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The $3.5bn ($2021) Project Marinus interconnector is a proposed 1500 megawatt electricity and telecommunications connection between Victoria and Tasmania called Marinus Link, plus supporting transmission network developments in Tasmania’s North West being developed by TasNetworks.

The project supports Australia’s transition to clean, reliable and secure, and affordable energy.  It unlocks savings of at least 140 million tonnes of CO2 by 2050; the equivalent of taking approximately a million petrol/diesel cars off the road.

Marinus Link involves approximately 255 kilometres of undersea High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) cable and approximately 90 kilometres of underground HVDC cable. It will also include converter stations in Tasmania and Victoria.  The project is supported by TasNetworks’ development of approximately 220 kilometres of supporting High Voltage Alternating Current (HVAC) transmission in North West Tasmania. 

Project Marinus will create at least 2800 direct and indirect jobs through construction, with economic investment in regional areas of approximately $3bn.

Learn from the career journeys of some of The energy industry is in transition, experiencing rapid, fundamental change due to a complex mix of forces, including decarbonisation, digitisation and geopolitical uncertainty. Mining and metals, oil and gas, and power and utilities companies must accelerate their own transition to unlock the opportunities this presents, while still addressing short-term operational and commercial pressures. EY’s Global Energy & Resources multidisciplinary team brings a breadth of experience and talent to help companies adapt for now and be ready for whatever comes next. By considering four key pillars of change — structure and culture, customers, technology, and skills and capabilities — we can help you adapt for today and reap the opportunities of tomorrow. And together we can build a better working world.

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Song, Technology and Operations services-all powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 699,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.

Generac Grid Services is changing the way the world generates and uses electricity. From solar+storage solutions, to backup generators, to virtual power plant technology that enables homeowners and business to sell their excess power back to the grid, Generac Grid Services is accelerating the world's transition to a cleaner, more reliable energy system. Our Concerto distributed energy orchestration platform helps ensure the operational stability of the world's power grids and energy markets and is the heart of our demand response, virtual power plant (VPP), and distribution grid optimization solutions. Concerto dynamically and continuously orchestrates and dispatches a full spectrum of distributed energy resources to keep our grids in a state of reliable balance. Distributed energy resources that might otherwise sit idle can now be dispatched and orchestrated as part of a distributed energy solution that generates value for the home or business owner, while also delivering value to the energy grid. Generac Grid Services is a subsidiary of Generac Power Systems a leading designer and manufacturer of energy technology solutions and other power products.

CutlerMerz is a specialist management, economic and engineering consultancy to the power and energy sector.

Our people live and breathe the industry, understand the issues facing our clients, and respond to their priorities.

We bring international experience; technical, economic, legal, and commercial know-how; as well as a tenacity for solving the industry’s most complex issues.

CutlerMerz operates three service lines, namely Energy Networks, Energy Markets, and Energy Projects.

Energy Networks practice areas include: Regulation, Asset Management, Safety & Audit

Energy Markets practice areas include: Policy, Transformation, and Market modelling.

Energy Projects practice areas include: Due Diligence, Grid connections, and Power System Studies.

In the converging world of IT and engineering, Modis pioneers Smart Industry by delivering cross-industry expertise in technology and digital engineering consulting, tech talent services and up- and re-skilling through its global Tech Academy. Modis has a global presence with 30,000+ consultants and around 10,000 customers in over 20 countries, focused on digital transformation, cognitive technologies (e.g. AI, data analytics), cloud and data security, smart ecosystem (e.g. digital twin), and industry 4.0 across high-growth Smart Industry sectors. Modis’ key sectors include Automotive & Transportation, Environmental & Energy, Software, Internet & Communication, Financial Services, and Industrial Manufacturing. Modis has a balanced footprint across North America, Europe, and APAC, including strong positions in Japan and Australia. With passion for technology and talent, Modis drives innovation and enables digital transformation for a smart and sustainable tomorrow. Modis is a Global Business Unit of the Adecco Group.
https://www.modis.com/

At Locusview, we help utilities control and optimize their capital projects while preparing for the coming challenges of building smarter infrastructure. This is why we built the world's best Digital Construction Management (DCM) platform that helps energy utilities and telecom companies manage large scale construction projects from Planning to Execution and Close-Out.

Implementing disruptive technologies requires a deep understanding of complex processes and a "do-what-ever-it-takes" commitment to customer success; both strongly embedded in our DNA. Over the years, we have orchestrated large-scale implementations with the leading global utilities, helping them digitalize the construction of capital projects from end to end.

