Energy Efficiency & Renewables 27 – 29.03.2018 sofia
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The 14th South-East European Conference on Energy Efficiency & Renewables
Preliminary Program*
27 March 2018
09:45 Ceremony on Official Opening
10:00 First Panel
Cryogenic Energy Storage for Renewable Refrigeration and Power Supply
Session Chairs: Judith Evans (CryoHub Project Coordinator, London South Bank University, UK) and Kostadin Fikiin (CryoHub Team Leader, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria)
- Energy storage projects in Horizon 2020 – Rémy Dénos (Directorate General for Energy, European Commission)
- Refrigeration sector and energy – Didier Coulomb (Director General, International Institute of Refrigeration)
- Cryogenic energy storage – engineering and socio-economic issues – Mohammed Youbi Idrissi (R&D Group Manager, Air Liquide, France)
- The CryoHub project – Judith Evans (CryoHub Project Coordinator, London South Bank University, UK)
- Prospects for CryoHub in Europe – refrigerated warehouse and renewable energy mappings – Paola Mazzucchelli (Secretary General, Association of European Renewable Energy Research Centres)
- Cryogenic energy storage from a policy perspective – Jonathan Radcliffe (Policy Director, Birmingham Energy Institute, University of Birmingham, UK)
- Energy storage in the Bulgarian power supply system – today and tomorrow – Representative of the Bulgaria’s energy sector
13:30 Second Panel
Workshop: “Facing the Challenges of the New Energy Technologies”
Workshop Chair: Irina Terziyska – European Labour Institute (ELI)
The workshop will present two innovative on-line training projects for the deployment of renewable energy sources in the building sector and for improving energy efficiency in the working spaces.
- Project GSS-VET – Geothermal and Solar Skills – Continuing Education and Training”, funded under the ERASMUS + Programme of the European Commission
The project includes 16 partners from 4 countries: Bulgaria, Germany, Greece and Spain. The Bulgarian partners are: European Labor Institute, Energy Center Sofia, Technical University Sofia, Chamber of Installation Specialists in Bulgaria - Project SMARTEL – Smart Metering and Home Automation Technologies Re-Training for Electricians, funded under the Erasmus + of the EC.
The project includes partners from: Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Lithuania, Spain. The Bulgarian partner is Sofia Energy Agency SOFENA.
28 March
Third Panel
Workshop of Euroheat & Power – the international network for district energy, promoting sustainable heating and cooling in Europe and beyond
District Heating and Cooling in the Energy Transition – Lessons learnt from European Projects
PLANHEAT Project: District Heating and Cooling in the Energy Transition
· Implications of Recent EU developments (Clean Energy Package) and role of PLANHEAT (Eloi Piel, Euroheat & Power)
· Transition to Renewables in DH systems, lessons from PLANHEAT (Marko Ruzik, PLANHEAT Project)
· Solar DH Projects, lessons learnt from SDHp2m ( Inés Arias, SDHp2m)
· Modernisation of Networks and Transition to Renewable Sources: Recent cases in South-Eastern Europe (Speaker TBC, ThermaFlex)