Keith Orchison
Director
Coolibah
08:05
Registration and welcome coffee
08:50
Opening remarks from the Chair
Resolving key regulatory issues
09:05
Pulling the trigger on "Retailer Reliability Obligation” and other new legislation
- Longer-term (and lower cost) solution for Reliability and Emergency Reserve Trader (RERT)
- 2025 market design review
- Ensuring Australia’s long term energy security in a more volatile international market
- Governance review of the Energy Security Board
Kerry Schott
Independent Chair
Energy Security Board
09:35
PANEL DISCUSSION Resolving the conflict between regulatory bodies to give cohesion to energy policy
- How can we cut through the current tangle of complexity, conservatism and conflict?
- What should new planning guidelines and targets for renewable energy look like?
- What are the minimum standards that will drive the industry forward?
Moderator:
Keith Orchison
Director
Coolibah
Panellists:
Andrew Dillon
Chief Executive Officer
Energy Networks Australia
Sarah McNamara
Chief Executive
Australian Energy Council
Tennant Reed
Head of Climate, Energy and Environment Policy
Australian Industry Group
Jamie Lowe
Head of Regulation
ENGIE
10:15
Morning tea
Preparing for future policy and its impacts
10:45
Vibrant carbon markets in the emissions reduction journey
- Building the supply of domestic emissions reduction offset markets
- The scope of the new Emissions Reduction Fund methods to provide credits for sequestration projects
- Creating an exchange traded market to increase price transparency and reduce transaction costs for businesses
- Developing a simple method of transparency and accountability in voluntary emissions reduction targets
Mark Williamson
Executive General Manager
Clean Energy Regulator
11:15
Putting energy consumers at the centre of policy decisions - cost and affordability
- How the DMO (Default Market Offer) is effecting consumer behaviour and industry pricing
- Coping with proposed changes to the Market Settlement and Transfer Solutions (MSATS) Procedures
- Complications arising from the proposed Energy Fairness Plan
Sarah McNamara
Chief Executive
Australian Energy Council
11:45
PANEL DISCUSSION: Supporting the National Electricity Market: resolving the tension between competing initiatives
- Will the Grid Reliability Fund provide a backbone for network infrastructure and grid stabilising technologies?
- How should the conflict between commercial and government interests be resolved?
Moderator:
Keith Orchison
Director
Coolibah
Panellists:
Anne Pearson
Head of Reputation
EnergyAustralia
Matthew Warren
Columnist
Australian Financial Review
Danny Price
Founder and Managing Director
Frontier Economics
Andrew Dillon
Chief Executive Officer
Energy Networks Australia
12:25
Networking lunch
Securing reliable and cost effective energy for Australia’s future
13:25
Go hard, go early - How setting a net-zero target will put Australia’s economy ahead
- Unlocking 46,000 O&M rural jobs in renewables by in 2035
- Seizing Australia’s potential to be a powerhouse and technology leader in renewable energy
- Positioning Australia’s resources sector to take advantage of global demand for the materials used in clean energy technologies
- Avoiding trade barriers as other countries impose ‘carbon borders’
Kane Thornton
Chief Executive
Clean Energy Council
13:55
A game of bluff: how supply and demand is setting policy in the Australian energy sector
- Analysing whether gas or batteries make more economic sense as support for the transition to renewables
- Making the energy market transparent and effective – do regulators increase efficiency or stand in the way of market forces
- Avoiding ‘Balkanised’ state-based power systems
- What needs to happen in governance and federal policy for a smooth energy transition
Danny Price
Founder and Managing Director
Frontier Economics
14:25
Closing remarks from the Chair
14:30
End of Energy Policy Forum and Australian Energy Week 2021