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29-30 MARCH | LOWER HUTT EVENTS CENTRE
Energy Security for New Zealand
Market Structure and Reform
Energy Transitions
Regulation and Governance
NZDOWNSTREAM.CO.NZ
Celebrating its 10th anniversary Tackling the big issues including:
in 2021, Downstream remains
New Zealand’s leading event • Energy policies from the new Government
• Dry year solutions
for the energy industry.
• Energy security
The energy sector has much to discuss in 2021 • Market structures
and Downstream is the place where everyone • Decarbonisation
gathers. Bringing together international • Affordability and energy hardship
influencers and local leaders, Downstream • Electrification of transport and process heat
shares strategic insights into our current • Distributed energy and grid edge innovation
challenges and opportunities. Book your place • Energy infrastructure and the RMA
today. • Governance of energy asset owners
• The role of energy in supporting
New Zealand’s industrial capability
KEY SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Nigel Barbour Neal Barclay Simon Mackenzie Gretta Stephens Keith Turner
Chief Executive, Chief Executive, Chief Executive, Chief Executive, Independent Director
Powerco Meridian Energy Vector New Zealand Steel & Former CEO,
Meridian Energy
Fraser Whineray Kerry Schott AO James Stevenson- Jo Hendy Tracey Hickman
Chief Operating Chair, Energy Wallace Chief Executive, Chief Customer
Officer, Fonterra Security Board of Chief Executive, Climate Change Officer, Genesis
Australia Electricity Authority Commission Energy
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DAY 1 : 29 MARCH
07.30 Sponsored Breakfast (by invitation) models and market mechanisms that compensate
gas infrastructure investors for their contribution
08.30 Welcome from the Chair to energy security.
Sheridan Broadbent - Director, Transpower • The nation’s forward gas supply curve for the
next 10 years
08.35 Mayoral welcome • New commercial models for gas generation
A welcome to Lower Hutt from the Mayor. • Supporting increased renewable generation
Campbell Barry – Mayor • Demand trends for gas and LPG
• Pricing, liquidity and market performance
VIEWS FROM THE TOP John Kidd – Director, Head of Research, Enerlytica
08.45 Leaders’ panel 12.00 Lake Onslow – is this our best investment in a
With 2020 being characterised by surprise government dry year solution?
intervention, policy announcements and COVID-19, it is In a surprising move, Cabinet allocated $30
time to reassess the performance of the New Zealand million for the initial investigation of possible
energy industry and look to the future. energy storage solutions to New Zealand’s dry
• The COVID effect, back to the bottom line year electricity problem. One controversial
• Industry structure – sub-optimal? solution has been singled out for attention, the
• Retail pricing – back on the political agenda? Lake Onslow pumped hydro project.
• Solving the industrial heat question • Nation-building - thinking-big versus small scale,
• New generation build roadmap local and distributed
• Managing dry year reserve and climate change effects • New Zealand energy problems this
Nigel Barbour – Chief Executive, Powerco investigation must tackle
Neal Barclay – Chief Executive, Meridian Energy • The role of government in solving dry year reserve
David Prentice – Chief Executive, Trustpower • Analysing the benefits and costs to New Zealand,
Facilitator: and New Zealand consumers
Toby Stevenson – Director, Sapere • Unlocking a more sustainable future, meeting
emissions targets
10.00 Sector evaluation – meeting NZ’s climate • Who should own and pay for a project like
change targets Lake Onslow?
Alison Andrew – Chief Executive, Transpower Paul Goodeve – Chief Executive, First Gas
Earl Bardsley – Associate Professor, The
10.30 An energy market delivering long-term benefit University of Waikato
for electricity consumers Keith Turner - Independent Director & Former
After ten years as Chair of the Electricity CEO, Meridian Energy
Phillippa Fox – General Manager, Energy and
Authority, one of the architects of the modern
Resource Markets, Ministry of Business,
New Zealand Electricity Market is leaving their
Innovation& Employment
influential role and passing the baton for others
Facilitator:
to continue the work.
