The Delivery Decade Starts Now: Modern Grids. Smarter Systems. Sustainable Futures: Powering Aotearoa's Energy Transition.
Tania Palmer
General Manager Generation Meridian Energy
Agenda Day 2
11:30 AM Panel - Data-Driven Utilities: From Operational Insight to Competitive Advantage
The utilities winning on operational efficiency in 2026 are doing so on the back of better data. This session examines what separates the leaders from the laggards.
The data investments producing the biggest operational returns - and the ones that looked good in the business case but haven't delivered
From data collection to decision support: the organisational and cultural change required to make analytics operationally useful
What the best-performing NZ utilities are doing with data that others aren't - and how replicable it is
12:00 PM Case Study - AI for Performance Optimisation: How Meridian Is Rethinking Outage Decisions
Tania Palmer shares the honest story of using data and AI to optimise outage decisions in live generation assets, not only predicting failure, but improving when and how work gets done.
Beyond failure prediction: how outage planning and sequencing itself is becoming a data-driven decision
How outage valuation is helping teams weigh cost, risk and generation value, and when it actually changes the plan
The adoption gap: why the hardest part isn't building the model, it's embedding it into planning workflows and getting asset owners, engineers, and planners to trust it enough to act differently
Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Tania.
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