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Energy Transition Symposium

17th IAEE European Energy Conference

PAST EVENT
21 - 24 September 2022 The American College of Greece

Plenary Sessions Agenda

 

10.00 - 10.20

WELCOME REMARKS

Spiros Papaefthimiou, HAEE President; Professor, Technical University of Crete

David G. Horner, President, The American College of Greece

Kostas Axarloglou, Dean, Alba Graduate Business School

Peter Hartley, IAEE President; George A. Peterkin Professor Rice University

10.20 - 10.30

OPENING REMARKS

Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency (video)

Kostas Skrekas, Minister of Environment and Energy, Hellenic Republic (video)

10.30 - 10.40

ONE-ON-ONE DISCUSSION

Aristotelis Chantavas, Head of Europe Area, Enel Green Power; President, SolarPower Europe (online)

with

Spiros Papaefthimiou, HAEE President; Professor, Technical University of Crete

10.40 - 11.30

PLENARY 1: REPOWERING THE EU ENERGY SECTOR BY 2030 AND BEYOND

  • Revised NECP Plans and Policies toward energy diversification and green affordable energy
  • Reducing EU’s reliance on Natural Gas – Temporary and Long-term options
  • The transformation of the energy sector – Strategies and Plans

 

Chair:

Kostas Andriosopoulos, CEO, Akuo Energy Greece; Professor of Energy Economics, Audencia Business School

Speakers:

Alexandra Sdoukou, General Secretary of Energy and Mineral Resources, Ministry of Environment and Energy, Hellenic Republic

Yiannis Yiarentis, President and CEO, DAPEEP

Sotiris Kapellos, Chief Operating Officer (COO) – BoD Member, Hellenic Petroleum Renewable Energy Sources S.A.

Giannis Karydas, CEO Renewables & Energy Storage, Copelouzos Group

11.30 - 12.15

PLENARY 2: GREEN ENERGY TRANSITION DURING THE UNPRECEDENTED ENERGY CRISIS: IS IT TIME TO STEP BACK OR MOVE FORWARD?

• Energy crisis: Opportunity or threat for EU’s Energy Transition?

• Revamping fossil-fuel investments or accelerating RES investments?

• Pathways for safe and sustainable energy supply

 

Chair:

Carlo Bollino, Professor, Universities of Perugia and LUISS; Visiting Researcher, KAPSARC; Honorary President, Italian Association for Energy Economics (AIEE)

Speakers:

Andreas Poullikkas, Chairman, Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority

Christophe Bonnery, Programme Director, Paris School of Economics; President, French Association for Energy Economics

Apostolos Petropoulos, Energy Modeller, World Energy Outlook Team, International Energy Agency (online)

Panagiotis Doumas, Director and Member of the Executive Committee, Howden

12.15 - 13.00

PLENARY 3: RES AT THE FOREFRONT OF ENERGY SECURITY AND AFFORDABLE ENERGY COSTS

• Integrating renewable energy: opportunities and challenges

• Reducing electricity costs by using RES in the wholesale market – Capacity and limitations

• Interrelation between Energy Security and Renewable Energy Sources deployment

 

Chair:

Michael Pollitt, Professor of Business Economics, Cambridge Judge Business School

Speakers:

Eric Scotto, Chairman and Co-Founder, Akuo Energy

Pierre-Arthur Lestrade, VP Europe, EDF Renewables

Konstantinos Eleftheriadis, Partner, Deloitte Greece

13.00 - 13.45

PLENARY 4: ENERGY MARKETS IN THE EU: WHAT PRICING MECHANISMS SHOULD WE ADOPT MOVING FORWARD?

• Surging Commodity prices, price setting mechanisms – Is it time for an EU market redesign?

• Liquidity of long-term markets and competitiveness between market operators

• EU Gas price cap and other measures to mitigate energy prices

 

Chair:

Victor Grigorescu, Former Minister of Energy, Romania

Speakers:         

Alex Papalexopoulos, CEO & President, ECCO International, Inc. USA; CEO & Chairman of the Board, ZOME Energy Networks, Inc. USA

Septimiu Rusu, Development Manager, Romanian Commodities Exchange

Nikos Frydas, Principal, Energy Advisor, Grant Thornton

Emmanouil Kalaitzakis, Director, Strategy & Business Development, EnExGroup

13.45 - 15.00

Lunch

15.00 - 15.10

MIT AWARDED CASE STUDY: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & ENERGY EFFICIENCY

