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One of Australia's largest, most successful construction contractors, whose specialist telecommunications division excels in Wireline and Wireless infrastructure deployment services.
Accenture Smart Grid Services: Three decades of experience from Accenture's global T&D and IT practitioners translates into a team that brings extensive industry knowledge to the world's smart grid transformation challenges, along with a broad skill base ranging from executive strategic consulting, to specialised engineering, to in-depth systems integration.
Alcatel-Lucent is the trusted partner of service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide.
Their highly resilient and secure communications networks respond to the critical operational communications challenges faced by power utilities, and meet industry standards pertaining to service performance, availability and operating environment conditions.
Alcatel-Lucent's Integrated Communications for Power Utilities solution is a proven key enabler for new generation smart grids that provide measurement and control to better understand and manage the dynamics of a power utility network.
AREVA T&D offers solutions to bring electricity from the source onto the power network. We build high- and medium-voltage substations and develop technologies to manage power grids worldwide.
Bilfinger Berger Services (Aust) Pty Ltd
www.bbsaa.com.au
Bilfinger Berger Services (BBS) is a specialist engineering, construction and asset management contractor, creating, operating and maintaining vital public and industrial infrastructure in Australia and New Zealand. The company has been delivering power and telecommunications network services in Australia for more than 15 years and today provides services in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania.
Paul Budde is the initiator and founder of Smart Grid Australia. He has been working with the electricity utilities since 2001 (UtiliTel). From 2004 onwards annual across industry Smart Grid roundtables have been organised by this group. In April 2008 this led to the launch of Smart Grid Australia Inc.
Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets
The UNSW Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM) undertakes interdisciplinary research in the design, analysis and performance monitoring of energy and environmental markets and their associated policy frameworks. It brings together UNSW researchers from the Faculties of Engineering, Business, Science, Law and Arts and Social Sciences. Its work includes technical, economic and policy analysis of distributed energy options, and the opportunity that smart grids provide for future widespread deployment.
Producing and delivering clean, reliable power is becoming increasingly challenging in a market where environmental concerns are mounting, natural resources become more difficult to access and demands onageing infrastructure are increasing. Cisco is partnering with energy companies worldwide to develop strategies and implementation roadmaps for using intelligent networking and associated technologies to meet these challenges and transform their organisations, workflows and business processes.
CitiPower and Powercor Australia
CitiPower and Powercor are electricity distributors. Their core business is to manage the poles, wires and equipment that deliver electricity to homes and businesses in Melbourne and through central and western Victoria. They are responsible for the quality and reliability of their customers' power supply.
CleanPoint - selective energy is a high performance inexpensive, ‘retrofittable' smart grid solution. It's a system that monitors and manages down to the appliance level.
Country Energy is a leading Australian energy business owned by the NSW Government, with around 4,000 employees serving around 870,000 customers.
Country Energy owns and operates Australia's largest electricity network.
CQUniversity is an internationally, nationally and regionally networked and engaged university based in Rockhampton, Queensland and operating throughout the Asia-Pacific. Our 20 000 students (from over 100 countries) succeed because of the five-star quality and relevancy of our teaching, learning, research and community programs and services. Our personalised learning support, collaborative partnerships and excellent staff provide pathways for people anywhere, with different learning styles to achieve, thrive and succeed. A leading provider of distance education, CQUniversity also has campuses in Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Gladstone, Mackay and Emerald plus a delivery site on the Sunshine Coast. The University operates international campuses in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and the Gold Coast.
CURRENT underpins the world's largest Smart Grid deployments with a solution combining advanced sensing, broadband communications and analytical software.
