Andrew Dickson | Senior Advisor South Australia
Smart Energy Council

Andrew Dickson has joined the Smart Energy Council as Senior Advisor – South Australia, deepening the SEC’s commitment to the energy transition in SA. He has also been a Smart Energy Council Board member since February 2022.

Andrew began his renewable energy career in South Australia in 2004, developing the Snowtown Wind Farm north of Adelaide. Since then, he expanded into solar thermal projects in South Australia and Queensland (and was part of the Solar Dawn consortium which was successful in the Commonwealth’s Solar Flagships program), wave energy projects, and export-oriented hydrogen megaprojects in Western Australia. He also helped to implement Australia’s first public community investment scheme into a utility scale renewable energy project, for the Sapphire Wind Farm in NSW.

Andrew spent 3 1/2 years in the South Australian Government working in economic development and investment attraction, and has interacted with governments and potential hydrogen customers in Singapore, Japan, Korea and Germany for the last decade.

Andrew has a particular passion for smart transport, including electric vehicles with bidirectional charging, and has just completed a Churchill Fellowship into maritime decarbonisation using wind assisted ship propulsion technologies, which took him to Singapore, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and the Marshall Islands.

He has a Master of Science and Technology Commercialisation degree from the University of Adelaide, and a Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from UNSW (ADFA College).