Together with our clients, we are productizing industry best practices allowing all of our users to leverage the successes and lessons learned from our growing network of users. We truly believe that change starts from the end-user, this is why we have decoupled the user experience from the underlying technology. This is also what gives us our innovative edge - we stay ahead of the game and bring new ideas to the table, with bold thinking that re-imagines construction operations.

Based in Brisbane, Sigma Connected is a business process outsourcing provider. We provide white-label customer contact and service centre solutions, but at Sigma Connected, we do things a little differently.

Improving people’s lives is at the core of everything we do. We live and breathe customer service, working together with you to ensure progress and growth.

We are not just another business process outsourcing provider. We are a people company, build on the power of human connections. Whether that’s with our employees, our clients, our clients’ customers or our wider comminates, to us every connection is important. Because better connections mean better outcomes for all.

Founded in 2011, the business has experienced exponential growth and has over 4000 employees, across the UK, South Africa and Australia.

We work with our clients to compliment their strategic objectives, delivering the highest customer advocacy service quality at the optimal cost to serve. Our award-winning bespoke solutions are adapted in line with clients’ desired customer experience and provided by our dedicated customer associates who are passionate about the client they represent.  We work seamlessly as an extension of our client’s own contact centre; upholding their brand values and delivering great customer outcomes.

www.sigmaconnected.com

Sense's mission is to reduce global carbon emissions by making homes smart and efficient. We empower people to care for their homes and families while contributing to a cleaner, more resilient future. Founded in 2013 by pioneers in speech recognition, Sense uses machine learning technology to provide real-time insights on device behaviour, even for those devices that are not "smart." Customers rely on Sense for a wide range of uses including monitoring their home appliances, determining whether they left appliances running and identifying how to reduce their energy costs. For energy suppliers and grid operators, Sense’s artificial intelligence helps engage customers, manage demand at the grid edge, identify anomalies on the network and reduce operating and power costs.

Smart Wires is a global power technology company advancing the delivery of affordable, clean electricity worldwide. With our innovative technology and advanced analytics, we maximize the grid’s capacity. This means more renewables, at a lower cost and with less disruption to communities and the environment. Smart Wires is headquartered in North Carolina, with European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, and a global workforce of 200 professionals spread across four continents. Our team collaborates with our customers to achieve their strategic objectives and help them face an uncertain energy future with flexible, high-impact solutions.

SmartMeasures is an AI startup focussed on helping large companies to retain their customers. We believe that large companies can do more to keep their customers happy and we provide the solution to accurately predict when a customer is on the verge of leaving then trigger AI optimised messages to retain them. SmartMeasures launched its SaaS product in 2018 and is focussed on helping companies in the Energy Retail, Telco and Financial Services sectors.

At PwC Australia, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems.  We genuinely care about our people, our clients, the community and industries in which we operate,and we want to be a part of creating a sustainable future for the generations to come.

We are a part of the 20,520 PwC professionals working across energy, utilities and resourcesglobally.

Our deep experience spans the entire energy sector from production, generation, transmission,distribution, retail and behind the meter, and we work closely with governments, regulatingbodies and industry associations.

SwitchDin is an energy orchestration software company that delivers clean, distributed energy to the grid. We make distributed energy resources (DERs) such as solar PV, battery storage and electric vehicles smart, visible and controllable. Our customers include energy utilities, equipment manufacturers, technology providers and facility managers, who rely on SwitchDin's Stormcloud platform and Droplet suite to deliver new partnerships that unlock value for everyone that is connected to the grid. For further information, visit www.switchdin.com.

Nous Group is an international management consultancy with over 500 people working across Australia, the UK and Canada. With our broad consulting capability, we can solve your most complex strategic challenges and partner with you through transformational change.

Website
https://www.nousgroup.com/

Social media
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nousgroup/
Twitter: @NousGroup
Facebook: @NousGroupAU

Low Emission Technology Australia (LETA) is a $550 million fund established by the Australian black coal industry to invest in technologies that can significantly reduce emissions and support the transition to a low emission global economy, in line with the Paris Agreement.

We partner with government and industry locally and internationally to develop projects that reduce and remove carbon emissions from large-scale industrial processes such as power generation, cement, steel and chemicals manufacturing, and fertiliser production.

At the same time, this technology enables us to produce clean fuels of the future, like hydrogen and ammonia, which can be used domestically to power our industries, or for export.

Our investment in low-emissions technologies demonstrate and support global action to lower industrial emissions in Australia and overseas.

