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Day One, Tuesday 21 October 2008
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8.30am | Welcome coffee and Registration
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9am | Opening remarks from the chair
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| THE QUEENSLAND ENERGY MARKET OUTLOOK |
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9.10am | 2020 Think Tank – energy chiefs outline their vision for the future
- What are the significant influences and drivers in the future of power in Queensland?
- Is the current 3.5% growth in power consumption likely to remain constant?What are the drivers, opportunities and threats?
- What will the power landscape look like in 2020?
- How can reliability and security of power transmission be enhanced?
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| | Mr Kim Wood, Chief Executive Officer, Stanwell Corporation
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| CREATING HIGHLY RESPONSIVE PERFORMANCE BUSINESS MODELS |
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9.50am | Development outlook for the Queensland grid
- Load growth • Major regional developments
- The step up to 500kV
- Interconnector capability
- Interaction with the new national planner
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10.20am | Morning Tea
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10.50am | Driving reliability and versatility while reacting to demand growth
- Identifying infrastructure requirements as demand increases
- Developing network reliability over the $6.6 billion of high performance distribution assets
- Creating a high performance business model to deliver financial performance
- Diversification of profit streams – life as a multi-utility
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11.20am | Dynamic best practice – insights into strategic solution
procurement for an expanding Queensland energy sector
- How to manage and position your organisation in the demanding and buoyant Queensland energy market
- Analysis of opportunities for innovation and creativity in the Queensland and Australian energy sector
- Examination of best practice in identifying and executing a creative resourcing model
- Best practice in energy sector – examples of exceeding
clients expectation
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11.50am | Searching for innovative solutions – Tarong Power
- Delivering power in a resource constrained environment
- Creating innovative solutions to solve core operational constraints
- Securing coal though the vertical integration – purchase of the Meandu mine
- Tarong’s outlook for the next 10 years.What will the
- Queensland energy sector look like in 10 years?
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12.20pm | Q & A session
Q&A sessions will become an integral part of the same dialogue which takes place through the course of the day’s proceedings; a way to share your views and get your questions answered.
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12.30pm | Lunch
Sponsored by:
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| INVESTING IN QUEENSLAND’S INFRASTRUCTURE |
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1.20pm | Attracting private sector investment to finance projects
- What debt providers seek in energy projects?
- The current investment outlook – increased interest in clean projects
- Meeting the equity market’s expectations for ROI
- How government policy affects investment decisions
- The role of private sector investment in powering Queensland into the future
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1.50pm | Speednetworking
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2.10pm | Investor outlook for the state of Queensland
- Attracting funding to core infrastructure projects
- Developing business models to deliver shareholder value and market penetration
- The carbon question?What are the implications of Kyoto on investing in power?
- The attractiveness of power projects for structured product
funds
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| CHALLENGES OF SUSTAINABLITY |
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2.40pm | Energy and climate change policy
- Fuelling Queensland’s economic and population boom
- Analysing the evolving generation mix
- A carbon pricing signal – how will Queensland be affected and what is the desirable future?
