Carnegie Corporation hosted the Curtin University Sustainable Policy Institute’s Renewable City Conference
Held at Carnegie’s Wave Energy Research Facility in Fremantle, Western Australia on Monday 29th September 2008. Two hundred people attended the conference facilitated by Radio National Science Show host Robyn Williams.
Speakers included:-
- · Professor Peter Droege, University Newcastle and author of The Renewable City · Professor Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University
- · Macquarie Group’s Climate Change and Renewables specialist Christian Jensen · Jim Mitchell, Managing Director of WA energy retailer Synergy
- · Doug Aberle, Managing Director of WA power networks manager Western Power · Carnegie’s Managing Director, Dr Michael Ottaviano
- · Dr Ray Wills, CEO of WA Sustainable Energy Association
The event was supported by: KPMG, Parsons Brinkerhoff, GHD, WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry, RPS, Laing O’Rourke, SunGrid the Great Southern Development Commission and the WA Sustainable Energy Association.
