Cutting Power Bills and Emissions with Smart Energy

Tuesday 4 December 2018 | 8.30am – 5.00pm


Subject to change at the discretion of the Smart Energy Council

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8.30am Registration and Arrival Tea/Coffee


Chair: John Grimes, Chief Executive, Smart Energy Council

9.00am Why the Commonwealth Bank and other major firms are going 100% renewables

Jon Dee, Special Adviser, Arup

9.20am Outlook for smart energy in NSW and nationally

Simon Holmes a Court, Special Adviser, Energy Transition Hub, Melbourne University

9.40am Power purchase agreements with commercial and industrial energy users

Monica Richter, Senior Manager, Low Carbon Futures, WWF & Business Renewables Centre

10.00am Building a strong renewable energy industry in NSW

The Hon Don Harwin MP, NSW Minister for Resources, Energy and Utilities

10.30am Politics, engineering and economics: Opportunities for a clean energy transition

The Hon Malcolm Turnbull, former Australian Prime Minister


11.00am     Morning Tea


Chair: Annabel Wilton, Associate, Distributed Energy, Bloomberg NEF

11.15am Global pressure for businesses to slash emissions

Tim Buckley, Director Energy Finance Studies, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis

11.30am Creating smart energy offices

Rex Wang, Product Manager, Growatt

11.45am Helping businesses reduce their power bills and emissions with smart energy

Paul Dowling, Associate Director Investment Research, Clean Energy Finance Corporation

12.00pm Financing Power Purchase Agreements and off-take agreements

Dan Sturrock, Director Business Development & Transactions, Australian Renewable Energy Agency

12.15pm     Helping businesses slash emissions and power bills with battery storage

Dong Lin, Vice President Sales and Marketing, Alpha ESS

12.30pm     NSW Labor’s plan for renewable energy

Adam Searle, NSW Shadow Minister for Energy

12.50pm     Helping businesses slash emissions and power bills with Big Battery Storage

Mark Leslie, Managing Director Asia Pacific, Fluence Energy


1.00pm       Lunch


Chair: Patrick Matweew, CEO, Redback Technologies

1.45pm       Australia’s biggest renewable energy project – Walcha Energy Project

Simon Corbell, Chief Advisor, Energy Estate

2.05pm       Australia’s biggest solar PPA and the future of PPAs

Jonathan Upson, Senior Business Development Manager, ESCO Pacific

2.20pm       NSW grid integration and connection issues

Amy Kean, Director Energy Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies Branch, NSW Department of Planning and Environment

2.35pm       Cutting power bills and emissions with solar and storage

Behrouz Bolurieh, Harvey Norman Solar

Chair: Nick Albrow, Co-Chair, NSW Chapter, Smart Energy Council

2.50pm       Talesun Presentation

Jim Xu, Vice-President, APEC Sales, Talesun

3.00pm       How battery storage can help businesses slash power bills and emissions

Rod Scott, CEO, Selectronic

3.15pm       Sydney Community Solar Program

Alex Georgiou, ShineHub

3.30pm       Government Incentives for Businesses to Cut Power Bills and Emissions

Marilyne Crestias, Director, Renewable Energy Insights

3.45pm       Discussion


4.00pm       Networking drinks

Join us from 4.00pm - 5.00 pm for Networking drinks

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