endeavour Energy

1.3 “The evolving needs of large customers”
Jacob Kharoufeh - Ausgrid

1.4 “The Grid of the Prosumer”
Brad Trethewey - Essential Energy

Audience Q&A with the Panel of Presenters

In the exhibition area

2.1. “Digital Twin (Drone Application) – Drones using digital twin”
Ben Dawson -Endeavour Energy

2.2. “Digital Twins for large scale distribution network asset monitoring”
Alexander Watters, Stephanie Forsmann - Ausgrid

2.3 “Digitisation of Control Room Alarms: Keeping pace with NSW Electric Energy Transition”
Stuart Barber - Transgrid

2.4. “Technical and Planning Foundations for the Central West Orana Renewable Energy Zone"
Hesam Marzooghi - ACEREZ

2.5. “Essential Energy’s Digital Asset Management Program”
Stephen Fisher – Essential Energy

Audience Q&A with the Panel of Presenters

In the exhibition area

3.1. “Innovative ways to maximise transmission capacity: Waratah Super Battery System Integrity Protection Scheme”
Christiaan Swanepoel and Pratiksha Chuttar - Transgrid

3.2. “The Energy Transition: Management of Power Quality”
Sean Elphick – University of Wollongong

3.3. “Our experience using self-healing networks to improve network resilience”
Andriana Babic - Endeavour Energy

3.4. “Managing Network Resilience”
Ben Catania – Ausgrid

3.5. “Climatic Whiplash and Network RESILIENCE, what it means for us”
Louis Salisbury – Essential Energy

Audience Q&A with the Panel of Presenters

Closing remarks by Shabir Ahmadyar, Chair, EESA NSW/ACT Chapter
Conference Prize Draw

Networking, drinks, and canapes in the exhibition area