About Our Sponsors

QBE Insurance Group is one of the top 25 insurers and reinsurers worldwide, operating in all key insurance markets.
In New Zealand QBE has a strong presence in the energy and utility industries and can draw on the considerable experience and capacity of the QBE network. Through this local and international expertise QBE offers tailored solutions for risks in the sector.

Talgentra is the leading provider of billing and CIS solutions for energy utilities in New Zealand and Australia. New implementations and upgrades at Northpower, Aurora Energy, ActewAGL, City West Water, Fiji Electricity, and The Lines Company, make Gentrack the most widely used utility billing and CIS solution in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands with over 30 implementations!
Our strong New Zealand base, billing 85% of electricity and gas installations, extensive industry experience and knowledge, ensures we continue to deliver a best of breed billing and customer management solution for utilities.

Check out www.talgentra.com/gentrack to find out about the latest Gentrack Velocity release.

Schneider Electric, Building the New Electric World

As the world leader in Electrical Distribution, Schneider Electric offers an impressive range of products, software, systems and services across four core markets: Energy & Infrastructure, Industry, Buildings and Residential.

A world-class line-up of global brands, supported by the value-added services we offer, is unparalleled in terms of breadth and strategic fit with our customers’ needs. Together we can build the new electric world. Find out more about Schneider Electric at www.schneider-electric.co.nz

Alcatel is a leading provider of critical communications infrastructure solutions for utility, energy, oil & gas, pipeline and railroad industries worldwide. With more than 50 years of experience in the utility sector, Alcatel's mission critical solutions portfolio provides a wide range of applications including unified communications, Voice over IP, Wireless LAN, digital microwave, MPLS networking and LAN switching. Alcatel's utility solutions improves security and redundancy to customers critical communications infrastructures, enhances disaster recovery systems, and creates greater operational efficiencies all while delivering highly reliable, scalable network architecture to accommodate future applications.

PA Consulting Group is a leading management, systems and technology consulting firm. Operating worldwide in more than 35 countries, PA draws on the knowledge and experience of 3,000 people, whose skills extend from the initial generation of ideas, insights and solutions all the way through to detailed implementation. In New Zealand PA has offices in Auckland and Wellington.
From the development of innovative strategies and solutions right through to their successful delivery, all of our work and support is based on deep sector insight and expertise.  We work across the private and public sectors, with particular strengths in financial services, energy, life sciences & healthcare, government & public services, manufacturing and telecommunications. We help our clients to design optimum strategies for growth, deliver effective IT that improves business performance, mobilise human resources, deliver complex programmes and major business transformations, and develop breakthrough products and processes through our unique applied technology capability.
As an employee-owned company, with no audit arm nor exclusive alliances with third-party vendors or service providers, we are answerable to ourselves and our clients only. This independence means the advice we give to clients, and the work we deliver, is unencumbered by any considerations other than what is best for our clients' business.
PA's independent, benefits-driven approach is founded on our strength in innovation, our responsiveness to our clients' needs, and our unyielding focus on delivery:

IFLR New Zealand Law Firm of the Year, Bell Gully advises all sectors of the New Zealand power industry. We offer expertise in every area, from exploration and generation through to distribution and supply, advising on M&As, contracts and supply arrangements, regulatory affairs, competition law, financing and tax, and resource management.

About Goughs Power Systems

Power Generation: Goughs Power Systems can supply and maintain electrical power generation (diesel and gas) to any power application throughout New Zealand. Goughs can supply only, or fully install, generators from 10 KW to 15 MW in single units or any multiple combinations with full synchronisation. Goughs has a full engineering team available to take any project from conception to completion.

ABB is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs 107,000 people.

ABB’s technology competence, broad application know-how and global presence offer customers easy access to leading electrical engineering and industry automation solutions and systems. 

Energy Market Services (EMS) provides customised data and information solutions to meet individual client’s requirements.  Since commencing operation in 1998, EMS has become an integral provider of information services to the New Zealand and Australian electricity markets.

Our services include:

• NZ Reconciliation Manager
• Remote collection of electricity demand data from 2000 locations in NZ
• GIS professional services and web hosting
•  Australian electricity futures and options

As one of Asia-Pacific’s most respected and leading professional services organisations Beca has been providing services to a range of power industry clients both in New Zealand and overseas for over 30 years. Headquartered in Auckland, Beca employs over 1800 staff in 27 locations around the globe.  Providing services across the energy industry, Beca continues to gain recognition for its contribution to innovative and sustainable energy solutions. 

Visit www.beca.com email:power@beca.co.nz

Maunsell has been providing consulting services to New Zealand and international clients for over 80 years and has been responsible for over US$8billion of electricity generation, transmission and distribution projects.  Maunsell provides multi-disciplinary solutions for power, transportation, environment, minerals, buildings and defence.  Maunsell is a member of the AECOM group, global leaders in technical professional services and ranked among the top 15 firms globally in the power sector (ENR, 2006).

www.maunsell.com | power&energy@maunsell.com

OSIsoft® (www.osisoft.com) delivers the PI System, the industry standard in enterprise historians, as the core of its real-time infrastructure platform.  A global base of more than 11,000 installations across process industries relies upon the OSIsoft PI System to safeguard data and deliver enterprise-wide visibility into operational health in order to manage assets, mitigate risks, and identify new market opportunities.

Arc Innovations is a leader in the development, deployment and management of Advanced Meter Management (AMM) technology and services.

Our AMM service enables energy companies to improve their customer service today while creating the basis for exciting new products and services tomorrow.

The technology combines intelligent customer premise equipment, continuous two-way communications, and "back office" systems so that energy companies can give consumers what they want, when and how they want it. The advantages to energy companies include increased control, reliability, accuracy and efficiency.