Fourth annual SEE energy conference
The New Energy Strategy: Competitiveness, Sustainability, Efficiency
Under the patronage of Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism and
The World Bank
23 February 2010, Sheraton hotel, Sofia
Draft Agenda
10:00 – 10:15 Opening
Galya Prokopieva, Editor-in-Chief, Capital Weekly
Traycho Traykov, Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism
Representative of the World Bank
10:15 – 12:00 First discussion panel:
Competitiveness and Regulation - both sides of the energy market
Moderator: Plamen Popov, Managing Director, Statkraft
More transparent and public structures in Bulgarian power engineering
Maya Hristova, Deputy Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism
Free choice of energy supplier – an energy exchange
Vladimir Dichev, Executive Director, CEZ Trading
Role of the power exchanges in the markets’ integration: how the South East Europe region may reach
similar achievements to Central West Europe in this respect
Lucian PALADE, Director Electricity Market Surveillance & Development Division, OPCOM
Energy market regulation under conditions of competition
Angel Semerdzhiev, State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission
Role of the Electricity System Operator in the development of a competitive energy market
Ivan Ayolov, Executive Director, Electricity System Operator
Industries and Energy
Konstantin Stamenov, Chairman, Bulgarian Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers
12:00 – 13:00 – Lunch hosted by: Alpiq
13:00 – 14:30 Second discussion panel:
Low-carbon economy: renewable energy sources and energy efficiency as a perspective
resource and instrument for sustainable development
Moderator: Nikola Gazdov, Chairman of Bulgarian Photovoltaic Association
EBRD equity and debt financing in Bulgarian energy sector modernisation and efficiency inprovements
Miklko Kovachev, EBRD
Zoltan Kiss, KIDS Fund manager
Representative of the World Bank
Low Carbon Economy - right and responsibility
Kostadinka Todorova, Director, Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism
Development of the renewable energy sources – looking toward 2020
Ivanka Dilovska, Director, Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism
Quinto Di Ferdinando, Plant Manager of Enel Maritza East 3 TPP
Large Energy Projects Financing
Levon Hampartzoumian, Chairman of the Managing Board and CEO of Unicredit Bulbank
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee-break hosted by: Honeywell
15:00 – 16:30 Third discussion panel:
Energy Security
Moderator: Iliyan Vassilev, Chairman, Deloitte Bulgaria
Challenges to Bulgaria
Henk Busz, Consultant at the Office of the Regional Vice President, Europe and Central Asia, Sustainable
Development Sector, World Bank
Challenges and opportunities before the nuclear energy
Bogomil Manchev, Chairman, Bulatom
Energy risks and energy security
speaker from the USA
Energy projects - the Bulgarian Energy Holding role in planning and implementation
Galina Tosheva, Executive Director, Bulgarian Energy Holding
Cross-border gas projects and their role in raising energy security in Bulgaria and SEE
Ivan Drenovichki, Executive Director, Bulgartransgas
The gas highways towards Europe
South Stream – a representative from the Russian Ministry of Energy/tbc/
Christian Dolezal, Nabucco Gas Pipeline project
16:30 Closing