Deakin University is a young Australian university that successfully combines traditional values of excellence in teaching and research with new ways of developing and delivering courses, undertaking research and providing services. A large multi-campus public university with more than 37,000 students and approximately 2600 full-time equivalent staff, Deakin operates from four Campuses across southern Victoria: one in Melbourne (the Melbourne Campus at Burwood), two in the regional city of Geelong (the Geelong Waterfront Campus and the Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds) and one in Warrnambool (the Warrnambool Campus) on Victoria's south-west coast. Deakin has four Faculties: Arts and Education; Business and Law; Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences, and Science and Technology. Together, they offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses across a comprehensive range of discipline areas. Deakin is committed to flexible learning opportunities. Its courses are available both on and off campus and through full- and part-time study.
Department of Environment & Climate Change NSW
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/
The NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) is a wide-ranging government department with responsibilities which include: minimising the impacts of climate change; regulating activities to protect the environment; managing NSW national parks, natural resources and cultural heritage; and promoting sustainable consumption and waste management.
Please note that DECC's inclusion on the members' website does not constitute an endorsement of Smart Grid Australia's views and policies.
Elster, a global leader in smart metering and smart grid solutions, has delivered over 1.5 million smart metering devices worldwide with systems located in North America, Europe, Central America, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean. Elster smart metering system solutions provide utilities with energy conservation capabilities via demand response programs, smart grid applications, and operational efficiencies resulting in significant value creation across the utility enterprise. Elster has over 7,500 staff and operates globally in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Asia.
With over 24 million meters under contract, eMeter enables electric, gas and water utilities to realize the full benefits of their AMI and Smart Grid initiatives, through the eMeter Smart Grid Management software suite. eMeter's flagship solution, EnergyIPTM, is being implemented by many leading utilities around the world and has been enhanced to support the specific requirements of the Australian National Electricity Market. eMeter has customers in Australia and New Zealand and a Sales and Support office in Sydney.
Ergon Energy is an electricity distribution company that services around 650,000 customers and covers 97% of Queensland - over one million square kilometres.
Communications networks continue to increase in complexity and importance to utilities. The smart grids of the future will require reliable, secure, end to end communications. Ericsson is a world leader in the design, supply, building and support of complex critical network infrastructure for utilities and telecommunications carriers around the globe.
Ericsson is advancing its vision "to be the prime driver in an all-communicating world" through innovation, technology, and sustainable business solutions.
http://www.esriaustralia.com.au
ESRI Australia are experts in applying location intelligence, with over 30 years experience in implementing GIS, asset and spatial enablement solutions in dozens of different industries.
The ESRI Suite of products are a platform for solutions across the energy industry.
http://www.etsautilities.com.au/centric/home.jsp
ETSA Utilities is the primary electricity distribution business in South Australia. Their key role is the safe and reliable distribution of electricity to all customers throughout the settled areas. Serving more than 803,000 customers, ETSA Utilities supports a network comprising 400 zone substations and 86,200 kilometres of powerlines. They employ approximately 1,800 people and are the fifth largest distributor in the Australian National Electricity Market.
Freestyle Energy is an Australian company, based in Mount Waverley Victoria, and provides a unique and innovative Operating System for embedded microprocessors on smart grids enabling low cost devices to perform real-time complex tasks. Freestyle's common platform is ideal for smart grids in that it is open, and enables vendor interoperability, integration of legacy technologies, and significantly reduces upgrade costs by providing future proof solutions.
GE Energy has been in the transmission and distribution business for over 75 years and has a comprehensive offering of products and solutions that enable Smart Grid processes and helpdrive greater productivity, energy efficiency, reliabilityand customer satisfaction.
The GridWise Alliance, founded in 2003, is a consortium of public and private stakeholders who are aligned around a shared vision. A vision of an electric system that integrates the infrastructure, processes, devices, information and market structure so that energy can be generated, distributed, and consumed more efficiently and cost effectively; thereby achieving a more resilient, secure and reliable energy system. Over the past four years the Alliance has advocated for change on both the national and state levels. Its members include utilities, IT companies, equipment vendors, new technology providers and educational institutions.
http://www51.honeywell.com/pacific/
Honeywell ECC Products is a global leader expert in the energy management and control solutions for residential and commercial applications.
