The Delivery Decade Starts Now: Modern Grids. Smarter Systems. Sustainable Futures: Powering Aotearoa's Energy Transition.
Marko Simunac
General Manager Operations & Maintenance Vector Limited
Agenda Day 1
2:35 PM Panel Debate: The Connection Crunch: How to Deliver Faster, Smarter Grid Access
Generators, network operators, and the Electricity Authority debate what it would take to halve connection timeframes - and who needs to move first.
The commercial and regulatory changes that would have the biggest impact on connection pace
What Transpower's Net Zero Grid Pathways programme is delivering - and what it's not yet solving
Co-investment models and anticipatory investment frameworks that could break the logjam
Agenda Day 2
10:30 AM Panel - Asset Reinforcement Strategies for a High-Renewables Mix: Spending Smarter on an Ageing Network
Reinforcing distribution networks for bidirectional flows, variable generation, and growing demand while managing cost and maintaining reliability - the defining operational challenge for EDBs in 2026.
The prioritisation challenge: how EDBs are deciding what to reinforce, defer, and replace with a digital or demand-side alternative
Where condition-based asset management is replacing time-based replacement - and what that requires from data and sensing infrastructure
The EDB collaboration mandate: what standardisation and shared investment actually looks like across 29 networks
Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Marko.
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