Daniel Ziffer
Reporter ‘The Business’
ABC News
- Articulating clear direction and real solutions in the operation, design and regulation of the whole market
- Deploying storage, renewable generation and transmission to best effect
- Defining the strategies which will move the transition forward
Daniel Westerman
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director
Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)
Damien Nicks
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
AGL
in conversation with
Daniel Ziffer
Reporter ‘The Business’
ABC News
Victor Finkel
Partner
McKinsey & Company
- How effective will the expanded “Capacity Investment Scheme” be in preventing grid instability as coal and gas exit the system?
- How should the CIS and transmission planning (and delivery) be coordinated? Where does this leave consumers and Distributed Energy Resources?
- What specific levers need to be pulled to accelerate the transition?
- How can the low emissions energy infrastructure be delivered with urgency?
Moderator:
Tarandeep Singh Ahuja
Partner
McKinsey & Company
Panellists:
Stephanie Unwin
Chief Executive Officer
Horizon Power
Brett Redman
Chief Executive Officer
Transgrid
Guy Chalkley
Chief Executive Officer
Endeavour Energy
Rik De Buyserie
Chief Executive Officer
ENGIE Australia & New Zealand
- Analysing the results and opportunities from recent strategic reviews, and the pathways forward
- Finding long term solutions that will enable and support the transition
- Defining what needs to be done to deliver reliable, secure energy at the best price for consumers
Anna Collyer
Chair
Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC)
- Defining the energy production challenge Australia faces to ensure a well-managed clean energy transition
- Public and private sector roles – policy priorities, mobilising capital, managing the reliability of legacy generation assets, and the importance of dispatchable storage capacity
- Supporting consumers through the transition with reliable, affordable energy
Mark Collette
Managing Director
EnergyAustralia
- Examining how appropriate current regulation frameworks are for the challenge ahead
- Ensuring that the design and regulation of the whole market remains fit for purpose
- Directions and solutions that will address and resolve sticking points
Clare Savage
Chair
Australian Energy Regulator (AER)
David Ryan
Partner
Herbert Smith Freehills
- Do current business models stack up anymore; how does the regulatory framework work and not work; what needs to be done to fix it?
- How do we resolve the tension between institutional investors and household PV?
- How can we ensure all government agencies are aligned in their transition roadmap?
- Is the current tripartite regulatory system the largest problem?
- At what point are the regulators forced to stand aside whilst government bulldozes transmission and generation projects through at any cost?
Moderator:
Mark Paterson
Principal
Energy Catalyst
Panellists:
Justin Oliver
Board Member
Australian Energy Regulator (AER)
Matthew Warren
Principal
Boardroom Energy
Nick Baker
Global Co-Head of Energy
Herbert Smith Freehills
Trudy Fraser
Acting EGM Regulation
Energy Queensland
- Maintaining a safety net for a “high-wire” walk between energy security and progressing the transition
- Taking a “big bets, no regrets” approach to the clean energy shift
Jeff Dimery
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Alinta Energy
Arun Biswas
Managing Partner, APAC Strategic Sales & Sustainability Consulting
IBM Consulting
- How will the NRF approach the investments in energy transition?
- What does the NRF see as the key value-add and manufacturing opportunities as they relate to energy?
- What factors will the NRF take into account when making investment decisions?
Martijn Wilder
Chair
National Reconstruction Fund (NRF)
- How realistic are nuclear or hydrogen energy as backups for an intermittent generation (or is it always going to be gas?)
- Which energy storage technologies will work best to balance supply and demand?
- What is the paradigm-shifting tech that could change the whole energy landscape?
Moderator:
Ben Burge
Member of the Team, Telstra Energy
Telstra
Panellists:
Peter Price
Executive General Manager Engineering
Energy Queensland
The official Energy Week dinner is the perfect opportunity to network, unwind and socialise with industry peers during your time in Melbourne. Tickets are $230. Includes drinks and dinner.
Venue: Sovereign Room, MCEC, level 1 (above Eureka Rooms)
Time: 18:30 – 22:30
Dress: As you are!
Bring your AEW24 Name Badge for entry