Michalis Manis, CEO, Ensight

Apollonas Konstantopoulos, COO, Ensight

15.10 - 16.15

PLENARY 5: SMART INFRASTRUCTURE: A VEHICLE TO TACKLE THE ENERGY CRISIS AND ENERGY POVERTY

• Reducing energy consumption – Paving the way for optimized energy resources’ use in smart cities

• Boosting Sustainable Electromobility – Support Actions, Challenges, and Advantages

• Alleviate household and industrial energy costs by implementing smart technologies and developing micro-grids

 

Chair:                  

Spiros Papaefthimiou, HAEE President; Professor, Technical University of Crete

 

Keynote Speakers:

Kostas Ach. Karamanlis, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Hellenic Republic

Matthew Lodge, British Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic

Speakers:           

Maria Spyraki, Member of the European Parliament, Nea Dimokratia Party

Ioannis Mitropoulos, General Manager, Fysiko Aerio-The Hellenic Energy Company

Markus Popp, Brand Director, Omexom

Soteris Kalogirou, Editor-in-Chief, Renewable Energy Journal; Professor, Cyprus University of Technology

16.15 - 17.00

PLENARY 6: USA-EU ENERGY COOPERATION: RETHINKING GLOBAL ENERGY SECURITY

• US recent climate bill as an enabling factor for USA-EU cooperation

• Powering EU’s energy diversification in the short and long-term

• New Oil & Gas discoveries, energy efficiency and clean energy technologies toward Russian fossil fuels independency

 

Chair:

Olga Khakova, Deputy Director for European Energy Security, Global Energy Center at Atlantic Council

                         

Speakers:         

Gulmira Rzayeva, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (online)

John Jimison, President, Energy Future Services, Inc.

10.00 - 10.45

PLENARY 7: CLEAN ENERGY PROJECTS: INVESTMENT MAGNETS AND INNOVATION DRIVERS

• The importance of renewable energy in the economic growth and GDP

• Financing clean energy projects: Prospects and challenges

• Innovation in policy, technology and finance for supporting infrastructure to advance clean energy

 

Chair:               

Dimitris Pefanis, Director of Financial and Business Content, DPG Digital Media

 

Keynote Speakers:

                          George J. Tsunis, United States Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic

Adonis Georgiadis, Minister of Development and Investments, Hellenic Republic

Speakers:            

Pavlos Mylonas, CEO, National Bank of Greece

Manos Manousakis, Chairman and CEO, Independent Power Transmission Operator

10.45 - 11.30

PLENARY 8: GAS AS A MAINSTAY OF SECURITY OF SUPPLY: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES

POWERED BY GLOBAL GAS CENTER

Chair:

Naji Abi-Aad, Senior Consultant and Author on Middle East Oil and Gas Issues

Speakers:          

Julidé Yasar-Sonjoux, General Director, France Gaz Maritime

Panayiotis Mitrou, Global Gas Segment Director, Lloyd’s Register

Thierry Bros, VP Policy & Research, Tellurian

11.30 - 12.00

PLENARY 9: HYDROGEN AND ALTERNATIVE FUELS: THE GREEN ‘SILVER BULLET’ OR DISTANT HOPE?

• The future of green hydrogen and alternative fuels in the European Energy Landscape

• EU and National Policies and strategies to develop a green hydrogen economy

• Enabling Green Hydrogen: Investment trends and opportunities

 

Chair:

Anne Neumann, Professor, NTNU, Dept. of Industrial Economics and Technology Management; Research Director NTNU Energy Transition Initiative

Speakers:          

Mariarosa Baroni, President, NGV Italy (online)

Panagiotis Grammelis, Director of Research, Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas

Constantinos Papalucas, Energy Expert, Coordinator of the National Hydrogen Committee, Ministry of Environment & Energy

12.00 - 13.00

PLENARY 10: WINTER IS COMING IN THE MIDST OF A “PERFECT STORM” IN THE ENERGY SECTOR – POLICIES AND MEASURES

• Emergency energy plans – Balancing social impact and energy-saving necessity

• Natural gas shortages: Electricity sector portfolio and safeguards

• Energy Prices hikes: Future trends and mitigation measures

 

Chair:                  

Nevenka Hrovatin, Professor of Economics, University of Ljubljana; VP, SAEE

 

Speakers:            

Majid Al Moneef, Chairman, International Advisory Committee of King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC)

