Queensland’s energy roadmap and updated investment frameworks are reshaping the state’s energy system, making private capital essential to accelerating new generation and storage projects. This investment will support economic diversification, create new industries and regional jobs, and help deliver Queensland’s future energy system.  

Keynote: Queensland’s energy market outlook  
Professor Paul Simshauser AM, Chief Executive Officer, Iberdrola Australia 

Panel discussion: Unlocking investment and project development in Queensland’s energy system

• Interpreting Queensland’s market signals to unlock the state’s resources, and potential for new generation, storage and energy infrastructure

• Understanding the QLD Government’s policy and frameworks enabling private capital mobilisation  

• Unlocking grid access and transmission capacity to enable projects to move into development

• Creating investor confidence through clear planning and approvals pathways, enabling projects to move to construction and financial close

• Building community support and aligning energy investment with regional development, supporting new industries, and local jobs  

• Sequencing the energy transition, ensuring storage, firming and transmission are delivered alongside renewable and more traditional generation

• Mobilising institutional capital and bankable revenue models, including long-term offtake agreements and PPAs  

Panelists: 
Krishna Venkatesan, Head of Shell QGC, Australia
Tony Clarke, Executive GM, Development & Delivery, Squadron Energy 

Janette Hewson, Chief Executive Officer, Queensland Resources Council
Katie-Anne Mulder, Chief Executive Officer, Queensland Renewable Energy Council 
Facilitator: Stuart Cassie, Director, TBH