• Examining the ALP's view of energy in Australia
• Australia / China Bilateral Cooperation on Climate Change
• Implications on The US Australia Climate Action Partnership (CAP)
• The ALP's view on national competition policy, FRC, deregulation and future emissions trading systems
• What the Commonwealth's focus on energy R&D should be
• Attracting international investment dollars in Australia's energy sector

• Queensland “Export State of Energy”—A preview of what the future holds for oversupply of energy and future business challenges in Queensland
• Discussing draft legislation:  The Queensland 13% Gas Scheme and reforming the Gas Electricity Credit Scheme
• Providing Queensland’s view of on Full Retail Contestability and the role of the new Australian Energy Regulator’s effect on the Queensland market
• Highlighting Queensland and Innovation—R&D dollars invested in Environmentally Sustainable Queensland, managing climate change and the benefits to you
• Understanding the Queensland Government’s perspective on igniting growth and investment in Queensland’s energy sector

• Why privatisation and deregulation can yield improvements across the NEM
• Assessing why benefits outweigh pitfalls of deregulation
• Discussing the regulation of gas pipeline networks
• Deregulation and privatisation in Australia
• Leveraging public opinion

• Meeting the Author of ?Power Play: The fight for control of the world?s electricity?
• Confronting energy deregulation around the world and Australia
• A provocative account of the ?battles between private and public ownership in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia since the early twentieth century?

"If you've ever suspected that most, if not all, of the deregulation that has been going on in the last few decades is a con job, Sharon Beder's eye-opening 'Power Play' will more than confirm your suspicions. If you have put your faith in mantras like 'deregulation', privatization' and 'the marketplace', Beder's account of the campaign to control the world's electricity may open your eyes or, at the very least, make you think twice about the gap between rosy promises and blackout-filled realities." ... "In Beder's considered opinion, the deregulation of the energy market, not only in California but all over the world, has led to the very conditions that regulations were designed to prevent: private power companies manipulating the supply of energy, causing artificial shortages, driving up prices."
[Extract from the Los Angeles Times review]

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• Market reform: poised for success?
• Balancing sustainable best practices and shareholders? returns
• Balancing fuels such as coal and gas: which has a wider economic implication to the community?
• The implications of major assets for sale
• Vertical integration: who wins?

• Why CSR ratings should be important
• Reaping lasting financial benefits while providing environmental and social benefits to the community
• Focusing on sustainability as a foundation for business
• Positively maximise your profile in the community
• Leveraging ratings to show long-term improvement/results
• Incorporating CSR into KPIs
• Weighing the force of public opinion in business strategy
• Queensland's top CSR Company 2003

�By incorporating CSR into practices at ENERGEX, we have taken a long-term view in consciously considering the social and environmental effects of our decisions an how we can continually be accountable and responsible to the general public, our environment and shareholders for these decisions.� 
                                  --Greg Maddock, CEO, Energex

• Providing an update of the state of competition across the state markets
• Discussing a retailers perspective on National Regulation
• Examining a retailers perspective on National Energy Market reform
  

• The impact of the MRET Review on investment
• Attracting long-lead time investments in a deregulated industry
• Examining the long rate of return on capital expenditure and what it may signal to investors
• Assessing regulation and its potential impact on investment strategies

�It�s Chairman, David Scaysbrook, says Novera decided to move to Britain because its government policy is more supportive of renewable energy production than Australia�s.  He says there is little future for publicly listed renewable energy companies that focus on the local market, and believes that other companies may be forced to follow Novera�s lead.�
� article by Andrew Heathcote, BRW, 20-26 November 2003

• Exploring the critical elements of competition
• Discussing the optimum participant structures
• Assessing:  is a simpler market more efficient?
• Will generation long run costs be achieved?
• Is mathematics adding to market efficiency or defeating natural commerce?

• Unveiling the myths and misunderstandings
• Managing risk effectively in balance with needs and capabilities
• Trading in an oversupplied market
• Planning ahead for the supply/demand curves
• Exploring the types of contracts that work best for your business plan

The Chair Moderates

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• What drives most investment in transmission?
• Assessing Intra vs. inter regional transmission
• Exploring the "lumpy" nature of transmission investment
• Discussing short term vs. long term thinking in transmission investment
• Addressing impediments to transmission investment

�Comments that ESAA has made this year about the demand situation out to 2020, and the consequent need to attract many billions of dollars in investment, are not hype; they are soundly based on expert modeling. The messages coming out of the  EU generally, Britain in particular, parts of Canada, China and large parts of the US form a supporting backdrop to the messages we are delivering to Australians.�
--Keith Orchison, ESAA newsletter, No.288, 3 November 2003

Panel Discussion and Q & A

The Chair moderates

• Attracting international investment dollars
• Implications of future emissions trading systems
• The Queensland 13% Gas Scheme and reforming the Gas Electricity Credit Scheme
• Balancing between private and public sectors ownership
• Discussing system reliability