Clara Poletti, Chair of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER); Board Member at ARERA

Boyko Nitzov, Senior Associate Fellow, Energy and Climate Program, CSD

Georg Erdmann, Professor, Institute for Energy Technology, Berlin University of Technology; Past President, IAEE

Yanos Michopoulos, Course Leader, New Energy Business School

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 14.45

PLENARY 11: ENERGY CRISIS: THE DAMOCLEAN SWORD OVER THE EUROPEAN ECONOMY

• EU’s economic outlook: Inflation rates and the cost-of-living crisis

• Energy subsidy expenditure and State budget

• Tax policy measures as an option to offset high energy prices

 

Chair:

Haris Doukas, Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA); General Secretary, HELORS

Speakers:          

Ioannis Ghikas, Deputy Permanent Representative of Greece to the EU (online)

Vicente Hurtado Roa, Head of the Energy Taxation and other Indirect Taxes Unit, European Commission, Belgium (online)

Miguel Palacios, Professor of Management & Executive Education Associate Academic Dean, ESCP Business School

Adonis Yatchew, Professor of Economics, University of Toronto; Editor-in-Chief, The Energy Journal

14.45 - 15.30

PLENARY 12: ELECTRICITY NETWORKS: THE SPINE OF THE ENERGY SECTOR’S DECARBONIZATION

• Electricity network investments and RES deployment

• Electricity interconnections and green energy supply in the Eastern Mediterranean region

• The Three D’s Pillars in a green economy: Decarbonization, Decentralization. Digitalization

 

Chair:

Georgios Papaefthymiou, Principal Power System Operation and Security, ELIA GRID International

Speakers:          

Adam Sieminski, Senior Advisor to the Board, KAPSARC

Vasilis Georgiou, Managing Director, Protasis

Charles Mason, Associate Dean for Research, University of Wyoming; Editor-in-Chief, Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy Journal

15.30 - 16.15

PLENARY 13: A BRAVE NEW ENERGY WORLD

  • Global energy supply and geopolitical challenges
  • The role of USA, OPEC and new emerging economies in the energy transition
  • Energy crisis and new international equilibrium: Energy shortages, climate goals and disrupted supply chains

 

Chair:

Kostas Andriosopoulos, CEO, Akuo Energy Greece; Professor of Energy Economics, Audencia Business School

Speakers:           

Nikos Tsafos, Chief energy adviser to the Prime Minister of Greece

Maria Rita Galli, CEO, DESFA

Aristofanis Stefatos, CEO, Hellenic Hydrocarbon Resources Management S.A.

Leonidas Drollas, Independent energy consultant (online)

Bassam Fattouh, Director, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies; Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (online)

16.15 - 17.00

PLENARY 14: THE NEW REALITY IN RES INVESTMENTS

  • The role of PPA in the development of large-scale Solar PV projects
  • Solar PV market in the view of REPowerEU
  • Investment opportunities and challenges

Chair:

Thomas Lamnidis, Managing Director, Lamnidis Law; 

Speakers:          

George Kremlis, Principal Advisor on Energy, Climate and Circular Economy Issues to the Greek Prime Minister (online)

Panayiotis-Peter Contis, CEO Advisor, Ameresco

Stefanos Lialios, Country Manager Greece - Cero Generation

Konstantinos Zygouras, Group CEO, SUNEL Group

Anastasios Tosios, Deputy CEO, EYDAP

11.30 - 12.30

PLENARY 15: THE NEW PATHWAYS FOR A SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TRANSITION

• Short-term vs Long-term Energy Transition horizon: Where should we focus on?

• Are existing tools, policies, and frameworks sufficient to define transition pathways?

• How price volatility, energy supply uncertainty and climate change affect the pathways towards climate neutrality?

 

Chair:

George Ioannou, Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business

Speakers:          

Stijn Van Hummelen, Managing Director, Cambridge Econometrics (Belgium)

José Maillet, Head of Gaia, Audencia Business School 

Fereidoon Sioshansi, President, Menlo Energy Economics

Cem Avci, Professor, Bogazici University; Director of Energy Policy Research Center and TRAEE Board Member

12.30 - 12.45

CLOSING REMARKS

Spiros Papaefthimiou, HAEE, President; Professor, Technical University of Crete

Carlo Di Primio, President, Italian Association for Energy Economics (AIEE)

12.45 - 13.30

Light Lunch

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