This document provides information about an upcoming 3-day smart grids industry training course being held in November 2013. The course will provide a complete overview of key smart grid topics including ICT technologies, electrical engineering concepts, and energy economics. It is aimed at professionals seeking to understand opportunities in the new energy sector. The course will also include a case study on Australia's $100 million Smart Grid Smart City project in New South Wales. Participants will learn how electricity systems are being transformed by new technologies, policies, and demands, and how smart grids can help address these changes through tools like renewable integration, electric vehicles, and grid management solutions.

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Smart Grids
Industry Training Course
This course is tailored for professionals seeking to
understand and identify opportunities in this new energy revolution.
Monday 18 to Wednesday 20, November, 2013
Monash Conference Centre
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2. Smart Grids
Course overview
Electricity provision in
Australia and around the
world is undergoing a profound
transformation driven by
new technologies, increased
demand for fossil fuels in
the developing world, and
climate policies.
The smart grid paradigm
encompasses the technological
components of this
transformation whereby new
technologies such as solar
panels and batteries will
integrate with the existing grid.
Enabled by new information
and communication
technologies this provides
utilities with more efficient ways
to manage their infrastructure
and can provide consumers
with the ability to participate
fully in the energy market.
Together this will lead to a
more flexible and economically
efficient system that can also
better accommodate and even
benefit from new technologies
such as electric vehicles and
renewables.
Assuming minimal prior
knowledge, this course
provides complete coverage of
the key ICT, engineering, and
economic aspects of smart
grids at a fundamental level.
Course description
Several motivating factors are
emerging as key considerations
in electricity production and
delivery. These being energy
security, empowered
consumers and climate
change. These factors are
driving fundamental changes
in the way that energy is
generated, managed and
distributed. Smart grids are
emerging as the technology
able to address the demands
of a changing energy provision
landscape. This includes
support for electric vehicles,
distributed renewable energy
supplies, and improvements in
operational support of the grid.
Professionals with the right
mix of power engineering,
Information & Communications
Technology (ICT) and
economics knowledge are
critical to support the
development of energy
infrastructure, services, and the
consumer interest in Australia.
This unique combination of
skills is presently not readily
accessible in the industry.
The Smart Grid Course will
address this skills shortage
and is jointly conducted as a
collaborative effort between
Monash University, UNSW,
and IBM.
The smart grid course is
designed for engineers, power
company staff and other energy
professionals from all electricity
industry sectors including
distribution, retail, generation
and transmission. It would
equally be of interest
to state and federal energy
regulation specialists,
government policy
professionals, ICT industry
professionals who are
interested in smart-grid
opportunities, and consumer
advocacy specialists. The
course will help them ensure
they are well positioned with
the right knowledge and
advanced skills.
Skills that are necessary to
adapt to the new electricity
industry technological trends,
to transform their business
models, develop new business
models, deliver smart grid
programs, or serve their
constituencies and
stakeholders better.
The course will address
several key topics in power
engineering, energy
economics, and ICT, as well
as the convergence of these
technologies into smart grids.
At the end of an intensive
24-hour, 3-day session,
participants will have the
advanced knowledge and skills
to incorporate smart grid
insights or technologies into
their future work.
The attendees will also have
the unique opportunity of being
some of the first to gain an
inside look at the outcomes
of the recently completed $100
million Smart Grid Smart City
project in NSW (www.
smartgridsmartcity.com.au).
A complete course covering all key Smart Grid aspects including ICT
technologies, electrical engineering, and energy economics.
This course is tailored for professionals seeking to understand and
identify opportunities in this new energy revolution.
It also includes a “hot-off-the-press” case study of the recently
completed $100million Smart Grid Smart City project in NSW.
Course program
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
Module 1 Module 5 Module 9
Power System Fundamentals Power System Economics II
Network Regulation
Modern Loads and Modern
Sources
Module 2 Module 6 Module 10
Introduction to Smart Grids:
What is a Smart Grid?
