Energyforum
Sustainable Hydropower in Europe
1-2 January 2008, Brussels
Day 1: Wednesday 27 February
9.00-9.30 Registration and coffee
9.30-9.45 Chairman Bernhard Pelikan, President, European Small Hydropower Association, ESHA, opens the conference.
EU POLICY FRAMEWORK
9.45-10.30 EU's Policy on Renewable Energy Sources
- The Commission's proposal for a new RES directive
- Support schemes for renewable energy in the EU
Karina Veum, National Expert, EU Commission DG Tren
10.30-11.15 Renewable Energy Market
- Renewable Trading Certificates
- EU policy's impact on small hydropower in Europe
- EU policy's impact on marine energy
Oliver Schäfer, Policy Director, European Renewable Energy Council, EREC
Oliver Schäfer was parliamentary advisor for energy policy to Mechtild Rothe and other members of the European Parliament for several years in Brussels. He was responsible for all energy policy and related matters. In 2003 he joined the European Renewable Energy Council as policy director.
11.15-11.30 Short break
11.30-12.15 Hydropower, the renewable and sustainable energy source under new framework conditions
- Environmental framework - EU - WFD, climate change
- Framework - energy policy - renewable energy directive, security of supply
- Hydropower - the perfect partner to develop all other renewable energy sources
- Contradiction EU - WFD and renewable energy policy
- Hydropower development in Europe
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Otto Pirker, Eurelectric WG Hydro, Verbund Austrian Hydropower AG
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Otto Pirker is the Austrian representative and chairman of the working group "hydro" at EURELECTRIC. He is also the chairman of a working group at VGB dealing with hydropower and the implementation of the EU - WFD.
12.15-13.15 Lunch
SMALL HYDROPOWER IN EUROPE
13.15-14.00 Recent topics in the European small hydropower scene
- EU directives
- Granting procedures
- The environmental discussion
- Supporting tools
- Research needs
- Social integration
Bernhard Pelikan, President, European Small Hydropower Association, ESHA
Bernhard Pelikan is working at the Institute for Water Management at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna. He has been the CEO for Austrian Small Hydropower Association for 18 years and President of ESHA since 2004.
14.00-14.45 A Promotion Campaign on Small Hydropower: SHERPA project
- Objective and themes of the project
- Expected and obtained results
- Dissemination and collaboration activities
Gema Sanbruno, Project Manager, European Small Hydropower Association, ESHA
Gema Sanbruno is an economist and has been working with Energy issues since 1997, first as Energy Expert at EUROSTAT on energy statistics and then as project manager at ESHA.
14.45-15.15 Coffee and tea
15.15-16.00 Small scale hydro in a free market environment: Experience from Norway
- The potential for small scale hydro in Norway
- The market price of natural resources in a transparent market
- Main lessons from the last 4-5 years
Thorstein Jenssen, CEO Fjellkraft AS, Norway
Thorstein Jenssen is CEO of Fjellkraft AS, and has 13 years experience in business development, power trading and risk management, project financing and M&A in the Nordic power market. Fjellkraft is a leading developer of small scale hydro in Norway and expects to invest in excess of 250 million EUR in small scale hydro plants over the coming years.
16.00-16.45 Small hydro dimensioning
- Philosophy of small hydro dimensioning in the past
- Tendencies in small hydro dimensioning
- Influence of the electricity price on small hydro dimensioning
- Influence of green certificate price on small hydro dimensioning
- Influence of government policy on small hydro dimensioning
Vladimir Kercan, Managing Director, Turboinstitut d.d., Slovenia
Vladimir Kercan has worked for the Turboinstitut since 1975, with small turbine design and production and small hydro dimensioning and development. Turboinstitut is specialising in turbine model research, development and testing, turbine site testing and dynamic behaviour analyses of hydraulic machinery.
16.45-17.20 Technical development of small scale hydropower
- Exploitation of reserved flow for hydro energy production
- New opportunities in multipurpose schemes
- Very low head plants: a new potential
- Integrated approach to technical and environmental issues
Luigi Papetti , Studio Frosio, Italy
Luigi Papetti is a chemical and hydraulic engineer, involved in the design and supervision of small hydroelectric plants since 1990. He is specialised in environmental problems and impacts connected with the realisation of small hydroelectric plants.
