Date: |
17 Sep 2025, 5.30PM – 6.30PM |
duration: |
1 hr |
Location: |
Online |
Cost: |
Free event |
Essential Energy currently has around fifty zone substations with reverse power flow from a combination of rooftop PV and solar farms, out of a total population of three hundred. There are even more solar farms about to connect, and also market conditions are conducive for battery energy storage systems (BESS). Find out how we are managing our legacy power transformer assets as these new energy systems are integrated.
Key Learning Outcomes:
• What to expect for utilities as more solar farms and BESS are integrated
• The key issues which have been identified
• Solutions and management of power transformer
Presenter Bio:
Dan Martin is chartered professional engineer with over twenty years of experience. He is currently a senior engineer at Essential Energy, which is a state-owned electricity infrastructure company in Australia. As part of the zone substations team his current responsibility is asset management of the 800 power transformers in the utility fleet, understanding directions in community and industry energy usage, and shaping the future. He is a chartered member of Engineering New Zealand, a senior IEEE member and a registered professional engineer of Queensland. He has a Masters in Engineering Project Management from the University of Auckland and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Manchester.
Join the Electrical Engineering Group (EEG) for a presentation by Dan Martin, Chartered Professional Engineer, Essential Energy, for a presentation on “Innovative Integration of Solar Farms and Battery Energy Storage Systems into Distribution Grids and Asset Management of Utility Power Transformers”.
Essential Energy currently has around fifty zone substations with reverse power flow from a combination of rooftop PV and solar farms, out of a total population of three hundred. There are even more solar farms about to connect, and also market conditions are conducive for battery energy storage systems (BESS). Find out how we are managing our legacy power transformer assets as these new energy systems are integrated.
Key Learning Outcomes:
• What to expect for utilities as more solar farms and BESS are integrated
• The key issues which have been identified
• Solutions and management of power transformer
Presenter Bio:
Dan Martin is chartered professional engineer with over twenty years of experience. He is currently a senior engineer at Essential Energy, which is a state-owned electricity infrastructure company in Australia. As part of the zone substations team his current responsibility is asset management of the 800 power transformers in the utility fleet, understanding directions in community and industry energy usage, and shaping the future. He is a chartered member of Engineering New Zealand, a senior IEEE member and a registered professional engineer of Queensland. He has a Masters in Engineering Project Management from the University of Auckland and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Manchester.