- Planning for the impacts of climate change
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3.10pm | Afternoon Tea
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3.30pm | The low emission outlook
- Analysis of current clean coal technologies
- Positioning Queensland and Australia as a global leader
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4pm | The pursuit of sustainability – the impact of multiple
mechanisms
- Overview of the markets – carbon, MRET and other schemes
- How the schemes interact
- Policy implications and improvements
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4.30pm | Panel discussion:
An outlook of the carbon future
- Greenhouse emissions outlook
- Analysis of Carbon Trading
- Policy requirements, shortcomings and opportunities
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5pm | Closing remarks from chair and close of day one
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5.10pm | Networking reception
Join the Gentrack Velocity team for a drink and network with your peers
Sponsored by: 
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Day Two, Wednesday 22 October 2008
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8.30am | Welcome coffee and registration
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9am | Opening remarks from the chair
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| FUEL SOURCE OUTLOOK |
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9.10am | The ever challenging and evolving power landscape
- Business models facilitating the transformation to a performance driven effective electricity delivery
- The influence on the FRC on the rural power delivery and the competitive landscape
- Challenges of the recent floods to reinstate infrastructure effectively, efficiently and rapidly
- Developing choice for the rural market – the MA opportunities
- Ergon’s outlook for the next 10 years
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9.40am | Generation outlook – managing a diverse generation portfolio
- Tapping the potential of abundant gas supplies
- Contingency plans for extreme water flow issues
- Strategising to supplying power at the peak demand periods
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| | Mr Kim Wood, Chief Executive Officer, Stanwell Corporation
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| THE RETAIL ENVIRONMENT AND CONSUMER BEHAVOUR |
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10.10am | How has FRC changed consumer’s demands and outlooks
- Analysing consumers perceptions of the competitive market
- Tailoring consumers packages to reflect usage patterns and pricing structures
- The role of smart metering and billing
- AGL’s outlook for the Queensland market
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10.40am | Morning tea
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11am | Maximising the effectiveness of Meter Data management
- Reviewing data management effectiveness
- Outlining opportunities to maximise business performance thought metering
- The role of metering in utilities responses to environmental
challenges
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11.30am | Project update of the Cool Change trial – analysing implemented innovations
- The importance of metering and billing innovation in a rapidly expanding Queensland Market
- Meeting customer demands, while maintaining grid contro
- Influencing consumer behavior
- Combining smart metering technology with a retail electricity option for total consumer benefit
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12pm | Panel discussion:
Smart metering opportunities at the national level
- Analysis of advancements in metering technology
- The potential of advanced metering for consumers and the
environment
- The power of smart meters to change customers usage and
behavior
- Smart metering’s implication for new approaches to network
management
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| | Mr Peter Bryant, General Manager Advanced Metering Infrastructure Services, CitiPower & Powercor
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12.40pm | Roundtable Discussions
- Roundtable One – Breakthrough partnerships in the Queensland Energy Market
Led by: Mark Sturgess, General Manager, Powercor Network
Solutions
- Roundtable Two – Evaluating meter-to-cash technologies to enhance the customer value proposition
Led by: Cesare Tizi, Country Manager, Gentrack
- Roundtable Three – Implementing an integrated risk framework in the energy sector – opportunities and pitfalls
Led by: Ross Braithwaite, Credit Analyst, Project & Structured
Finance, Suncorp
- Roundtable Four: "Exploring the benefits of true relationships based contracts in the energy sector"
Led by:Cameron Smith, Manager, Business Development - Power
Tenix Alliance
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1.20pm | Lunch
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| INNOVATION INTHE ENERGY MARKET |
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2.20pm | Strategising for the future – water and power
- The core challenges and overview of supplying water in regional Queensland
- Strategising to mitigate future shortages and management of water is scarce times
- Key learnings from the allocation experiences over the past years
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2.50pm | Developing infrastructure to overcome peak load demands
- ‘Storing’ power in a effective and efficient manner
- Creating sustainable power and storage
- The application for regional locations, and the fringe of the grid
- A showcase of Cloncurry and Lake Cargelligo
- The importance of the Cloncurry project for Queensland
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3.20pm | Afternoon Tea
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| END USER PERSEPECTIVES
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3.50pm | The current pressures for large energy users
- Developing a carbon strategy to address the current direction of government climate change policy
- Climate change response options and impacts on future power consumption
- The uncertain environment – Kyoto’s ratification, the potential costs and benefits for large energy users
- The role of emissions trading and likely impacts for tradeexposed, emissions intensive industries
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4.20pm | International End User:
Overview of the Indian steel industries pressures and
challenges and what it means to Queensland’s energy market
- Analysis of the current demand for power from industrialized India
- India’s role as a Kyoto member
- Current carbon awareness and corporate responsibility
- Analysis of the steel industries power strategies
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4.50pm | Q & A Session
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5pm | Closing remarks from the chair and close of conference
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Day Three, Thursday 23 October 2008 Coal Seam Methane World Australia
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8.30am | Welcome coffee and registration
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9am | Opening remarks from the chair
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| CSM’s ROLE INTHE FUTURE OF AUSTRALIA |
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9.10am | The importance of CSM for Australia
- Outlining the role of CSM in Australia’s industrial development
- Identifying the export value of CSM
- Developing key relationships with major power uses in Asia
- Analysing requirements for infrastructure investment and future planning
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9.30am | Entering the most exciting period in the history of
Australia’s energy sector
- Development growth in CSG and the impending carbon pricing
- QGC’s access to CSM at close proximity to existing power infrastructure, water and consumer markets.