LETA's projects include Australia's first carbon hub in Queensland, the Carbon Transport and Storage Company CCUS project, clean hydrogen production and the Allam Cycle - a near-zero emission power generation technology for coal that also produces clean hydrogen and ammonia.

LUMEA™ is an essential energy infrastructure services provider building competitive and innovative pathways to shape Australia's energy future across the National Energy Market and beyond. By bringing together a new mix of technologies and services, we build, own and operate large scale infrastructure across the whole project life cycle.

As a leading infrastructure provider, LUMEA™ offers connections services to large load customers and renewable energy generators, having connected more than 55 generators to the National Energy Market and brought 12GW to the market in the past five years; enough to power 4 million households.

LUMEA™ provides integrated energy management solutions, large scale energy storage solutions, as well as carrier grade telecommunications services to wholesale, government and emergency services customers. Currently, LUMEA™ is developing energy storage systems, including a 300MW grid-scale battery in Melbourne which is one of the first to be fully financed from private sector market participants without utilising government funding.

The LUMEA™ team has extensive network knowledge, both in energy and telecommunications, and brings a creative and commercially-focused approach to facilitating Australia's ongoing transition.

Ergon Energy and Energex, as part of Energy Queensland, comprise Australia’s largest electricity distribution company; connecting electricity supply to 2.25 million customers across Queensland.

Energy Queensland Limited is a 100% Government Owned Corporation, with several operating subsidiary companies, reporting to the Queensland Government.

The Energy Queensland group of companies is driven by its vision to energise Queensland communities, not only via its 207,000km of electricity network, but also through its commitment to deliver better outcomes for customers, employees and all Queenslanders.

Website - https://www.energex.com.au/

Alinta Energy has been supplying energy in Australia for over 20 years. With over 1 million customers and around 1,000 employees, we have an owned and contracted generation portfolio of 3,000MW across Australia and New Zealand providing generation, retail and wholesale supply of gas and electricity. We offer local customer service through our support hubs in Perth, Western Australia and Morwell in Victoria.

As a major investor in renewable energy, Alinta Energy is committed to playing a role in the transition to a low carbon future. We built Western Australia’s biggest wind farm, supported major mining companies in reducing their emissions with battery and solar, and we’re planning offshore wind and pumped hydro projects. We have a 2025 target of 1,500MW of owned and contracted renewable energy generation and a net zero 2050 target.

WORLD CLASS BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY

EVO Power is a leader in energy storage technology and innovation that enables the electrification of large commercial and small utility projects with fully integrated energy storage solutions.

Our turnkey Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and software solutions enable our clients to contribute to market trading and grid services.

Engineered to overperform for a high return on investment, our solutions open opportunities for Commercial & Utility Enterprises and Government Organisations to lead the charge to a renewable energy future."

Diffuse Energy is passionate about renewable energy. Our market-leading small wind turbine technology is designed and manufactured with micro-grid operators in mind. Wind power is an ideal way to unlock savings in diesel fuel generation. 

Power Consultants Pty provides equipment and software to the Electrical Transmission, Distribution and Industrial sectors . The principle products and services include ;

• Dynamic Var support- Statcoms
• Series and shunt compensation
• Synchronous Condensors
• Switchgear -Substation > SF6 free -vacuum dead tank circuit breakers > Disconnectors 66- 550kV
• Switchgear – Pole top > Reclosers, Sectionalisers, Load Break Switches
• Engineering Software > LV Drop, Protection Database, Relcord, Powersys – Datashare > Harmonic Analysis, Cable ampacity, Protection coordination, Arc flash analysis, DER modelling and much more from Cyme international

The Bureau of Meteorology provides trusted, reliable and responsive weather, water, climate, ocean and space weather services for the Australian region – all day, every day.

The Bureau provides expert meteorological and climatological services to the energy sector and is identifying opportunities to provide further support by increasing awareness of space weather and its potential impacts on Australia's energy systems.

We collect data from space-based and ground-based infrastructure. Our space weather capability assimilates this data into alerts, warnings and forecasts to help mitigate the impacts of space weather on sectors including critical infrastructure.

For more information contact: spaceandspaceweatherengagementteam@bom.gov.au

PBA is a high voltage specialist services and solutions provider operating throughout Australasia.

