Women in Energy & Renewables Summit 2025

GHD are a global professional services company that leads through engineering, construction, and architectural expertise. Our forward-looking and innovative approaches connect and sustain communities around the world. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are focused on building lasting relationships with our partners and clients. Find out more about us at https://www.ghd.com/.

CitiPower and Powercor move electricity to and from around 1.27 million homes and businesses across the western suburbs of Melbourne, central and western Victoria, Melbourne’s CBD and inner suburbs.

We play a critical role in enabling Victoria’s clean energy transition with more than 2800MW of solar, wind and other renewable generation connected to our networks. We’re also at the forefront of innovative projects and trials investigating community batteries, smart charging for electric vehicles, and microgrids and other community energy projects.

The Powercor network is made up of almost 90,000 kilometres of wires and more than 588,000 poles and supports 11,200 medium, commercial and industrial businesses and 106,500 small businesses. The CitiPower network comprises almost 7600 kilometres of wires and more than 57,000 poles and has the highest customer density in the National Electricity Market with 107 customers per kilometre square.

Our teams operate from 14 depots, our Bendigo-based customer contact centre and our CBD headquarters, to deliver reliable, safe and affordable electricity.

Ausgrid is the largest electricity distributor in the National Electricity Market (NEM), we provide power to 1.8 million customers across Australia’s east coast in Sydney, the Central Coast and the Hunter. We distribute electricity to homes and businesses, maintain existing infrastructure, and invests in new technologies to make the network more sustainable, reliable and affordable.

Ausgrid values diversity, equity and inclusion, and our connection to the communities we work in. Through meaningful engagement, we are proud to create an inclusive and respectful workplace for our diverse customers and employees and be an official diversity partner for this event.

AusNet is Victoria’s largest diversified energy network business and connects communities with reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. Its vision is to be trusted to bring the energy and build a cleaner tomorrow. With over $13 billion in assets, it operates three core regulated networks: electricity distribution, gas distribution, and the state-wide electricity transmission network. Additionally, its portfolio includes contracted energy infrastructure. Under the name ‘Mondo,’ it offers energy and technical services. AusNet’s dedicated team of over 1,300 employees serves more than 1.6 million customers.

www.ausnet.com.au

WISER is Women in Sustainable Energy & Resources. We are women driving women's visibility and leadership in sustainable energy and resources. WISER's mission is to support and advocate for women working at all levels in the transformative industries of sustainable energy and resources, as well as associated industries in Queensland, by providing opportunities to network, learn, celebrate and share ideas.

WISER link: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wiser-women-in-sustainable-energy-resou...

Bioenergy Australia committed to accelerating Australia’s bioeconomy. Our mission is to foster the bioenergy sector to generate jobs, secure investment, maximise the value of local resources, minimise waste and environmental impact, and develop and promote national bioenergy expertise into international markets. Australia lags behind the world when it comes to bioenergy, and we aim to change that. We empower, share knowledge, and connect Australian bioenergy producers, investors, researchers, and users to make Australia’s bioeconomy world-class.

www.bioenergyaustralia.org.au

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The EEC is the peak body for Australia’s energy management sector. A not-for-profit membership association, EEC works to drive world-leading policy on efficiency, electrification and demand flexibility; ensure we have the skilled workforce to deliver Australia’s energy transition; and support businesses and households to rapidly decarbonise.

https://www.eec.org.au/