Full Name
Sam Markham
Job title
Manager, Growth & Commercial Strategy, APAC
Organisation
Fluence Energy
Speaker bio
Sam Markham is a Manager at Fluence, focusing on emerging policy issues and market opportunities for energy storage across active markets in APAC. Sam has extensive wholesale electricity market design, policy development and regulatory market monitoring experience in government rule-making and regulator roles. In previous roles, Sam led a team of modelling and economic experts to advise governments on reform opportunities to tackle key economic issues in the National Electricity Market (NEM), such as addressing future investment challenges, improving resilience to financial crises, and incentivising demand-side participation in wholesale operations.
Speaking At
Presentation title
Using hybrids framework to future proof renewables with storage
Presentation summary
The increasing pace of deployment for large-scale renewable and storage projects is incredibly encouraging for carbon emissions reduction. As developers and IPP’s continue expanding their portfolios of hybrid projects, maximizing value over a 20+ year lifetime requires a comprehensive solution for the integrated control and optimization of renewables and storage.
In this session, I would discuss:
- Key highlights of a hybrid system regulatory arrangements
- Design considerations
- Challenges of hybrid for the Australian market.
In this session, I would discuss:
- Key highlights of a hybrid system regulatory arrangements
- Design considerations
- Challenges of hybrid for the Australian market.
