As we are shifting from centralised energy generation to decentralised energy systems, the structures of energy markets are changing and Community Energy is emerging as a major player in the future of Australia's Energy landscape. The conference provided a key opportunity to address the challenges and opportunities for renewable community power projects. The Community Energy Conference brought together community representatives, corporate energy stakeholders, project organisations, government representatives, property developers, community owned retailers, engineers and potential investors to showcase latest project developments and discussed advances and barriers. The agenda covered key topics such as local participation, finance & investment, regulation and policies, utility models and microgrid, system design and network changes, power contracts, renewable energy integration and infrastructure. Greg Garvin, Executive General Manager, People, Strategy & Stakeholders at TransGrid gave a presentation on the topic ‘Grid innovation: pathways top a low carbon future’. In the presentation Greg covered what grid of the future might look like, the active role TransGrid is taking to shape the grid of the future, and highlight some of our activities that demonstrate being proactive including iDemand, Renewable Energy Hub and the R&D project to digitise secondary systems.