John Hancock – Director, Signature Consulting
• The most important drivers of market change
• Successes, misfires and regrets
1.00 Lunch, roundtables and one-on-one meetings
• Improving our electricity market over the
next 10 years
MARKET STRUCTURE AND REFORM
Brent Layton
2.00 International Perspective - Energy market
11.00 Morning tea and refreshments in the
design for post-2025
Downstream expo
The Energy Security Board of Australia recently
published their roadmap for national electricity
ENERGY SECURITY FOR NZ
market reform. Although our markets are different,
the big issues are remarkably similar and makes for
11.30 Gas supply (and demand) outlook
a useful guide for the New Zealand energy market.
The future role of gas in New Zealand is not
certain. However, given New Zealand’s reliance Kerry Schott AO – Chair, Energy Security Board
and gas, developments in the gas market of Australia
directly affect our energy security and impact
on consumers. This session reviews the current 2.30 Creating a fit-for-future purpose market
outlook and considers specific commercial structure in New Zealand
When discussing the New Zealand energy market
structure there is often debate about the 4.30 Our future with Distributed Energy Resources
need for 29 electricity distribution companies, (DERs)
or the need to split generation and retail. Many predict 2021 as the year when small-scale
This session provides a chance to discuss solar plus batteries reaches cost parity with grid
energy market structural opportunities including energy, and the global amount of grid connected
regulatory oversight and system operation. battery storage is predicted to grow by five times
• Effects from existing market structure issues out to 2025. Will the new money focused at
• Need for a Ministry of Energy network edge and behind the meter attract new
• Super regulator – merging some or all of our energy faces to invest in the New Zealand energy market?
regulators • The timing issue and developments such the
• Ownership structures of key energy assets, closure of Tiwai
incentives and outcomes • Readiness of the New Zealand market and
Dr Alan Bollard - Chair, New Zealand regulatory systems
Infrastructure Commission • Contribution of DER to managing peak demand
Luke Blincoe – Chief Executive, • International trends in similar markets
The Energy Collective • Deliverability of distributed versus grid scale
Ralph Matthes – Executive Director, MEUG solutions and outcomes
Nicki Crauford - Chair, Electricity Authority Peter Armstrong – Chief Executive, Westpower
3.30 Afternoon tea and refreshments in the 5.00 Developing the New Energy Platform (NEP)
Downstream expo Vector and Amazon Web Services are jointly
developing the New Energy Platform, using
DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS advanced IoT, machine learning and the power
AND NEW PLATFORMS of data analytics to facilitate smarter, customer-
centric decisions. This first deal of its kind for AWS
4.00 A new system operator is coming - DSO in New Zealand, and for AWS in the global energy
There is widespread acceptance we will soon need sector. Explore the market dynamics that led to the
a Distribution System Operator (DSO) function in strategic alliance and what it aims to achieve.
New Zealand, with only a small window to get it right.
Simon Mackenzie – Chief Executive, Vector
• Who could, and should take the lead on this?
• Integration with the Transmission System Operator
5.30 Close and thanks from the Chair of Day One
(TSO)
• Evaluating the right ‘model’ for New Zealand
5.35 Networking drinks in the Downstream Expo
• Non-infrastructure solutions and procuring services
from non-traditional
6.45 The Downstream Dinner of the Decade
• Successful international comparators
Enjoy the best networking event of Downstream
David Reeve - Director, Sapere and join your peers to celebrate the milestone with
some images and memorable moments from the last
10 years of Downstream... plus a few surprise guests.
10TH ANNIVERSARY
DAY 2 : 30 MARCH
08.30 Welcome from the Chair reform deliver enough progress to encourage the
investments required?
ENERGY TRANSITIONS • How much do consenting lead times act as
deterrents for investment?
08.40 New emissions targets for energy • Property, stakeholder engagement, environmental
The Climate Change Commission will be reporting outcomes and the integration of the conceptual
to government on emissions budgets and emissions design and commercial aspects
reduction plans. This advice will decide how fast and • Best practice governance for the planning process
how hard New Zealand needs to go, and the role of the • Experience from the COVID-19 (Fast-track
energy sector in support. consenting) Act 2020
• The emissions targets and pathways to meet New • Will RMA reform be able to better balance
Zealand’s climate targets competing interests and enable the transition to a
• Low emissions practices, technologies and low emissions energy sector?
