Jana Lefranc’s Post

*Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue* Berlin Economics had the opportunity to take part on a panel at the Cooperation Dialogue: Forum for Energy and Climate Partnerships, an official side event of the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue 2024. The panel on #Ukraine focused on financing the green energy transition amidst the ongoing war and beyond, especially within the context of the upcoming Ukraine Recovery Conference 2024 which will take place in June in Berlin. The panel explored current strategies and approaches for financing sustainable reconstruction efforts and the transition to a more decentralized energy supply, as well as technical approaches and enablers for a more energy-efficient reconstruction. The event brought together decision-makers and leading experts from politics, financial institutions, business, and international cooperation actors to share their views on applicable solutions that would pave the way for a more sustainable and resilient energy supply in Ukraine. Pavel Bilek, Deputy Team Leader Energy & Climate Policy, participated on behalf of Berlin Economics, with his contributing focusing primarily on the soon to-be-published study on the Green Reconstruction of the Residential sector of Bucha, where he emphasized: 1.   The integration of EU Standards and the significance of integrating the principles of "Build Back Better" into reconstruction efforts, focusing especially on the necessary regulatory reforms and converging to EU standards to unlock the greatest benefits from energy efficiency. 2.   Securing investments, highlighting the key challenge of how Ukrainian municipalities can secure the necessary investments for residential reconstruction projects, as well as pathways to enable funding the estimated costs and reducing potential payback periods. 3.    The role of international assistance and private investments, underscoring the crucial role that international donors and the private sector play in supporting large-scale energy efficiency upgrades in Ukrainian cities. 4.    The policy reforms needed to attract and facilitate these investments effectively and to create a broader ecosystem for energy efficiency in Ukraine’s residential sector, including energy market liberalisation and ensuring adequate social compensation mechanisms are in place.   #EnergyTransition #Sustainability #GreenEnergy #BerlinEnergyTransitionDays #CooperationDialogue2024

Carlo Montella, Managing Partner at #GreenHorseLegal, has been invited by the Ministry for the Environment and Energy Security to speak at the conference "Energy Transition as a driver for the development of the Italian economy: Investments in the Energy Industrial Supply Chain".   Taking place today at the Auditorium of the Ministry, this workshop underscores the importance of fostering strong collaboration between private companies and public authorities to drive Italy's energy transition and industrial development.   Carlo shared his insights on why Italy remains an attractive market for investors, primarily due to high energy prices driven by the country’s reliance on imported gas. However, he also highlighted the urgent need for a stable and coherent regulatory framework to support and sustain these investments, ensuring Italy can fully harness its potential in the energy sector.   Collaboration between the public and private sectors is more crucial than ever to address the challenges and opportunities of the energy transition. Green Horse Legal Advisory is proud to contribute to this essential dialogue.

Are you struggling with the different grid connection regulations for #EnergyStorage systems in Europe? Connect to AGISTIN (Horizon Europe project) webinar on the topic, and learn more about the topic by the hand of different experts. Gianluca Lipari EPRI in Europe

Are you struggling with the different grid connection regulations for #EnergyStorage systems in Europe? Connect to AGISTIN (Horizon Europe project) webinar on the topic, and learn more about the topic by the hand of different experts. Gianluca Lipari EPRI in Europe

A big thank you to Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung for incorporating inputs from FEBA Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" into their upcoming event: "Burgas Connectivity Forum 2024: Connecting Nations." I am honored to present on the topic "EU Energy Policy for Energy Independence: Trans-European Networks for Energy and an Integrated EU Energy Market." This discussion will particularly highlight the lessons learned by European countries following recent energy crises. The forum is open for registration. Let's meet in Burgas next Friday, May 31st! Have a look at the agenda attached in the comments below. #AcademiaforBetterSociety #EnergyPolicy #EU #ConnectivityForum #Burgas2024 #EnergyIndependence #TransEuropeanNetworks #IntegratedEnergyMarket!

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Athens Energy Summit as a speaker, participating in the panel "Funding Energy Projects Under Financial and Geopolitical Turmoil". The current geopolitical turmoil obviously creates numerous challenges for investments in the region. On the other hand, however, this situation is also opening up many opportunities, particularly by releasing additional state funding that would not be otherwise justified merely on developmental grounds. Indeed, it is now widely understood and accepted that infrastructure projects in key sectors such as energy serve not only the need for green transition and efficiency, but also the equally important need for geo-strategic security. However, to fully capitalize on this, we need to further focus on creating an investment environment that is stable (i.e., not changed unless absolutely necessary), predictable (i.e., when it has to change, the market can anticipate the general direction of such change), clear (i.e., with minimal ambiguities), efficient (i.e., with minimal delays and unnecessary costs), and financially attractive. Although there has been significant progress in recent years, there is still a lot of untapped potential, the utilization of which could elevate Greece to an undisputed leader in the region. On this occasion, I would like once again to express my sincere thanks to our moderator and the other panelists, from right to left, Kostis Rokas, Giannis Papadopoulos, Nikos Rogakos, Aristotelis Chantavas, and Roman Matkiwsky, for their very insightful speeches and contributions to the discussion. #investments #energy #infrastructure #Greece #AthensEnergySummit

