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Day One, Wednesday 12 March 2008
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08.30 | Welcome coffee and registration
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09.00 | Opening remarks from the Chair
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| VICTORIA’S ENERGY OUTLOOK, 2008 AND BEYOND |
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09.10 | Keynote ministerial address:
Here and now: energy policy and regulatory issues for 2008
• Delivering a complete state energy ecosystem
• Evaluating the changing direction in energy sources
• The year ahead: challenges and opportunities
• Pricing and billing: getting the structure right
Hon. Peter Batchelor, Minister for Energy and Resources, Victoria
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09.40 | International keynote address:
Global sustainable energy scenarios to 2050: implications on Victorian energy markets
• Drivers of global and regional energy demand
• Energy efficiency: pipe-dream or reality?
• Quantifying change in international and regional markets
• 2030 and beyond: addressing challenges and opportunities
Gerald Doucet, Secretary General, World Energy Council
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10.10 | Energy leader’s panel discussion:
The road ahead - sustaining economic growth and meeting energy demands
• Deregulation and privatisation – opportunities for investors?
• Driving the development of new infrastructure projects
• Energy infrastructure outlook- the next 10 years
• The impact of recent initiatives and industry movements
Gerald Doucet, Secretary General, World Energy Council
Hon Peter Batchelor, Minister for Energy and Resources, Victoria
Paul Fearon, Chief Executive Officer, Essential Services Commission
Graeme York, Chief Executive Officer, International Power Hazelwood
Ian Nethercote, Chief Executive Officer, Loy Yang Power
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10.50 | Morning tea
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11.20 | Regulating Victoria’s distribution network supply
• Balancing regulation with consumer and investment needs
• Evaluating the performance of Victorian distributors
• Addressing service quality and reliability issues
• Ensuring the delivery of cost-effective and high standard energy to Victorian consumers
Paul Fearon, Chief Executive Officer, Essential Services Commission
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| DEVELOPING AN EFFECTIVE, LONG TERM FUEL CHOICE STRATEGY |
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11.50 | The future of brown coal: exploration, usage and emissions
• The importance of coal in the future of energy delivery
• How a diversified portfolio will help to offset emissions
• Addressing reliability of generation supply
• Brown coal generation- exploration and usage
• The mission to green Victoria’s brown coal industry
Graeme York, Chief Executive Officer, International Power Hazelwood
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12.20 | The future of power generation: analysing recent projects
• Understanding and meeting load requirements
• Ensuring effective water management
• Evaluating investment in peak vs. baseload plants
• Investment in generation infrastructure
Ian Nethercote, Chief Executive Officer, Loy Yang Power
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12.50 | Speed networking
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13.20 | Networking lunch
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| VICTORIAN TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION ARRANGEMENTS |
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14.20 | The contribution of Basslink to the NEM
• Basslink - using innovation to service a market need
• Mitigating risks to Victoria and the NEM
• Enhancing energy security and driving industry growth
• Rising infrastructure investment
Malcolm Eccles, Chief Executive Officer, Basslink
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14.50 | Distribution sector – encouraging network efficiency and increasing performance
• Setting new benchmarks for performance
• Quantifying 2008: opportunities and challenges
• Forecasting electricity distribution prices over the next five years
• Future direction for economic regulation
Shane Breheny, Chief Executive Officer, Powercor
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15.20 | Demand management: addressing critical issues in price and supply reliability
• Pricing and regulation: getting the balance right
• Capex and opex challenges for the distribution sector
• New investments in distribution networks
• Managing stakeholder expectations
• The effect of smart metering on network demand
Ross Fraser, Executive Director, Energy Response
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15.50 | Q&A session
This session will be part of the interactive dialogue that takes place through the course of the days proceedings: a way to share your views and get your questions answered.
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16.00 | Afternoon tea
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16.20 | Driving efficiency in transmission through investments, regulation and incentives
• Evaluating the regulatory climate
• Developing the transmission network to meet rising demand
• Planning and directing network augmentation
• How is the NEM living up to expectations
John Howarth, GM Strategy and Development, VENCorp
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16.50 | Panel discussion:
Transmission and distribution reliability – where are we lagging and how do we improve?
• Distribution: the impact of regulation and future trends
• Maintaining and upgrading electricity networks
• Revenue and rate of return from the transmission network
• Transmission reliability: market impacts of congestion
• Evaluating the regulatory climate
• Developing transmission infrastructure to meet rising demand
• How will future investment needs be met?
