Rafe Champion is fishing for responses
Daniel Westerman, AEMO
In May this year Daniel Westerman replaced Audrey Zibelman as the CEO of the Australian Energy Market Operator. She was appointed in the Turnbull era after she was tipped as a possibility for Energy Secretary under President Hilary Clinton. In the event their loss was our gain.
Daniel Westerman is now the head man in the organization that runs the operation of our grid and prepares scenarios for decarbonization of the power sector.
What questions would you ask him if you were on the panel to interview the candidates for the position?
This is what you read on his cv.
Daniel held a variety of senior executive roles with London-listed electricity and gas utility, National Grid Plc. Most recently he served as Chief Transformation Officer and President of Renewable Energy, where he led the company-wide transformation program, and grew a large-scale renewable energy business in the United States. In previous roles he has been responsible for engineering, planning and operational control of the electricity transmission network across Great Britain, as well as the development of distributed energy systems, such as rooftop solar, storage and energy metering.
So what do you say?
This is a test and marks will be deducted for bad language.
More background.
Five organisations are involved in managing and planning the South-Eastern Australian grid (the National Energy Market, NEM.)
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has hour to hour and day to day responsibility for the function of the system and it also models scenarios to implement the green energy transition.
The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) oversees the operation of the wholesale and retail energy markets under the national energy rules.
The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) makes the rules for the operations of the energy providers under the national energy laws and provides advice on energy market developments.
The Energy Consumers Association (ECA) is the national voice for residential and small business energy consumers.
The Energy Security Board (ESB) provides strategic advice to the Commonwealth and State Governments on reforms to the rules and regulations in the energy market. Under normal circumstances this agency would probably not be required but the emerging crisis in the system has placed it in the spotlight.
More about the people in the agencies.
The ECA is my most favourite agency of all because the dedicated professionals in the organization care so much about people and the planet.