infrastructure for the energy sector Raewyn Moss - General Manager, External
• Assessing the long-term climate benefits of energy Affairs, Transpower
sector investment
Jo Hendy – Chief Executive, 12.00 Enhancing New Zealanders’ lives, prosperity
Climate Change Commission and environment through electricity
James Stevenson-Wallace - Chief Executive,
09.00 (Major Energy) Consumer demand for new Electricity Authority
renewable generation
Large energy consumers are leveraging their 12.30 Lunch and meetings
balance sheets and exploring the idea of being
renewable power project developers and have gone to ENERGY AFFORDABILITY
market for new renewable power projects with a stated
goal of substantially reducing their emissions. 1.30 Energy, industrial activity and international
• Alternative energy solutions being considered competitiveness
• Outcomes being sought by large energy consumers Given the contribution of industrial consumers to
• Disadvantages of existing traditional energy the wider economy and the cost of core energy
procurement offerings infrastructure, we analyse how sensitive industry is
Fraser Whineray - Chief Operating Officer, to changes in cost of energy. And explore the role
Fonterra of the energy sector in supporting New Zealand’s
industrial capability.
09.45 The transport fuel (and EV) opportunity • Is enough weight given to the impact on large
Transport accounts for over 40% of national energy industrial and exporting consumers when making
demand but contributes over 50% of our energy- important industry decisions?
related emissions and 99% of our transport energy • Predicting the effect of Tiwai closing
demand continues to be met through fossil fuels. on remaining industrial users
There may be barriers to overcome before we stop • The trade-off between support for domestic or
importing crude or refined liquid fuels, but the industrial consumers
opportunity is apparent. • International examples of supporting your domestic
Jimmy Ormsby – Managing Director, industrial base/export sector
Waitomo Group • Risks around transmission pricing going forwards
Andrew Clennett - Chief Executive, Catherine Beard – Executive Director, Export NZ
Hiringa Energy Gretta Stephens – Chief Executive,
Alan Pearson – Chief Executive, TIL Group New Zealand Steel
Facilitator: Dieter Adam – Executive Director,
Marcos Pelenur - Group Manager, Strategy The Manufacturers’ Network
and Engagement, EECA Dean Richardson - Managing Director,
Methanex New Zealand
10.30 Morning tea in the Downstream expo
REGULATION AND GOVERNANCE
11.00 The challenge of building new projects -
RMA reform and its impact on the sector 2.15 Governance of an energy asset owner
With a detailed review of the RMA undertaken and With the Commerce Commission shortly releasing
awaiting a Government response. RMA reform is their report of the Aurora review. The need for good
on the agenda and long overdue. However, will governance of energy assets is in the spotlight.
Governance failures lead to sub-optimal energy
price and quality outcomes for consumers.
• Good energy asset governance practices and the right
governance structure for an energy asset owner
• The different ownership models, stewardship and
long-term interests versus near-sighted incentives
• Managing a board’s competing interests
• Increased regulatory focus on governance
Carl Findlater – Chair, Southland Power Trust
Richard Fletcher – Chief Executive, Aurora Energy
Richard Westlake - Managing Director,
Westlake Governance
Facilitator:
Julie Hardaker – Deputy Chair,
Governance New Zealand
3.00 Afternoon tea in the Downstream expo
3.30 Regulatory developments – competition and
performance
The Commerce Commission, in common with energy
regulators around the world, is planning to increase the use
of its Information Gathering and Summary Analysis powers
to place regulated entity performance data in the public
domain. Allowing all stakeholders to have the ability to
analyse the data.
Andy Burgess - Head of Energy, Airports and Dairy
Regulation, Commerce Commission
CUSTOMER FOCUS AND DATA
4.00 Modern energy retailing
Never underestimate the importance of that final link in the
supply chain. The retail sector features fierce competition,
more data, increasing customer participation and energy
affordability challenges to name a few. It also has big
opportunities around behind-the-meter services, and a large
number of competitors ready and waiting to invest in this
space.
• Digital tools needed for energy retail 2.0
• Evolving customer needs - innovation and customer-centricity
• Delivering better customer outcomes
• Product bundling, gas, LPG, triple play solutions and strategic
partnerships
Fiona Smith – General Manager Customer Operations,
Trustpower
Mary Ollivier – Commissioner and Chief Executive,
Utilities Disputes
Tracey Hickman – Chief Customer Officer,
Genesis Energy
Kevin Angland - General Manager Retall & Digital, Mercury
Facilitator:
Juanita Neville Te-Rito – Founder, Retail Strategy
Director, Retail X
5.00 Chair’s closing remarks and end of conference
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