This week on Energy Unplugged, our Managing Director in Australia and California, Hugo Batten is joined by Brad Hopkins, General Manager of Commercial and Financial Markets at AEMO Services. \n\nWith a variety of roles in the energy transition, most recently as a partner at KPMG and also at Macquarie, Brad is leading a lot of the work on the New South Wales Roadmap which aims to overhaul its energy markets and replace the coal capacity that is departing over the next decade. \n\nBrad and Hugo discuss:\n\n\u2022\tThe purpose and history of the New South Wales Roadmap and the role of AEMO Services in delivering and running the program\n\u2022\tThe major challenges to deliver the ambitious goals for 2030 with focus on transmission and supply chain concerns\n\u2022\tThe role of market modelling