Power System Economics III
Smart Grids Economics
Power Systems Operation and
Substations
Module 3 Module 7 Module 11
Electricity Grids:
Modern Electricity Network
Technologies
Anatomy of a Smart Grid
Architecture
Informatics for Distribution
Systems
Module 4 Module 8 Module 12
Power System Economics I
Energy Markets
Delivering the smart grid Case Study:
Smart Grid – Smart City

3. Module 1
Power systems
fundamentals
n Electricity networks and their
main subsystems.
n Historical developments and
market deregulation.
n Supply and demand issues
n Electricity markets and
regulatory bodies in Australia.
n Key components of electricity
grids and the way such grids
are designed and managed.
Module 2
Introduction to
Smart Grids
n Smart grid concepts and
definitions
n Smart grid drivers
n Smart grid benefits.
n What is and what is not
smart grid.
n Smart grid opportunities
and challenges.
n Technology sectors required
to deliver the smart grid.
n Industrial standards and
smart grid.
Module 3
Electricity Grids
n Traditional grid structures
– architecture and
components.
n Performance criteria for a
grid – safety, technical and
operational performance
(voltage, quality of supply,
law, regulation).
n Meeting performance criteria
for generators, transmission
lines, planning criteria, and
physical processes.
n Performance constraints in
load characteristics, dynamic
and transient responses,
transmission line effects, and
non-physical (regulatory and
planning).
n Control mechanisms in
frequency as the ‘glue’, grid
stiffness, voltage regulation,
system stabilization.
n Transition to ‘smartness’
– historical context, influence
of new and existing constraints.
Module 4
Power Market
Economics
n Electricity supply-chain
economics; where do the
various costs come from?
n Designing wholesale electricity
markets: what is better?
Energy only, or capacity
markets?
n Role of prices as signals to
the consumer.
n Transmission economics
and congestion pricing.
What should we have?
Regulated or entrepreneurial
interconnectors.
n Evolution of the Australian
National Electricity Market.
Some surprises and
unexpected consequences.
n Derivatives markets, and
futures trading for hedging
and risk management.
n Carbon and renewable
certificate markets. How does
carbon really affect electricity
prices?
n Transmission expansion
planning and its interaction
with the new gas markets.
Module outlines

4. Module 5
Economic Regulation
of Networks
n What are the objectives of
network regulation and how
do these objectives interact
with market design?
n What is the form of network
regulation used in Australia,
and why have we developed
this type of regulation?
n Regulatory specifics – open
questions on risk and
ownership in building block
regulation.
n How do we design network
regulation that can deal with
the development of smart
grids (and will we get there)?
Module 6
Smart Grid Economics
n Setting efficient (cost
reflective) prices for the
smart grid use of system
and connection – volume,
capacity, location, time.
n Customer propositions
– TOU, CPP, automatic
control (including role of
smart meters).
n Equity and distributional
impacts – cross subsidies
and who pays?
n Disaggregated value chain
– retailers, networks,
aggregators – split incentives
– realising value.
n Grid level smart solutions
– e.g. storage, sub-station
automation.
Module 7
Anatomy of a Smart
Grid Architecture
n Overview of major aspects,
components, and layers of
a smart grid architecture.
n Devices, sensors, and
communications.
n Integration and data
dissemination.
n Grid aware applications.
n Key user groups and
processes.
Module 8
Delivering the
Smart Grid
n Smart grid vision and target
architecture.
n Smart Grid Maturity Model.
n Smart grid strategy.
n Implementation roadmap.
n Pilot and foundational
projects.
Module 9
Modern Loads and
Modern Sources
n Modern generation sources
such as photovoltaics (PVs),
wind turbines, microturbines,
fuel cells, etc.
n Current developments
associated with modern
loads such as electronics and
plugged-in electric vehicles.
n Developments in utility level
energy storage technologies.
n Power electronics interfaces
for renewable energy
sources, modern loads and
energy storage systems.
n The concepts of microgrids.