Our total focus is on providing leading technical expertise in the area of high voltage engineering. We have the know-how, people and professionalism you would expect an expert to have.  As a result, at PBA we provide the recommendations, support and solutions you need to maintain, develop and protect the integrity of your organisation’s valuable high voltage infrastructure

Located on Stand A13 we are presenting our SmartData600 suite of Transformer and Circuit Breaker solutions.  In addition to demonstrating our EcoGas600P SF6 Remote Gas Monitor for circuit breakers we will be showcasing our newly released OiWatch600Q – Low Frequency Heating system for transformer core dry out.

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in technology that powers the Internet. Cisco inspires new possibilities by reimagining your applications, securing your data, transforming your infrastructure, and empowering your teams for a global and inclusive future. Discover more on The Network and follow us on Twitter.

For over 35 years, Zipform Digital has been providing innovative, data driven customer communication management solutions across Australia.

There have been many technological changes during this time, and we have worked with our customers to navigate and define their future direction in customer communications within a constantly evolving environment. Beginning with the transition from legacy paper systems to more efficient and cost-effective bespoke solutions, digital transformation is core to continuous improvement for our clients. A partnership with Zipform Digital guarantees the depth of knowledge, expertise and technology to effectively manage and nurture customer engagement and create future proof communications. 

Visit us zipformdigital.com.au

Appian helps organisations build apps and workflows rapidly, with a low-code platform. Combining people, technologies, and data in a single workflow, Appian can help companies maximise their resources and improve business results. Our platform brings together industry-leading workflow, AI, and RPA at the speed of low-code, and enables organisations to quickly create new enterprise applications to automate their business, as well as integrate and enhance existing systems without the need to migrate data. Many of the world’s leading energy organisations use Appian applications to run critical processes, streamline operations, improve execution and increase production. For more information, visit www.appian.com.

Brave Energy Systems provides software solutions for the Australian energy market. They are dedicated to simplifying transactions for market participants by streamlining business processes, improving data management and approaching regulatory change with agility and innovation.

With efficiencies and bottom-line improvements at the forefront, Brave has recently moved their solutions to a cloud-based SaaS model, running on the Bravecloud™ platform.

Omexom is the VINCI Energies brand dedicated to energy infrastructure.

VINCI Energies, with its brand Omexom, helps electricity producers, transmission and distribution system operators and local and regional authorities fulfil the promise of the energy transition. Our goals, going forward, are to foster access to electricity, ensure secure supply and develop sustainable energy.

VINCI Energies 1800 business units, operating in over 50 countries with a turnover in excess of $13 billion euros, notably offer innovative solutions for renewable energy, urban natural gas networks, electricity storage, low-carbon mobility and energy and transport infrastructure management.

Energy Consumers Australia is the independent, national voice for residential and small business energy consumers and we work to ensure consumer values, expectations and needs are realised through a modern, flexible and resilient energy system. By creating a trusted and influential voice, our advocacy brings about changes in policy, legislative and regulatory frameworks and industry business models, practice and behaviours for the benefit of people using electricity and gas.

The Electric Energy Society of Australia (EESA) is a not-for-profit Technical Society of Engineers Australia (EA), established to advance interest in the field of electric energy.

The key objective of EESA is to provide a continuous professional development program to our members. Our members come from all fields within the electric energy industry.

We deal with the generation, transmission, distribution, retail and customer use of electric energy.

With 7 Branches and over 1,000 members, the Australian Institute of Energy brings together individuals and companies with interests and involvement in the energy sector.

WHAT WE DO

• Advance the sharing of ideas and knowledge by providing an impartial environment for dynamic debate.
• Connect people and ideas by providing networking opportunities to meet colleagues from all industry sectors and establish links with industry specialists.
• Celebrate the efforts of professional people and companies by recognising excellence through award programs and a range of scholarships.
• Learn from our members and partners, through exposure to cutting edge ideas and practices to provide thought leadership events.
• Support and mentor young people with the Young Energy Professionals groups.
• Proactively encourage diversity with the Women in Energy initiative

HOW WE DO IT
The Institute offers extensive opportunities to enrich professional development through workshops, seminars, briefings and conferences:

• keeping you ahead of the trends – our forums and seminars bring you the best of Local, National, and International practitioners and academics
• keeping you informed – through Special Interest Groups, Regional Networks, publications and our website

NERA (National Energy Resources Australia) is a federally funded not-for-profit organisation that works with partners in government, research, science and industry to help decarbonise Australia's energy sector. NERA is focussed on leveraging low emissions and digital technologies to support Australia's energy transition at the same time as growing innovative SMEs and supply chains. NERA works with energy sector partners to improve Australia’s performance in the commercialisation of innovation and the scale-up of technologies.

