REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE

WELCOME

Ana AGUADO CEO, Friends of the Supergrid

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

Eddie O’CONNOR President, Friends of the Supergrid and CEO, Mainstream Renewable Power, Ireland
Jeremy RIFKIN Author: The Third Industrial Revolution; How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World. Economist. Founder and President of the Foundation on Economic Trends, USA

SESSION I: IS THE SUPERGRID INEVITABLE?

Moderator:

Stephen SACKUR BBC, United Kingdom
Panelists:

Michel AUGONNET Senior Vice President, Grid Commercial Solutions, Alstom, France

Bruno COVA Head of Power Systems Markets & Regulatory, CESI, Italy

Brian MOTHERWAY Chief Executive, Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, Ireland

Eddie O’CONNOR President, Friends of the Supergrid and CEO, Mainstream Renewable Power, Ireland

Vladimir RAKHMANIN Ambassador. Deputy Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat

Jeremy RIFKIN Author: The Third Industrial Revolution; How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World. Economist. Founder and President of the Foundation on Economic Trends, USA

Jorgo RISS Director, Greenpeace European Unit

Catharina SIKOW-MAGNY, Head of Unit, Internal Market I: Networks & Regional Initiatives, DG Energy, European Commission

Sir Graham WATSON President, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and Chairman, Climate Parliament, European Parliament

SUPERGRID 2013 AWARD CEREMONY

Christopher MCKINSTRAY Engineering University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

LUNCH

SESSION II: THE REALITY OF THE SUPERGRID

Chairperson:

Patrick VAN HOVE Research Programme Officer, Energy Conversion and Distribution systems, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, European Commission

Speakers:

‘Supergrid as an integrator of large and small scale developments’ Magnus CALLAVIK Chair of WG Technological, Friends of the Supergrid and Technology Manager, Business Unit Grid Systems, ABB, Sweden

‘The Digitisation of the Supergrid’ Kevin O’DONOVAN, WG Information and Communications Technology, Friends of the Supergrid and Energy Sector Sales Director, Intel Corporation

‘Interconnection and Supernode project between Ireland and UK’ Joe CORBETT Member of WG Technological, Friends of the Supergrid and Head of Technical Services, Mainstream Renewable Power, Ireland

‘Progress Report on the 10 North Seas Countries Offshore Grid Initiative (NSCOGI)’  Imar DOORNBOS Project leader Renewable Energy Sources, Ministry of Economic Affairs, The Netherlands; co-chair NSCOGI WG 1 on Grid Configuration

‘Trends of electricity market development in a period of economic crises’ Mats NILSSON Member of the Board, Friends of the Supergrid and Economist, Vattenfall, Sweden

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION III: THE ECONOMICS OF THE SUPERGRID

Moderator:

Michael KAVANAGH Financial Times, United Kingdom

Panelists:

Marcello DEL BRENNA Chairman of the Friends of the Supergrid and CEO of Prysmian Powerlink, Italy

Daniel DOBBENI President Eurogrid International, 50Herz, ENTSO-E and Coreso

Bas EICKHOUT Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, European Parliament

Christine MATERAZZI-WAGNER Director Electricity, E-Control, Austria

Simon MUELLER Renewable Energy Analysts and co-author of Deploying Renewables, International Energy Agency

Maria PARTIDARIO Associate Professor, Head of Research Group on Strategic Approaches to Environment and Sustainability, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Dima RIFAI Principal, Paradigm Change Capital Partners, United Kingdom

Stephan SINGER Director Global Energy Policy, WWF International

CLOSING REMARKS

Marcello DEL BRENNA Chairman of the Friends of the Supergrid and CEO of Prysmian Powerlink, Italy