Module 10
Power Systems
Operation and
Substations
n The various operating states
of a power system.
n Fundamentals of
transmission and distribution
lines, reactive power
compensation.
n Utility-level power electronics
including FACTS and HVDC
technologies.
n Traditional protection
concepts.
n Traditional SCADA concepts.
n Automation – sectionalisers
and reclosers.
n Electricity internetworking.
n Systems – protection, control,
measurement and
monitoring.
n Configuration management.
Module 11
Informatics for
Distribution Systems
n Power quality issues and
distribution networks.
n Power quality monitoring and
diagnostics techniques.
n Power quality solutions.
n Advanced technologies and
phase measurement
techniques for transmission
and distribution networks.
n Industrial standards and
power quality.
Module 12
Australian Smart Grid
Smart City Case Study
n The potential for smart
metering in Australia and the
Smart Grid Smart City
(SGSC) experience.
n SGSC experiences of
constraints and challenges
establishing smart metering.
n The underlying business
requirements of metering.
n Communications needs for
a smart grid.
n Telecommunications
technologies and options
available in building a smart
grid solution.
n What approaches were taken
in the SGSC and why?

5. Vassilios G
Agelidis is currently
Professor in the
School of Electrical
Engineering &
Telecommunications
and Director of the
Australian Energy Research Institute
(AERI) at the University of New South
Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia.
Professor Agelidis is one of Australia’s
leading authorities on efficient electricity
grid technologies.
He leads Australia’s largest and fastest
growing research team working on
advanced energy conversion and system
integration technologies. In 2004,
Vassilios received the UK’s most
prestigious research fellowship for
a young researcher, the Advanced
Research Fellowship from the
Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council.
Formerly the EnergyAustralia Chair of
Power Engineering at the University of
Sydney, Professor Agelidis is a reviewer
of research proposals submitted to the
Australian Research Council and the
Research Councils of Singapore,
Hong-Kong, Greece, Italy, UK, Chile,
Belgium and Canada.
Dr Ariel Liebman
is senior research
fellow and Director
of Energy and
Carbon Programs at
the Monash Faculty
of Information
Technology. Ariel is an energy systems
economics specialist with experience
across all aspects of the electricity
supply chain. This includes deregulated
power markets, network regulation,
smart-grids, and commercial retail
operations. His specialty is modeling and
simulation of electricity markets using
high performance computing platforms.
Dr Liebman holds a PhD in Physics
and has published on various aspects
of the electricity industry including
impacts of emission trading, real-options
investment, and wholesale price
forecasting. Dr Liebman has advised
large energy utilities across Australia
including Australia’s largest energy
retailers, distribution companies,
and others.
He has collaborated with the CSIRO’s
Energy Transformed Flagship and is a
member of the Smart Grids Australia
R&D leaders working group.
Dr Chris Pavlovski
is the Chief Architect,
Technology and
Innovation for IBM
Australia. He is a
member of the IBM
Academy of
Technology and an IBM Distinguished
Engineer. He has a PhD in Cryptography,
has over 35 referred journals and
conference papers, and has worked on
commercial projects in over 14 countries
world-wide. His projects primarily include
emerging technology solutions in Smart
Grids, Smarter Planet, and
Telecommunications.
He has pioneered several solutions in
multimedia service delivery, smarter
energy systems, and mobile solutions.
He continues to work with IBM research
in R&D projects and collaborates with
industry and academia in defining new
innovations for the market.
Dr Gill Owen is
Research Program
Leader (consumers
and energy markets)
at Monash
Sustainability Institute
and a member of the
Australian Energy Regulator’s Consumer
Challenge Panel. Gill has published
extensively on energy efficiency,
electricity demand response and smart
meters. Until her departure from the UK,
in August 2012, Gill was also:
n a Non-Executive Director of the
England and Wales water regulator
Ofwat;
n a member of Ofgem’s (Great Britain
energy regulator) Consumer
Challenge Group for the Distribution
and Transmission Price Reviews;
n a member of the UK Government’s
Smart Meters Consumer Advisory
Group;
n Vice Chair of the UK Government’s
Fuel Poverty Advisory Group.
