2025 Safeguard Stakeholder Forum
Thank you to those who participated in the 2025 Safeguard Stakeholder Forum! This year's theme was Adapting to a Changing Scheme. The forum featured presentations from IPART, the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), the Energy Savings Industry Association (ESIA), and industry expert Jon Sibley.
As always, we held our popular Q&A panel. This year’s panel consisted of representatives from other regulators including the Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (GEMS) Regulator, NSW Fair Trading, Building Commission NSW and the Clean Energy Regulator (CER), who discussed hot topics and took questions from the audience.
Session recordings will be available soon, and we've published a Q&A document addressing some audience questions that we didn't have time for during the event.
Agenda
Session 1
- Opening – Ben Strate, IPART
- Welcome – Sharon Henrick, ESS Committee Chair
- Year in review – Kelly Kwan, IPART
- Market insights – Ric Brazzale, ESIA
Session 2
- Compliance priorities – Sean Goodchild, IPART
- Regulators’ Q&A panel – GEMS, CER, Fair Trading, Building Commission NSW
- The value of smart-charging and vehicle-to-grid - Jon Sibley, enX Consulting
- Update on incentives for high-efficiency air conditioners – Leigh Burrell, DCCEEW
- Closing – Sharon Henrick and Ben Strate