Anthea Harris new CEO of Energy Security Board

The Energy Security Board (ESB) has announced that Anthea Harris — currently Deputy Secretary, Energy, with the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning — has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the ESB.

This is a new role that will provide senior capability as well as delivering full-time strategic support to the members of the ESB, who each have other full-time roles in the energy system as Chair of the ESB and the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC), Chair of the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) and CEO of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO).

Welcoming Harris’s extensive experience and expertise, ESB Chair Anna Collyer said, “The ESB’s policy work is at a critical stage. Australia’s energy ministers have tasked the ESB with implementing agreed reforms and developing policy alternatives to efficiently deliver the necessary resource capacity and manage congestion in the National Electricity Market’s future system.

“Our work on distributed energy resources (DERs), in particular, is significantly changing the way energy is produced, stored and distributed. Anthea, in her new role, will be instrumental in delivering long-term sustainability, making way for a future of solar, batteries and electric vehicles, bringing power networks into the 21st century.”

Harris commences as Chief Executive Officer on 28 March.

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