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Day One, Monday 1 September 2008
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8.20am | Registration and welcome coffee
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8.50am | Opening remarks from the Chair
Dr David Crossley, Managing Director, Energy Futures Australia Pty Ltd
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| GLOBAL ENERGY CHALLENGES – OPPORTUNITIES AND
IMPLICATIONS FOR THE NATIONAL MARKET |
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9am | International keynote address
Meeting today’s energy security challenges: the interplay
between policy, regulation and technology
The interplay between policy, regulation and technology
• Current drivers in the worldwide energy market
• California’s renewable energy policies
• Addressing climate change
• Learnings from the Californian energy crisis
John Geesman, Former Commissioner, California Energy Commission
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9.30am | International keynote address
Power sector scenarios for a sustainable energy future
• Global energy trends and outlook
• Energy diversification scenarios and impact on
supply/demand
• Lessons from the EU emissions trading scheme
• Is nuclear power an option or an obligation?
Francois Nguyen, Senior Policy Advisor – Electricity,
International Energy Agency
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10am | Keynote regulatory address
Moving towards a national regulatory framework
• Overview of the national reform agenda
• Implementation of the new electricity regulatory framework
• Issues arising from the electricity wholesale market
• Some future challenges
Steve Edwell, Chair, Australian Energy Regulator
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10.30am | Q&A session
Q&A sessions will become an integral
part of the same dialogue, this is a way for you to share your views and get your questions answered.
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10.40am | Morning tea
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| BUSINESS MODELS FOR GROWTH |
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11.10am | The challenges of servicing a growing electricity market –a retailer/ distributor perspective
• The challenges of a carbon constrained environment
• Integration strategy and its role in mitigating risk
• Measures to support peak demand requirements
• Network investment to meet demand
• The role of pre-payment metering
• Challenges in the Tasmanian market
Peter Davis, Chief Executive Officer, Aurora Energy
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11.35am | Retail strategies for sustainable power
• Securing stable, long-term energy supply
• Promoting brand position and concept awareness
• Energy efficiency and Demand Side Management
Jim Mitchell, Managing Director, Synergy
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12pm | AGL: positioning to prosper in the new carbon constrained economy
The Australian energy industry is facing the biggest paradigm shift in its 170 year history.What will the new energy portfolio look like? How will energy companies optimise emissions trading?What new products and services will we see?
Jeff Dimery, Group General Manager Merchant Energy, AGL
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12.25pm | Speed Networking
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1.05pm | Lunch
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| FINANCING AND DEVELOPING ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE |
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2.05pm | Overcoming the current pressures faced by large energy users
- Is regulation working?
- Measures required to deliver efficient market outcomes
- Energy costs and its impact on the bottom line
- Challenges in establishing long term supply contracts
David Headberry, Public Officer, Major Energy Users
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2.20pm | Requirements for investing in energy infrastructure
• Capital-raising prospects in a volatile credit market
• Making power projects bankable
• Assessing the opportunities in the ‘new’ carbon market
Nick Sankey, Head of Utilities, Energy and Renewables, Commonwealth Bank
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2.45pm | Assessing the future vitality of the NEM
• Current risks to infrastructure investment
• How is the NEM going to handle small-scale renewable generation?
• Current price signals – new capacity required?
• Will there be more robust interconnection between states?
Stephen Davy, General Manager, Trading, Hydro Tasmania
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3.10pm | Roundtable discussions
Roundtable 1: Evaluating meter-to-cash technologies to enhance the customer value proposition
Cesare Tizi, Country Manager, Gentrack Velocity
Roundtable 2: Renewable energy generation
Roundtable 3:Technical solutions for emissions reduct
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3.40pm | Afternoon tea
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| EMISSIONS TRADING |
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4.10pm | Carbon as a tradable commodity: impact on utilities
• Methodologies for assessing and mitigating carbon risk
• Developing a lower greenhouse footprint
• Transition and adaptation costs
Carlo Botto, Director, Portfolio Management, TRUenergy
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4.35pm | The role of carbon derivatives in managing carbon risk
• The role of the financial markets
• ASX’s plans to facilitate emissions trading
• The link between a forward price curve for carbon and investment in the NEM
Anthony Collins, General Manager – Emerging Markets, Australian Stock Exchange
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5pm | Panel discussion
ETS design- challenges and opportunities
• Balancing the reduction imperative vs. economic impacts
• Providing long term certainty to industry
• Domestic abatement vs. reliance on the international carbon market
Anthony Collins, General Manager – Emerging Markets, Australian Stock Exchange
Stephan Boras, General Manager, Strategy & Trading,Eraring Energy
Srian Abeysuriya, Principal, E3 International
Andrew Grant, Chief Executive Officer, CO2 Group
RogerWilkins AO, Head of Government & Public Sector Group, Citigroup
Moderator- Robert Pritchard, Managing Director, ResourcesLaw International
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5.40pm | End of Day One & networking cocktail party
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Day Two, Monday 2 September 2008
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8.20am | Arrival and welcome coffee
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8.50am | Opening remarks from the Chair
Dr David Crossley, Managing Director, Energy Futures Australia Pty Ltd
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| FUEL SOURCE OUTLOOK |
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9am | Meeting the challenges of power generation in a carbon
constrained environment
• Investing in new and existing power generating assets
• Deploying thermally efficient low emissions technologies
• Enhancing the environmental and economic performance of
energy assets
• Expected demand for coal in light of increasing power needs
Kim Wood, Chief Executive Officer, Stanwell Corporation
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9.30am | Meeting new energy demands with best of breed
technologies
• Demand projections for energy across Australia
• Capitalising on recent policy developments- will this stimulate the investment required?
