Agenda
36th Energy Conference EuroPOWER & 6th OZE POWER
Day 1, 7th November 2022
9:00 – 9:30 Grand opening of the conference – Presentations of the Ministry of Climate and Environment executives
9:30- 10:45 Energy transformation in Europe
- How will the new situation in Europe influence the realization of Fit for 55 guidelines?
- European gas policy
- Alternatives for the fuel from Russia
- Limited natural recourses in the face of the crisis and alarming market instability
- Speeding up or stopping the energy transformation?
(Panel during consultation)
10:45-12:00 Energy security and optimization in Poland
- The future of ETS in the Fit for 55 package – efficient methods of reducing emissions
- Making the energy and fuel supplies independent
- Coal in the Polish power industry and economy
- Is too fast coal exit dangerous for energy independence?
- Energy stability vs. prices of energy that rise no objections
- How to combine various elements: high internal and external costs, high emission of CO2 – with the rising prices of warmth?
- How to reduce the demand for gas and electric power in the industry?
- Rising prices of energy and the company condition vs. the tendency to switch to sustainable Development
- Common program for energy efficiency of undertakings
- The role of energy clusters in rural areas and stimulation and Development of prosumer power engineering
- Speeding up of development trends in times of crisis
12:00-12:45 Break
12:45 – 13:35 Cybersecurity in power engineering
- The danger of hacker attacks on power systems as a component of the critical infrastructure of the state
- Introduction to the certification mechanism and testing of electric meters
- Critical infrastructure security as data security. Data in the cloud is more secure
- Security by design
- Devices and systems for Poland – requirements concerning Cybersecurity
13:35 – 14:35 Energy investment financing
- Inventory of financing sources
- Subsidies, credits, capital, insurance
- How to finance energy savings, i.e., energy efficiency
- The potential role of the banking sector in the stimulation and financing of power engineering transformation – the current share, best practices, what is next?
- Financing dedicated to green sources
- Financing of photovoltaic and heat pumps
14:35 – 15:30 Development of the renewable sources of the energy sector in Poland
- Stabilization of renewable energy sources – the most important legal changes that should take place.
- Potential of renewable energy sources in heat engineering
- Closed circuit economy
- Power demand with the use of renewable energy sources
- How to implement ecological solutions in companies in a responsible manner?
- The value and competitiveness of hydrogen in comparison with other traditional fuels
- Water and sewage sector as an essential player in the process of decarbonization
- Pumped storage power plants
- The Development of wind energy
- Hydrogen technologies in Poland
- The need for a long-term vision in water resources management – micro hydroelectric power stations
- Biogas and biomethane – a natural substitute for gas
- Waste technology – thermal waste treatments
- Shallow and deep geothermal energy
15:30 – 16:30 Heat engineering – Development and production, potential and opportunities
- Framework for the work of a heating network and heat generating units resulting from Fit for 55 and RED II
- The leading players in the Polish heat engineering transformation and their tasks: The government of the Republic of Poland, the President of the Energy Regulatory Office, The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, Local Governments, and heat power companies
- Transformation of heat engineering – the fossil fuel exit
- Aspects concerning gas fuel implementation in district heating
- Development of heating network, including the council network
- Modernization and growth of the heating and cooling distribution system and popularization of heat warehouses and smart grids
- Heating systems of the future basing on renewable sources of energy
- Thermo-modernization
- Heat pumps – first choice technology
16:30 – 16:55 Debate of the young on making society energy-conscious
- How to create responsibility for the environment and climate consciously?
- Energy saving by citizens
- What kind of energy do young people want?
(Panel during consultation)
16:55 Lunch
Day 2, 8th November 2022
9:00 – 9:10 Presentation, title TBC
- Filip Kowalski, General Manager for Energy & Natural Resources Middle Eastern Europe, SAP
9:10 – 10:00 Sustainability vs. digital transformation of the energy sector
- How to develop IT from scratch in a power company?
- Models of distributed management in IT
- Digital transformation in investment and decision-making processes in the power sector. Digital Twin
- ESG – an increasingly important foundation for planning and undertaking transformational activities and actions from the “compliance” side
- Expectations of key energy stakeholders (e.g., banks) regarding the scope and quality of ESG data
- How is the energy sector dealing with ESG given increasingly detailed non-financial data reporting requirements (including Scope 1,2 and 3 emissivity) and taxonomy challenges?
- Critical areas for using digitization in sustainability strategy: digital supply chain, investment, circular economy, EHS, environmental management, etc.
10:00 – 10:10 Presentation, title TBC
- Asseco Poland representative
10:10 – 10:20 Presentation, title TBC
- Vetasi representative
10:20 – 10:30 How modern IT systems are revolutionizing the upsell and cross-sell of a wide portfolio of RES-related products: PV, heat pumps and air conditioning
- Jacek Maciak, CEO, Salesbook
10:30 – 10:40 Presentation, title TBC
- Jarosław Zarychta, Enterprise Industry Lead, Google Cloud Poland
10:40 – 11:30 Data Economy – data in power engineering
- How can technology help in data acquisition, data analysis, and reporting?
- The use of artificial intelligence and IoT in solutions for energy efficiency
- Distributed power engineering in cloud – cluster as a service
- Smart meters. Is the objective of 100% remote meters until 2028 possible in a traditional business model and Client-Service architecture?
- The use of cloud in power engineering
- Metric data marts (MDM), Analytics, AI – scalability, security, artificial intelligence
11:30 – 11:40 Introduction to the debate: Diversified nuclear power solutions in response to diverse customer needs – the Polish way in the transformation of the energy system
- Andrzej Piotrowski, Director of Stakeholder Engagement, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation
11:40 – 12:35 Nuclear Power Engineering
- How, when and why nuclear can change the energy mix in Poland in the context of lessons learned from the current crisis while maintaining climate policy goals
- Can nuclear power be built fast enough to be an answer to the energy gap
- Small and micro nuclear reactors – a breakthrough for the Polish energy industry?
- How should the nuclear safety oversight system be structured so as not to hinder the pace of development but still maintain stringent requirements?
12:35-13:05 Break
13:05 – 14:45 Polish wind power engineering
13:05 – 13:55 Development of the offshore wind energy
- Offshore projects of the Baltic Sea – the potential and expectations
- How to manage supply chain problems?
- Construction and service harbors
- Reduction of exploitation costs of the offshore wind power plants thanks to IT
13:55 – 14:45 Wind power engineering onshore
- The Polish onshore – economic, social, and environmental benefits
- Liberalization of the 10h act – potential Development and fears of the act
- Supply chains
- Will subsequent wind power plants onshore lower the prices of energy?
14:45 – 15:40 Electricity, transmission, and distribution networks – the new philosophy of network functioning
- Efficient transformation of the Polish power engineering distribution networks
- Financing method of networks, not only using the tariffs
- Necessary legal changes – the hybrid law
- Potential of cable pooling – stability and power rise of the grid system
- Necessary investments in the distribution and transmission infrastructure
- Safe and stable energy storage
- Provision of supply chain continuity
- Alternative investments for prosumers in the distributed sources of energy
- Potential of the virtual prosumer mechanism
- Collective prosumer – one installation, many recipients
- Smart meters (Edge-IoT)
15:40 – 16:25 Transportation electrification
- How to build a charging network to meet drivers’ expectations and needs?
- Development of the electromobility industry
- Current investments in charging infrastructure development
- Electric and hydrogen municipal public transport
- Barriers to the electrification of transport
16:25 Lunch
* Speakers are being confirmed
** The organizer reserves the right to change the agenda and to change the place and date of the event
Update: 13-09-2022