GO TO DAY TWO GO TO Pre-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
You can attend Australian Hydrogen Forum in-person or virtual, though in-depth learning workshop sessions are in-person only.
Peta Ashworth
Director, Liveris Academy for Innovation and Leadership
University of Queensland
The Hon Stuart Ayres
The Hon Mick De Brenni
The Hon Lily D’Ambrosio- Getting beyond test projects and heavily subsidised studies
- What price does hydrogen have to be produced at to make it a competitive fuel?
- Developing a blueprint for viable market activation of a hydrogen industry
- What sectors should Australia concentrate on?
- Forecasting the impact of carbon price/tax on hydrogen’s competitiveness
Innes WilloxEnsuring a timely and strategic approach to obtain advantage over global competitors
- getting the price right
- establishing a hydrogen-ready supply chain
- navigating policy and regulation
- engaging partners and off-takers
Lachy Haynes
Partner - Integrated Infrastructure, Environmental Transactions and Advisory
PwC Australia
Jo Evans
The Hon Guy Barnett
Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction
Tasmanian Government (video)
- Creating a supply chain and expanding infrastructure to make hydrogen a viable alternative to fossil fuels
- Scaling up clean hydrogen to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors
- Making the economics work and finding the business case to invest
- Understanding the necessary government policy to support a full hydrogen economy
Kobad Bhavnagri
Global Head of Industry and Building Decarbonization
BloombergNEF
- Achieving immediate demonstrable savings or profitability to get support from Directors and shareholders
- How should the internal infrastructure required to set up hydrogen production, storage and onsite use be accounted for?
- What is the best way to lay out a realistic timeline for return on investment?
Moderator:
Vivek Dhar
Director - Mining and Energy Commodities Research
Commonwealth Bank
Panellists:
Rhys Tucker
Techno-Commercial Advisor
QEM
Merrill Gray
Managing Director
Hexagon Energy
Stephen Gauld
Managing Director
Infinite Blue Energy
- Economics of moving from feasibility study to practical application
- Successfully progressing a study into reality
- Finding the buyers to create a commercial supply chain
- Scaling up – land sites, transport infrastructure
Craig de Laine
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG))
- Justifying the investment hydrogen projects require against potential earnings
- Balancing waiting for green hydrogen to ramp up against new applications (and demand for) blue hydrogen right now
- Measuring concepts and application viability by removing demand side market risk, and then adding carbon offsets or other mechanisms
- Ensuring that hydrogen projects will eventually have buyers that will offtake at a price that makes sense
Stephanie Unwin
Chief Executive Officer
Horizon Power
Patrick Hartley- Mitigating costs by sharing development infrastructure whilst maintaining the ability to make a profit in the long term
- Ensuring agreements are practical and encourage co-operation
- What does a ‘good’ offtake contract look like?
Felicity Underhill
Director, East Australia & NZ Aotearoa
Fortescue Future Industries
- Does investing in blue technology and infrastructure make sense as a stepping stone to green hydrogen?
- How can the costs of converting existing infrastructure to be hydrogen compatible be reduced?
- What is the best way to assess new technologies to see if they will genuinely reduce costs?
Moderator:
Benjy Lee
Independent Energy Consultant
Benjy Lee Consulting
Panellists:
Stephanie Unwin
Chief Executive Officer
Horizon Power
Craig de Laine
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG)
Felicity Underhill
Director, East Australia & NZ Aotearoa
Fortescue Future Industries
Tim Hard
SVP – Energy Transition, Business Development
Argus