• Generating commercial scale power capacities
• Geothermal energy cost comparison
Gerry Grove-White, Chief Executive Officer, Geodynamics
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10am | Morning tea
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10.30am | Achieving sustainable energy solutions through carbon
capture and storage
• Generation for the future: portfolio options and risk
assessment
• Delta Electricity and CSIRO’s carbon capture and storage pilot project
• Large scale integrated carbon capture and storage
demonstration for NSW
Peter Coombes, Sustainability Manager, Delta Electricity
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10.55am | Utility leadership in renewable energy development
• The role of renewables in tackling demand management
• Drivers for cost effective pricing and smart metering
• Creating reproducible models for demand reduction
• Solar – a viable alternative to coal-based power?
Grahame Foulger, General Manager, Sustainability and Innovation, Ergon Energy
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11.20am | Executive panel discussion
Drivers shaping the energy industry in the 21st century
• Energy outlook: major sectors and investment flows
• Evaluating the various fuel source scenarios
• How will technology players influence development?
• The role of the MRET
• Factoring the price of carbon into the NEM – effects on how and where transmission assets are built
Francois Nguyen, Senior Policy Advisor – Electricity,
International Energy Agency
Gerry Grove-White, Chief Executive Officer, Geodynamics
Gordon Jardine, Chief Executive Officer, Powerlink
Hugh Gleeson, Chief Executive Officer, United Energy Distribution
John Corbett, National Manager, Project & Structured Finance, Suncorp Metway
Moderator- Robert Pritchard, Managing Director, ResourcesLaw International
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12pm | Luncheon Address
John Kelly, Director, Enterprise & Government, Ericsson Australia & New Zealand
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12.10pm | Lunch
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| DRIVING GROWTH INTRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION |
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1pm | Development outlook for the Queensland grid
• Load growth
• Major regional developments
• The step up to 500kV
• Interconnector capability
• Interaction with the new national partner
Gordon Jardine, Chief Executive Officer, Powerlink
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1.25pm | Energy delivery in the 21st century
• Implications of national market reform and its impact on the transmission sector
• Investment requirements for future-proofing the Grid
• TransGrid’s Demand Management initiatives
Peter McIntyre, General Manager, Network Development and Regulatory Affairs, TransGrid
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1.50pm | Meeting the needs of customers, shareholders and the
community for energy networks in a changing world
• Climate change
• Smart meters and smart networks
• High tech users with hi tech expectations
• Regulatory change
Hugh Gleeson, Chief Executive Officer, United Energy Distribution
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2pm | Achieving energy efficiency with decentralised power
• Using tri-generation technology
• Vision Estate in NSW and the building sector’s role in driving change within the energy sector
• Developing the GridX business model
• GridX requirements for project development
Colin Chambers, Chief Executive Officer, GridX Power
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2.15pm | Afternoon tea
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| END USER PERSPECTIVE |
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2.45pm | Energy consumption challenges in light of increasing cost
and competitive pressures
• Developing a sustainable power consumption plan
• Developing and implementing an electricity risk management plan with spot price exposure to reduce costs
• Impact of electricity reform on the end user
• Achieving energy efficiency
Michael Williams, General Manager – Commercial, Adelaide Brighton Limited
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| TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION |
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3.10pm | Next generation metering technologies and their impact
on the electricity market and consumers
• Metering policies: effect on innovation and competition
• The business case for advanced metering
• The impact of AMI on consumer behaviour
• Managing AMI development, implementation and operation
Paul Topfer, Executive Manager, Advanced Metering, EnergyAustralia
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3.35pm | Intelligent grid technologies and its implications for utilities
- Centralised generation vs. distributed generation- the pros and cons
- How distributed generation can be integrated into Australia’s electricity system
- A vision of the intelligent grid
- Climate change and Distributed Energy
Terry Jones, CenDEP Director, Low Emissions Distributed Energy, CSIRO
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4pm | Award winning case study
Supply without wires-achieving energy efficiency with decentralised power
- Using tri-generation technology to produce electrical, heating and cooling requirements
- Vision Estate in NSW and the building sector’s role in driving change within the energy sector
- Developing the GridX business model
- GridX requirements for project development
Colin Chambers, Chief Executive Officer, GridX Power
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4.25pm | Closing remarks from the Chair and close of conference
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John Geesman
Steve Edwell 
