EMCa provides a service that takes proposed solutions as far as possible towards implementation through direct implementation assistance or through design of practical implementation processes
David Lipshut has over 30 years’ consulting experience and over 20 years working for governments, regulators, market operators, industry groups, retailers and distributors helping to implement major reforms in the electricity and gas sectors. He is/has been chair or advisor on a range of industry steering committees and working groups and has had over two years direct and indirect involvement in defining the capabilities of smart metering and how related services should be provided.
David specialises in developing market and regulatory designs and multilateral agreements that satisfy government policy objectives and/or the commercial needs of market participants. He has deep expertise in the design of wholesale electricity and gas markets and developed an operating model for smart metering in Victoria. He has facilitated many cross-industry groups to enable delivery of industry-wide solutions, including groups which have delivered the requirements to implement an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), to enable automated business-to-business (B2B) interactions, to introduce Full Retail Competition (FRC) and he prepared and promoted change proposals in regards to the National Energy Customer Framework (NECF) program.