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William Wei

Senior Energy Expert and Advisor

€700/day
Sydney, AU
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About William

Happy to provide key consultation and rare insights from the experience and practical industry expertise to the valuable client, hope to solve client's questions to benefiting client's work.

Energy | management consulting I Business strategy I Policy Advisor| Expert Insights |Financial Modelling |Validation| Executive Director| Economist | GM Energy Markets APAC | Senior Executive| Renewable Energy Infrastructure M&A | Board Member | Private Equity

Mr William Wei is currently a Principal Consultant/Advisor, advising clients on energy system strategy, regulatory matters, renewable market research and new tech.

He is also the Assistant Director at the Australian Energy Regulator, a government agency overseeing energy markets and networks. He was responsible for regulatory assessment, economic and energy policy development for energy regulation and work closely with AEMC and AEMO. He led and completed multiple vital regulatory determinations in energy infrastructure over $20 billion and asset management.

He was a Senior Market Forecast manager at Origin Energy Australia, the biggest Australian energy company. He was responsible for energy market trading, forecasting and modelling to support strategic planning and trading operations. He specialised in gas and electricity markets and worked with Origin Loop VPP and the Kraken platform. Origin is one of Australia's leading energy companies, supplying energy to over 4 million customer accounts. It holds the largest gas production in APLNG QLD and other states.

Previously, he worked at TransGrid, the largest electricity transmission company. He managed transmission assets and investment planning. He also worked at Essential Energy distribution network asset management, contributing to DER projects, research and operational models. He also worked with medium-sized energy retailers (wholesale operation and CI contracting) and renewable BESS project developers (project origination, approval to delivery).
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Sydney (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Independent Principal Advisor
    Principal Consultant/Advisor
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    October 2025 - Today (10 months)
    Sydney, Australia
    • Providing consulting and leading advisory services for business clients on current energy topics and REZ & market dynamics, assessing renewable project valuations on land easement and future transition trends, preparing financial tenders, evaluations and business reports after leaving the previous work due to
    urgent family travel overseas.
    ◦ Independent senior consultant & regulatory advisor role contributed to regulatory advice to national energy regulatory authorities and energy groups on M&A and different energy topics; recommendations/reports such as delivering national
    energy licensing reforms for energy 2030 vision transition, energy security and DER strategies, data centre power supply etc., facilitated decisions and changes to energy transition and investment objectives. Provided project planning and evaluation
    advisory and battery BESS project assessment and compliance reports.
    Project Management Audit Data analysis Strategic planning Corporate strategy
  • Australian Energy Regulator
    A/Director
    PUBLIC SECTOR
    February 2023 - January 2025 (1 year and 11 months)
    Sydney, Australia
    • Led and completed HumeLink transmission network contingent project application technical assessment (over $5 billion) and determination under NER. Assessed HumeLink project investment proposal and risk & benefits, RTN underwriting financing, and biodiversity offset credits. Providing policy & technical advice to transmission project coordination, as well as
    strategic communications to key stakeholders and AEMO/AEMC.
    • Lead and manage transmission/distribution network revenue determinations (Tasnetwork, Ausnet, Transgrid, Essential, Ausgrid), NEM market dynamics reports and stakeholder
    meetings on CAPEX, OPEX and relevant issues. Assessed the
    capex proposal, PTRM, RFM, CESS, and investment evaluation documents with AER's economic benchmarking and better reset expectations.
    • Decided and drafted decision papers for DNSP/TNSP revenue determinations and communication with the NSP executive team. Familiar with NER requirements and current rule changes.
    • Advised GM and board on strategic risks on bill impact and risk transfer of network cost component, and reviewed TPIR stage 3
    reports, contributed to transmission policies and social license
    guideline as well as adding emissions reduction objective into NEO.
    • Assisted VNI West contingent project application assessment and determinations and transmission policy.
  • Origin Energy
    Senior Energy Forecasting Analyst (electricity and gas Market)
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    January 2021 - December 2022 (1 year and 11 months)
    Sydney, Australia
    • Contributed to daily wholesale electricity and gas forecasting volumes & trade financials monitoring for whole portfolios (origin/red/lumo) in different states & markets. Provide business wide wholesale market forecasting and economic analysis, energy transition reviews and transfer pricing reporting.
    • Updated daily gas forecasting model and gas pipeline capacity purchase update. Monitored daily volume data, pipeline capacity from STTMs and Wallumbilla gas hub. Provided energy futures and LNG market trends.
    • Performed customer and meter count and gas purchased volume analysis to support trading desk operation, and monthly gas volume variance and risk transfer pricing/risk monitoring report.
    • Investigate daily gas trade deviations, audit monthly purchased volumes in the gas system and report gas trading operations. CI contract bidding.
    • Developed gas market mid-term forecasting model with Python and data consolidation by SQL in Amazon Redshift datalake and Matillion ETL process.
    • P/L book data integration and key market event forecasting and compliance report, cross retail market transfer pricing and CI customer contracting.

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Education

  • Master of Engineering Science
    University of New South Wales
    2017
    Master of Electrical Engineering Science Specialised in data analysis, electricity market modelling, project management, market and risk analysis. Consulting and market analysis work for the Centre for Electricity and Environmental Market (CEEM) in UNSW.
  • Bachelor of Engineering
    Universiry of New South Wales
    2012
    electrical engineering, business analysis

Certifications

  • Dynamic Regulation and Digitalisation for a Renewable-powered Future
    Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER)
    2023
    Policy Market analysis Assessment Regulation Research
  • Affiliate Member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP)
    the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP)
    2017
    Project Management Compliance financial reporting Risk analysis Risk Management statistics

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