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Oct 2006 - Energy for the future - Dispelling the myths
Date: Thursday 26 October 2006
Time: 2.00pm - 6.20pm
Venue: The Boulevard Room, Rydges Southbank, Glenelg Street, South Brisbane
EIANZ-SEQ held a half day forum to explore the realistic options of Australia’s future energy supply. Speakers came from diverse backgrounds and covered some of the key issues relating to our future energy supply.
This event examined global trends and their application to the Australian context, examine sustainability aspects of future opportunities and equip environment professionals with information to draw comparisons between alternatives.
To download presentations from this event, please click on the speaker's name below. Please note that Dr Dennis Jensen did not give a powerpoint presentation.
Our speakers include:
Dr Dennis Jensen MP - Nuclear
Dennis was elected to the seat of Tangney in 2004. Dennis studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne University and Monash University where he received his PhD in Physics. Prior to entering politics he worked for the CSIRO and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation.
Dr Jensen is a member of several Parliamentary Committees including the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, the Standing Committee on Transport and Regional Services and the Standing Committee on Science and Innovation.
Dennis has recently been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Centre of Excellence for Anti Matter Research at the ANU in Canberra.
Frank is the CEO of the Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development (CCSD). The Centre has its expertise in coal research directed at:
- Improving understanding of the place of coal in the transition to sustainable development in a changing world;
- Improving economic and environmental performance of current technologies;
- Reducing the risk inherent in adopting emerging clean coal technologies; and
- Identifying an appropriate transition path and supporting the development of policies for coal use.
CCSD is one of the Australian government’s Cooperative Research Centre Programme’s 68 centres formed as partnerships between Australian industry and research organisations. CCSD has 6 research partners, 13 industry partners and a number of national and international collaborations (in Japan, US and Europe).
Taraz Saba is a senior wind power engineer working with PB Power. He has worked in this field for over 7 years and has extensive knowledge of the complete wind farm life cycle having been involved in all stages of wind farm development from site selection, wind monitoring, resource assessment, project due diligence, lender’s engineer to construction and operation. He has worked on wind farm projects in New Zealand, Australia, China, Fiji, Japan, Turkey, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, the UK, and the USA. He is specialised in wind resource and energy yield assessment. He is currently Team Leader of the Brisbane PB Power Wind Group.
Wendy Miller is Manager of the Queensland Sustainable Energy Industry Development Group (QSEIDG), a collaborative alliance of universities, industry and environment organisations moving forward the integration of renewable energy and energy efficiency for a sustainable society. She brings expertise and knowledge in the ascertainment of the energy services that society requires and the assessment of available renewable energy resources and the technologies that can be utilised to convert natural resources into services for the community. This is underpinned by a strong education and ‘technology translation’ focus, enabling communities to understand their energy options and the social, financial and environmental implications of each option.
Howard Morrison is the Manager of Emerging Technologies at Stanwell Corporation. Howard is a graduate of the University of Queensland with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He has worked in the electricity industry for over 25 years, moving to power stations (Gladstone and Tarong) after a brief stint in transmission design. He has worked in a variety of engineering and managerial roles in the Generation industry with accountabilities ranging from plant responsibility, Technical Service provision, through to Asset Management and General Management.
In his current role of Manager Emerging Technologies, he is responsible along with the principle technologists in the organisation to ensure that Stanwell has access to and is aware of the trends in technology that will impact on the future of the organisation.
This event was proudly supported by; 
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