09:30 – 10:15 Opening & Keynote
Location: 405-460. Auckland University Faculty of Engineering, 20 Symonds Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010
Speaker: Simon Mackenzie
10:15 – 12:00 Panel: Energy Transition, Climate Action, Energy Policy & Modelling
Location: 405-460. Auckland University Faculty of Engineering, 20 Symonds Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010
Theme Enabling Decentralisation: Future Regulatory & standards
Overview of Panel: Decentralisation is key to allow Distributed Energy Resources (DER) to participant in the electricity market, to improve efficiency and supply security. It is an important step to decarbonise our economics and the road to net zero. Fit for purpose regulatory framework and technical standards must be established to enable decentralisation to encourage DER Uptake and ensure secure operation.
Chair: Kate Murphy
Speaker 1: Nicole Kirkham
Speaker 2: Dr Dushan Boroyevich
Speaker 3: Dr Nirmal Nair
13:00 – 14:30 Panel: Technical challenges for addressing planning, operation and maintaining of the grid
Location: 405-460. Auckland University Faculty of Engineering, 20 Symonds Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010
Theme Resilience: Seismic, Volcanic and High Impact Weather (wildfire, Hurricane, Heatwave, flooding etc. events)
Overview of Panel: Planning and operating the future grid will require a new approach with more inverter based generation (IBR) and DER. High number of connection requests stretching our resources requiring us to change our approach in planning and commissioning new generation connections. The future grid also require more interactions or coordinations between grid system operator and distribution system operator to operate a more decentralised grid.
Chair: Nyuk Vong
Speaker 1: Waqar Qureshi
Speaker 2: Lekshmi Jaya Mohan
Speaker 3: Stephen Zhao
14:45 – 16:30 Panel: Role of Grid Forming Inverters in the Future Power System
Location: 405-460. Auckland University Faculty of Engineering, 20 Symonds Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010
Theme EGRID Advances: Power Electronics in Transmission & Distribution
Overview of Panel: High IBR penetration introduces operating challenges associated to reduced system inertia and system strength which can cause instability and performance of the power system. Grid forming inverter is an emerging technology which potentially can help to address these challenges. Pairing with other technologies such as Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) provide the power system ability to regulate frequency and voltage effectively. This should path the way for 100% IBR power system.
Chair: Lakshita Lakshita
Speaker 1: Dr Ben Kroposki
Speaker 2: Dr Jack Flicker
Speaker 3: Dr Stuart Macdonald