International Power Summit 2022
Hilton Munich Park
27th-28th September, 2022
International Power Summit 2022
DAY 1|27th September 2022
DAY 2|28th September 2022
8:50 am Welcome remarks from the Chair
James Varley
Group Managing Editor
Modern Power Systems
8:55 am OPENING KEYNOTE: Decarbonisation is moving to the core of every organisation. Its importance has already increased – now urgency is required
- Observe – orient – decide – act: what mattered in 2022 and what has to be done in 2023
- Challenges and opportunities for decarbonisation of energy-intensive industries
- The decarbonisation roadmap as decision making tool in uncertain times: Why ambition matters
- Marginal abatement costs as fact-based instrument to evaluate competing measures
- Sustainable prioritisation of abatement measures
- Thinking from the end: reducing total costs of decarbonisation while considering overall feasibility
- Practice example: Decarbonisation in the pulp & paper industry
Michael J Frank
Senior Vice President Engineering
Uniper
Clare Rehder
Commercial Manager Net Zero Solutions
Uniper
9:25 am Utilising hydrogen-capable gas turbines with renewables as a pathway to reliable and flexible power generation decarbonization goals
- A solution for EU energy security while maintaining power decarbonisation commitments
- How to balance power supply & demand challenges with large-scale intermittent renewables
- Using Clean H2 as energy storage and fuel for the power generation market
- Availability of retrofit service solutions for 100% H2 use in the installed fleet of gas turbines
- Decarbonised gas turbines providing the balancing and firming capacity of a renewable dominated power infrastructure
Jeffrey Benoit
Vice President - Clean Energy Solutions
PSM & Thomassen Energy
9:55 am Business Meeting 1
10:25 am Business Meeting 2
10:55 am IRENA update: The role of renewable energy in the global energy transformation
- Renewable energy future trends and technologies
- The role of renewables long term: where should we expect the largest growth ahead?
- What incentives are there for investors and utilities?
- Challenges and opportunities presented to the energy suppliers
Roland Roesch
Deputy Director
IRENA Innovation and Technology Centre (IITC)
11:20 am Tapping into new technologies to minimise carbon emissions from fossil fuelled power generation
- Mitigating fossil fuel power generation carbon emissions with innovative post combustion CCS technology
- Simplification of CCS with pre-combustion CO2 capture technologies and coal gasification
- Advanced thermal processes such as IGCC and the Allam cycle to achieve clean power from coal and gas
Stephen Harrison
Founder & Managing Director
sbh4 GmbH
11:45 am REPowerEU: What do the challenges of reducing the dependance on Russian fuels mean for the European energy community?
- Geopolitical developments and its impact on global power markets
- Energy security and net-zero: can we do both?
- How are the energy majors and oil companies navigating the energy transition?
- How can technology play a part in achieving net zero goals?
- What’s the outlook for global energy demand?
Philipp Leckebusch
CTO
DTEK LLC
12:10 pm resentation: Energy market outlook and power of digitalisation on operational technology platforms
- Achieving plant profitability targets with better plant cycling, dispatching and minimum load capabilities against the effect of increasing renewables on the grid
- Lower your OPEX: Integrated controls and SCADA across plant & fleet level
- How operator efficiency can be improved with better control performance.
- New developments on integrated high-fidelity simulators.
- Critical technologies for the future of thermal & gas power plants include remote operation control centres, cyber security, advanced pattern recognition and plant optimization.
