Intelligent Grid Industry Forum
10 June 2009
Australia confronts an unprecedented set of challenges in developing its electricity system: climate change, the financial crisis, reliability and asset renewal. What is the lowest cost strategy to respond to these challenges?
This Intelligent Grid Industry Forum, Melbourne is hosted by Sustainability Victoria and examines the benefits and costs of energy efficiency, distributed generation, load management and smart meters. It explores the potential of these distributed energy technologies to deliver a secure, flexible energy supply, at a lower cost and with less greenhouse gas emissions.
The forum is part of a series held across Australia to foster the development of an Australian Distributed Energy Roadmap. The Roadmap aims to provide practical strategies for accelerating the deployment of distributed energy technologies across Australia. Interested stakeholders are invited to contribute to the development of the Roadmap.
Speakers include:
- Mr Mike Fajdiga, Chief Operating Officer, United Energy Distribution and Multinet Gas
- Ms Vicki Brown, Energy Networks Association, Director of Energy Networks Policy
- Mr Michael Williamson, Manager Energy Supply Team, Sustainability Victoria
- Mr Terry Jones, Leader Low Emissions Distributed Energy Theme, Energy Transformed Flagship , CSIRO
- Dr Muriel Watt, Chair, Australian Photovoltaic Association and Project Manager, IT Power
- Professor Stuart White, Intelligent Grid Cluster Leader, Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS
Venue: Hotel Windsor, Spring Street Melbourne, Victoria
Time: 9am to 5pm
Date: Tuesday July 14, 2009
Cost: Free, registration is required.
Register by: 12 Noon 6 July, 2009 Note - Registrations now closed
The Intelligent Grid Research Program is a major three-year research collaboration between the CSIRO and five leading Australian universities under the CSIRO's Energy Transformed Flagship. Launched in August 2008, the research program aims to facilitate major greenhouse gas emission reductions by integrating distributed energy technology with a more intelligent electricity network.
For more information and registration details download the Intelligent Grid Forum brochure (pdf).
