The AEMC is pleased to announce the appointment of two new representatives to the Reliability Panel.

The Commission has appointed the Public Interest Advocacy Centre’s Craig Memery as the end use customer representative on the Reliability Panel, following consultation with a range of customer representative organisations. Mr Memery has been appointed to replace the outgoing end use customer representative, St Vincent de Paul Victoria’s Manager of policy and research Gavin Dufty. 

The Commission also wishes to thank Mr Dufty for his significant and valued contributions to the Panel representing electricity consumers, particularly Australians in need, for over nine years.   

Incoming Panel member Craig Memery has represented energy users for the last decade, and now leads the PIAC’s Energy and Water Consumer Advocacy Program. The program promotes access to affordable, sustainable energy and water for NSW households, through improvements in policy, regulation and markets that benefit all energy users and targeted supporting measures for people facing hardship and disadvantage. Mr Memery is also a board member of the Energy & Water Ombudsman NSW and Chair of the Australian Energy Regulator’s Consumer Reference Group.

The Commission has also appointed Alinta Energy’s Ken Woolley as the new generator representative on the Reliability Panel. Ken Woolley has been appointed to replace Professor Paul Simshauser, who recently resigned as a generator representative upon moving to take up his new position at Powerlink. When the generator representative nomination and approval process was conducted in late 2019, Mr Woolley was the other nominee who received significant support from generators. He has therefore been appointed to replace Mr Simshauser, given that this process was undertaken recently and there have been minimal changes to the registered generators category since that time.

Ken Woolley is the Executive Director Merchant Energy at Alinta Energy and a Director of Latrobe Valley Power. Mr Woolley is responsible for power generation asset management and operations, wholesale gas, electricity and renewable trading functions and power development at Alinta Energy. He has more than two decades of experience in the energy sector, including roles as Executive Director Power Generation at Alinta Energy and General Manager Power Development at AGL Energy. Mr Woolley holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Monash University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers. 

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