UMA INDUSTRY FORUM
Currently the UMA committee is preparing the one-day electricity forum for September 2009 in Melbourne. Details will follow soon. The theme of the forum will be education re smart grids, smart meters, smart energy.

The industry forum will be divided into two sessions.

AM Session 1: “Electricity Supply and Demand Infrastructure” will explore the issues and challenges in the Australian electricity market. Updates on developments in the Victorian energy market re policy and framework, regulation and smart meter implementation contracts will be presented. Case studies on green applications and solar power developments will be part of this session as well.

Topics to discuss in this session include:

• January 2009 power crisis
• AMI rollout
• Demand side management
• Peak load management
• Electricity tariffs

PM Session 2: “Consumer constraints and perceptions” will explore the following topics of discussion

• Price signals
• Response to wholesale market
• Air conditioning load
• Street lighting
• Water desalination, recycling

2009 UMA ANNUAL INDUSTRY SEMINAR
With a resurgence of revenue assurance in the distribution businesses and retailers as an important aspect of AMI and AMI rollouts, the UMA Annual Industry Seminar in Sydney on 20^th Oct will cover revenue assurance issues and challenges in an AMI environment, over the one day event. Presentations of case studies and discussion panels are part of the one day programme. The seminar is then followed by the UMA Dinner on the 20^th October.