PROGRAMME

Agenda
 
Registration and Welcome Coffee
 
10:00 – 10:15 Opening
Moderator: Velislava Popova, Editor-in-Chief, Dnevnik Daily
 
Valentin Ivanov, Deputy Minister of Economy and Energy
 
10:15 – 11:15 Present Status and Tendencies in Developing Wind Power and Hydropower Engineering in South East Europe and Bulgaria
Moderator: Teodor Bobochikov, Managing Director, AES Geo Energy
 
Kostadinka Todorova, Director, "Energy Efficiency and Environmental Protection" Directorate, Ministry of Economy and Energy – National Programme for Renewable Energy Sources Development
Stefcho Nachev, Director, Electric Power Engineering, State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission
Galina Tosheva, Executive Director, Bulgarian Energy Holding
Ivan Zhelyazkov, Deputy Chairman, National Electric Company – Opportunities and Challenges for Renewable Energy Sector in Times of Economic Crisis
Velizar Kiryakov, Chairman, Association of Producers of Ecological Energy
 
11:15 – 11:30 Discussion
 
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break – Hosted by: Rubiships Ltd.
 
12:00 – 13:00 Production and Trading with Electricity Generated by Wind Power in Bulgaria
Moderator: Yordan Merakov, Manager Business Services, Global Wind Power Bulgaria
 
- Integration of the wind parks into the electricity market – the incorporation problem; who will pay the "green premium", etc.
- The wind parks and the environment
- Developing the offshore markets and their perspectives
- Wind power technologies development
- Projects 
 
Pavel Zehtindjiev, Head of the Kalimok Biological Experimental Station, Institute of Zoology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Teodor Bobochikov, Managing Director, AES Geo Energy
Tsonko Tsonev, Mayor of Kavarna – Opportunities for Municipalities to Attract Investment in Renewable Energy
Carmen Neagu, Country Executive - Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova, GE Energy
Borislav Yordanov, Director of Power Engineering Sector, Siemens
 
13:00 – 13:15 Discussion
 
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch - Hosted by: Siemens
 
14:15 – 15:00 Production and Trading with Electricity Generated by Hydropower
Moderator: Plamen Dilkov, Executive Director, "Svoge" Hydroelectric Power Plant 
 
- Present status and perspectives of the hydropower production
- The boom in the construction of hydropower plants and the environmental preservation
- Hydropower technologies development
- Projects
 
Valentin Ivanov, Deputy Minister of Economy and Energy – Energy Projects on the DanubeRiver, Water-power systems "Tzankov Kamak" and "Gorna Arda"
Shteriu Nozharov, Deputy chairman of the inter-inistitutional working group for climate change, Ministry of Environment and Water – Climate Change Policies as an Incentive for Investment in Renewable Energy Sources
Joseph Lampel, CEO, Kossler, Austria - Sustainable Solutions for Small Hydro Power by examples from Austria, Sweden and Italy
 
15:00 – 15:15 Discussion
 
15:15 – 16:00 Financing Schemes, Means for Realization and Stimulating Projects for Constriction of Wind Power Plants and Hydroelectric Power Plants
Moderator: Iliya Iliev, Manager, EnCon Services
 
- How to create an attractive financial market and how to attract financing for wind and hydropower projects?
- Reducing the risk of project development and realization
- Sources of financing, venture capital
- Trading with CO2 emissions, green certificates
 
Anton Kobakov, Senior Banker, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - Sofia
Maya Alexova, Head of Project and Structured Finance Unit, Unicredit Bulbank
Andon Ichev, National Advisor for Bulgaria, General Electric Co
 
16:00 – 16:15 Discussion
 
16:15 Closing of the conference