Unlocking electricity flexibility in Aotearoa, New Zealand

A presentation on the FlexForum origin story. How its Flexibility Plan is informing and driving flexibility progress, and the practical learning-by-doing happening in Aotearoa New Zealand to make it easy and routine for households, businesses and communities to unlock the value of their flexible electricity resources.

Come along if you are interested in a real-world example of bottom-up multilateralism breaking down industry siloes to provide practical expertise and a handy checklist to coordinate and drive flexibility progress or want to hear about the flex-y learning-by-doing underway in Aotearoa New Zealand.  

Format:
5 min welcome and introduction by Laura Jones, ANU Centre for Energy Systems
35 min presentation by Craig Evans, Flex Forum
15 min Q&A facilitated by Laura Jones

Zoom link

In-person: Centre for Energy Systems, S316, Level 3, Skaidrite Darius Building, 108 North Road, ANU.

Biography

Craig Evans is FlexForum’s Chief Doer. This job involves cat-herding, making it easy for experts to share their expertise, asking probing questions, sometimes mediating disputing perspectives, and packaging everything up into clear, actionable insights. 

Before this 'best of jobs', he had many interesting experiences working in electricity regulators in New Zealand, and in Australia's Northern Territory and New South Wales.