Energyforum
Renewable Energy Summit
15-16 September 2009, Lyon
Day 1: Thursday, October 15
8.30-9.00: Registration & Coffee
9.10-9.50: EC Directives and Renewables: an Overview of the New Legal Issues
Pierre Bernard, Secretary General, Elia Group (ETSO)
Pierre Bernard is Secretary General of Elia Group, and also in charge of European Development. He heads namely the Elia team involved in setting up a regional electricity market for the countries of Belgium, France, Luxemburg, Germany and The Netherlands. Pierre has actively participated in the drafting of important parts of the Belgian electricity legislation and regulation as well as the different grid related contracts. He played a key role in drafting the specific legislation and contracts for the Belgian Power Exchange, Belpex.
9.50-10.25: Implementation of flexible mechanisms under the Renewables Directive
Martin Schöpe, Head of Division, International and European Affairs of Renewable Energy,
German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Since 2003, Martin Schöpe has been working on the linkages of energy and environment at international and European level within the Federal Environment Ministry. Special attention was given to the international cooperation in the field of renewable energy. Recently he led the Ministry in the German initiative to establish the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) that was founded in January 2009 in Bonn. At European level he has been following the EU climate and energy policy leading to the new Renewables Directive at EU level.
10.25-10.55: Networking & Coffee
10.55-11.30: Renewable, from the resource to the future energy source
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Current situation in Romania: potential of RES
" legislation
" actors
" financing RES - Targets on RES sector
- New mechanism to finance RES sector
- Successful projects
Corneliu Radulescu, Vice President, ARCE, Romanian Agency for Energy Conservation
11.30-12.05: From oil and gas to renewables capital of Europe?
- Scotland's energy resources, from wave and tidal to off-shore wind, are among the best in Europe.
- As we gear up to meet the 2020 targets, opportunities across all sectors and technologies continue to grow fast
- Hear how the Scottish Government is working with industry to capitalise on this potential
Jamie Hume, Deputy Director for Renewable Energy in the Scottish Government
As Deputy Director Renewable Energy in the Scottish Government, Jamie Hume leads the Renewables Division on policy development for on-shore and off-shore renewables, the Saltire Prize, and energy consents and deployment. He previously ran the Enterprise & Industry Division, handling business regulation, support for manufacturing, and the Scottish National Economic Forum.
12.05-13.05: Lunch
13.05-13.40: From potentials to reality. Challenges from the implementation of the renewables target in Italy
- The Italian potential vs the target
- Implementation
" Regional targets
" Phisical import
" Virtual import
" Incentives
Carlo Viviani, Director of Service, Prime Minister's office, Department for EU affairs
Carlo Viviani is since 2005 Director in the Secretariat of the Ministerial Committee for European Policies (CIACE) of the Italian government. His responsibilities include coordination, definition and representation of the Italian position in the policy making of the European Union in fields such as energy, environment and climate change, and the Lisbon Strategy. He is thus actively engaged in the negotiations on the EU energy and climate change package.
13.40-14.15: Development of renewable energy in Poland
- current implementation of RES in Poland
- energy policy till 2030 (concerning RES)
- supporting measures
- example of projects
Magdalena Rogulska, Deputy Director, Polish Institute for Fuels and Renewable Energy
Dr. Magdalena Rogulska is an expert in socio-economic and biomass energy, with more than 30 years of professional experience. Her main areas of activities include modelling of renewable energy sources in agriculture, energy policy and climate change problems in the aspect of RES implementation, analysis of biomass-energy chains, assessment of environmental impacts of RES, local energy plans.
14.15-14.45: Networking & Coffee
14.45-16.15: Panel discussion with the member states representatives. Germany, Romania, Scotland & Italy
19.00: Networking dinner
Day 2: Friday, October 16
9.30-10.10: Renewable electricity supply: inside or outside the European wholesale power market?
