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Western Australia’s energy transition has reached the hard part: execution. Not whether—how. How to close the gap between ambition and delivery, connect projects, attract capital, firm the system, and get the best outcomes for WA.
That’s the agenda for the 25th Energy in WA Conference—and the room has changed. This year puts far more of the private sector and WA’s largest energy users on stage—Woodside, Wesfarmers, Yara Pilbara and more—alongside government, the networks and two international keynotes.
If you’re shaping WA’s energy future, be in the room.
Key speakers include:
- Hon. Amber-Jade Sanderson — Minister for Energy & Decarbonisation, Government of Western Australia
- Mary Burce Warlick — Deputy Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA)
- Bill Farren-Price — Head of Gas Research, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
- Aaron Hood — Managing Director, Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy & Fertilisers
- Brad McIlroy — Director | Strategic Projects Director, Entellus Energy | Nu-phase
- Kirsten Rose — Executive General Manager WA & Strategy, AEMO
- Krystal Skinner — Chief Executive Officer, Horizon Power
- Gair Landsborough — Chief Executive Officer, Western Power
- Tim Bray, Deputy Director General, Powering WA, DEED
- Cameron Owens — Head of DER & Engineering, Synergy
- Gareth Wright — Head of Climate Strategy & Engagement, Woodside Energy
- Rachael Smith — Executive General Manager, Commercial & Growth, Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG).
Seven reasons why you need to be there
- The whole of WA’s energy sector, under one roof — generators, networks, retailers, gas producers, large industrial and mining users, government, regulators and First Nations leaders, all working the same challenges.
- Intelligence built for your market — every session is grounded in what’s happening here in WA, so you leave with insight you can act on straight away.
- Hear directly from the decision-makers — the Minister, the IEA, and the leaders of Western Power, Horizon Power, Synergy and AEMO on the moves shaping the SWIS, the Pilbara and WA’s gas future.
- The debates that matter to WA — gas as the indispensable transition fuel, grid transformation and storage, the delivery gap between ambition and execution, and building the skills to deliver it.
- Network where it counts — a curated room of ~250 senior peers, networking drinks, and the WA Energy Awards Gala Dinner (10 September).
- Twenty-five years of credibility — WA’s longest-running energy conference and the sector’s major annual meeting place.
Key themes
- Global perspectives and implications for energy sector in WA: WA’s energy future amid a disorderly global transition fron an international and local perspective.
- Delivery gap, ambition vs execution: Approvals, connections, slow progress, risk appetite.
- Optimising system design, market structure and investment signals: Market settings, policy changes, capital attraction, private–public partnerships and investor confidence.
- Infrastructure, grid transformation and storage: Transmission bottlenecks, system build‑out, batteries and “virtual transmission”.
- Leaning in to WA’s unique structural context: isolation, mining and Pilbara: Capitalising on the innovation that arises out of isolation, de- fragmentating the Pilbara and managing industrial load.
- Talent, capacity and global positioning: Workforce, skills, brain drain and WA’s international competitiveness.
- Social licence, First Nations and community outcomes: First Nations ownership, social performance, equity and public understanding of the energy sector.
- Exploring the role of gas as indispensable transition fuel: Gas for reliability, looming shortfalls, debate about how much and for how long.
View the full agenda and list of speakers here.
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