Consumer Grid Summit 2026

Sydney, June 24 – 25

What is the Consumer Grid Summit?

The Consumer Grid Summit is bringing together a diverse group of 40 current and emerging energy sector leaders to:

• forge a shared view of the future grid Australia needs
• develop practical options for navigating the transition
• build sector‑wide capability to deliver an energy future that benefits all Australians.

The two‑day, intensive closed‑door summit for a select group of 40 participants, conducted under the Chatham House Rule to enable open, candid dialogue.

Who will be there?

RACE for 2030 has secured the involvement of executive decision makers and future trailblazers from organisations spanning the full breadth of the sector.

This includes the Commonwealth Department of Climate Change, Energy, The Environment and Water (DCCEEW), Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC), Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), Australian Energy Regulator (AER), ARENA, EEC, Ausgrid, Essential Energy, Endeavour Energy, Western Power, AGL, Tesla, Energy Consumers Australia, CSIRO, UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures and many more.

The Summit report: From insight to action

The Summit culminates in a flagship actionable report.

Rather than simply diagnosing challenges, the report will:

• articulate a shared, practical pathway forward
• demonstrate solutions that already exist across the sector and identify research needs
• illustrate how collaboration and the right tools unlock progress
• complement existing policy, regulatory, and industry processes.

The report is designed to build confidence that accelerating the transition is not just possible, but practical.

Shaping Australia’s consumer‑led energy future

Australia’s energy system is entering a decisive new phase.

Recent milestones across the system highlight that long-standing assumptions about how the grid operates are being overtaken, as a more distributed and consumer-led grid takes shape.

At this point, exchanges between current and emerging leaders, fresh perspectives, and collaboration across the sector are more important than ever. This is your chance to work with others at the heart of the transition to test ideas, build shared understanding, and influence what happens next.

We have deep talent across the sector, powerful new tools at our disposal, and increasing clarity about the emerging shape and potential of the power system. Yet in a system with many roles, responsibilities and formal change processes, there is a growing need for spaces that help build shared views about the future and support their translation into coherent, aligned action.

Sitting at the intersection of research, industry, innovation and policy, RACE for 2030 is well placed to bring these perspectives together in a trusted, candid environment where ideas can be tested, aligned and turned into practical progress.

This Consumer Grid Summit initiative is designed not only to advance the sector, but to equip leaders with the skills, networks and confidence needed to shape the next phase of the transition.

By building shared understanding and working together, we can exercise real agency and accelerate towards a cleaner, more affordable and more equitable energy future for all Australians.

While applications have closed for the 2026 Summit program, we invite anyone who wants to help shape Australia’s future grid to register interest in future involvement.