The Australian Energy Council represents 21 major electricity and downstream natural gas businesses operating in competitive wholesale and retail energy markets. These businesses collectively generate the overwhelming majority of electricity in Australia and sell gas and electricity to over 10 million homes and businesses.

The energy council began operating from 1 January 2016. With Australia’s energy industry undergoing a period of rapid, transformative change member companies of the Energy Supply Association of Australia (esaa), the Energy Networks Association (ENA) and the Energy Retailers Association of Australia (ERAA) decided  to reorganise and rationalise their representative associations in 2015.

From 1 January 2016, the merchant, non-network energy businesses commenced the Australian Energy Council and the ERAA merged into this new organisation.

Matthew Warren was appointed as its inaugural Chief Executive.

The ENA continues to serve its network members and absorbed the responsibility for Grid Australia activities on behalf of the electricity transmission sector.'

See more at www.energycouncil.com.au

The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group®) is a peak national employer organisation representing traditional, innovative and emerging industry sectors. We have been acting on behalf of businesses across Australia for nearly 150 years.  Ai Group is genuinely representative of Australian industry. Together with partner organisations we represent the interests of more than 60,000 businesses employing more than 1 million staff. Our members are small and large businesses in sectors including manufacturing, construction, engineering, transport & logistics, labour hire, mining services, the defence industry, civil airlines and ICT.

Our purpose is to create a better Australia by empowering industry success. We offer our membership strong advocacy and an effective voice at all levels of government underpinned by our respected position of policy leadership and political non-partisanship.  With more than 250 staff and networks of relationships that extend beyond borders (domestic and international) we have the resources and the expertise to meet the changing needs of our membership. We provide the practical information, advice and assistance you need to run your business. Our deep experience of industrial relations and workplace law positions Ai Group as Australia’s leading industrial advocate.

We listen and we support our members in facing their challenges by remaining at the cutting edge of policy debate and legislative change. We provide solution-driven advice to address business opportunities and risks.

The Australian Energy Foundation is leading the way to an equitable zero carbon society. We accelerate the energy transition by empowering communities to take action.

Through our energy expertise, tenacity, and partnerships, we:

1. Demonstrate the pathways to a zero carbon society.

2. Influence and inspire to build understanding, investment and action.

3. Deliver solutions that have a positive impact.

We are practical visionaries; a national for-purpose organisation whose work benefits all Australians.

The Australian Power Institute (API) represents major Australian power companies in providing future professional power engineering capability whose vision is:

"To deliver a sustainable supply of highly skilled power engineering professionals working effectively to meet the challenges of Australia’s emerging energy future and to support the technical and commercial success of member companies in the energy sector"

The Business Renewables Centre Australia (BRC-A) is a not-for-profit initiative that seeks to help accelerate the uptake of Renewable Energy Corporate Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) in Australia through addressing critical knowledge gaps and facilitating industry networking. The BRC-A is a joint collaboration between WWF-Australia, Climate-KIC Australia and the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology.

The Melbourne Energy Institute (MEI) delivers influential, interdisciplinary research on the transition to a clean energy system. We work with the community, industry and government on some of the world’s most pressing energy challenges.

MEI has over 300 specialists across Architecture, Economics, Engineering, Health, Law, Planning,
Science and Social Science. They include a former Chief Scientist of Australia, several recipients of Australia Day Honours, several Fellows of Learned Academies and numerous Fellows of Professional Societies.

MEI researchers work together in four programs:

• Energy Systems

• Hydrogen and Clean Fuels

• Power Generation and Transport

• Energy Materials

We work with many leading organisations in Australia and overseas and welcome all enquiries at meiinfo@unimelb.edu.au.

Transmission & Distribution is focused to the Electricity Supply Industry for High to Very High voltage electricity transmitted either overhead or underground from the point of generation across the country at very high voltages. Transmission & Distribution includes Energy Generation, which focuses on all aspects of Electricity Generation to include coal-fired, renewables and nuclear power.

Our articles are written by Engineers…for Engineers based on actual application and use of products and services. Articles are written by qualified professionals whose experience and proven reputation provides readers with reliable solutions to everyday problems.

APT Publications publishes all their magazines in a digital E-Magazine format and provides advertising opportunities to include Electronic Newsletters, Electronic Direct Mail (EDMs), Online Digital Media advertising, Advertising broadcasts and Unique Campaigns.

For further information on APT Publications or to contact us, please visit our website:  www.powertrans.com.au