• Discussing what lessons the Australian energy sector should learn from deregulation woes in the US
• Examining the role of policy in providing the best framework for true deregulation to succeed
• Assessing the relationships between state and federal government
• Exploring the role of the big end user of electricity in deregulation
• Discussing the environmental lobby and pressures on the market
• Why energy competition is the best win/win solution, but only when it is done right

Mr. Ken Molloy is founder and CEO of the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets. He is nationally recognised in the US as a bold visionary on the energy industry's transition from monopoly regulation to open access markets, having been cited in Business Week, National Review, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. He is an energetic, provocative, and entertaining speaker who has made over 300 presentations in the last decade to every sector of the energy industry.

Ken was the U.S. Department of Energy's lead career official on policies relating to competition, regulatory reform, and industry restructuring over three administrations (1987 to 1996). A lawyer by training, he has held positions in the areas of natural gas, electricity and oil policy.

Ken has been called a key architect of the major policy developments resulting in the dramatic restructuring of natural gas markets over the last decade ("Architects of the Revolution," Gas Daily's NG Magazine, Winter 98/99) and was instrumental in repositioning DOE's policies in favour of permitting natural gas to play a more central role in energy, environmental, and economic policy. 
�Excerpts from CAEM�s on-line biography of Mr. Malloy

• Discussing the impact of the MRET Review
• Examining the impact on the electricity retailer, the renewable energy sector, generators and large end-users

• Coal Seam Gas - how much could there be?
• Learning why Origin Energy is topping the $400m investment in development of CSG
• Benefits of CSG in supplying local energy markets
• CSG and the potential role in power generation

• Defining coal as the backbone of the power
• Assessing CSG and natural gas
• Exploring why public perception of �old mining� can be a barrier to engaging stakeholders and policy makers today
• Discussing practical sustainability and exploration policies
• Addressing why increased exploration in Australia is still crucial

The Chair moderates

This is your chance to pose your most pressing questions to our panel of experts and enter into lively discourse and discussion.

• Is the new regulatory framework optimal?
• The single regulator
• The market development role
• Transmission and its role in the new energy arrangements

• Assessing the information: a magic bullet or cost prohibitive technology?
• Examining the bottom line:  Is Geo-sequestration from Co2 from coal-fired power stations going to be competitive with cheaper renewable sources of electricity?
• Discussing what we still don�t know about storage and storage risks
• Exploring the technology and bottom line issues
• Hypothesizing the long-term environmental questions and discussing hypothetical answer
• Reviewing the impact on international greenhouse emissions

Mark G. Lauby is the Managing Director, Asia �Pacific EPRI Worldwide of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Palo Alto, California.  He has the overall responsibility for the business development of the EPRI�s $400 million R&D program in Asia, which includes end-use efficiencies, power delivery, environment affects, renewable, fossil-fired and nuclear energy.  Mr. Lauby leads a team responsible for EPRI Worldwide Technical staff with the marketing support

• Learning how the Centre will investigate ways to make the Queensland coal power industry environmentally viable
• Examining the collaboration between government, private enterprise and maximising research and the Centre�s aims

• Exploring what is driving Queensland's population growth
• Exploring the distribution of this population growth across Queensland
• Examining the global, national and local context

• Learning what some big end users see as areas of concern in the NEM
• Strategies on assessing the right type of contract for the right customer
• Exploring flat, variable volume and variable contracts for a win/win situation
• Examining opportunities for increased use of co-generation plants
• Are there any untapped opportunities?

• Understanding the evolution in obtaining competitive gas supply
• Examining the issues in delivering gas to the customer�s door
• Reviewing the effectiveness of the regulative environment impacting the supply chain
• Is the customer informed? Understanding can be a competitive advantage both in articulating needs and solutions
• Is "the tail wagging the dog" in regards to service providers?
• Contracts - the devil is in the detail

• Updating on CSG exploration scheduled to commence commercial gas production in 2005 and the milestones achieved to date
• Examining the collaboration between CH4 and Enertrade
• Learning why Enertrade and other key partners are part of the strategic plan for success
• Discussing why CH4 has established a strong competitive advantage and is positioned for success in Queensland and elsewhere

?Once production comes on line, Mr Rozman said he expected CH4 to become the third largest producer of CSG in Australia, after the Oil Company of Australia and Tipperary and ahead of Sydney Gas. Currently, the CSG industry supplies about 20 per cent of all gas used in Queensland, with a potential for more. ?
?Asia Pulse, 26 September 2003

The Chair moderates

• Assessing successful co-generation plants and industrial parks
• Exploring fundamental objectives in meeting customer needs
• Discussing challenges and incentives to win/win negotiations
• Examining how companies benchmark success
• Considering how industrial customers measure performance and assess their needs