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26 March 2015 (Draft – Subject to change)
7:00 –9:00
Registration
Moderator of the Conference: Christoph von Marschall
9:00 –9:45
Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Germany
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New Energy Policy – A Global Challenge for the 21 Century
Sigmar Gabriel
Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany
15 Years of the German Energiewende – Lessons learnt
Adnan Amin
Director-General, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Global Developments and Challenges for Renewable Energies
9:45 – 10:15
Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:00
Hermann Albers
Vice President, German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE)
A Resilient Economy through Renewable Energy
Prof. Dr. Martin Viessmann
President and CEO of Viessmann Group
Exhibits open
Energy Transition – The Key to Success is the Dual Strategy of
Renewable Energy and Efficiency
Jeremy Rifkin
President, Foundation on Economic Trends
The Transition to Zero Marginal Cost Renewable Energy and the Third
Industrial Revolution
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11:00 – 12:30
Panel: How should Enabling Policies for a successful Energy
Transition look like?
Moderator: Rainer Baake, State Secretary, German Federal Ministry of
Economic Affairs and Energy
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Martin Lidegaard, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Denmark
Børge Brende, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Suhail Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy, United Arab Emirates
Jan Mládek, Minister of Trade and Industry, Czech Republic
Liu Qi, Deputy Director of the National Energy Administration,
China
Maria van der Hoeven, Executive Director, International Energy
Agency (IEA)
Dr. Markus Tacke, CEO, Siemens Wind Power
12:30 – 13:45
13:45 – 15:15
Breakout
Sessions
Lunch Break
Session 1 [W]:
Key Role of Political
Frameworks: Defining
the Right Incentive
Scheme
Session 2 [E]:
Market and System
Integration of Variable
Renewable Power
Generation
Moderator: Peter Fischer,
Deputy Director-General for
Globalisation, Energy and
Climate Policy, German
Federal Foreign Office
Moderator: Dr. Karin Freier,
Head of Division Renewable
Energies, German Federal
Ministry of Economic Affairs
and Energy
Marie Donnelly, Head of
Directorate C (Renewables,
Research and Innovation,
Energy Efficiency), DG Energy,
European Commission
Jean-François ConilLacoste, Chairman of the
Management Board, EPEX
SPOT
Joachim Goldbeck, Managing
Director, Goldbeck Solar
Thomas Egebo, Permanent
Secretary of State at the
Ministry of Climate and Energy,
Denmark
Dr. Magdy Rady, Assistant
Minister of Foreign Affairs for
International Economic
Relations and International
Cooperation, Egypt
Boris Schucht, CEO,
50Hertz Transmission GmbH
Hans-Dieter Kettwig, CEO,
ENERCON GmbH
Prof. Dr. Uwe Leprich,
Scientific Director, IZES
gGmbH
Wang Zhongying, Deputy
Director-General, Energy
Research Institute (ERI),
National Development and
Session 3 [L]:
Centralized vs.
Decentralized
Energy Transition,
Mini-Grids, Off-Grid
RES
Moderator: Dr. Tania
Rödiger-Vorwerk, Deputy
Director-General for
Sustainable Development,
German Federal Ministry of
Economic Cooperation and
Development
Prof. Dr. Eicke R. Weber,
Director, Fraunhofer ISE
Clemens Triebel, Founder
and Chief Visionary Officer
(CVO), Younicos
Scott Foster, Director,
Sustainable Energy
Division, United Nations
Economic Commission for
Europe (UNECE)
César Emiliano
Hernandéz Ochoa,
Undersecretary of
Electricity, Ministry of
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Mario C. Marasigan, Director
IV, Renewable Energy
Management Bureau,
Department of Energy, the
Philippines
Reform Commission (NDRC)
Energy, Mexico
Thomas Gottschalk,
Managing Director, Mobisol
GmbH
Steve Sawyer, Secretary
General, Global Wind Energy
Council (GWEC)
15:15 –15:45
15:45 –17:15
Breakout
Sessions
Coffee Break
Session 4 [W]:
Key Role of Financing:
How to attract Private
and Public
Investments
Moderator: Silvia Kreibiehl,
Head of the Frankfurt School United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP)
Collaborating Centre
Dr. Norbert Kloppenburg,
Member of the Executive
Board, KfW Group
Sheikh Mohammed bin
Abdulrahman bin Jassim AlThani, Minister’s Assistant for
International Cooperation
Affairs, Qatar
Astrid Manroth, Managing
Director, Head of
Environmental and Social
Capital, Deutsche Bank
Dr. Karsten Sach, Deputy
Director-General for Climate
Policy, European and
International Policy, German
Federal Environment Ministry
Anders Hauch, Investment
Director & Partner, DI Frontier
