• Investing in the grid to ensure security of supply
• How Western Power stores fuel stock to buffer peak load demands
• Western Power’s priorities in ensuring needs of the network are met
• Future of the power grid: Confronting smart grid issues
• Managing increasing demand: Future proofing the WA transmission grid

• The role of coal fired power generation in a carbon constrained future
• WA’s potential for renewable energy generation
• NewGen’s sustainable energy production update
• Meeting renewable energy targets
• Planning for business under the ETS: ensuring a competitive fuel mix

• Maximising the potential of Western Australia’s energy resources
• Inclusions of renewables in energy production
• The role of coal in meeting increasing demand
   

• Update of latest market conditions
• Managing demand through greater efficiency
• Industry benchmarking – reducing costs by achieving optimal service standards
   

• Introduction of advanced metering in energy retail
• Advantages of advanced metering to the customer
• Strategic challenges and the future of advanced metering
• The inclusion of advanced meeting in the regulatory framework

• Horizons strategy: sustaining the increase in energy demand
• Focus on emerging renewables and their role in the fuel mix
• Investment opportunities in Western Australia’s regional infrastructure
• The implications of further market reform for Horizon – how would this impact the rural power delivery?

• Initiatives of the Economic Regulation Authority in monitoring the wholesale electricity market
• National gas law review – a Western Australia perspective
• Review and coverage of the upcoming access agreement reviews:
  – 31st march – Alinta gas
  – 1 April – Goldfields gas pipeline

• What does the move towards sustainability mean for major energy users
• Examining rising costs and mounting pressures
• Better managing the needs of consumers
• Energy consumption challenges in light of increasing cost and competitive pressures
• Challenges and opportunities to addressing security of supply
   

• Following the Varanus Island incident, what process are being followed to ensure against such loss of resources in the futre
• Impact of Emissions Trading Scheme on Western Australian energy providers: how to make it work
• Current industry objectives in ensuring security of supply
• Benefits and challenges arising from new demand management initiatives

• Future proofing your business model: Effectively managing cost and risks of ETS compliance
• Understanding the ETS impact on the WA fuel mix
• Investment opportunities arising from ETS
• Forecasting ETS impact on electricity prices
• The ETS regulatory framework
• Financial impact on WA trade exposed industries and the power generation sector

• Projected WA MRET targets
• Harnessing potential renewable energy resources in WA
• Building renewable generation facilities
• Closing the gap between renewable power generation facilities and the end user
• Mitigating costs associated with renewable development
   

• Carnegies focus: fulfilling the demand for clean technologies
• Inception of zero emission power technology and its benefits to the renewable scheme
• Use of cost effective desalination of freshwater from wave energy
• Unlocking the business model: production and sales of
• desalinated water, how to capitalise on demand
   

• The role of Landfill Gas & Power in delivering clean energy
• Using existing technologies to create renewable energy from landfill gas
• Inception of new landfill gas extraction projects
• Initiatives of Landfill Gas & Power to drive mandatory renewable
  energy targets

• Renewable energy sources and climate change
• Commonwealth and State policy settings
• Scope for renewables in WA
• Policy impacts on least cost mitigation

• Outlook for renewable energy in WA
• Operating in a new regulatory environment
• Future directions for WA’s energy mix
• Strategies to tap into new investment opportunities
   

Ensuring WA has access to electricity and gas in times of increasing exports and rising prices
 

• The focus of the Chamber of Commerce on crisis prevention initiativesImplications for the Western Australian fuel mix and feedstock and their role in ensuring security of supply
• Learning from the past:  regulation programmes following the Varanus Island incident
• Mitigating impact of economic changes to Western Australia’s consumers
   

• WA electricity market – a good model for energy security
• Challenges and opportunities in the call to diversify fuel options
• Coolimba, a new environmental benchmark: benefits in the development of a 2x200MV baseload power station in Western Australia
• Outlook for power generation mix in Western Australia
   

• Utilising new gas reserves for domestic use
• The position of gas in the future of Western Australia
• Gas supply reliability: emerging opportunities and challenges and learning from past experiences
• Gas for export v domestic use determining the appropriate ratio for sustainability

• What are WA’s options in the future of fuel mix
• Market response to the emissions trading scheme
• Future infrastructure investment
• Opportunities in market structure and reform
• The call for economic regulation in the gas industry