Northland sustainable energy plan: Let’s keep the [Christmas] lights on!

Networking

Speaker(s): Russell Shaw
Date: 4:30pm — 6:30pm, 10 December 2024
Venue: Turner Centre
Location: 43 Cobham Road, Kerikeri
Price members: $0.00 incl GST
Price non-members: $0.00 incl GST

Overview

The Auckland Branch of the Institute of Directors invite members and  local  business leaders in Northland/Te Tai Tokerau to our end of year event to enjoy some complimentary drinks and canapés to celebrate the festive season.

Joining us is guest speaker Russell Shaw who will briefly discuss Northland’s renewable energy resilience and generation opportunities. Aotearoa New Zealand is on a journey towards a clean energy future. Central to this is the importance of planning, collaborating, innovating and building a reliable, renewable energy supply, to achieve New Zealand’s system needs. In turn this will stimulate economic growth and support a cleaner environment.   It is vital that clean energy generation projects that can be deployed at pace are enabled with urgency. 

Northland experiences some of the highest wholesale pricing in NZ which places an unfair burden on our businesses and households. We are looking to change that, and we’d love to share our thinking with you.  

We thank event sponsor The Northland Corporate Group, a consortium of influential Northland businesses, dedicated to improving Tai Tokerau Northland’s prosperity and economic connectivity with the rest of the country. Comprised of, Top Energy, McKay, Northpower, Channel Infrastructure NZ, Culham Engineering, and Marsden Maritime Holdings, they work together to address the challenges faced by Northland, while harnessing its potential. 

Russell Shaw

MInstD

CEO - Top Energy Ltd

As an electrical engineer with over 25 years’ experience in the utility sector, Russell has significant experience in strategy, management, risk and operations with extensive knowledge of asset management, performance improvement and engineering.

Prior to joining Top Energy in 2008, Russell was General Manager for Operations at WEL Networks where he led WEL’s Asset Management, Procurement and Field Services groups of over 150 staff. Prior to this Russell was a partner with UMS Group, a global utility management consulting group.

Russell is a Chartered Electrical Engineer, has an honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, an MSc in Engineering Business Management and is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology and Engineering NZ. He is also a member of the Institute of Directors.

Additional information

Covid-19 precautions

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