Laurence O’Toole
Gas Turbine Solutions Manager
Emerson
12:40 pm Lunch
1:40 pm Swedish waste management and its role in the transition to renewable heat, power and fuel production in Scandinavia
- Lessons from Swedish waste management for sustainable heat and power production
- EVs with benefits: an update on the potential for developing demand flexibility in the grid
- Renewables’ role in the energy nationalization trend
David Bauner
Chief Technology Officer
Renetech AB
2:10 pm PANEL: The grid stability and regional markets interconnections overview
- Dealing with high price volatility in gas and electricity
- Flexibility and interconnection of the balancing markets across Europe
- Integration of renewables into the grid
- How higher and more volatile energy prices will affect the move to clean energy
Aurel Mindrican
Trading and Market Strategies Director
CEZ Romania
Sara Piskor
Director - Strategy, Policy and Communications
ENTSOG
Jasmina Trhulj
Head of Electricity Unit
Energy Community
Eli Rakotomisa
Energy Economics Research Engineer
EDF
2:50 pm Business Meeting 3
3:20 pm Business Meeting 4
3:50 pm Unlocking a greener future: The impact of biomass applications
- Options for large-scale biomass supply
- How RED III and sustainability requirements affect markets
- Biomass demand in other industries and its impact on power and heat
Jens Price Wolf
General Manager Europe and Vice President Commercial
Enviva
4:20 pm Green hydrogen: a solution to Europe's energy crisis?
- Taking stock of the magnitude of Europe’s energy crisis: the 1,600 TWh question
- The new commodity green hydrogen value chain: upstream, midstream and downstream
- Key infrastructure and financial milestones towards an exponential ramp up of green hydrogen
- HyDeal, a test case with the world’s largest hydrogen projects in Spain and North Africa
Thierry Lepercq
Founder & President
HyDeal
4:50 pm Business Meeting 5
5:20 pm PANEL: The new energy future - powering a low-carbon world
- Wind and solar generation in current power systems – how to enable higher shares of wind and solar integration?
- How can businesses most effectively increase resilience in the face of the effects of climate change? Sustainability strategies and culture
- Will hydrogen-fired power plants play a major role in the energy transition?
- What role will nuclear power play in the energy transition?
- What will energy security look like over the next decade?
Tony Roulstone
Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge
Ralf Wezel
Secretary General
EUGINE & EUTurbines
Michael Blomsterberg
Head of Market Operations
Ørsted
Dr.-Ing. Julia Badeda
General Manager Hybrid Energy Systems and Storage
ABO Wind AG
6:00 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks followed by private dinner
9:00 am Opening Remarks
James Varley
Group Managing Editor
Modern Power Systems
9:10 am Opening presentation: Empowering Power – the role of digitalization
Steven Hagner
Industry Solution Executive - Enterprise Software Solutions
Hitachi Energy
9:40 am Business Meeting 6
10:10 am EC UPDATE: The importance of energy storage and flexible energy in achieving the green deal decarbonisation goals
- Energy storage capacity deployment
- How can storage contribute to the European Green Deal and the security of energy supply?
- Commission’s initiatives focused on energy storage
Gonzalo Fernandez Costa
Policy Officer on Energy Security & Energy Storage
European Commission
10:40 am The role of renewable energy in the global energy transformation – creating integrated solutions for a renewable-powered future
- Renewable energy future trends and technologies: where should we expect the largest growth ahead
- The role of hydrogen and Power-to-X in a future energy landscape: main strategies and applications
- How to create integrated, renewable-based solutions in the transformation of existing energy infrastructure
- Challenges and opportunities presented to the energy suppliers
Alexander Kotschi
Country Market Director - Energy
Ramboll Deutschland GmbH
11:10 am Business Meeting 7
11:40 am EFFICIENCY IN NEW NUCLEAR: Raising the Energy Return, driving down costs
- How to raise the nuclear fuel´s full potential
- The new Dual Fluid reactor design: liquid fuel, lead coolant, high temperatures
- Deep decarbonization with nuclear energy
Dr. Björn Peters
CFO
Dual Fluid
12:10 pm Success factors for implementing new technologies
- Developments in new technologies and their potential for cost reduction
- Understanding limitations of current technologies and organizational barriers
- How can new technologies be implemented successfully?
- Outlook on new technologies for asset management
Markus Göring
Director Asset Value Management, Business Area Heat
Vattenfall
12:40 pm Closing remarks and end of event
SPONSORSHIP ENQUIRIES
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SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES
We are currently developing the programme for 2022, if you are interested to contribute please contact:
Marta Pacheco