The IET SA & NT Local Network Executive committee organized  "IET Energy Dinner - Future of energy in SA", and were pleased to welcome an audience in excess of 50 of Adelaide's best Engineers from diverse companies including our sponsor GHD, SIMEC Zen Energy, Promanage, Lucid Consulting, Rowland Metalworks, SA Power Networks, Scope Global, Raytheon, BAE Systems, Flinders University, Adelaide University, University of SA, and many others. Attending the event we had around 8 Engineering students who benefited from networking with their colleagues already working in many of the companies that could employ them.



The keynote presentation was from Zen Energy's Richard Turner - "The economic opportunities for South Australia as it transitions to renewable energy".  Richard's presentation on behalf of SIMEC Zen Energy tells us all what the future of our energy market looks like in South Australia from one of the most important players in the Australian Renewable Energy Market. 



Mr Gary Neave, Speaker


The first speaker for the evening was Gary Neave, CEO of PROmanage. Gary is a civil engineer with over 30 years’ experience in general management, business leadership, program and project management across a diverse range of industry sectors. As a Project Manager Gary is known for influencing diverse stakeholder groups and multi-disciplinary teams to deliver first class results. Gary presented on the U City Development, the Greenest Building Development in Adelaide as of June 2018.


Feedback from the attendees:

""A Great event offering an insight into the future of power generation.Green energy is not just wind and solar, it is hydro, thermal, tidal all combined with battery storage and efficient demand and supply cycles."

"It's an amazing and evolving space to be involved in...….. there is much to be done in proofing SA businesses against continual power price increases."


Survey results:

100% satisfied or very satisfied with the presentations

85% satisfied with opportunities to network and 15% very satisfied




(Thanks to John Noonan, Chairman and James Mitchell, Vice Chairman of the IET SA & NT Network who provided the details, please check out John's article further details about the event)