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DAY 1: Wednesday, 3 October

9.00 – 9.30 Registration and coffee

9.30-9.40 Chairman Claes Hedenström, Manager Regulatory Affairs, Vattenfall, opens the conference

9.40-10.20 National support systems for renewable electricity

• Feed-in Tariffs
• Quota systems based on tradable green certificates
• Tendering systems
• Tax incentives

 

Mario Ragwitz , Senior Scientist, Fraunhofer Institute Systems and Innovation Research

10.20-11.00  Internal market for renewable energy: a stepwise approach

• The internal market already exists
• A standardised Guarantee of Origin as backbone of the internal market
• Import of the Guarantee of Origin Accountable for targets 2020

Stefan Zisler, Board member RECS International

11.00-11.30  Coffee, tea and networking
 

11.30-12.10 The need for standard certificate systems

• Energy source disclosure: requirements
• European legislative framework: challenges
• The European Energy Certificate System: solutions

Phil Moody, Secretary General of the Association of Issuing Bodies

12.10-12.40  Green certificates in Flanders

• The system of GC and guarantees of origin
• The Flemish experience so far

Karolien Verhaegen , Technisch toezichthouder, Flemish Regulation Entity for the Electricity and Gas market (VREG)

12.40-14.10 Lunch

14.10-14.40 Can the Swedish elcert scheme contribute to the internal market development for renewables?

• Experiences of the Swedish elcert scheme
• How could national support schemes for renewables in
• Europe be developed in line with the Internal Market?

Claes Hedenström, Manager Regulatory Affairs, VATTENFALL

14.40-15.10 United Kingdom - the ROC market

• Experiences from the UK

Fiona Santokie, Head of Renewables Markets Europe, Natsource Europe

15.10-15.50 Tracking of renewable energy in the electricity market

• Which certification schemes for renewable electricity exist?
• Requirements for coordination of these schemes
• A proposal for a European Tracking Standard for electricity

 

Christof Timpe , Coordinator Energy and Climate Division,
Oeko-Institute e.

15.50-16.20  Coffee and afternoon tea
 

16.20-17.00 Future of the EU regulations

• Progress of the Renewables Directive and pending matters
• The European Research Actions for the Integration of Renewable Energy Sources and Distributed Energy Resources. Integrating Europe’s RES-E (new, old, east-west)
• Future Policy Changes affecting the Commercial Environment – Towards a Harmonisation of the Rules

Karina Veum, EU Commission, DG TREN

17.00-17.40 EU policy framework and market development for renewable energy sources

• EU policy framework
• Market development for wind, hydro, biomass, solar, PV, geothermal EU & worldwide
• Future scenarios & outlook

Oliver Schäfer, Policy Director, European Renewable Energy Council (EREC)

17.40-17.50 Short Break

17.50-18.30 Large-scale RES-E Grid Integration in Europe

• The relevance of unbundling for RES-E grid integration
  Grid-related measures and costs for RES-E grid integration
• Extra system operation costs caused by large-scale intermittent wind generation
• Modelling different cost allocation policies of grid-related and system-related costs of large-scale RES-E grid integration based on the simulation software GreenNet-Europe
• Policy recommendations

 

Hans Auer , EEG, Vienna University of Technology

18.30 Cocktail and conference dinner

DAY 2: Thursday 4 October

8.30-9.00 The changing structure of the wind and renewable industry

• Renewable’s potential in the 2020 horizon
• The role of utilities

Carlos Gascó Travesedo, Head of the Prospective Unit, Iberdrola Renewable Energies

9.00-9.30 Vattenfall's Renewables Strategies

Daniel Johansson, Key Issue Manager Policy Instruments, Vattenfall

9.30-10.00 WPD’s strategies

• Planning wind projects
• The future

 

Charlotte Berg , Managing Director, WPD Scandinavia AB

10.00-10.30 Renewable and sustainable fuel supply

Karin Törnblom, Manager Energy Supply and Trading, AB Fortum Värme

10.30-11.00 Verena Holzer, E.ON

11.00-11.30 Coffee, tea and networking

11.30-12.10 Strengthening the European Network to support integration of renewable energy

• New technologies for affordable underground transmission
• Building an off shore grid
• A vision for a renewable Europe from a grid perspective

Bo Normark, Senior Vice President, ABB Grid Systems

12.10-12.50 Enabling investments in Renewable Energy for retail and institutional investors

• Creating customized benchmark indices
• Providing easy and transparent access to the benchmark index
• Key products

Niklas Åkerfelt, Director, Head of Nordic Distribution, ABN AMRO Markets

12.50-13.50 Lunch

13.50-14.30 Financing renewables, the Banker's view

• Sources of financing
• Key issues and risk analysis
• Project financing, structures and pre-requisites

 

Jean-Francois Tapprest , Head of Energy Industry at Nordea Bank and former Global Head of Project Finance

14.30-15.00 Renewable energy market realities – What is actually being traded?

• Overview of the renewable energy markets in Europe
• But which of these markets are actually being actively traded?
• Market barriers

Fiona Santokie , Head of Renewables Markets Europe, Natsource Europe

15.00-15.40 Chairman’s conclusion and closing of conference