Horizon Power is a State Government-owned power company responsible for generating, procuring, distributing and retailing electricity to residential, industrial and commercial customers and resource developments in regional Western Australia.
www-03.ibm.com/industries/utilities/index.jsp
IBM Australia Limited is a leading supplier of information technology, hardware, software and consulting services in Australia.
IBM is a significant business in Australian terms with more than 14,000 employees Australia wide, a turnover of $A 3.9 billion (in financial year 2007), and extensive commitments under contract.
We have a long involvement in the energy and utility industry and recently through our corporate investment focusing on the digitisation within the energy industry have grown our investment in people and resources globally and within Australia.
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Originally established to supply electricity distribution services to the Western Sydney and Illawarra regions of NSW with 842,000 customers and 2.1 million people, we also operate in Queensland, and today hold licences to retail electricity in all of the regions in Australia covered by the National Electricity Market (NEM).
James Cook University
www.jcu.edu.au/about/
One of the world's leading institutions focusing on the tropics, Australia's James Cook University (JCU) is surrounded by the spectacular ecosystems of the rainforests of the Wet tropics, the dry savannahs, and the iconic Great Barrier Reef.
JCU’s unique location enables students from Australia and overseas to study in a diverse physical environment unparalleled by any university in the world.
Jemena is a leading, national infrastructure company that develops, owns and services a combination of major electricity, gas and water assets.
They deliver innovative infrastructure solutions that support the vital daily electricity, gas and water needs of millions of Australians. They manage over $8 billion worth of Australian utilities assets and specialise in both the transmission and distribution of electricity and gas.
Together with UED, they are leading the rollout of the Advanced Meter Infrastructure program to just on 1 million homes and businesses in Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula.
Jemena is owned by Singapore Power International.
John Holland's Communications is a leading provider of communication network solutions and has the unique ability to provide a totally integrated service. Our capability in design, civil and construction, installation, commissioning and maintenance is focused on four market segments, being utilities, telecommunications, rail and transport and resource infrastructure. We have the people, experience, expertise and geographical coverage to satisfy all our customers needs.
Juniper Networks isn't just another networking company, following the pack and trying to keep up with the changes in technology. We're architecting the new network.
The new network is changing the way we think, connect, and do business around the world. Juniper can help your business make the most out of these new, complex changes.
With Juniper, customers are not forced to make sacrifices. Juniper delivers a high-performance network that enables the business, accelerating growth and innovation, while creating operational efficiencies and cost savings.
Our core routers, switches, and security hardware and software run the worlds largest and most demanding global networks.
KEMA is a leader in providing technical and management consulting services to the energy industry and, in particular to the power utility sector, across the whole of the delivery chain from generator to consumer. In particular, KEMA plays a industry-leading role with intelligent networks and communications through its extensive engagement with Smart Grid Europe and the Gridwise Alliance in the United States.
www.klgsystel.com www.connectgaia.com
KLG Systel Ltd. is a cutting edge software and hardware development and services company offering utilities and large consumers of energy a suite of Power System Solutions. KLG Systel Ltd. provides metering hardware and software platforms for strategic IT enablement in many Fortune 500 companies in the areas of Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Retail, Infrastructure, Power and process industries
With a primary focus on power systems KLG Systel Ltd have developed and deployed proven solutions to meet the needs of distribution utilities and large consumers of energy wishing to reduce losses or increase energy efficiency. This is enabled through an end to end solution including metering and grid monitoring devices and a hosted database and application infrastructure, providing real time analysis and decision making processes.
Our Power System Solutions:
- Advanced Metering Infrastructure
- Pre paid meter infrastructure
- Real-time Energy Accounting
- Revenue Management Operations
- Utility Business Process Automation
- Utility Distribution Franchising
- Demand side management and demand response
www.landisgyr.com
Serving energy companies in Australia and New Zealand since 1921, Landis+Gyr group is a global advanced metering powerhouse, ranking as the worldwide leader in electricity metering, load management and gas metering. Landis+Gyr has operations in more than 30 countries, employs more than 5100 staff and has an annualized sales exceeding AUD$1.3b.
