8.30

Registration & welcome coffee

9.00

Chairman’s opening remarks:
Duncan Ritchie, Chief Executive Officer, Aequero (morning)
Chris de Lavigne, Global Vice President Consulting, Frost and Sullivan (afternoon)

Market Movements

This opening session will provide a solid basis for discussions on the biopower industry both within Asia and beyond. It will look at the future of the biopower industry, biomass opportunities, project trends and a case study on developed countries.

9.15

Keynote Address:
The current state and future prospects of the global BioPower industry

• Global status of bioenergy and BioPower
• Environmental benefits of BioPower
• Future prospects for the industry

9.45

An overview of the biomass industry within Asia

• Where is the market headed? Who are the key players?
• What are the drivers and inhibitors of the market?
• Elements of a successful project
• The role of investment aggregation vehicles

Duncan Ritchie, Chief Executive Officer, Aequero

10.15

Networking refreshment break 

10.45

Lessons learnt from development, operation and maintenance of 20 BioPower projects within Asia

• Emerging trends from around 20 projects within Asia
• Source and competitiveness of biopower equipment from around the world
• Risk management in biopower generation

Arul Joe Mathias, Managing Director, Renewable Cogen Asia
Dr Balansankari, Executive Director, Renewable Cogen Asia

11.15

Case study: How are developed countries building their biomass programmes?

• UK: A boost in the small scale biomass sector
• Lessons learnt
• Mirroring the development within the UK to the Asian market

11.45

Interactive discussion with  ‘Market Movement’ speakers

12.15

Networking lunch break

Policy Frameworks

One of the major challenges, within the region, are the varying policies from country to country, increasing the risks of trading across borders. This section will allow delegates to gain a better understanding of how each country operates, the initiatives being set up and the subsidies in place to encourage the growth of the market.

13.30

Panel discussion: BioPower policy and energy security within Asia – an opportunity to learn about the various country policies that affect your projects

During this panel discussion you will hear from officials from various Asian countries, their policies, incentives and subsidies to encourage BioPower projects within the region. Compare, contrast and question those who are in the hot seat, taking these decisions!

• An overview from Thailand, Indonesia, China, India, The Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia
• What are the policies being implemented to encourage BioPower projects?
• How are the country policies affecting financing and investment levels?
• What are the Asian governments doing to produce a more secure environment?
• Can we overcome the challenges of cross border policy differences within Asia?

Emmy Perdanahari, Director for Electricity Programme Development, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Indonesia
Garth Taylor, Manager, ASEAN Clean Energy and Environment Team, Australian Trade Commission, Singapore
Vernon Tan, Director, Business Development, The AES corporation

14.15

What project developers should know about bioenergy policy developments and how they impact the viability of biomass co-firing today

• What are the currently available policy and regulatory frameworks that may be used to implement a commercial scale co-firing project?
• Policy lessons learned from Europe: Do existing measures adequately address the true value of co-firing and is it enough?
• Supply risk: One of the most prevalent threats to biomass co-firing. What policy developments are needed to add security for industry stakeholders?
• Encouraging CCS in coal power plants through policy and together with biomass co-firing, pushing towards ‘climate cleaning’ power stations

14.00

Potential strategies to develop a clear price policy for grid distribution

• An overview of the supply and demand countries
• Power purchase agreements and feed in tariffs
• Business relationships between suppliers and power stations

Speaker to be confirmed

14.45

Networking refreshment break 

Financing and Investment opportunities

Finding the financing for large biopower projects is a challenge in itself – within the current economic situation the barriers for investment and development have increased. This session will examine the financial outlook for the sector, as well as investment opportunities within energy portfolios and carbon assets.

15.15

Panel discussion: A review of the cost competitiveness of the industry in the light of the recent financial turmoil

• How has the market downturn affected the biopower industry?
• Investing in the industry through equity vs. funding?
• Are governments still intending to go ahead with bio power subsidies, in light of a potential recession?
• Potential avenues for financing future energy projects
• Raising capital across borders

Moderator: Chris de Lavigne, Global Vice President Consulting, Frost and Sullivan
Austin Arensberg, Business Development Manager, Prime Energy Development
William Byun, Senior Vice President, Sindicatum Carbon Capital
Takashi Hongo, Director General and Special Advisor, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
William Pazos, Managing Director, Carbon, Standard Bank

16.00

Integrating biomass into your energy portfolio

• How can biomass be made to look attractive within investment portfolios?
• How does biomass fit in with the other renewable options?
• Financing growth for better returns

Chris de Lavigne, Global Vice President Consulting, Frost and Sullivan

16.30

Biogas and biomass investment development and challenges for Palm Oil Mills in SE Asia

• Finding proper investments requires development and market know-how
• Mill owner motives vary widely
• Deal structuring requires strong collaboration and local knowledge

Austin Arensberg, Business Development Manager, Prime Energy Development

17.00

Financing of carbon assets to carbon credits

• Which project types have carbon credits and how much are they worth?
• Should you set up CDM projects or settle for VER opportunities?
• What will the market look like post 2012 (demand/supply scenarios – will the early bird get the worm?

