Day 1 - 21st October 2008

08:30 Registration and Morning Refreshments

09:00 Chairman’s welcome

Rod Morrison, Editor, Project Finance International

09:20 Philippines: Energy policies and planning

• Energy policies and programmes
• Investment opportunities in the different energy sub-sectors

Lisa S. Go, Chief Investment Specialist, Philippines Department of Energy

10:00 Case study: CLP – Project expansions and financing 

• Review of current power projects
• Financing requirements for project expansions and renewable energy projects
• Challenges in today's credit conditions

Abhijit Bhat, Assistant Vice President - Corporate Finance, CLP Holdings Limited

10:40 Refreshments

11:00 Sponsoring power projects in Asia: the International Power perspective

• Evaluation and overview of current market conditions
• Challenges of financing in these tight market conditions
• Effect of rising construction costs on project financing
• Future opportunities for IP in Asia

Tom Mackay, Head of Business Development, Asia, International Power

11:40 Panel discussion: Financing power in Asia

• State of the financing market one year into the liquidity crisis
• How will future consequences play out?
• Are governments doing enough to smooth and simplify investments in IPPs?
• Construction costs are rising sharply – is it time to revisit competitive tendering?
• Roles of sovereign wealth and infrastructure funds in driving the power sector

Michael Barrow, Director, Infrastructure Finance, Asian Development Bank
Flora Zhao, Director, Business Development, AES Asia and Middle East
Nicholas Vix, Managing Director, Head of Natural Resources, Infrastructure and Power Finance Asia, Calyon
Jackie Surtani, Head of Project Finance, KBC Global Structured Finance

12:20 Lunch

13:20 Update of financing in PNG hydrocarbon sector - Oil Search financing background in PNG oil sector

• Investment climate in PNG
• How will future consequences play out?
• Update of Oil Search projects in PNG
• Analysis of 2008 oil refinancing

Nigel Hartley, EGM LNG Financing, Oil Search

14:00 India: Government policy on meeting energy demands and requirements

• Review of India’s growing energy requirements
• Does the signing of the Mundra, the first UMPP, signal a ramp up in upcoming deals closed?
• Regulatory reforms and opening up of the energy sector to private investment
• Power sector development- path-breaking initiatives, policy announcements and programmes

Sanjay Chadha, Director, Ministry of Power, India

14:40 Refreshments

15:00 Panel discussion: Financing renewable energy projects in Asia

• Who is investing in renewable energy?
• Why has the Kyoto Protocol’s clean development mechanism not catalysed more investment?
• With high fossil fuel prices, are renewable energy projects now feasible in developing countries?
• Key financing issues to facilitate investment in renewable energy
• Country reports on the policy instruments and programmes to promote new and renewable energy sources

Abhijit Bhat, Assistant Vice President - Corporate Finance, CLP Holdings Limited
Brad Sterley, Head of Renewable Energy Asia, Standard Chartered
Frédéric Crampé, Managing Director, ReEx Capital Asia
Takashi Hongo, Special Advisor and Director General, Environment Finance Engineering Deparment, JBIC

15:40 Panel discussion: Investing in Asia’s energy infrastructure assets

• Overview of the energy hotspots in Asia
• Renewable energy project opportunities
• Investment criteria and sentiment in Asia’s power sector
• Analysis and insights on the returns versus risk of investing in energy projects in Asia

Ken Hawkes, Partner, Lovells
James Berner, Managing Director, GE Energy Financial Services

16:20 End of Day One

Day 2 - 22nd October 2008

08:30 Registration and Morning Refreshments

09:00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Rod Morrison, Editor, Project Finance International

09:20 Managing in an environment of rising costs: The KPC experience

• Impact of gas, oil and coal pricing on power development
• Dealing with rising EPC prices

Ashok Mitra, Chief Financial Officer, KPC (Kaltin Prima Coal)

10:00 Financing power projects in India

• Financing models for UMPPs
• Examination and assessment  of financing for the Sasan power plant
• Investor dynamics in the India power sector

Rajat Misra, Vice President, Project Advisory and Structured Finance Group, SBI Capital Markets

10:40 Refreshments

11:00 Vietnam's Growing Energy Demand

• The new BOT law - does it deliver?
• Impact of EVN's transition and growth plans
• Diversification - an enhanced role for renewables?
• Vietnam's power links to its neighbours
• So, what are the specific opportunities?

Richard MacGeorge, Director, Ridgway Capital Projects Limited
Geraint Hughes, Partner, Clifford Chance

11:40 Indonesia: Outlining the progress of IPPs

• One of the largest potential markets, but why has progress lagged expectations?
• Evaluation of the business and investment process in the energy sector
• Views on political risk in developing energy projects
• Investment and financing required to meet future power demands

Andrew Kinloch, Director and Advisor to the Indonesian Ministry of Finance, Logie Group

12:30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks, Questions and Answers

12:35 Lunch and Close of Conference