We invite you to be a part of the SEANZ Conference 2011 to be held at The George Hotel, 50 Park Terrace, Christchurch on Monday 31st October and Tuesday 1st November 2011.  The theme "Steps in the Journey" affects all those wanting to grow and develop our small scale renewable distributed generation (SSR DG) industry - whether you’re a system designer, installer, supplier, wholesaler, manufacturer, integrator, system operator/local lines distributor or power retailer, this conference will help you.

Stay abreast of the latest developments from a range of views – the government’s policy and regulation makers around SSR DG, business opportunities, and the industry association as well as networking with other stakeholders, see who is doing what and enjoy the varied presenters we have selected to help you and your business.

We have invited key players to discuss and promote a better understanding of the challenges and solutions that impact industry.  Topics include:
Electricity Authority Commission on "Clause 14"
State of the Industry with numbers on SSR DG in NZ being released for 2010 and cumulative totals with forecasts
Barriers for grid connect and network/system operator solutions
Live case studies of implementations and success stories
Understanding the consumer and business drivers to install SSR
Electric vehicles and BMS systems - opportunity, assistor, hindrance, myth or threat?
Plus more.... including the exhibitors trade show and two fantastic site visits to IRL and Enasolar

Documents and programme download here

This year, on day two of the conference we are taking you on two fantastic site visits.

1. Distributed Hydrogen Energy Systems at Industrial Research Limited.
 IRL is a Crown Research Institute, with a focus on innovation in the manufacturing sector, including energy technologies.
Research engineers at the Christchurch site have been investigating the role hydrogen and fuel cells could play in future energy systems,
and potential opportunities for New Zealand businesses. Delegates will be given an overview of the background to the
current status of this work, and will be shown a fully working distributed hydrogen energy storage system, consisting of
electrolyser, low cost hydrogen store, hydrogen cooker and fuel cell.
A brief introduction to other advanced technology activities at the site will also be provided.

2. Tour of Enatel/EnaSolar Factory 

Firstly delegates will receive a brief overview of the products, road map and a behind the scenes view of the software that drives most of their sales success.
Then they will provide a tour of their brand new factory where you will see inverters built from start to completion including the new
surface mount machines and the very warm ‘burn-in’ room which gets up to 50 degrees.  Enasolar have installed 45 solar panels on the roof to
date to compare panel performance and all of the performance data is made available to the panel manufacturers and installers.