08:00
Registration
08:50
Opening remarks from the chair
Jim Snow
Executive Director, Oakley Greenwood and Adjunct Professor
University of Queensland
FUTURE GENERATION LANDSCAPE
09:00
Meeting the energy market challenge
Sarah McNamara
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Energy Council
09:15
The clean energy transition: status, opportunities & challenges
Kane Thornton
Chief Executive Officer
Clean Energy Council
RE-THINKING STRATEGIES FOR GENERATION BUSINESSES
09:30
How much renewable energy can the NEM integrate?
Greg Everett
Managing Director
Delta Electricity
10:00
Why demand for renewable energy hasn’t stopped with the RET
Andy Hyland
Executive Manager Commercial and Wholesale Markets
Pacific Hydro
10:30
Morning tea in the exhibition hall
11:00
How generators can adapt to a new market paradigm
Andrew Bills
Chief Executive Officer
CS Energy
11:25
Hydro in Tasmania: the future battery of the nation
Stephen Davy
Chief Executive Officer
Hydro Tasmania
INVESTMENT CONFIDENCE AND PROJECT FINANCIERS
11:45
Panel Discussion: How are investors and nanciers viewing opportunities in the Australian generation landscape?
Panel Moderator:
Jim Snow
Executive Director, Oakley Greenwood and Adjunct Professor
University of Queensland
Panellists:
Tim Buckley
Director of Energy Finance Studies
IEEFA
Rob Koh
Equity Research Analyst - Utilities, Infrastructure & Transport
Morgan Stanley
Michael Faulkner
Infrastructure Investment and Asset Management
H.R.L. Morrison & Co
Kirsten Hannan
Division Director
Macquarie Capital
12:30
Networking lunch in the exhibition hall
MAINTAINING THE NEM’S RELIABILITY
13:30
PROTECTING CRITICAL GRID INFRASTRUCTURE
Sunil Sharma
Digital Risk Lead
GHD
14:00
What is the role of gas in the optimal generation mix?
Mark Busuttil
Executive Director, Energy & Utilities Analyst
J.P.Morgan
14:20
The Future of Hydrogen – implications for industry & power sectors
Sector coupling across power and gas could become a reality sooner than we think. We see electrolyser capital costs reducing on trajectories mirroring solar & wind technologies of ~10 years ago. The implications for natural gas use in Australian industry and power market flexibility for intraday balancing could be significant, in particular as reducing capital costs reduces the importance of asset utilisation. Longer term, hydrogen could be required to provide seasonal flexibility as we near 100% decarbonisation of the energy system.
Godart van Gendt
Senior Expert
McKinsey & Company
14:40
Improving competitiveness of renewable energy technologies and increasing the supply of renewable energy
Darren Miller
Chief Executive Officer
ARENA
15:00
AUSTRALIA’S PURSUIT OF A LARGE-SCALE HYDROGEN ECONOMY – LEVERAGING CROSS SECTOR KNOWLEDGE TO ADDRESS ECONOMIC & SUSTAINABILITY IMPLICATIONS
Walter Geradi
Regional Technical Director, Energy Markets
Jacobs
Henry Swisher
Strategic Consultant
Jacobs
15:20
Afternoon tea in the exhibition hall
15:50
Gas, pumped hydro or large-scale batteries: which assets should generators invest in to balance renewables?
Paul Graham
Chief Economist, Energy
CSIRO
16:10
Hydrogen - improving the economics of renewables
Ben Wilson
Chief Executive Officer
AGIG
Daniel Roberts
Leader, Hydrogen Energy Systems Future Science Platform
CSIRO
GAINING AND MAINTAINING SOCIAL LICENCE TO OPERATE
16:40
Presentations followed by Q+A: Community impacts: how generation projects can leave lasting positive legacies for communities
Clare Mildren
Senior Manager
AGL Energy
Tara Wood
Program Manager, Strategic Futures
Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy
17:15
Closing remarks from the chair
Jim Snow
Executive Director, Oakley Greenwood, and Adjunct Professor
University of Queensland
17:20
End of NextGen Generation Stream