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ENERGY STORAGE DAY | Wednesday 23rd June 2010
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8.30 Registration and coffee

9.00 Opening remarks from the chair

9.10 Enhancing energy infrastructure through the adoption of grid scale energy storage
An overview of storage developments, applications, reliability, and value propositions for enhanced energy infrastructure

  • The rapid evolution of energy storage technologies
  • Technical barriers to the adoption of energy storage within electricity distribution networks
  • Getting value from energy storage technologies
  • Enhancing energy infrastructure through adoption of storage technologies, improvements in efficiency, reduction in generation requirements and CO2

Dr Geoff James, Principal Research Scientist, Energy Technology, CSIRO

POLICY

9.50 Energy Storage – Improving asset performance
The increasing volume of renewable energy sources together with growing peak load demand have the potential to create instability in energy networks. Without energy storage
technologies massive investment is required to meet peak demand. Justification for investment into large scale new generation when the assets are not fully utilised is difficult and funding harder to secure. Energy storage provides the balance between peak demand and excess generation to stabilise generation and more effectively utilise assets.

10.30 Morning tea

ENHANCING THE ENERGY GRID

11.00 Smart Grid Initiative – Storage as an integral element in intelligent energy networks

  • Overview of the Smart Grid Initiative and mandatory energy storage requirements
  • Assisting the identification and development of standards for reliable storage deployment
  • Balancing growing demands for energy with the challenge of climate change
  • Demand response – Identifying the opportunities and benefits within the Smart Grid Initiative
  • Renewable energy and distributed generation in the Smart Grid Initiative

Tom Barry, Assistant Director, Smart Grid Initiative

ENERGY STORAGE THE TRANSFORMATION FROM MARGINAL TO MAINSTREAM

11.40 The rapid transformation of energy storage technologies and acceptance within energy grids
Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, Director, CEMP

INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGIES

12.20 KING ISLAND CASE STUDY: Renewable energy generation and storage solutions for remote off-grid applications

  • Integrating solar PV, wind and diesel generation
  • Deploying Australia's first large scale Vanadium Redox Battery
  • Future plans
  • Graphite thermal storage: Plans for implementation
  • Utilisation of fast response inertia
  • SMART Grid demand-side response management system
  • 100% biodiesel for power generation

Simon Gamble, Manager Technology and Commercialisation, Hydro Tasmania

1.00 Lunch

FLOW BATTERIES

2.00 CASE STUDY: Magnetic Island Townsville

  • Conventional lead-acid batteries
  • Zinc-bromine batteries

Glenn Walden, General Manager Corporate Development, Ergon Energy

AMMONIA STORAGE

2.30 Wizard Power – Matching storage technologies with electricity markets

  • Four 400 sq m solar dishes concentrating sunlight
  • Heat from sunlight used to split ammonia into nitrogen and hydrogen for storage
  • Gases are recombined, when power is required, which gives off heat to boil water and generate electricity through a steam turbine

Artur Zawadski, Manager, Business Development, Wizard Power

FLYWHEEL KINETIC STORAGE

3.00 CASE STUDY: Marble Bar and Nullagine solar hybrid power stations

  • The energy stored in the flywheel system will be used to stabilise power quality between the diesel power station and solar panels as well as covering solar radiation fluctuations.

Thom Fox, Manager Sustainable Energy Solutions, Islanded Systems Development, Horizon Power

3.30 Afternoon tea

BATTERY STORAGE

4.00 CASE STUDY: Hampton Wind Park NSW

  • 100kw system to be full scaled up to 1Mw
  • Smoothing peaks and demand with UltraBattery storage

John Wood, CEO, ECoult

4.30 CASE STUDY: Zinc Bromine Battery – Building integrated energy storage installation

  • 500kWh capacity energy storage project at CSIRO Energy Centre, Newcastle, NSW
  • Building incorporates solar pv, multiple wind turbine and gas microturbine cogeneration

Jon Pemberton, Managing Director, ZEST Energy

5.00 Close of conference

DAY ONE: Thursday 24th June, 2010


8.30 Registration and coffee

9.00 Opening remarks from the chair

9.10 INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE PRESENTATION:
Decentralised energy – Improving efficiency and reducing CO2 emissions through localised generation
David Sweet, Executive Director, World Alliance for Decentralised Energy WADE

9.50 The changing nature of Australia’s energy networks – Distributed energy as an integral facet to energy networks of the future

10.30 Morning tea

11.00 Improving renewable energy uptake adoption and increasing efficiency

  • Government policy and initiatives under CPRS, demand management, and the integration of renewable energy sources
  • Providing stability required for the future effective management of the grid

Andrew Livingston, Regulator, Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator

11.40 The Intelligent Grid - reducing emissions reducing costs
Professor Stuart White, Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures

12.20 The distributed energy value proposition
Mr Anthony Szatow, Program Leader - Intelligent Grid, CSIRO

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Opportunities & challenges for sustainable energy development in Australia

  • Drivers, challenges and opportunities for distributed, renewable and sustainable energy technologies
  • Solar, wind and other renewable technologies challenges of intermittency
  • Residential and commercial gas cogeneration
  • Energy storage solutions to successful large scale integration of renewable energy sources and the potential synergies with an electric transport fleet

Professor Tony Vassallo, Delta Electricity Chair in Sustainable Energy Development, University of Sydney

2.40 Integration of distributed and renewable power generation into electricity grid systems
Dr Iain MacGill, Joint Director (Engineering), Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets - CEEM, University of NSW, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications

3.20 Afternoon tea

GRID CONNECTION

3.50 Distributed generation within a regulated electricity network
An overview of the regulatory and pricing framework that enables distributed generators to be connected to an electricity network

  • The take-up of distributed generation
  • Rules & regulations
  • Pricing initiatives for distributed generators
  • The increasing use of embedded networks

Bill Nixey, Network Business Consultant, EnergyAustralia

 

DAY TWO: Friday 25th June, 2010

8.30 Registration and coffee

9.00 Opening remarks from the chair

9.05 Moving Sydney towards a low carbon decentralised energy future

  • Energy services – Background to decentralised energy in Woking and in London
  • Sustainable Sydney 2030 – Vision and action plan
  • Island Sydney – Decentralised energy master plans
  • Showing by doing – Implementing the city’s own trigeneration and renewable energy projects

Allan Jones MBE, Chief Development Officer, Energy and Climate Change, City of Sydney

COGENERATION & TRIGENERATION

9.45 CASE STUDY: Stockland Headquarters
Davina Rooney, Sustainability Manager, Stockland

10.25 Morning tea

10.50 Cogeneration and trigeneration: Greenhouse reduction for new and existing buildings

  • Trigeneration: Workplace 6 NSW's first 6 star Green Star office building
  • Cogeneration: Retrofitting 530 Collins St, Melbourne

Bruce Precious, Office and Industrial/Business Parks- Sustainability Manager, The GPT Group

11.30 CASE STUDY: Szencorp Building – Retrofitting existing buildings to achieve energy efficiencies
Peter Szental, CEO, Szencorp

12.10 CASE STUDY: Cogeneration on Campus
Nalin Wickramasinghe, Manager, Business Development NSW/QLD, Origin Energy

12.50 Close of conference

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