John Howarth, GM Strategy and Development, VENCorp
Ross Fraser, Executive Director, Energy Response
Shane Breheny, Chief Executive Officer, Powercor
Malcolm Eccles, Chief Executive Officer, Basslink
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17.20 | Champagne roundtable discussions
The role of interconnectors in energy markets
Malcolm Eccles, Chief Executive Officer, Basslink
Sustainable energy scenarios
Gerald Doucet, Secretary General, World Energy Council
Energy pricing challenges
Paul Fearon, Chief Executive Officer, Essential Services Commission
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17.50 | Close of day one
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Day Two, Thursday 13 March 2008
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08.30 | Welcome coffee
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08.50 | Opening remarks from the Chair
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| 21ST CENTURY ENERGY BUSINESS |
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09.00 | Keynote address:
Driving growth in a highly volatile market
• Developing a 21st century energy business
• Investors, infrastructure and innovation
• Energy retail market convergence
• Becoming a market leader and optimising diverse power generation
Richard McIndoe, Managing Director, TRUenergy
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09.30 | Driving growth in a highly volatile market
• Developing a 21st century energy business
• Investors, infrastructure and innovation
• Energy retail market convergence
• Becoming a market leader and optimising diverse power generation
Richard McIndoe, Managing Director, TRUenergy
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10.00 | Energy leader’s panel discussion:
Looking into the future: investing in tomorrow’s energy markets
• What are the key investment drivers in tomorrow’s energy markets?
• What kind of partnerships will deliver desired outcomes?
• Getting the best out of developments in retail competition
• Addressing retail market outcome: price, affordability and service quality
• Acquisitions and renewables – how can you generate new revenue streams?
Richard McIndoe, Managing Director, TRUenergy
Karen Moses, Chief Operating Officer, Origin Energy
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10.40 | Morning tea
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11.10 | Origin Energy: a market leading energy business
• Origin’s upcoming power projects and latest developments in the Victorian market
• Improving economic and environmental performance of energy
• An integrated approach to a sustainable future
Karen Moses, Chief Operating Officer, Origin Energy
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11.40 | Competing in a highly contested energy market
• Growing market share in the deregulated Victorian market
• Opportunities and issues for 2008
• Shifting towards sophisticated billing and metering systems
• Competition, consumers and cash
George Maltabarow, Managing Director, Energy Australia
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| ENERGY RISK AND INVESTMENT STRATEGIES |
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12.10 | Addressing the risk of energy trading in the Victorian energy market
• The importance of a liquid and transparent market in maximising asset and business value
• Enhancing the value of assets through risk mitigation and the diversification of synergy
• Pricing options in the Victorian power markets
• Developing effective trading strategies
Darryl Flukes, Chief Executive Officer, Infratil Energy Australia
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12.40 | Investing in energy infrastructure in the 21st century
• Building a balanced energy infrastructure portfolio
• Will reforms reduce risk in the energy marketplace? If so, how?
• Identifying infrastructure investment opportunities and analysing appropriate risks and returns
• Accommodating investment risk profile and optimising returns to shareholders
• Emerging markets and projected investment opportunities
Adriaan van Jaarsveldt, General Manager Regulation, Babcock & Brown Infrastructure
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13.10 | Networking lunch
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| ENERGY REFORM AND THE END USER |
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14.00 | Case Study:
Victorian energy: big-user perspective
• The effect of recent proposals to the transmission system
• Quantifying the cost and importance of energy network services
• How timely energy reform will contribute to optimising business operational needs
Paul Nield, Supply Manager, Air Liquide
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14.20 | Unconference
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| PREPARING FOR THE ONSET OF EMISSIONS TRADING |
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14.50 | Building a sustainable and complete energy ecosystem
• Solving energy problems through innovation and collaboration
• Climate change, emissions reduction and carbon
• Solar energy: a practical roadmap to a carbon-neutral market
Julia Birch, Solar Systems
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15.15 | New investment opportunities from renewable energy targets
• Developing innovative energy renewable projects
• Evaluating what is driving investment in renewables
• Building a portfolio of quality renewable energy projects
• Emissions trading and its impact on the Victorian market
Lane Crockett, General Manager, Development Australia - Pacific, Pacific Hydro
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15.40 | Q&A session
This session will be part of the interactive dialogue that takes place through the course of the days proceedings: a way to share your views and get your questions answered.
