Central Queensland’s industrial and energy future will be outlined at the 2025 GEA Major Industry, Energy and Manufacturing Conference this  15 – 16 October 2025

Manager Future Pathways and Transition, Stanwell Corporation

Peter Woodall is an experienced energy executive with a demonstrated history of leading people and managing plant throughout the energy industry.

He is skilled and practiced in leadership, change management, integrated operations and maintenance, and power generation.

His current role involves developing a future pathways strategy and framework to prepare Stanwell the organisation for the transition to a low carbon future. His area of focus includes skilling a current and future workforce for the transformation to a renewable hydrogen industry.

Peter’s recent collaborations have included the Queensland Energy and Jobs Plan, the Qld Energy Industry Council Committee, the Queensland Hydrogen sub-committee and workforce strategy, the Future Energy Workforce Jobs Guild and the Regional Transformation Stakeholder Advisory Committee for Central Queensland.

His deep energy experience includes managing the operation and maintenance of large coal fired power stations, delivery of major plant overhauls and projects, leading structural change through effective communication and a broad range of negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills.

He is a current member of the Institute of Management and Leadership and the associated Capricornia Regional Advisory Committee Steve Clark is an experienced energy executive with nearly 30 years’ experience in power generation asset management, operations, and maintenance.

Steve’s experience has been focused on the management of power generation assets ranging from 30 MW to 365 MW, including renewable energy (wind, solar and pumped storage), modern open-cycle gas turbines, combined cycle power generation plants and coal-fired facilities.

In his current role Steve leads the delivery of Stanwell’s new renewable energy maintenance service to support the company’s transformation towards a clean energy future.

Stanwell’s renewable energy maintenance service offers renewable energy asset owners the opportunity to draw from Stanwell’s highly skilled workforce and experience as one of the most reliable generators in the National Electricity Market.