Please join us on Thursday, 20 June 2024 from 3-4PM UK time for the eighth 2024 Easter Term C-EENRG seminar in the Weston Seminar Room (2.49) at the David Attenborough Building (no registration needed) or online (please register here https://lnkd.in/d979PbKd to receive the Zoom link on the day of the seminar). This week, we are delighted to welcome as a speaker Trevelyan Wing, Baltic Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics and CEENRG Researcher and PhD candidate at CEENRG in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. He will join us in-person with a talk ‘A transition from below? The role of citizen and community initiatives in Germany’s renewable energy revolution.’ Please find below the abstract of the talk.   This presentation explores the role of citizen/community initiatives in advancing Germany’s ‘Energiewende’ (alternatively translated as ‘energy transition’ or even ‘energy revolution’). Situating the transition in its historical context – rooted in the social movements of the 1970s – it examines how grassroots pressures prompted federal policy change, triggering complementary bottom-up/top-down dynamics that have facilitated a dramatic expansion of renewables nationwide, with over 50% of total installed renewable power generation capacity citizen-owned by the early 2010s. Changes to the Energiewende’s legal/regulatory frameworks are analyzed, as subsequent governments sought to control the growth of renewables and adjust the transition’s building blocks to prioritize market-oriented instruments, despite stiff opposition from below. Drawing on over 100 semi-structured interviews conducted with stakeholders involved in the Energiewende, among diverse other sources, this presentation sheds further light on the impact of ‘energy democracy’ initiatives in the evolution of this multidecadal transformation. Here, it contributes a fresh perspective regarding the interrelated nexus of sustained grassroots action, evolving policy, and shifting sociopolitical realities that form the context in which Germany’s Energiewende has been (re)launched, reformed, and reimagined over the decades.

This is a good summary of the key focus points around EU energy transition policy from Miguel Gil Tertre of the European Commission. While the EU has absorbed reasonably well the shock in energy prices since the invasion of Ukraine, the need to move to comprehensive energy security through much greater electrification and and domestic energy generation is urgent. Huge improvements in the capacity and efficiency of the European grid and inter connectors are needed to handle the variability of supply and moving generation long distances away from demand. Delivering this transition will require lifting investment in the backbone of the EU energy system by at least 1.5% of GDP for well over a decade. The summit of EU leaders in late April of this year has hopefully provided renewed impetus to the urgency of energy transition, and the wide range of policies - public funding, optimising of access to private sector capital, improving co-ordination between EU countries, etc - to accelerate delivery. Well worth a read.

Yesterday, our Working Group Regulation met online for a productive session before the summer break!   We kicked off with an in-depth policy update covering several crucial topics, including a briefing on the recent European election results and a preview of the upcoming Copenhagen Forum. Additionally, we also touched upon developments closely related to grids, such as Council Conclusion on Grids as well as the High Level Roundtable on Grids. Our discussion then turned to future endeavors and touched upon the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) & Florence School of Regulation newly released report “Benefit Sharing to Promote more Efficient Investments in Energy Infrastructure”. This discussion continued with members delving into our Position Paper on Revenue Regulation, which was officially unveiled at the GEODE Spring Seminar.   👏 A big thank you to our members for their active participation and valuable contributions! Per Everhill Ina Lehto Teemu Nurmi Pilar Barrera Gonzalez Ole Theodor Dønnestad Tommi Lähdeaho Alberto Perego Lisbeth Vingås Lucía Recolons García-Mauriño Matteo Moschen Orasch Wolfgang Alexander Herbst Carmen Gimeno de la Fuente Anna Smičková Federica BRUNI   GEODE - The voice of local energy distributors across Europe #EnergySector #EuropeanElections #EnergyInfrastructure #AnticipatoryInvestments #Grids #RevenueRegulation

📰 Inside the EU Bubble: EFIEES' Weekly News Roundup   Here are the latest news inside the EU Bubble with our EFIEES' Weekly News Roundup!   Our team has selected the most relevant news related to EFIEES' activities from the past week, to keep you informed about developments within the EU Bubble.   Here are the highlights of the week:   ⭐ The new European Parliament has been elected, acting a shift to the right and still allowing for a centre-parties majority,   ⭐ The draft priorities of the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union have been leaked, with a focus on #geothermal energy, #NECPs and #electricity network development,   ⭐ The draft EU Strategic Agenda for 2024-29 has been leaked,   ⭐ Deputy Director-General for Energy Mechthild Wörsdörfer urged the next European Commission to prioritise policy implementation,   ⭐ The European Commission is working on a broader strategy for #heating and #cooling including #heatpumps, ⭐ World countries are off track to achieve affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern #energy by 2030, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reports.     🔎 More on this and other news in our EU Bubble newsletter, shared to our members: https://lnkd.in/eAVBN8GE #GreenDeal