Date : Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Time : 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Venue: Suntec Convention Centre, Level 3, Room MR 326
For those interested in attending, please register your name, organization, designation and email address via the SIEW 2011 website here. For enquiries, please contact Ms Jan Lui at 65162000.
About the Roundtable (it will actually be in the form of a debate):
The purpose of this roundtable is to discuss the future roles of gas and coal in Asia. In 20+ years' time, will Asia still be generating most of its electricity from coal or gas? According to the International Energy Agency (IEA)'s 2009 World Energy Outlook, coal could account for 50 percent of ASEAN's electricity generation by 2030. More recently, the IEA forecasted that the share of gas in the global energy mix will surpass the share of coal before 2030, and that by 2035, gas demand will increase by more than 50 percent. Measured in terms of economics, the environment and security, what is the best power generation strategy for this region? Key questions to be discussed include:
- Just how much coal will be displaced in Asia?
- What are the relative costs of producing or importing gas, both conventional and unconventional, in Asia?
- Over the long term, what are the relative environmental and security costs of gas versus coal for Asia?
- What role can or should nuclear power and renewables play?
Speakers:
1. Dr Paul Baruya, Energy Analyst, IEA Clean Coal Centre
2. Dr Benjamin Sporton , Director of the World Coal Association’s Policy Division
3. Mr Andy Flower , Independent Consultant specialising in LNG
4. Professor Peter Hartley, George and Cynthia Mitchell Chair in Sustainable Development and Environmental Economics, Professor of Economics, Rice University
5. Dr Jeremy Leggett, Founder & Chairman of Solarcentury & SolarAid
6. Professor Ferdinard E. Banks, Energy Economist, Uppsala University, Sweden
About the Speakers
Paul Baruya, is a technical author for the IEA Clean Coal Centre in London. He rejoined the company in 2006 after he began his career there in the early 1990s. Paul also worked for a number of years forecasting global and regional energy prices and projecting long term energy trends at Globalinsight (London) before joining the environmental firm AEA Technology (Harwell).
Today at the Clean Coal Centre, he specialises in analysing domestic and international coal markets and has authored a number of reports on coal in the Far East as well as carrying out global studies on the costs of producing coal worldwide, the competitiveness of coal-fired power versus gas in the OECD, and is currently developing a global power station atlas for coal-fired power as well as other research. Paul regularly assists the IEA in Paris with coal-related work and has been a contributor to the IEA World Energy Outlook since 2007.
Benjamin Sporton is responsible for managing the World Coal Association's policy work with a particular focus on energy poverty, sustainable development and climate change issues. He is an Associate Member of the Coal Industry Advisory Board to the International Energy Agency.
Benjamin attends United Nations climate negotiations on behalf of the global coal industry and recently blogged from the UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico. In addition he has particularly been involved in work associated with the inclusion of carbon capture and storage technology in the Clean Development Mechanism. Benjamin is also leading work on WCA’s preparations for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Develop ment in Rio de Janeiro in May 2012 (Rio+20).
Prior to joining the World Coal Association, Benjamin held senior policy roles within the public sector in the United Kingdom and Australia. He has studied at the University of Adelaide, University of Buenos Aires and the Australian Institute of Management.
Andy Flower has been working as an Independent Consultant for the last ten years specialising in the LNG business where his areas of expertise include strategy, marketing, project structures, shipping, pricing, supply and demand and project economics. He retired from British Petroleum in 2001 after 32 years of service, including 22 years working in the company’s LNG and natural gas business units. He has contributed to several books on natural gas and LNG including “Natural Gas in the Middle East and North Africa” which was published by the Oxford University Press in March 2011.
Professor Peter Hartley grew up in rural New South Wales, Australia. He completed an honors degree in mathematics in 1974, and a Masters Degree in Economics in 1977, at the Australian National University. From 1975-77, he worked for the Priorities Review Staff and the Economic Division of the Prime Minister's Department in the Australian Government. He obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1980. From 1980 to 1986 he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton University.
He moved to Rice University as an Associate Professor of Economics in August 1986 and was promoted to a Full Professor in 1993. He was chair of the Department of Economics at Rice from 2000 to 2005 and Academic Director of the Shell Center for Sustainability at Rice from 2007 to 2010. Peter is also a Rice Scholar of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, where he is affiliated with the Energy Studies Program. He was awarded the George and Cynthia Mitchell chair in the economics department in 2007.
Peter has also held visiting positions at Monash University, the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University and is currently holding a visiting position as a Professor at Large in the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Western Australia. His research has covered a number areas, but he has recently focused solely on energy economics and policy. He has also worked for public policy think tanks and as an advisor to governments and private firms on energy, electricity re-structuring, Infrastructure development and environmental issues.
Jeremy Leggett, is founder and chairman of Solarcentury, currently the UK's fastest growing energy company, and SolarAid, one of Africa's fastest-growing poverty-alleviation charities, set up with Solarcentury profits. He is also a founding director of the world's first private equity investment fund for renewables, run by Bank Sarasin (New Energies Invest AG, 2000-present), convenor of the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security (ITPOES, 2007-present), and Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute (1997-present). A regular advocate for renewables in the international media, including as a CNN Principal Voice, he has been described by the Observer as “Britain’s most respected green energy boss.” He is author of The Carbon War (2000), an account of the climate negotiations in the 1990s; Half Gone (2005), an account of the interaction between peak oil and climate change; and The Solar Century (2009), a vision of solar in the cleantech revolution.
In a first career as a geologist, he researched the history of oceans, explored for oil, and worked on oil source rocks funded by BP and Shell among others (1978- 89, while on the faculty at Imperial College). Increasingly worried by global warming, he left to become an environmental campaigner (1989-1996, with Greenpeace International), during which time he won the US Climate Institute’s Award for Advancing Understanding. Coming to the view that successful green businesses were badly needed in the global struggle to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, he set up Solarcentury. The company has won multiple awards for innovation and sustainability, and become a magnet for talent. Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2009 New Energy awards, a Director of the Month in Director magazine, and the first Hillary Laureate for International Leadership on Climate Change.
Ferdinand E. Banks, from Uppsala University in Sweden, did his undergraduate studies at the Illinois Institute of Technology (electrical engineering) and Roosevelt University (Chicago), graduating with honours in economics. He also attended the University of Maryland and UCLA. His MSc is from Stockholm University and his PhD is from Uppsala University.
He has been a visiting professor at five universities in Australia, two in France, the Czech University (Prague), Stockholm University, as well as Nanyang Technical University, and has held energy economics professorships in France, Hong Kong and the Asian Institute of Technology. He has also been a lecturer in mathematical economics in Dakar and Lisbon.
He was an econometrician for UNCTAD in Geneva, Switzerland for three years, and a fellow of the Reserve Bank of Australia when he was visiting professor of mathematical economics at the University of New South Wales. He has been a consultant for the Hudson Institute in Paris. He has published 12 books, including two energy economics textbooks and one book on international finance, and more than 200 articles of various lengths.
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