8:30 – 9:00 – REGISTRATION – Meet and greet
9:00 to 9:30 – SESSION 1
Forum Opening – Dr Kerry Schott AO, Energy Security Board.
9:30 to 10:30
Overview of Energy Security
- Liquid fuels
- Gas
- Electricity
- Chronic nature
- lack of political will
Security of Liquid Fuels
- Description of Fuels and Fuel Use
- Current Logistics
- Further Refinery Closures
- What If Scenarios
- What Can be Done
10:30 to 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 to 12:30
Gas Supply – How we got here
- Major gas reserves
- CBM – 30ETA Joules!!!
- Gladstone developments
- What Can Be Done
New Potential for Coal
- HELE power generation
- Gas
- Fuels
- Costs
12:30 to 1:30 Lunch
1:30 to 3:00
Electricity – How we got here
- Renewables Wind and Solar
- Other renewables – hydro, biomass
- Storage
- Transmission issues
- Synchronous generation and harmonics
- Co-generation schemes
- Back-up – diesel versus gas versus batteries.
3:00 to 3:30 Afternoon Tea
3:30 to 4:30
Price and Costs
Price impact of energy on established and future industry
Case Studies:
- Gas fired power
- Alumina
- Aluminium smelting
- Fertilizer and explosives
- Chemicals
- Coal to Gas
4:30 Sum Up and Drinks