Logica is a specialist IT solutions provider in Energy & Utilities, delivering key enabling projects for Smart Grids including strategic planning, architecture design, IT implementations around smart meters, meter data management, SCADA and outage management, billing systems, GIS and field force automation.
Australia is founding its future on science and innovation. Its national science agency, CSIRO, is a powerhouse of ideas, technologies and skills. CSIRO initiated the National Research Flagships to address Australia's major research challenges and opportunities. They apply large scale, long term, multidisciplinary science and aim for widespread adoption of solutions.
www.oracle.com/us/industries/utilities/index.htm
Oracle Utilities helps utilities prepare for smart metering and smart grid initiatives that enhance efficiency and provide critical intelligence metrics that can help drive more-informed energy and water usage decisions for consumers and businesses.
OSIsoft® delivers the PI System®, the world's leading highly scalable and secure infrastructure for the management of real-time data and events, and for connecting people with the right information, at the right time, to analyze, collaborate and act, which are all factors that enable Smart Grid.
Powercorp is a world leader in the design and implementation of remote power solutions, renewable energy integration and grid stability.
http://www.sap.com/industries/utilities/index.epx
SAP for Utilities solutions help improve operational efficiency, mitigate risk and increase profitability, helping clients gain enterprise-wide visibility for better decision making and improved responsiveness in mission-critical areas. SAP for Utilities employs more than 30 years of industry experience to deliver true end-to-end process support. Leveraging enterprise SOA and the SAP NetWeaver platform, SAP for Utilities drives business and market standardization with more flexibility for regulatory changes.
SAP has worked closely with their customers and partners, via the AMI Lighthouse Council to introduce AMI integration and innovative business processes. SAP maintains active participation in various AMI-related boards such as European Smart Grid Association, ESMIG (EMEA Smart Meter Industry Group) and GridWise.
Service Stream is a leading provider of asset management, field services and technology solutions to companies in the telecommunications, water and energy sectors.
SmartGridIreland is a network of organisations based in / operating out of Northern Ireland and the Repuplic of Ireland - seeking to jointly exploit new commercial opportunities in the Smart Grid sector locally, nationally and internationally. Member organisations are drawn from industry, research bodies, universities and government agencies. SmartGridIreland is an industry led commercially focused group, facilitated by a not-for-profit body that is part-funded under Invest Northern Ireland's Collaborative Network Programme.
Siemens is a diversified technology based solutions provider specialising in the areas of water, energy, environment, healthcare, productivity, mobility, safety and security. With a well-established local business, Siemens is setting the standards in Australia and around the world, and leading innovation by driving new advances in technology. Under the Energy solutions portfolio, Siemens offers products and turkey power solutions able to generate, transmit and distribute electricity from the power station to the end user safely and reliably.
SP AusNet is a major energy supplier across Victoria, with electricity transmission and distribution networks and gas distribution assets, enabling the delivery of energy-related products and services to industrial and domestic customers.
www.swin.edu.au/ict/research/cs3/
The Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services (CS3) located at the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, is one of the leading research centres in Australia and has an international reputation in its research areas with internationally leading researchers. The Centre carries out research in close collaboration with industry and research partners nationally and internationally, supported by a wide range of research grants, strategic partnerships and industrial R&D projects. With its significant research capabilities in Intelligent Agent Technologies, Software Engineering, Workflow Technology, and Data and Web Engineering, the Centre is actively pursuing advances in smart energy/smart grid programs, with new software solutions for smart management and optimization of collective energy use and provision, enabling new financial and environmental efficiencies in the energy market and the overall economy.
http://www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au & www.climatecam.com
The City of Newcastle is one of Australia's oldest cities and is the regional capital of the Hunter. Historically Newcastle has been known as a steel city with roots in industry and mining, however Newcastle is undergoing a renaissance and is embracing economic development and innovation to become a modern city. Leading this transition is Newcastle City Council. Over the past 14 years, Council has been positioning the city as an international testing ground for climate change mitigation initiatives via the award-winning ClimateCam program. The program provides the community with access to real-time greenhouse gas emission data across the Newcastle Local Government Area and shows local businesses, schools, community members and other councils how they can reduce energy consumption, water use and waste generation while saving money.
