“Renewable energy 101:  What is being delivered in NSW’s first renewable energy zone?”

Adjunct Professor Warwick Giblin FRSN FEIANZ
Principal, ESE Justice

Date: Thursday, 4 December 2025, 5.30 pm for 6.00 – 7.00 pm (AEDT)
Venue: NEX, Newcastle Exhibition and Convention Centre, 309 King Street, Newcastle West, NSW
Registration:  Information to follow
Entry: Members, $15; Non-members, $25; Students: $5
Enquiries: by email to the Hunter Branch Chair
All are welcome

Summary: This event plans to explore:

• Why is Australia on the renewable energy journey?
• The various types of projects required, including generation, storage and transmission
• Household solar plus battery storage: is it a game changer?

The case study of what is happening in NSW’s first Renewable Energy Zone—Central West-Orana will inform the presentation, addressing the questions of what the benefits are and who reaps them, and what the costs are and who bears these.  This will be an interactive session in which audience questions and input will be welcomed.

Warwick Giblin is the Principal of ESE Justice and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business, and Law at the University of New England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW and Founding President of the Environment Institute of Australia (NSW Division–1989). He is also a Fellow of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand.

For the past three years, Warwick Giblin has been advising Local Government in the Central West Orana Renewable Energy Zone on a dozen proposed wind, solar and transmission projects. The focus has been on the social, environmental and economic impact assessment, and securing financial benefits for local communities from both developers and the State Government. His environmental management career has spanned more than 45 years in both the corporate and public sectors. Over the past decade, he has acted for 17 local councils across NSW and 20 farmers across Australia on energy and mining projects.

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