The Delivery Decade Starts Now: Modern Grids. Smarter Systems. Sustainable Futures: Powering Aotearoa's Energy Transition.

New Zealand's grid is cleaner than almost anywhere on Earth — and facing its most serious reliability challenge in decades. The people who can close the gap are all here. Whether they do depends on what happens in this room.

No briefing notes. No approved lines. No PR team in the wings. The Leader Morning is the only format in New Zealand where energy CEOs say what they actually think — about capital, risk, and the decisions that keep them awake. You won't read this in the trade press.

Can New Zealand close its supply gap without LNG? Two sides. One room. The audience votes. The result gets published. This is the conversation the sector has been avoiding — and on Day One we have it properly.

Batteries commissioning. Solar surging. Gas leaving. Markets reforming. Every EDB, generator, and retailer in New Zealand is being asked to operate a fundamentally different system. The operators navigating it best are on this stage.

Fifteen senior leaders. Chatham House Rule. Two hours. One question: what does this sector need to do differently in the next two years — and what will you personally commit to? You'll hear what came out of it. But you need to be in it.

New Zealand's first grid-scale battery systems are live. The revenue stacking assumptions, the grid integration realities, the operational gaps nobody planned for — the teams running them are on stage with the honest account. Not the prospectus version.

June 2029. Hydro at 30%. A major thermal unit trips. Demand is above forecast. Seventy-two hours to load shedding. Your cross-sector table has forty minutes. What do you do? The Scenario Lab is the most talked-about session of the Summit — because it's the most real.

What does capital actually need from NZ energy projects to commit in 2026? The infrastructure investors, green finance leads, and project finance directors in this room will tell you — directly, without caveats, in a conversation that doesn't happen in a prospectus or a press release.

Iwi energy ownership is growing. Community generation is accelerating. The just transition is no longer a policy aspiration — it's a delivery question. NZ Power Summit is the only national energy event where this conversation sits alongside the grid and generation agenda as an equal.

The Summit closes with a live sector vote on the top priorities for the year ahead and five senior leaders making specific, public commitments before NZ Power Summit 2027. This event doesn't end when the last session closes. It ends when the work begins.