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
