PROCEEDINGS -
'The New Zealand  Energy Conference 2002 - the Way Forward"

DAY  ONE
Time Introduction The Goals for the Conference  Rob Whitney CRL Energy, Chair EFNZ
8:30 Chair  Don Elder CEO Solid Energy
8:45-9:30 Hon Pete Hodgson Minister of Energy Opening address
9:30-10:10 Dr R.K. Pachauri,  Director General TERI, Chairman IPCC Energy, Climate Change and Equity: A Global Agenda
10:10-10:50 Dr R Schock, Senior Fellow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Energy Technologies for the Markets of the 21st Century
10:50-11:15 Morning tea  
11:15-11:20 Chair Contact Energy
11:20-11:50 Dr J Jurewitz, Director, Regulatory Policy, Southern California Edison Company Markets and Regulation
11:50-12:20 M. Lear, Ministry of Economic Development  New Zealand Energy Outlook
12:20-12:50 Brian Leyland, Sinclair Knight Merz.  Review of Electricity Supply and Demand 2002
12:50-1:45 Lunch                                        
1.45-1:50 Chair  Rick Pridmore, CEO, NIWA
1:50-2:00 Mr M Sinclair, Energy Association of Australia  WEC Congress Sydney 2004
  Mr P Robertson, General Manager, Network, Transpower Infra-structure and Security
2:00-2:30 Mr K Dobinson, Project Director, The  Warren Centre, University of Sydney Sustainable Cities - Meeting the Challenge
2:30-3:00 Mr R Toleman, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Transport The New Zealand Transport Strategy
3:30-3:55 Afternoon tea  
3.55-4:00 Chair  Paul Hodgson, Industry & Government Affairs Manager, NGC
3:00-3:30 Dr P Kruger, Stanford University Is There a Future for Hydrogen Fuel in New Zealand?
4:00-4:30 Ms H Staley, CEO, EECA National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy
4:30-5:00 Mr J Laun, Executive VP & Chief Development Officer, Apogee (USA) - sponsored by EECA  Customers as active partners in energy markets
  George Hooper, CAE.    Distributed Generation Opportunities for New Zealand. 
5:00-5:10 Closing The agenda for tomorrow John Blakeley Unitec, Chair SEF
6:00-7:30 EECA Reception EECA EnergyWise Regional Awards Cocktail Function
7:30- late Conference Dinner Speaker  To be confirmed

 

DAY TWO - MORNING
Parallel Sessions
Time Towards a New Zealand Energy Future - transition processes in the energy system.  Developing  a shared vison of energy initiatives  for New Zealand Inc in the future
What are the key issues?
8-30-8:40 Resources / future supply
Don Elder, CEO, Solid Energy
End Use Demand Response
Bill Heaps, Commercial Services, Transpower
8:40-9:00 Mac Beggs, GeoSphere Exploration. Sustainability of the contribution of natural gas to New Zealand's energy markets. Ewan Gebbie (EECA) and Stephen Drew (Demand Reponse Ltd). The contribution of increased demand side participation (demand response) to a sustainable electricity system in New Zealand.
9:00-9:30 Ian McChesney EECA. Renewable Energy. Ken Mitchell, Eastland Networks.  Reconfiguring a distribution network to meet future needs.  
9:30-10:00 Chris Baker, Chairman Greenhouse Policy Coalition. What are the impacts of the Kyoto Protocol on New Zealand's energy options.    Ian Bone and Matthew Ensor, Beca Carter Hollongs & Ferner Ltd.  What will influence future transport energy demand. 
10:00-10:30 Morning tea  
10:30-10:50 Lee Wilson, Concept Consulting.  Resource and supply issues to consider in developing a future New Zealand Strategy. Robert Tromop, EECA.  The role of energy efficiency to reduce demand.  
10:50-11:20 DISCUSSION  DISCUSSION 
11:20-11:50 SWOT Analysis SWOT Analysis
11.50-11.55 Resource transformation / existing and new technologies
Chair to be confirmed, Meridian Energy
Markets and Governance
Mike Underhill, Chairman, EECA Board and CEO of WEL Energy
11:55-12:15 Alistair Gardiner, Industrial Research.  Possible Impacts of Micro-Scale Distributed Energy Technologies on Existing Supply David Hunt, Contact Energy.  The Electricity Governance Establishment Board-what is it, how will it operate and what business is unfinished?
12:15-12:35 Tony Clemens, CRL Energy.  Technologies for Combustion, Gasification, and Cofiring of Coal and Biomass. Russell Longuet, Carter Holt Harvey.  Operating a business within the constraints and uncertainties of the electricity and gas markets, and industry issues with the proposed electricity market governance.
DAY TWO - AFTERNOON
1:30 - 1:50 PANEL Technology successes and opportunities  Molly Melhuish.  A cultural revolution within both suppliers and consumers will be needed if government's policy - for the electricity sector to become sustainable, cost-effective and fair - can be fulfilled
1:50 - 2:10 Geoff henderson Windflow
Per Nielsen FRI
Paul Dippie Easteel
Mr Tony Fenwick, Ministry of Economic Development.  Gas Industry Regulation. 
2:10 - 2:30 Steve Goldthorpe
Paul Kruger
John Kessels/Rob Whitney, CRL Energy.  Kyoto, Emissions Trading and The Cost of Carbon emissions. 
2:30 - 3:00 DISCUSSION  DISCUSSION
3:00 - 3:30 SWOT Analysis SWOT Analysis
3:30 - 3:55 Afternoon Tea  
DAY TWO - AFTERNOON
Final Wrap up Session
3:55 - 5:30 Towards a New Zealand Energy Future - transition processes in the energy system. 
Facilitated by Morgan Williams the Commisioner for the Environment
The final combined session will take the common outcomes developed from the  earlier sessions.
3:55 - 4:35 Report Back on Issues Theme Leaders 
4:35 - 5:05 DISCUSSION  Panel
5:05 - 5:20 Where to from now? Morgan Williams

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