- The risk that subsidies interfere with wholesale power market liquidity
- The importance of objective, transparent transmission capacity allocation
- The challenge of pan-EU harmonisation of support schemes
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The challenge of facilitating trade in renewable instruments between EU member states
Peter Styles, Board Member, Electricity Committee Chairman, European Federation of Energy Traders
Peter Styles' most notable area of expertise and experience is in the energy sector. He follows in a consulting capacity European electricity markets, especially the development of wholesale power market design, EU legislation and resulting national regulation. He offers consulting services to clients through a division of his company: www.stratosenergy.com. Peter is particularly well known since 1996 in the field of EU energy liberalisation. Since February 2000 Peter has been a Board Member of the European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET: www.efet.org ) and Chairman of the Electricity Committee of EFET.
10.10-10.50: Cooperation - an option for success
- Different alternatives to utilise the cooperation mechanisms in the EU directive
Claes Hedenström, Manager Regulatory Affairs, Vattenfall Trading Services
Claes Hedenström has been working with Regulatory Affairs at Vattenfall Trading Services including lobby activities towards EU-commission, national governments, regulators, TSOs etc since 2004. Claes is an active participant in branch organisation committees focusing on support schemes for renewables and the disclosure system in Sweden. He is also the president of RECS (Renewable Energy Certificate System) International since June 2004 (200 members in 24 countries) promoting a pan-European market for renewables.
10.50-11.20: Networking & Coffee
11.20-12.00: Cross-border cooperation to exploit and integrate renewable energy sources
- As penetration of RES increases, integration and dynamic optimisation becomes increasingly critical
- Trade and cooperation across borders is a precondition for integrating RES, particularly wind power
- Trade and cooperation must be founded on clever markets and clever policies
Ulrik Stridbaek, Chief Economist, Regulatory Affairs, Dong Energy
Ulrik Stridbaek has worked as a Chief Economist, Regulatory Affairs, Group R&D at DONG Energy since 1 August 2008. Regulatory framework, energy policy and business development in Denmark and in Europe are the main areas of attention. He worked as a Senior Policy Advisor, Electricity Markets, at the International Energy Agency for the previous four years. At the IEA he focused on energy sector reform, market design, regulation, investment, demand response and trends in electricity sector technologies.
12.00-13.00: Lunch
13.00-13.40: UK Offshore Wind: 2020 and beyond
Representative from the Renewable Energy and Innovation Directorate at the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change
13.40-14.10: The role of the European TSO's on the integration of large scale RES-E
- The RES directive - new tasks and responsibilities for European TSO's
- Developing the European grid to facilitate the integration of RES-E
- Designing a market-oriented framework for the integration of RES-E
Hans-Erik Kristoffersson, Convener for task force renewable, Energinet
Hans Erik Kristoffersen is head of the Executive Secretariat at Energinet.dk and has previously been the head of Energinet.dk's Market Design. Hans Erik Kristoffersen has participated in European Union high level groups on energy policy and competition and he has taken part in the Amsterdam Forum (the advisory committee to the EU commission). Currently Hans Erik is the chairman of the ENTSOE's committee on renewable energy. Hans- Erik will address the issue of large scale integration of RES-E into the European electricity grid seen from the perspective of the European TSO's.
14.10-14.40: Networking & Coffee
14.40-15.15: RES in 2020 - Its possible impacts on transmission network and market design
- Transmission constraints and necessary transmission upgrades
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Effects of RES on short-term markets and their design
Cornelia Kawann, Head of Business Development, Atel Trading
Ms Kawann was Head of Strategy and Regulatory Affairs at the Swiss national network company swissgrid. Before that she was in charge of the set up and implementation of the Austrian registry for emission certificates (ECRA) and the Austrian Energy Exchange EXAA. For both companies she also had the power of procuration. Before this she was working for the Austrian balance group coordinator APCS where she was involved in setting up the Austrian balance group model and liberalisation processes.
15.15-15.30: Wrap up and closing of the conference
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