Market Energy & Carbon Fund
Session 5 [E]:
Grid Integration, Grid
Management and Grid
Development
Moderator: Ulrich
Benterbusch, Managing
Director, German Energy
Agency (dena)
Dr. Philipp Strauss, Member
of the Board DERlab e.V.,
Deputy Director, Fraunhofer
IWES Kassel
Session 6 [L]:
Economic Value
Creation,
Sustainable Growth
and Jobs
Moderator: Michaela
Spaeth, Head of Division,
Energy and Raw Material
Foreign Policy, German
Federal Foreign Office
Dr. Jan M. Mrosik, CEO
Division Energy
Management, Siemens AG
Dr. Henning Wüster,
Director of the Knowledge,
Policy and Finance Centre,
International Renewable
Energy Agency (IRENA)
Achim Zerres, Head of
Energy Regulation at Federal
Network Agency
(Bundesnetzagentur)
Dr. Barbara Praetorius,
Deputy Executive Director
and Head of Team
Germany, Agora
Energiewende
Prof. Tomas Kåberger,
Professor for Industrial
Energy Policy, Energy and
Environment, Chalmers
University of Technology,
Sweden
Sir David King, Foreign
Secretary’s Special
Representative for Climate
Change, the United
Kingdom
Christian D’Adamo, Head of
Electric Network Operation,
Enel Distribution
Milan Nitzschke, Vice
President, Solarworld
Prof. Dr. Maciej Nowicki,
Professor, Former Minister
of the Environment, Poland
Toshiro Okada, Director,
Senior Policy Advisor,
International Affairs
Division, Commissioner’s
Secretariat, Agency for
Natural Resources and
Energy, Ministry of
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Economy, Trade and
Industry, Japan
17:15 –17:45
Plenary: Session Summaries
Reception
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7:00 –9:00
Registration
Dr. Barbara Hendricks
Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and
Nuclear Safety, Germany
9:00–9:15
The Global Energy Transition – Prerequisite for mitigating Climate
Change
9:15 – 11:00
Ministerial Panel on International Renewable Flagship Projects
Moderator: Christoph von Marschall
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11:00 –11:30
Exhibits open
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Máximo Pacheco, Minister of Energy, Chile
Dr. Peter Gašperšič, Minister of Infrastructure, Slovenia
Dr. Ali Saleh Al-Omair, Minister of Oil and Minister of State of the
National Assembly, Kuwait
Youcef Yousfi, Minister of Energy and Mining, Algeria
Andrei Dominic Gerea, Minister of Energy, SMEs and Business
Milieu, Romania
César Emiliano Hernandéz Ochoa, Undersecretary of Electricity,
Ministry of Energy, Mexico
Nils Vikmång, State Secretary to Minister for Energy, Ministry of
the Environment, Sweden
Coffee Break
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11:30 –13:00
Breakout
Sessions
Session 7 [L]:
Efficient Financing
through Effective
Administration
Session 8 [E]:
Energy Efficiency,
Renewable Heating
and Cooling
Session 9 [W]:
Market
Developments and
Free Trade
Moderator: Christine Lins,
Executive Secretary, REN21
Moderator: Thorsten
Herdan, Director-General,
Energy Policy Department,
German Federal Ministry of
Economic Affairs and
Energy
Moderator: Jörg Mayer,
Managing Director, German
Solar Association (BSW)
Humza Yousaf, Minister for
Europe and International
Development, Scottish
Parliament, The Scottish
Government
Prof. Dr. Mario Ragwitz,
Deputy Head of Competence
Center Energy Policy and
Energy Markets, Coordinator
of Business Unit Renewable
Energies, Fraunhofer ISI
Datuk Loo Took Gee,
Secretary General, Ministry of
Energy, Green Technology &
Water, Malaysia
13:00–13:30
Tanja Gönner, Chair of the
Management Board of GIZ
(Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale
Zusammenarbeit)
Dr. Carsten Rolle,
Executive Director World
Energy Council Germany,
Federation of German
Industries (BDI)
Mokgadi Modise, Chief
Director for Clean Energy,
Department of Energy, South
Africa
Abdelkader Baccouche,
Head of Solar Thermal
Department, National
Agency of Energy
Conservation ANME,
Tunisia
Jan-Benjamin Spitzley, PV
Legal Project, Deputy Head of
Policy Department, eclareon
Dr. Frank Schmidt, Board
of Directors, Viessmann
Group
Sven Teske, Senior Energy
Expert, Greenpeace
International
Geir Nysetvold, Director for
Strategy and
Communication, Enova
(Norway), President of the
European Energy Network
Paddy Padmanathan,
CEO, ACWA Power
Prof. Gernot Klepper, Head
of Environment and Natural
Resources, Kiel Institute for
the World Economy (IfW)
Plenary Wrap-Up and Close
Hosts and Moderator
13:30–14:30
Dr. Paolo Frankl, Head of
the Renewable Energy
Division, International
Energy Agency (IEA)
Light Lunch
Filipe Ramalheira, Chair
TBT Committee 2014
(Technical Barriers to
Trade), World Trade
Organisation (WTO)
Hildegard Müller,
Managing Director, German
Association of Energy and
Water Industries (BDEW)