17.30

Networking drinks reception

8.30

Welcome coffee

9.00

Chairman’s opening remarks
Arul Joe Mathias, Managing Director, Renewable Cogen Asia

Sustainable feedstock supplies

The Asian region has great potential when it comes to feedstock, mainly due to the large areas of agricultural land; however having a continuous supply is still considered a major bottleneck. This session will look at some of the solutions for sustaining a continuous feedstock supply for biopower generation.

9.15

The food vs. fuel debate: Separating facts from fiction

• The genesis of the food crisis in 2008
• Bioenergy implications for food security
• Bioenergy and policy tradeoffs

Sverre Tvinnereim, Bioenergy Associate Professional Officer, Forestry Group, Food and Agricultural Organisation

9.45

Strategies to procure feedstock at a commercially viable price

• Feedstock types – energy crop/bi-product/waste, homogenous/heterogeneous
• Emerging supply chains and costs
• Biomass buyers – location, scale, type, efficiency
• Biomass value – chemical and carbon
• Regional supply/demand - policy mechanisms
• Key strategic procurement considerations

10.15

Networking refreshment break 

10.45

Sustainable production of bioenergy from woody biomass

• Life cycle carbon emissions and energy use from wood in compared to other crops and energy sources
• Comparisons between benefits of growing forests for bioenergy compared to carbon sequestration
• Types and estimated amounts of woody biomass available
• Environmental and economic costs

Barrie May, Experimental Scientist, CSIRO

11.15

Managing waste as feedstock

• The implementation of biogas from POME
• The conversion of EFB to compost
• Markets for shell and fibre
• New technology for shell driven micro power using gasification
• Prospects for Government and Bilateral support

11.45

Interactive discussion with session speakers

12.00

Networking Lunch

Biopower technologies

Innovative technologies are one of the drivers of the industry. Bigger, better and more efficient plants need to be built to allow for an increase in biopower production over the long term. This section will start off with an overview of available technologies before moving into more specific innovations within the areas of waste to energy and gasification.

13.30

Looking at the status of BioPower generation technology

• Installed biopower capacity and recent developments
• Status of major technologies:
• Combustion (steam Rankine cycle, Stirling engines)
• Gasification (IC engine systems and BIGCC)
• Biogas based power generation
• Concluding remarks

Sribas C. Bhattacharya, President, International Energy Initiative

14.00

Case study: Waste to  energy programmes – a look at technologies in the areas of:

• Municipal solid wastes
• Human/animal waste
• Energy recovery from waste water
• Overcoming the fermentation barrier

West Stewart, President & Chief Executive Officer, PHILBIO

14.30

Landfill gas versus biogas from bio-organic waste in China

• China’s potential in the municipal solid waste arena
• Current treatments
• Improving the collection system to increase the potential biogas
• Engineered land filling
• Implementing an anaerobic mechanical biological treatment of the waste

Bernhard Raninger, Professor, Shenyang Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, Hangkong University, China

15.00

Networking refreshment break 

15.30

Appropriate technology selection for biomass power projects

• Analysing the main considerations for capital and technology decision making
• Dealing with the hazards of improper choices

16.00

The issue of scale: Implementing large projects in China

• Overcoming hurdles to implementation for biopower plants
• Finding sustainable feedstock all year round
• Reducing the size of the biomass and compacting the material
• Procurement agricultural biomass handing, storage, protection against fire, weather and decay

Tay Wee Kwang, Executive Director, China Enersave Ltd

16.30

Interactive discussion with ‘BioPower Technology’ speakers

17.00

Closing remarks

One Day Workshop 27th March
CDM in the BioPower industry

Clean Development Mechanisms form a crucial part of the Kyoto Protocol as well as any clean energy strategy. They provide financial and environmental rewards for all participants. This one day workshop will look at the latest developments with the CDM Scheme, the process for applications, case studies from the biopower market and opportunities for investment and development.