She was a Commissioner of the UK’s
Competition Commission for ten years
until 2002 and was also previously a
non-executive board member of Ofgem.
Thomas
Tschirschwitz is an
Executive IT Architect
at IBM and an Open
Group certified
Distinguished IT
architect, focusing
on enterprise solutions in a variety of
industries. Thomas has over 20 years
of IT experience including enterprise
architecture, program architecture,
business case formulation, enterprise
solution architecture, complex systems
integration, project management and
application development.
He has a deep understanding of systems
integration & delivery, including solution
optioning, program governance, program
architecture, estimating and risk
assessment. In consulting, Thomas has
led engagements around Enterprise
Architecture, Transformation Roadmaps,
Project Reviews, Online Channel
Strategy and SOA Maturity Assessments.
Stephen King
is Professor of
Economics and
co-director of the
Monash Business
Policy Forum at
Monash University in
Melbourne, Australia. He was Dean of the
Faculty of Business and Economics at
Monash University from 2009-2011.
Prior to joining Monash, Stephen was a
Member of the Australian Competition
and Consumer Commission (ACCC),
where he chaired the Mergers Review
Committee.
Stephen’s main areas of expertise are in
competition economics, regulation and
industrial organization. Stephen’s
research has been published widely,
including articles in major international
economics journals. He has edited and
co-authored books on Australian
economic policy including Unlocking the
Infrastructure (with Rod Maddock) and
Finishing the Job (with Joshua Gans).
Stephen is a part-time Member of the
Economic Regulation Authority of WA, a
Member of Australia’s National
Competition Council, and a Lay Member
of the High Court of New Zealand. He is
also an Editor of the Economic Record,
the journal of the Economics Society of
Australia. Stephen has advised
numerous government agencies and
private businesses and has provided
expert testimony to the Courts, including
in AGL v ACCC (2003), and TXU v ORG
(2001). Stephen received the University
Medal from ANU for his undergraduate
studies in Economics. He has a PhD from
Harvard University and is a Fellow of the
Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

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LEARN about smart grid technologies and why they impact electricity systems so strongly.
BECOME your organisation’s expert on smart grids and energy systems.
MAKE effective business decisions after understanding smart-grids and electricity markets.
UNDERSTAND in detail how electricity is produced, delivered and priced.
BE THE FIRST to gain a detailed understanding of the Smart Grid Smart City project in NSW.
MASTER the correct regulatory and policy language to communicate and influence stakeholders.
IDENTIFY where smart grids fit in for consumers and for network owners.
DISCOVER what ICT technologies are relevant to smart grids.
EXPLORE how and when smart grids will make electricity more affordable.
Who should attend
This 3-day course is
specifically designed to give
a comprehensive coverage of
all aspects of the smart grid
to professionals who need to
understand the developments
and opportunities in this field.
It has been specifically developed
for participants with little or no
previous knowledge of the
electricity systems, energy
economics or recent advances
in information and communication
technologies.
However it is also highly suitable
for those who have already had
some exposure to the market and
are looking to update or renew
their knowledge.
It is relevant to:
n Electricity industry staff from
all parts of the supply chain
including distributors,
generators, transmission
operators and energy retailers.
n Economic and technical
regulators covering the energy
industry, as well as state and
federal energy policy
specialists.
n Commercial and industrial
consumers’ key decision
makers such as procurement
managers, sustainability
managers and energy
managers.
n Graduate recruits and
staff of energy retailers,
generators and network
operators.
n ICT industry professionals
exploring future opportunities
in the energy and smart grids
space.
n Consumer, climate and other
energy policy advocacy
professionals needing to
understand new trends in
energy provision.
Smart grids industry short course
Monday 18 to Wednesday 20, November, 2013
Monash Conference Centre
Level 7, 30 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000
www.conferencecentre.monash.edu/contact.html
For further information contact:
Dr Ariel Liebman, Faculty of Information Technology
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
ph: +61 3 9903 1970
mobile: +61 0419 186 534
email: ariel.liebman@monash.edu