Today’s trends, power for tomorrow. Towards a common vision for European electricity markets?

5 – 6 October 2016, Brussels
Draft Agenda

5 October 2016 – Vaudeville Theatre

18:00     Welcome by Jean – François Conil – Lacoste, Chairman of Management Board, EPEX SPOT SE
18:15     Keynote by Commissioner for Climate & Energy, Manuel Arias Cañete, European Commission (invited)

Power markets and regulation – towards a new balance?

19:30     Networking cocktail and dinner

6 October 2016 – Amigo Hotel

09:00     Welcome and opening address from the Co-Chair – Prof. Jean-Michel Glachant, Director Florence School of Regulation (confirmed)

09:15     Session 1: European power grids and markets – an ever closer union through economics or regulation?
Co-Chair – Professor Jean-Michel Glachant, Director Florence School of Regulation (confirmed)

How are power systems evolving? How are these changes impacting existing electricity power markets? How shall we think about: slow grid expansion in the context of increasing renewable penetration and flexible power generation needs? What balance between the power markets and the legal framework?

–    Call for faster grid expansion and build-up of interconnectors: TYNDP 2016 and beyond
Mrs Bente Hagem, Chair of the Board ENTSO-E, Stattnet SF (invited)
–    CACM Implementation and the changing European power market dynamics
Mrs Marie-Pierre Fauconnier, President of Regulatory Commission for Electricity and Gas
CREG, Belgium (invited)
–    European Power grids and markets: View from the Trading floor
Mr Domenico De Luca, CEO, Axpo Trading AG (invited)
–    US & EU Experiences in Power Market Design
Mr Manuel Baritaud, Senior Energy Analyst – Electricity, International Energy Agency, Paris (confirmed)

10:45     Coffee break

11:15     Session 2: European power market integration and its critics – is regionalisation the new paradigm?
Co-Chair – Lord Mogg, Chairman of Europe’s Energy Regulators, CEER & ACER Board (invited)

How is the grid managing congestions in light of increased renewables power production? Do we need new market structures, alternative pricing schemes and management in existing markets? What role for vertical market coupling endeavours? What is the state of our experience with existing energy, ancillary services, and/or capacity markets for supporting decarbonisation goals?

–    “Winter Package”: the decisive step towards a common design of the power market?
Mr Klaus-Dieter Borchardt, Director, Internal Energy Market, Directorate-General for Energy (invited)
–    Commentary on Winter Package, Mr Werner Langen, MEP (invited)
–    Power markets and Decarbonisation goals in 2030? Which synergies?
Mr Jean-Bernard Lévy, Vice-President Eurelectric, CEO EDF (invited)
–    ENERA Initiative: A market design to integrate large shares of RES and reduce grid congestions?
Mr Matthias Brückmann, CEO of EWE AG, President of ENERA Consortium  (invited)

12:45    Walking lunch in the venue

14:15    Session 3: Innovation in European power markets: will the new trends disrupt or provide opportunities to energy trading?
Co-Chair – Peter Styles, Member of the Board EFET – Principal Consultant, Stratos Energy Consulting (confirmed)

How do renewable energy, storage, demand response and other zero-carbon technologies cur-rently participate in wholesale markets? What is the role of distributed generation and storage re-sources (VPP, Batteries) in power systems? Are the new trends being driven by government subsi-dies and intervention or do the new trends represent genuine technology driven disruption based on market principles?

–    How to guarantee the access of Demand-side flexibility to power markets?
Mrs Frauke Thies, Executive Director SEDC – Smart Energy Demand Coalition (confirmed)
–    InnoGrid 2020+: Quo vadis in ‘Digital Energy’?
Mr João Torres, Chairman, EDSO for Smart Grids; CEO of EDP Distribuição (invited)
–    Digitalisation – a view from the trading floor
NL or UK market representative (to be determined and invited)
–    Topic to be determined
Professor Carlos Batlle, Associate Professor with Comillas Pontifical University’s Institute for  Research in Technology (IIT) in Madrid, Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) (invited)

15:30     Synthesis discussion and Closing Remarks by Co-Chairs
Jean-Michel Glachant, Lord Mogg, Peter Styles
Moderator: Jean-François Conil-Lacoste, CEO of EPEX SPOT SE

16:00    End of event

 

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