8:15 – 9:00 Registration and Coffee                                    

9:00 – 9:10 Welcome addresses and opening remarks

9:10 – 11:00 Plenary Session One: Energy Security in Emerging Europe: Regional Cooperation is the Key

·         Europe’s forward-looking agenda to achieve its core energy objectives of sustainability, competitiveness and security of supply

·         A broader energy-economic perspective: Economic growth in the region, power demand and supply

·         The role of the EU energy directive: What has been achieved?

·         How will we prevent the regulatory mistakes of the financial crisis from ruining the region’s energy markets?

·         Competition policy in a new regulatory environment: How and when to establish a compliance programme? Is your company policy adequate?

·         The boundary between energy regulation and competition policy: The new Regulators' powers and how they should be used in practice. Do companies risk being investigated and punished twice?

·         International Financing Institutions: Objectives and experiences of technical assistance programmes

Moderator: Didier Houssin, Director, Directorate of Energy Markets and Security, International Energy Agency

Ahmet Aksu, President, Prime Ministry Privatization Administration Republic of Turkey

Alexandru Sandulescu, General Director, Energy Department, Ministry of Economy, Commerce and Business Environment - Romania

Traian Chebeleu, Ambassador, Deputy Secretary General, Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation

Henrikh Yeremyan, Principal Banker, Energy  & Infrastructure, Black Sea Trade and Development Bank

Peter Stauber, Senior Associate, Corporate and Regulatory Department, Noerr Hungary  
 

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break 

11:00 – 13:00 Plenary Session Two: Energy in Emerging Europe: Towards a Unified Regional Market

·         Liberalisation of the energy markets. What’s next?

·         Exploring the steps that still need to be taken to achieve regional integration and unification of the emerging European energy markets

·         Insights into the common efforts for expanding regional energy cooperation

·         Ensuring fair and transparent energy markets. How can legislation be implemented equally across the region?

·         Regulation and its future role in emerging Europe energy market

·         Exploiting liberalising markets through investment opportunities. Country considerations

·        Privatisation and post privatisation in the energy sector

·         Experience of energy sector privatisation in the emerging European countries

·         Boosting sustainable economic development in emerging Europe versus improving the balance between energy supply and demand

·         Outlook for energy efficiency projects in the region. Case studies

·         Climate change: Meeting the challenge to 2050

·         Market developments and shortcomings

Moderator: Harald Wüstrich, CEO, Central European Gas Hub

Markus Piuk, Partner, Schoenherr & Mark Newbery, Partner, Herbert Smith

Gülefşan Demirbaș, Head of Strategy Development Department, EPDK – Energy Market Regulation Authority Turkey

13:00 – 14:30 Luncheon

14:30 – 15:45 Parallel Session A: Gas Market & Storage

Diversification of Gas Sources and Security of Supply in the Region

·         An overview of the European Commission’s security of supply initiative: Implementation of the third internal energy market package

·         Changes in the regulatory environment at national and EU level: Implications for future investments

·         A perspective on the options for unbundling and gas storage access

·         Shifting trends in the market fundamentals of gas demand and supply

·         Strategies to prevent threats to or actual disruption of gas supplies. Do we need a gas crisis management in the region?

·         The impact of short term reductions in gas demand and possible oversupply. Does this mean a prospect of underinvestment?

·         The effect of the economic downturn on pricing frameworks

·         Gas demand evolution and the effect on gas storage investment

·         Developments in emerging European gas storage facilities: An overview of current facilities and potential developments and technical improvements

·         How much gas storage capacity does the market need?

14:30 – 15:45 Parallel Session B: Power Generation & Transmission 

Power Sector in Emerging Europe: Strategies & Forecasts

·         The reflection of the global economic crisis on the regional electricity markets

·         Analysing power markets in emerging Europe. Where does the power industry go from here?

·         Forecasting the long-term electricity demand in emerging European countries

·         A balanced mix for future power generation: An analysis

·         Innovative risk analysis methodology for power plants

·         Implementing the new rules on transparency and unbundling in practice

·         Role of electric power industry in encouraging a shift to a low-carbon society

·         Improvements of old power plants: technical and economical evaluation

·         A look into emerging technologies and their impact in the future of power generation

·         The influence of renewable energy, distributed generation and energy storage on power generation and grid regulation in the future

·         Smart Grid and distributed cogeneration in the modern European electricity network

·         Regional grid development: progress in promotion of market integration

·         How will nuclear energy expansion impact regulation? New safety and security challenges, proliferation and access to materials and technology

·         Positioning nuclear power as a central tool in emissions reduction and long term diversification

·         What needs to be done to sustain the nuclear renaissance momentum?

·         Rating criteria and credit trends for T&D companies. What drives rating for transmission and distribution companies?