POWER RING 2008 - Integrated Power of Europe
9th of December, Gas Museum (Muzeum Gazownictwa), Kasprzaka 25, Warsaw
The conference subject is extraordinarly important and up to date. Its aim is to reflect the discussion within the European Union on the level of the most important economy sectors experts, which relates to the shape of the European energy market and its impact on other sectors and environment.
The Conference is open and it is an extention of discussion started over previous editions. Mentioned problems, covering ecology, anaergy and economy, relates to various aspects of sustainable development, among others energy supply safety, EU Directives, infrastructure and energy and gas technology development, like also extraordinarly crucial for the market issue of transborder connections. The meeting is aimed to identifying rational and effective ways of Polish economy development and indicate the most effective possibilities of development and constructing infrastructure and directions of investemtns planning. We will be particularly focused this year on the issue of the European energy market future, ETS, IPPC Directive and new technologies in the area of biomass, gas and CO2 Capture and Storage. We are certain that the conference and initiating discussion among experts from Poland and abroad, will result in finding ways of solving the most vital problems.
HONORARY PATRONAGE
MINISTRY OF ECONOMY
8:30 - 9:00 - Registration
9:00 - 9:20
Official opening of the Conference:
- Professor Krzysztof Zmijewski, Chairman of the Polish Independent Energy Consultancy Board; Coordinator of the Green Effort Group
9:20 - 10:20
Session I: European Energy Market
Leading the Session: Marina Coey, President of the Management Board, Procesy Inwestycyjne Sp. z o.o.
- Assumptions made by the European Commission - Derek Taylor, DG Tren, EC;
- Bright Future? - Marek Kulesa, Director, Association of Energy Trading;
- European point of view - Wojciech Graczyk, Director of Regulations and Market, RWE Polska S.A.
10:20 - 10:40 - Coffee
10:40 - 12:00
Session II: IPPC and reality - how will it function in practice? Development limits
Leading the Session: Professor Janusz Lewandowski, Warsaw University of Technology
- Economy (European Emission Trading Scheme versus prices) - Professor Krzysztof Zmijewski, Chairman of the Polish Independent Energy Consultancy Board, Coordinator of the Green Effort Group;
- Industry Competitiveness - Tomasz Chruszczow, Vicepresident of the CO2 Forum of Sectoral Economical Organisation;
- Impact of Climate-Energy Package on labour market - Kazimierz Grajcarek, President of the National Secretariat of Mine and Energy Workers Union NSZZ "Solidarnosc";
- Analysis of social and economical consequences of Climate-Energy Package - PhD Piotr Cizkowicz, Ernst&Young
12:00 - 13:00
Discussion Panel - European Experts on EU-ETS
Leading the Session: Professor Krzysztof Zmijewski, Chairman of the Polish Independent Energy Consultancy Board, Coordinator of the Green Effort Group
Representatives of the new National Emissions Trading Systems and Negotiators from EU member states:
- PhD Olaf Kopczynski - 2nd Secretary of the Permanent Polish Representation by the European Union, Main CO2 Negotiator, representative of Poland;
- Maciej Pyrka - Specialist, KASHUE, representative of Poland;
- Miroslav Rehor - Registry Manager, Operator trhu s elektrinou, a.s., representative of the Czech Republic;
- Rudolf Vojvodik - Slovak National Emission Registry specialist, Dexia banka Slovensko a.s., representative of Slovakia
13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Session III: Options and possible solutions
Leading the Session: Tadeusz Szulc, Vicepresident of the Board, Infovide-Matrix S.A.
- Clean coal technology and location of Poland within Europe - Professor Jerzy Buzek, MEP;
- Technological innovation in the context of SET plan - financial allocation results - Krzysztof Rogulski, ORACLE Polska Sp. z o.o.;
- Gas - Radoslaw Dudzinski, Vicepresident of the Board, PGNiG;
- Energy Import/ transborder connections/ Market Coupling - Grzegorz Onichimowski, President of the Board, TGE S.A.
15:30 - 16:30
Session IV: Action Plan - tasks for:
Leading the Session: Pawel Poncyljusz, Member of the Polish Parliament, PiS
- Government - Bernard Blaszczyk, Viceminister of Environment;
- Industry - Jerzy Obrebski, Polkomtel S.A.;
- Science - Professor Janusz Lewandowski, Warsaw University of Technology;
- European Commission - Marzena Chodor, DG Environment, EC;
- Market - Andrzej Szymanski, President of the Board, Landis+Gyr Sp. z o.o.
16:30 - 17:00
Closing comments - Professor Krzysztof Zmijewski, Chairman of the Polish Independent Energy Consultancy Board, Coordinator of the Green Effort Group
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