17.20 Chairman's summary and closing of the first conference day
19.00 Conference dinner
Day 2: Thursday 29 February
9.00-9.15 Welcome and opening address by the Chairman Bernhard Pelikan, President, European Small Hydropower Association, ESHA
INVESTING AND FINANCING OPPORTUNITIES
09.15-10.00 Investing in sustainable hydro - how does it compare with other renewable projects?
- Key commercial issues for investors
- Key legal issues for investors
- Are some European markets much better than others for the development of sustainable hydro?
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How does this differ from other sustainable investments such as: Wind, Wave, Bio fuels, Solar
Simon Currie and Richard Metcalf, Partners, Norton Rose LLP
Simon Currie is a partner in the London office of international law firm Norton Rose. He leads the Energy team in London and focuses on clean and renewable energy projects. He has experience in run of the river hydro assets, larger hydro projects and wave power.
Richard Metcalf is a partner in the London office of international law firm Norton Rose. Richard focuses primarily on energy projects in emerging markets, in particular CEE and Africa. He has a wide range of experience in the hydropower industry globally.
10.00-10.45 Investing in small hydro - and investor's perspective
Technical, commercial, and financial issues including:
- Hydrological analysis
- Permitting and planning
- Construction
- Commercial arrangement for power purchase
- Government support
Vivek Mittal, Managing Director, Ygrene Energy Partners Limited
Vivek Mittal co-founded Ygrene Energy Partners in 2006. The company is investing in renewable energy assets in Central Europe. Prior to this he worked in Project Finance for the power and renewable energy sector, and has financed € 2.0 billion worth of projects in over 25 countries.
10.45-11.15 Coffee and tea break
11.15-12.00 Hydropower BOT Project in Macedonia - lessons learnt
- Background of the Macedonian hydro BOT project
- Present development
- Operator's perspective - lessons learnt
- Investor's perspective - lessons learnt
- Summary
Jan Tosnar, Managing Director, Hydropol Project & Management a.s. Prague
12.00-12.45 SHP Investment Opportunities in the Eastern European countries
- Support systems overview
- Market development
- Practical approach
Marko Gospodjinacki, President, Slovenian Small Hydropower Association
Marko Gospodjinacki B.Sc. is the president of Slovenian Small Hydropower Association since 1998. He is employed at Ekowatt Ltd. that represents small power producers on the electricity market. He is a member of the governing board of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia - Energy Association and the governing board of ESHA.
12.45-13.45 Lunch
MARINE ENERGY
13.45-14.30 Marine power (Wave and Tidal power): overview of the current market situation
- Resources
- R&D by technology and geographic distribution
- Regulatory environments
- Update on projects development
- Utilities, IPPs and Oil & Gas Industry investments
- Economics of marine energy
Cristiano Spillati, Emerging Energy Research, Spain
Cristiano Spillati participates in the ongoing research and delivery of EER's consulting projects. He is an expert in the areas of wind power, solar power, biomass, and wave/tidal energy.
14.30-15.15 Ocean Energies: Dreams and Realities
- Overview on the status of the Ocean Energies Industry as it stands today
- The technological potential of contributing to the future electricity production
- Comments on the often unrealistic expectations of this industry and where they come from
- Proposals to accelerate growth of the sector
Dr. Jochen Weilepp, Head of Ocean Energies at Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generation GmbH & Co. KG
Jochen Weilepp is the Head of Oceans Energies at Voith Siemens Hydro, since 2005. The Ocean Energies Group is responsible for the development and marketing of wave and tidal current power technologies at Voith Siemens Hydro and its daughter company Wavegen.
15.15-15.45 Coffee and tea
15.45-16.30 Case study: Progress report on the Mutriku Breakwater Wave Power Plant
- Current status of the technology development and plant construction of the first commercial and EU FP6 supported OWC power plant to be commissioned in winter 08/09
Kenneth Tease, Technical Services Manager, Wavegen (A Voith and Siemens Company)
Ken Tease is Technical Service Manager of Wavegen, a wholly owned subsidiary of Voith Siemens Hydro power Generation located in Inverness, Scotland. He is an expert in turbine design and development, experimental prototype testing, parametric system modelling, computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis.
16.30-17.00 Questions and discussion
17.00 Chairman's conclusion and closing of the conference