- QGC’s positioning to maximising the potential of the coal seam gas
- Forcasting QGC’s growth, demand growth and additional opportunities to maximise profiteering
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| DEVELOPING STRATEGIESTO MAXIMISING CSM’S POTENTIAL |
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10am | Panel discussion:
Developing business strategies for CSM’s growth
- Outlining the investment needs to capitalise on CSM’s potential
- The role of JV’s and strategic alliances to tap CSM
- Evaluation of CSM expansion strategies
- The importance of the proximity of transmission and export infrastructure
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10.30am | Arrow Energy’s project updates and future growth
strategies
- Project update for Kogan North, TiptonWest, Daandine and Moranbah
- Access to domestic and export markets
- Outlook of CSG’s role in the clean energy future of Australia
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11am | Morning Coffee
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11.20am | Strategising to maximise the value of CSM for Queensland
- Developing a state wide strategy for the evolving CSG market
- CSM’s implications for Queensland and the east coast’s generators
- The role of CSM in powering the Queensland economy
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| MAPPING THE POTENTIAL OF CSM OPERATIONS |
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11.50am | Unlocking the value of CSM
- Executing a strategic focus on proving up gas reserves for sale into Eastern Australian markets
- The role of CSG in the future development of Eastern Star
- Analysis of Gunnedah Basin Gas Project and the Victorian Brown CSG Project
- The importance of access to transmission infrastructure
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12.20pm | Outlook of CSM performance – Sunshine Gas
- Production outlooks for the Bowen, Surat and Cooper Basins
- Raising capital for the Lacerta CSG project
- Strategising to extract maximum value from Sunshine’s operations
- 6 years after publicly listing, maximizing business performance to deliver shareholder value
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1.50pm | Lunch
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| CSM INSIGHTS – LEARNING FROM EXPEREINCES AND NEEDS |
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2.50pm | Experiences from theWest – marketing gas into the WA Market
- Overview of the Pluto operation
- WA – a gas market in transition and the new paradigm
- LNG developments and their impact in pipeline gas markets
- Lessons for the Queensland CSM market
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3.20pm | International keynote address:
India’s hunger for LNG and gas and the opportunities it presents for Queensland’s energy market
- Securing power for the sub-continent: implications for supplier and customers
- LNG a cleaner power choice
- Steel industry growth in India and China – production outlook and development
- The importance of significant infrastructure investment
- The future pricing expectations
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| INFRASTRUCTURE OPPORTUNITIES FOR CSM – PIPELINE AND GENERATION INVESTMENT REQUIREMENTS |
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4pm | Afternoon tea
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4.30pm | Exploration insight – maximising business value
- Bow energy’s exploration outlook
- Review of current exploration strategies
- Strategising to maximise business value
- The importance of exploratory links to transmission infrastructure and consumer markets
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5pm | Clean gas power generation
- The current climate of energy investment
- Dynamics of a carbon constrained future
- Forward planning – what are the future power station requirements for the Australian market
- Linking power demand requirements to investments in generation
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5.30pm | Close of conference
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5.40pm | Networking drinks
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