Toyota Tsusho (Australasia), Pty. Ltd (TTALA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho Corporation, which was founded as a trading and supply-chain specialist of the Toyota Group. TTALA has been operating in Australia since 1971 and over the past four decades, it has evolved from a trader in a limited number of commodities and finished goods to a multi-business enterprise.
As a multi-business enterprise, Toyota Tsusho (Australasia) combines international trading with an expansive range of domestically targeted functions (eg. supply-chain services, intermediate goods processing, third party logistics (3PL) etc.). Our operating divisions pursue a broad mix of business opportunities related to both industrial and consumer products and services and are made up of the following principle divisions;
Our head office, Toyota Tsusho (Australia) Pty. Ltd. is a diversified materials trading and logistics company, specialising in an expansive range of international trading services including supply chain management, intermediate goods processing and third party logistics for the following industries:
- Vehicles, Parts & Machinery
- Metals
- Industrial Materials
- Chemicals
- Wheel and Accessories
- Textiles
- Life Products and Services
- Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Toyota Tsusho (Australasia) is both an ISO 9002 quality endorsed company as well as recently being credited with the difficult ISO14001 environmental management systems endorsement.
Unwired has plans to deploy WiMAX networks in major Australian centres. Unwired believes that their planned WiMAX networks can facilitate Smart Grids.
Utilibill is an Australian company that provides Utilities front of office, middle office and back office platform.
Modules include billing, provisioning, Ticketing, reporting, Customer Portal and payment systems. While our specialty is in Telecommunications we are collaborating with other members with an energy focus.
http://www.utilisoft.com.au/smart-metering.html
Utilisoft is a supplier of software solutions to the Energy and Utilities industry in Australia and the UK with over 10 years experience in managing mission-critical dataflow requirements for energy market participants. They have created an integrated modular suite providing real-time operational integration, effective process execution, market compliance and a single version of the truth to reduce data related inaccuracies. Utilisoft solutions include; Market Gateways, Dataflow Management, Meter Data Collection, Meter Unification & Synchronisation, Meter Data Management, Meter Data Agent and Gas Nominations.
They seek to work smarter together with teams committed to the journey towards the smart world of tomorrow.
UXC Limited is an Australian-owned ASX 300 company. Driven to succeed through our focus on growth and passion for performance we provide market-leading solutions and services to medium and large organisations and Uilities and Governments, across Australia and New Zealand.
Together our groups combine industry knowledge and expertise allowing UXC to deliver end to end solutions for large scale programmes including our involvement in smart grid Australia. Our position as a leading installer of smart meters in the Victorian Government mandated rollout programme is supported by our groups metering expertise Business/IT backend support and infrastructure capabilities.
we-do-IT is a leading Spatial Information Technology Consulting firm, established in 1996 by CEO Dr. Walter Hesse. we-do-IT is dedicated to innovating Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and integrating new technologies to resolve client demands.
The firm’s technical expertise and business experience underpin the delivery of unique solutions to client challenges. Consultants specialise in Smallworld, Oracle, SAP integration, Mobile Workforce Solutions, Smart Grid technologies and adjust.IT (an in-house landbase adjustment product). we-do-IT prides itself on building strategic and sustainable partnerships with industry and professional bodies encompassing GE, Oracle, Ubisense, GITA and now SmartGrid Alliance.
we-do-IT is constantly evolving transnational relationships into an extensive client roster comprising Duke Energy, Piedmont Natural Gas, Manitoba Hydro, and Telecom NZ. Domestically, the firm has established links with the Australian Government, as well as various utilities including SP Ausnet, Jemena, Water Corporation WA, TransGrid and Energy Australia.