26th BBH Energy Conference

Is being powered 100% by renewable energies soon a reality for industries in Europe and beyond? What is the current status and what are the remaining economic, legal and technical challenges for industries to go more and more renewable in the different Member States and to engage in direct supply and use of renewable energy? These are the questions we want to discuss with you in this year’s BBH Energy Conference in Brussels. We would kindly like to invite you to participate in the

26th BBH Energy Conference co-hosted by IndustRE

“Renewable Energies & Flexible Industrial Consumption”

on 8 November 2017.

The second part of the Conference will focus on the IndustRE Project and present the outcomes of this Horizon 2020 funded project BBH was a part of in the last years. The inter-disciplinary project brought together experts from science, industry, consulting and engineering to create innovative solutions for industrial consumption of renewable energies. We are glad to share and discuss these solutions with you.

Agenda:
Renewable Energies & Flexible Industrial Consumption – How can we create a win-win-situation?

Block 1
The holistic view: The changing role of renewable energies for industries in Europe and beyond

9:15 – 9:30
Welcome and introduction
Prof. Christian Held, Lawyer and Partner, BBH and Dr. Dörte Fouquet, Lawyer and Partner, BBH

9:30 – 10:15
The electricity sector was just the beginning: How fundamentally do all sectors have to change for the 2050 targets and what is in it for the industry?
Dr. Felix Matthes, Research Coordinator for Energy & Climate policy, Öko-Institut

10:15 – 10:40
The Commission’s Clean Energy Package & flexibility of industrial consumption: Do we need further incentives?
Paula Abreu Marques, Head of Unit, 1. Renewables and CCS policy, European Commission

10:40 – 11:00
Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:30
The German PEP initiative: Bringing renewable energy solutions to African industries and communities
Martin Baltes, Head of the PEP initiative, GIZ GmbH

11:30 – 12:00
The energy transformation as opportunity for European industries
Claude Turmes, Member of the European Parliament

12:00 – 12:45
Discussion round with speakers

12:45
Lunch Break

Block 2
The realities on the ground: The Horizon 2020 IndustRE project

14:00 – 14:30
New business models for activating industrial demand response
Tomás Gómez San Roman, Professor, Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) of Universidad Pontificia Comillas

14:30 – 15:00
The overall value of industrial demand response for the power system
Dr. Dimitrios Papadaskalopoulos, Research Associate, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London

15:00 – 15:30
Real-life application of the business models in different sectors and countries: How can we easily assess the flexibility and what is it worth?
Ana Virag, Senior researcher, VITO/EnergyVille

15:30 – 16:00
Discussion & coffee break

16:00 – 16:20
The legal framework for industrial flexibility and use of renewable energies
Dr. Jan Ole Voss, Lawyer, BBH

16:20 - 17:45
Industry Roundtable „Challenges and opportunities for industrial use of RE in Europe“
- Kristian Ruby, Secretary General, EURELECTRIC
- Giorgia Concas, SolarPower Europe
- Hans de Keulenaer, Director, European Copper Alliance and IndustRE project partner
- Marcus Franken, Head of EU Representative Office, E.ON SE
- Ana Virag and Tomás Gómez San Roman, IndustRE project partner
Moderated by Dr. Dörte Fouquet and Michael Papapetrou, WIP and IndustRE project partner

17:45 – 22:45
Reception and celebratory dinner at Club de Warande