As we are shifting from centralised energy generation to decentralised energy systems, the structures of energy markets are changing and Community Energy is emerging as a major player in the future of Australia's Energy landscape. The conference provided a key opportunity to address the challenges and opportunities for renewable community power projects. The Community Energy Conference brought together community representatives, corporate energy stakeholders, project organisations, government representatives, property developers, community owned retailers, engineers and potential investors to showcase latest project developments and discussed advances and barriers. The agenda covered key topics such as local participation, finance & investment, regulation and policies, utility models and microgrid, system design and network changes, power contracts, renewable energy integration and infrastructure. Greg Garvin, Executive General Manager, People, Strategy & Stakeholders at TransGrid gave a presentation on the topic ‘Grid innovation: pathways top a low carbon future’. In the presentation Greg covered what grid of the future might look like, the active role TransGrid is taking to shape the grid of the future, and highlight some of our activities that demonstrate being proactive including iDemand, Renewable Energy Hub and the R&D project to digitise secondary systems.

1. Grid innovation: pathways to a low carbon future
28 April 2016
#LocEn
Greg Garvin, Executive General Manager,
People, Strategy & Stakeholders
@GGarvinTG
@TransGrid

2. Disruption & innovation: Decentralised energy, demand management and electricity markets
About us
Operator and manager of the NSW
transmission network, we supply:
3 million homes and 30,000 businesses
12,900 km transmission lines
99 substations
2,300 km optical fibre
Keeping you and your way of life
connected - 24/7
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Legend
Sydney
City name

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Our focus
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Safe & reliable
Customer
choice
Sustainable Affordable

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Electricity demand in a low carbon future
31 55
104 105
113
363
2
85
2012 2050
Source: ClimateWorks, Pathways to deep decarbonisation in 2050, total Australian TWh
Transport
Industry
Buildings
Other
+143%
608
250

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Demand response is one of the ways we manage peak demand
Improving efficiency of supply

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Supplying a
changing
generation mix
6000 MW of large scale renewables expected in the next 4 years
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Committed to driving grid innovation, we’re putting emerging technologies to the test
Active in research and development

8. Grid innovation: pathways to a low carbon future
Future of the grid
˃ Shift towards renewable sources of
generation, both large scale and distributed
˃ Smarter ways of managing peak demand,
including integration of batteries
˃ Widespread adoption of demand side and
distributed energy technologies
˃ Grid as a platform for consumer choice
The grid of the future will look very
different to the grid of today
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9. Final thought goes here
The changing energy ecosystem brings exciting
opportunities to enable a sustainable, low carbon future.