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David Prins
David Prins is a highly accomplished consultant and project manager, with extensive international consulting experience and expertise in strategic, regulatory and commercial issues. He has a keen understanding and over thirty years of practical experience spanning four continents, specialising in the application of effective regulation and competition in electricity and gas industries. David thrives on understanding how regulation and competition inter-relate in energy markets, and helping his clients to navigate the often difficult environments in which they have to participate and engage.
David has provided advice to public and private sector clients – industry participants, governments, regulators and consumer organisations and vendors who would like to improve their understanding of energy and utility markets – throughout Australia and New Zealand, as well as in Europe, Asia, and North America.
Much of David’s recent work has focused on advice on consumer facing issues in energy and water industries, including regulatory proposals of energy network businesses, smart metering in energy and water industries, and energy pricing and margins. Within Australia, he has worked extensively on national energy market and regulatory arrangements, and also jurisdictionally in all of Australia’s states and territories. He is a recognised international expert in the areas of cost-benefit analysis, the regulatory and commercial challenges of the rollout of smart meters, consumer engagement, and benefits realisation for consumers.
Panel membership
David is a member of the Australian Energy Regulator’s Consumer Challenge Panel (CCP), where his role is to help ensure that decisions on electricity and gas network regulatory access arrangements and costs across Australia incorporate the interests of consumers. In this role, David challenges the Australian network businesses regarding their consumer engagement activities, and ensures that their regulatory proposals are in consumers’ interests. He also challenges the regulator on how its regulatory decision-making processes take into account consumers’ interests and produce positive outcomes for energy consumers.
Presentations, workshops, seminars and training courses
David is an excellent communicator and experienced trainer. As well as undertaking formal training, David is often asked to present at conference and workshops, to chair proceedings, and to facilitate and moderate expert panels, in Australia and internationally. He can be relied on to stimulate an audience’s interests, to weave his personal and industry experience into the analysis of the issues that the participants face, and to help practitioners inside and outside the industry to solve their problems and plan for success.
In the last few years, David has addressed and chaired conferences and run training courses in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand and The Netherlands. His recent presentations, workshops, seminars and training courses include:
David holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours degree in Computational and Statistical Science, and the degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA).
David Prins is a highly accomplished consultant and project manager, with extensive international consulting experience and expertise in strategic, regulatory and commercial issues. He has a keen understanding and over thirty years of practical experience spanning four continents, specialising in the application of effective regulation and competition in electricity and gas industries. David thrives on understanding how regulation and competition inter-relate in energy markets, and helping his clients to navigate the often difficult environments in which they have to participate and engage.
David has provided advice to public and private sector clients – industry participants, governments, regulators and consumer organisations and vendors who would like to improve their understanding of energy and utility markets – throughout Australia and New Zealand, as well as in Europe, Asia, and North America.
Much of David’s recent work has focused on advice on consumer facing issues in energy and water industries, including regulatory proposals of energy network businesses, smart metering in energy and water industries, and energy pricing and margins. Within Australia, he has worked extensively on national energy market and regulatory arrangements, and also jurisdictionally in all of Australia’s states and territories. He is a recognised international expert in the areas of cost-benefit analysis, the regulatory and commercial challenges of the rollout of smart meters, consumer engagement, and benefits realisation for consumers.
Panel membership
David is a member of the Australian Energy Regulator’s Consumer Challenge Panel (CCP), where his role is to help ensure that decisions on electricity and gas network regulatory access arrangements and costs across Australia incorporate the interests of consumers. In this role, David challenges the Australian network businesses regarding their consumer engagement activities, and ensures that their regulatory proposals are in consumers’ interests. He also challenges the regulator on how its regulatory decision-making processes take into account consumers’ interests and produce positive outcomes for energy consumers.
Presentations, workshops, seminars and training courses
David is an excellent communicator and experienced trainer. As well as undertaking formal training, David is often asked to present at conference and workshops, to chair proceedings, and to facilitate and moderate expert panels, in Australia and internationally. He can be relied on to stimulate an audience’s interests, to weave his personal and industry experience into the analysis of the issues that the participants face, and to help practitioners inside and outside the industry to solve their problems and plan for success.
In the last few years, David has addressed and chaired conferences and run training courses in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand and The Netherlands. His recent presentations, workshops, seminars and training courses include:
- Moderated a panel discussion on Regulatory reforms in markets with smart meters and retail competition with six senior panellists at the University of Melbourne’s workshop Technology Transforming Markets: Large Scale Field Experiments In Electricity Use, Melbourne, Australia, December 2014.
- Jemena Gas Networks (JGN) Access Arrangement 2015-20, Draft Decision by the Australian Energy Regulator (AER), presentation by AER’s Consumer Challenge Panel (CCP) sub-panel 7, presented at an AER public forum, Sydney, Australia, December 2014.
- Chaired the keynote session on Promoting customer choice, moderated a panel discussion on Frameworks to support consumer participation and new business models with six senior Australian and New Zealand panellists, chaired a session on Tariff reform, chaired a session on Smart metering drivers for change, presented Consumers in the driving seat, chaired a roundtable discussion on Tariffs and demand response strategies, and chaired and participated in an expert panel on Defining the best path to growth and profit for our utilities at Australian Utility Week, Melbourne, Australia, November 2014.
- The Power of Choice – What are the Possibilities for Older Consumers, presentation to the Council on the Aging (COTA) National Policy Council, Canberra, Australia, November 2014.
- The Power of Choice – What are the Possibilities for Older Consumers, workshops for the Council on the Aging (COTA) branches in South Australia, Queensland, Australian Capital Territory, Tasmania, Western Australia and Victoria, Australia, September 2014.
- Jemena Gas Networks (JGN), 2015 plan, presentation by AER’s Consumer Challenge Panel (CCP) sub-panel 7, presented at a Jemena public forum, Sydney, Australia, August 2014.
- Chaired sessions on Market-led smart metering, and moderated a panel discussion on Smart metering in Australia and New Zealand – current state of play with seven senior Australian and New Zealand electricity industry, government and regulator panellists at Smart Utilities Australia & New Zealand, Melbourne, Australia, November 2013.
- Recent Australian electricity market developments, client presentation, Sydney, Australia, November 2013.
- Regulation of Electricity Networks, a two-day training course, Singapore, November 2013.
- Ensuring network developments and costs incorporate the interests of consumers in Australia, presented at European Utility Week, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2013.
- Electricity Market Pricing and Trading, a two-day training course, Singapore, October 2013.
- Flexible electricity pricing – opportunities for customers, presented at the Australian Institute of Energy event on Smart Metering and Flexible Electricity Pricing: Benefits and Opportunities for Customers and the Network, Melbourne, Australia, August 2013.
- Panel member discussing Challenges facing the retail sector at the Association and Communications Events Australian Energy and Utility Summit, Melbourne, Australia, June 2013.
- Chaired sessions at the Association and Communications Events Smart Electricity World Australasia, Melbourne, Australia, June 2013.
- Move In Move Out (MIMO) research project – current status, presented at the Department of Energy and Water Supply Consumer and Industry Reference Group (CIRG), Brisbane, Australia, June 2013.
- Developing Different Pricing Strategies and Tariffs, presented at the IIR Credit & Collections in Energy & Water conference, Melbourne, Australia, May 2013.
- Electricity Market Pricing and Trading, workshop presented at the IBC Asia Power and Electricity Philippines conference, Manila, Philippines, February 2013.
David holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours degree in Computational and Statistical Science, and the degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA).
