Friday, 1 December 2017
| 9:00 - 10:30 |
Panel V. (parallel) Decarbonisation: Industry and transport fuels |
Maria Theresia |
The panel will examine the ways that industry and transport can strongly impact current decarbonisation trends, with a particular focus on the implementation of the Integrated SET Plan and the actions it pursues in this field. SET Plan aims to strengthen the competitiveness of the EU industry, the uptake of innovative solutions by market intensive industries, as well as market take-up of renewable fuels needed for sustainable transport solutions and bioenergy cost reduction. The role of carbon capture, storage and use in Industry decarbonisation will also be addressed, as that of hydrogen as well. |
Chair |
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| Piotr Szymanski, Director, Energy, Transport and Climate, Joint Research Centre, European Commission | |
Speakers |
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| Adwin Martens, Director, WaterstofNet | |
| Walburga Hemetsberger, Head, EU Representation Office of VERBUND AG; Member of Board, Hydrogen Europe | |
| Daniel Gauthier, President, A.SPIRE HeidelbergCement | |
| John Scowcroft, Executive Adviser, Europe, Global CCS Institute | |
| Franz Hörzenberger, Head of European Affairs, ArcelorMittal Global R&D | |
| Fabrice Stassin, Managing Director, EMIRI – Energy Materials Industrial Research Initiative | |
| Q&A |
| 9:00 - 10:30 |
Panel VI. (parallel) Solutions for smarter energy systems at the local level (energy efficiency for buildings, smart cities, energy islands) |
Habsburg |
The panel will evaluate the implementation of the key actions under the Integrated SET-Plan with focus on energy efficiency in buildings, including creation of technologies and services for smart homes that provide smart solutions to energy consumers increasing the resilience, security and smartness of the energy systems, development of new materials and technologies and the market uptake of energy efficiency solutions for buildings. Addressing the local systems from a cleaner energy perspective, require a view on specific issues such as the energy and geographical islands, so the panel will address the special conditions and requirements that such geographical sites have. |
Chair |
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| Mechthild Wörsdörfer, Director, Renewables, R&I, Energy Efficiency, DG ENER, European Commission | |
Speakers |
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| Bernd Vogl, Head, Energy Planning Department, City Government of Vienna, Austria | |
| Pirita Lindholm, Director, European Regions Research & Innovation Network – ERRIN | |
| Rastislav Lauko, Executive Director, GreenWay Infrastructure, s.r.o. | |
| Panagiotis Ktenidis, Senior Researcher, Piraeus University of Applied Science | |
| Vincent Berrutto, Head of Unit "H2020 Energy", Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) | |
| Q&A |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Panel VII. (parallel) The EU as the leader in renewable energy technologies
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Maria Theresia |
The panel will assess the ambitious goal of the EU envisaged by the Action 1 and 2 of the Integrated SET Plan to sustain its global technological leadership in the field of developing highly performant renewable technologies and their integration in the EU’s energy system as well as reducing the cost of key energy technologies. |
Chair |
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| Piotr Tulej, Head of Unit, Renewable Energy Sources, DG RTD, European Commission | |
Speakers |
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| Christoph Hünnekes, Head of Photovoltaics, Project Management Jülich, PtJ/FZJ | |
| Rémi Gruet, CEO, Ocean Energy Europe | |
| Philippe Dumas, Secretariat, ETIP Deep Geothermal, EGEC | |
| Q&A |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Panel VIII. (parallel) Nuclear safety and security |
Habsburg |
The panel will focus on evaluation of the implementation of the Integrated SET Plan, which aims at maintaining a high level of safety of nuclear reactors and associated fuel cycles during operation and decommissioning, while improving their efficiency. |
Chair |
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| Michael Huebel, Head of Unit, Radiation protection and nuclear safety, DG ENER, European Commission | |
Speakers |
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| Daniel Iracane, Deputy Director-General & Chief Nuclear Officer, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) | |
| Hamid Aït Abderrahim, Chairman of the Governing Board, Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform | |
| Peter Líška, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, VÚJE, a.s. | |
| Radek Škoda, Associate Professor, Czech Technical University Prague | |
| Q&A |
| 12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Panel IX. (parallel) Market integration I. Central European natural gas market |
Habsburg |
The panel will address major challenges the EU and in particular the Member States in Central and South Eastern Europe are confronted with in the field of security of natural gas supplies, including development of the strategic gas transmission infrastructure. Special attention will be paid to the implementation of the “Road Map towards the regional gas market among Visegrad 4 countries” adopted by Prime Ministers of the Visegrad Group in Warsaw on 16 June 2013 and the implementation of “North-South Gas corridor” which could enable more gas flows among the countries in the region. |
Chair |
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| Maciej Jakubik, Executive Director, Central Europe Energy Partners | |
Speakers |
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| Milan Sedláček, Head of EU Affairs and Strategy, eustream, a.s. | |
| Florijana Đedović, Head of Strategic Development and EU Funds Business Unit, Plinacro, Ltd. | |
| Sergiy Makogon, Executive Director, Неad of Strategy and Business Development, PJSC “Ukrtransgaz” | |
| Michal Slabý, Senior Manager, NET4GAS, s.r.o. | |
| Jan Osička, Assistant professor, Center for Energy Studies, Masaryk University | |
| Q&A |
| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Panel X. (parallel) Market integration II. Market-coupling in electricity |
Maria Theresia |
The panel will assess lessons learned from the functioning of the market-coupling in electricity between the Czech Republic, Slovakia (2009), Hungary (2012), and Romania (2014) that created the basis for building a regional electricity market in Central and South-Eastern Europe as well as prospects for market-coupling of regional markets in electricity within the EU. |
Chair |
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| Zoltan Gyulay, Market Manager, ENTSO-E | |
Speakers |
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| Jiří Strnad, Executive Director, Energy Markets Development and Operation, SEPS, a.s. | |
| Nikolay Iliev, Deputy Director, Electricity System Operator EAD, Sofia | |
| Vsevolod Kovalchuk, CEO, NPC Ukrenergo, Kyiv | |
| John Lowry, Project Director, Eigrid, Dublin | |
| Q&A |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Concluding and closing session |
| Dominique Ristori, Director General, DG ENER, European Commission | |
| Oľga Nachtmannová, State Secretary, Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic | |
| Alexander Duleba, Director, Research Centre of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association |
| 15:30 |
Cocktail |
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