Energy Disruption – how new technology and business models change everything

The impact and implications the growth of solar and energy storage, power purchase agreements and other disruptive channels are having on the conventional power industry is becoming more and more evident by the day.

Energy storage is fundamentally transforming the energy sector and changing the way the world uses energy. Storage is the next step needed to integrate renewable energy into electricity grids and turn intermittent renewable power into a direct competitor to base-load power.

It is also creating the opportunity for new business models – both in the operation of networks and electricity retailers. New players with new ideas are moving into the industry, with some surprising ideas.

The Disruption & the Energy Industry Conference – co-hosted by Informa and RenewEconomy in Sydney on September 8 and 9 – will hear from many of those at the cutting edge of these changes.

These include the head of Flow Systems Australian, Dan Hilson, and the head and co-founder of new retailer Enegeni, James Myers.

We will also hear from network operators including Vector’s Simon Mackenzie and Ergon Energy’s Ian McLeod, as well as the heads of the emerging and new energy businesses at Origin Energy and AGL Energy.

State Energy Ministers from Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales dominate the morning of day two Wednesday, September 9, and will be followed by the finance experts tracking and analysing the switch to solar and storage, including Rob Koh from Morgan Stanley; David Leitch from UBS; Hugh Bromley from Bloomberg New Energy Finance; and Oliver Yates, the head of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.

The conference will conclude with presentations from SunEdison Australia, Sunverge Energy, Enphase Energy and Reposit Power, along with emerging retailers such as PowerShop and Diamond Energy.

For a full agenda please visit the Disruption & Energy Industry Conference website. Early bird discounts close this week.