•  Should we be moving away from cost-based regulatory systems and creating incentives for investment in energy markets?
• What impacts will the new regulatory regime being considered by the Ministerial Council on Energy have on NSW and what market system issues remain to be addressed?

• ExxonMobil's perspective as a gas producer supplying into an evolving power generation market
• The importance of addressing environmental, fiscal and energy policy issues
• Issues that may impact on the future development of the gas industry in south-eastern Australia

Securing gas supply is critical to future electricity generation in South-Eastern Australia. Why does developing gas markets in south eastern Australia continue to be a major problem for governments?

• Benefits, costs and effects of the Gas Access Regime, including its effect on investment in the sector and in upstream and downstream markets
• Hear what the future southern-eastern gas markets may look like up to 2012
• Improvements to the Gas Access Regime, its objectives and its application

In the coming decade Australia faces a challenge to meet the growing need for additional energy supplies and in particular, the increasing demand for electricity. In this context the need to value carbon is becoming more important.

• Hear the increasing role of carbon in the energy supply mix
• Understand why Origin Energy have an interest in the NSW energy supply

How rising energy demand in NSW can be ameliorated through:

• Increasing end-use efficiency to reduce the stress on energy supply
• Improving existing energy strategies and improving sustainability reporting
• Creating investment incentives to increase energy efficiency
• Developing a national framework for Energy Efficiency

• NSW and the National Electricity Market 
•  Future forecasts for demand and supply scenarios
•  The importance of demand management and energy efficiency
•  The future: an integrated approach to resources

• How are the Camden and Hunter projects impacting NSW’s energy market?
• What is the outlook for the future cost competitiveness of gas
• Sydney Gas Ltd’s future green field projects

• Coal seam gas complementing conventional gas reserves
• Monetizing gas reserves through embedded generation
• Scenarios for infrastructure development
• Challenges of attracting and retaining investment

• What is driving investment in coal seam methane?
• Determining coal seam methane gas levels in NSW
• The benefits of coal seam methane and the potential role in energy generation

This networking innovation facilitates a quick introduction and business card exchange in a light and fast paced session, ensuring you maximise the benefits of attending NSW Power.

• The wind power potential of NSW versus SA and Victoria: Investing in South Australia, Victoria and NSW
• State of play in wind power development and what benefits could it deliver to NSW?
• Renewable energy targets and Kyoto; How is NSW shaping up?

In June 2004 IPART released a 5 year price path for NSW's four (4)

distribution businesses.  This review was conducted under the NationalElectricity Code.

• How are distribution prices regulated in NSW?
• What are the implications for demand management?
• Where is price regulation heading?

The original NEM structure saw considerable vertical and horizontal separation, particularly between generation and retail.  Many recent and proposed changes have/will reduce this separation as the number of players reduces and as retailers and generaters combine and/or enter each others markets.

• What is driving these trends?
• Where will the industry likely end up?
• How will/can MCE policy responses affect this assessment?

This Q&A session will allow you to pose your most pressing questions to our morning speakers

• Determining new approaches to electricity pricing for residential and small business customers
• What are the push factors for interval metering?
• Discussing challenges and incentives to win/win outcomes for consumers and energy companies
• Ensuring networks provide adequate, reliable and safe supply of electricity of appropriate quality

• Securing electricity supply in NSW between 2005-2012
• Hear what the NSW electricity market may look like up to 2012
• A review of National Economics semi-annual review on electricity supply
• Regulating electricity networks and developing a national innovation package to secure supply

• How the reforms have progressed to date
• What does the new regulatory model looks like?
• What does the new model mean for participants in energy market?

• Clarifying regulatory codes and licensing arrangements
• Likely political issues in peak loads
• Balancing consumer protection with retailers commercial interest
•  The development of wholesale gas market in NSW

• Driving a reform agenda to build a strong national approach to energy regulation
• Collateral damage and ‘friendly fire’: unanticipated effects of regulation
• Regulating the emerging vertically integrated energy oligopolies

• Role of the NSW transmission network in the NEM
• Delivering reliable electricity supply to NSW consumers
• Importance of Demand Side initiatives

• The QNI came into service on the 18th February 2001. What are the outcomes to date?
• Assessing the economic benefits of electricity network augmentation between QLD and NSW
• Solutions to regulatory constraints on augmenting the QNI

• Determining the future of transmission planning in the NEM
• Assessing ‘intra’ Vs ‘inter’ regional transmission
• Ongoing market design priorities-getting pricing, access and security of supply right