MEInetwork24 Seminar #2: Transmission and distribution networks

HYBRID EVENT

The Melbourne Energy Institute invites you to it's second seminar for 2024, presented by Mr John Theunissen, Technical Advisor to C4NET.

Have you ever wondered what’s really involved behind the scenes in moving electrical energy around, in real-time, 24/7, at scale, across large distances and diverse geographies, with millions of end points and nodes, and with a reliability typically exceeding 99.9% (depending of course where you live)?

In this seminar, we take a closer look at what it takes to keep essential energy flowing across electricity transmission and distribution networks. We briefly consider the activities of network owners/operators and explore past and future challenges as the ecosystem evolves to be more distributed, with increasing renewable energy participation, and having greater prominence in the energy delivery landscape.

We invite you to join us on this brief journey providing selected insights and esoterica around how transmission and distribution networks are planned, designed, operated, maintained, augmented, and replaced. The future of electricity has always been exciting, especially now as the industry experiences a significant paradigm shift in power system architecture, consumer and community involvement, and growth in renewable distributed energy resources.

Come and hear how energy networks are actively engaging in this new world to ensure that customers remain well served with this essential service.

SPEAKER:

Mr John Theunissen, Technical Advisor to C4NET.

John currently provides a technical advisory service to C4NET’s Enhanced System Planning Project.

John is an electrical engineer who held numerous technical management roles within AusNet Services and its predecessor companies from 1995 to 2022, initially in the protection, control and communication areas, and later in leading smart grid and network modernisation initiatives.

Previously he was Corporate Protection Consultant with ESKOM in South Africa, and before that worked for Siemens Limited, where he was responsible for Siemensʼ national protection relaying and disturbance recording business.

MODERATOR:

Dr. Arthur Gonçalves Givisiez
Research Fellow in Smart Grids, Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Melbourne

Arthur Goncalves Givisiez is a Research Fellow in Smart Grids at The University of Melbourne. He is currently working as the key researcher in a CSIRO-funded project that is studying how to improve the management of solar PV systems by using operating envelopes across Australia. Previously, he was heavily involved in in other two CSIRO-funded projects related to the management and integration of Distributed Energy Resources. He has a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering, both from Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from The University of Melbourne.