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15.50 | Afternoon tea
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16.10 | Investment opportunities in the ‘new’ carbon market
• Investing in 21st century energy projects
• Quantifying the implications for utilities and energy companies
• What are the implications of a cap and trade market solution
Bill Hartnett, Managing Director, Innovest
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16.35 | Energy, emissions trading and risk management
• Reducing commercial emission levels
• Evaluating the role of reduction schemes
• Emissions trading and risk management imperatives for the energy industry
Marianne Lourey, Executive Director, Energy Division, DPI, Taskforce Member, National Emissions Trading Taskforce
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17.00 | Closing remarks and close of conference day
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Day Three, Friday 14 March 2008
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08.30 | Welcome coffee
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09.00 | Opening remarks from the Chair
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| VICTORIAN OIL & GAS OUTLOOK 2008 |
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09.10 | Strategies for attracting new players to Victoria’s petroleum industry
• Improving the world’s view of Victoria’s prospectivity
• Reducing or removing fiscal and royalty barriers to “reinvestment” in exploration by existing players
• Dealing with lack of transparency, security of supply and barriers to entry
Richard Aldous, Executive Director, Department Primary Industries
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09.40 | Keynote presentation:
Expanding into new frontiers: what is the best option?
• Becoming a market leader in the oil and gas industry
• Getting the best out of your existing assets
• How will oil & gas figure in tomorrow’s ‘greener’ energy markets and the wider global economy?
Ian Tchacos, Managing Director, Nexus Energy
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10.10 | Keynote presentation:
Plotting winning strategies to set your company apart
• Faced with price uncertainty, how should oil and gas executives plot their strategies?
• Building strategies that are competitive under most market conditions
• Pursuing investment opportunities that benefit from current and near-term margins
Reg Nelson, Managing Director, Beach Petroleum
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10.50 | Morning tea
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| PROFITING THOUGH INNOVATION AND LEADERSHIP |
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11.20 | Emerging opportunities in a rapidly evolving upstream sector
• Looking ahead: how do you decide where to go next?
• Exploration updates to ensuring supply stability
• Current investment challenges faced by Victorian E&P operators
• The state of play of oil and gas exploration in Victoria
Kim McGrath, Executive Chairman, Oil Basins
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11.50 | Achieving sustainability under an unstoppable increase in oil prices
• How much longer can power developers tolerate the high price? Where is the breaking point?
• Are power developers well equipped to make the necessary and strategic business choices?
• What strategies must be devised to ensure enough oil supplies to fuel economic growth
• Enhancing market-based systems to promote investment incentives, transparency and efficiency
• Hedging oil prices – can risk be better managed this way?
Reg Nelson, Managing Director, Beach Petroleum
Ian Tchacos, Chief Executive Officer, Nexus Energy
Richard Aldous, Executive Director, Department Primary Industries
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12.20 | Evaluating future energy challenges and opportunities for gas
• Australia’s abundant gas resources: meeting future energy and environmental demands
• Streamlining gas market pricing: dealing with volatility in the spot market
• A level playing field for competing energy sources
James Hunsaker, Gas and Power Marketing Director, ExxonMobil
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12.50 | Networking lunch
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| VICTORIAN EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION OPTIONS |
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14.20 | Exploration with a regional focus
• Accelerating the process of balancing your portfolio and spreading risk
• Funding options and strategies for exploration companies
• Cashing in on exploration opportunities in the Victorian region
Andrew Adams, Chief Executive Officer, Bass Strait Oil
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14.20 | Q&A session
This session will be part of the interactive dialogue that takes place through the course of the days proceedings: a way to share your views and get your questions answered.
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| BUSINESS MODELS FOR GROWTH |
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15.10 | Panel discussion:
Increasing penetration, enhancing shareholder value and driving expansion
• Striking a balance between increasing your production and targeting new exploration prospects
• Project financing challenges
• Strengthening your portfolio
• Partnerships, farm-ins and joint ventures: are these the key to ensure continued growth?
Robert Annells, Executive Chairman, Lakes Oil
Kim McGrath, Executive Chairman, Oil Basins
Andrew Adams, Chief Executive Officer, Bass Strait Oil
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15.40 | Afternoon tea and close of conference
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