8.30 Registration and welcome coffee
9.00 Opening remarks from the chair
Professor Michael Dureau, Executive Director, The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering -new
DISTRIBUTION AND GENERATION
9.05 [Case study] How national and state energy distribution issues have evolved and implications for the energy sector
• Latest developments
• Regulation and policy trends
• Industry opportunities
• Distribution and pricing
• Investment
• Energy efficiency
• Security of supply
• Challenges and opportunities for the distribution and retail sector
George Maltabarow, Managing Director, EnergyAustralia
TRANSMISSION
9.30 [Case study] Increasing the capacity of the NSW 500kV Grid
• Part of a long term plan for the NSW system
• Removing constraints, enabling generation, increasing capacity
• Delivering the most efficient outcomes for network use
Kevin Murray, Managing Director, Transgrid
Transgrid is midway through a $1.2 billion network which is supporting the future economic growth of New South Wales.
10.00 Morning tea
10.30 [Keynote Address] How the geopolitical climate is driving the smart grid
• Increasing energy consumption
• Power quality and reliability
• Climate change
Bob Gilligan, General Manager, GE Energy
OPENING UP RETAIL COMPETITION
11.00 Energy regulation – report card from Victoria
• Transition to national regulation
• Opening up competition in retail electricity
• Securing supplies - responses to climatic events
Ian Primrose, Director, Energy Regulation, Essential Services Commission (Victoria)
ASSET AND INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT
11.30 Asset and infrastructure management
Consolidation, deregulation, new technologies, competitive pressures, and new customer service demands affect the energy and utilities industry each day. Learn how IBM’s Content Management Solution:
• Improves asset management and plant operations
• Streamlines construction management
• Delivers on compliance, including health, safety, environmental and financial requirements
• Strengthens record management
• Cuts back time-consuming paperwork
• Facilitates workflow between teams
Dr David C. Shipman, Director of Marketing for Energy & Utilities, (Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Segment, IBM
OPPORUNITIES FROM PRIVATISATION IN NSW
12.00 [Keynote ministerial address] Privatising NSW’s energy assets and opportunities this offer
• Clarifying the role of private and public sector players to:
- manage retail assets
- run infrastructure supplying energy to homes and businesses
• How electricity prices will be regulated
• Scope of “clean, green energy fund”
Hon Ian MacDonald, Minister for Energy (NSW)
The NSW’s government’s energy privatisation efforts is expected to save taxpayers up to $15 billion, while “keeping the lights on in NSW.”
12.30 Lunch welcome remarks
David Spence, CEO, Unwired
12.35 Luncheon
1.05 Opening remarks from afternoon chair
Michele Levine, Chief Executive, Roy Morgan Research -new
1.10 [Case study] Optimising your field operations
• Technology solutions for energy companies
• Practical applications
Noel Henderson, District Sales Manager (ANZ), Click Software -new
1.30 [Panel Discussion] Consumer protection in the retail energy markets
• How Australia's retail markets compares locally and internationally
• National retail reform agenda
• Why retail price regulation is unsustainable
• Growing regulatory burden arising from uncoordinated climate change policies
Cameron O’Reilly, Executive Director, Energy Retailers Association of Australia
WHOLESALE: BUILDING A REPUTATION FOR RELIABLE AND EFFICIENT POWER SUPPLIES
2.00 [Case study] Embracing a competitive electricity market
• Building your customer base
• Capitalising on commercial opportunities
• Meeting the long-term needs of energy-intensive industries
• Maximising the performance of power stations as wholesale competition escalates
• Competing successfully with other generators
Shirley In't Veld, Managing Director, Verve Energy
DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT
2.30 [Case study] Using demand side response (DRS) models to regulate consumption
• Improving price signals for consumers
• Increasing energy use efficiencies
• Reducing the costs of managing price volatility
• Enabling the same supply capacity and overall reliability for less capital
• Improving local supply reliability
Michael Zammit, Managing Director, Energy Response
3.00 Demand side management – what works and why
The Energy Users Association of Australia has independently estimated that with effective DSR strategies in place, the electricity industry and consumers can look forward to around $2 billion in savings per year (or more than 10% off their power bill).
Roman Domanski, Executive Director, Energy Users Association of Australia
3.30 Afternoon tea
INVESTMENT OUTLOOK
3.40 Investing in energy infrastructure
• Scope of public-private sector partnerships
• Domestic and off-shore investment opportunities
• What investors are looking for
• Successes and challenges
Paul Hyslop, Director, Development, ACIL Tasman, Formerly General Manager, New Business, CS Energy
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NATIONAL ENERGY MARKET
4.00 What's been happening in the NEM, and what it means for generators, retailers, and energy users
• Market prices - volatility, trends and causes
• Volatility - a blessing or a curse?
• Implications for privatisation in NSW
Paul McArdle, Managing Director, global-roam
CONSUMER RATINGS
4.20 Changes in energy consumer behaviour over the past 7 years
Michele Levine, Chief Executive, Roy Morgan Research -new
• INTELLIGENT NETWORKS
• ENERGY MONITORING AND CONTROL
4.40 [Case study] Building “intelligent electricity networks”
• Using the best technologies to plan and operate “intelligent electricity networks”
• Benefits of building these networks
• Insights into EnergyAustralia's program
Adrian Clark, Manager, Intelligent Networks, EnergyAustralia
5.00 Telecommunications for energy monitoring and control
Andrew Deme, General Manager Nexium Telecommunications, Corporate Sustainability & Innovation,
Ergon Energy
• SMART METERING
• INTERPERABILITY
5.20 [Case study] Smart metering and demand management
• How smart metering
- improves billing and customer services
- helps with switching to cleaner energy
- eases interoperability and network management
Ray Bell, Chairman OpenAMI & CEO, GridNet -new
5.40 [Panel Discussion] Importance of an ecosystem in creating a sustainable smart grid
Bernard Lecours, Global Marketing Leader Smart Grid, GE Energy
Chris Coughlan, General Manager, Unwired
Simon Curry, Asia Communications Leader, Intel
6.00 Closing remarks from chair & close of day one
6.10 Networking drinks Welcome Remarks
Intel Representative to be advised
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