ROOM 1: ENERGY POLICIES

Wednesday, April 25th 2007

10:00 – 11:30   OPENING CEREMONY

Fabrizio Barbaso, Deputy Director-General DGTREN EUROPEAN COMMISSION
José Ortega Valcárcel, Regional Secretary for the Environment CANTABRIA SPAIN
Marc Verwilghen, Minister for Economy, Energy, Foreign Trade and Scientific Policy BELGIUM

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 – 13:30  GLOBAL ENERGY POLICY

• Challenges: Dependency, Climate Change, Prices, Supply Security
• Spanish Electricity Reform Law
• Spanish Royal Decree for the Special Regime of Energy Production
• E4:  Action Plan for Saving and Efficiency Energy Strategy in Spain
• The Role of the Research Field for the Future of the Energy Sector in Spain

Josep Isern Sitjà, Director General for Energy and Mines GENERALITAT CATALUNYA and Director ICAEN (Catalunya’s Energy Institute)
María Teresa Costa Campí, President CNE (Spanish National Energy Commission)
Milagros Couchoud, Secretary General CIEMAT (Spanish Energy, Environmental and Technological Research Centre)
Enrique Jiménez Larrea, Director General IDAE (Spanish Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving)

13:30 – 15:30 Luncheon

15:30 – 17:00  ENERGY IN SPAIN

• The Role of Renewable Energies in the Future
• Distribution and Commercialization
• Cooperation between Spanish Autonomous Regions
• Past and Future Plans

Maria Comellas, Director General for Environmental Quality GENERALITAT CATALUNYA
José María González Vélez, President APPA (Spanish Association for Renewable Energy Producers)
José María Roqueta, President COGEN ESPAÑA and Vicepresident COGEN EUROPE
Francisco Macía Tomás, Assistant Director for Energy Planning MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY, TOURISM AND TRADE SPAIN

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee Break

17:30 – 19:00  ENERGY IN EUROPE

• EU’s Priorities in its Energy Policy
• Energy Dialogue between Mediterranean Countries
• The Green Energy Book
• Financing Energy Projects
• Energy Policy in Member Countries and in Other Countries

Santiago San Antonio, Director General FORATOM (European Atomic Forum)
Aleix Vidal-Quadras, Vicepresident and Member of the Industry, Research and Energy EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Ioan-Silviu Lefter, President ARCE (Agency for Energy Conservation) ROMANIA

Thursday, April 26th 2007

• Objectives of the EC’s energy package
• Consequences
• Creation of a real energy internal market
• Effective regulation

Pedro Rivero, President UNESA (Spanish Association for the Electricity Sector)

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

• Environmental challenges. Kyoto protocol
• Renewable energy challenges
• Challenges for the Gas Industry
• Challenges for the Nuclear Energy Industry
• Challenges for the Coal Industry
• Challenges for the Oil Industry

Álvaro Mazarrasa, Director General AOP (Spanish Association for Oil Operators)
Carlos Alejaldre, Assistant Director ITER
Fernando Ferrando, General Manager for Renewable Energy ENDESA
Juan Antonio Alonso, Director for Energy Saving and Efficiency IDAE (Spanish Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving)

13:30 – 15:30 Luncheon

• Concentrations and Competence
• Tariff system
• Energy efficiency and saving
• Electric power infrastructures

Eduardo González, President FINE (Spanish Nuclear Industry Forum)
Frederic Ximeno, Director General for Environmental Policies and Sustainability    
                      GENERALITAT CATALUNYA         
Javier Penacho, Executive Vicepresident AEGE (Spanish Association for Intensive Energy Consumers)

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee Break

• CO2 emissions – Emissions Trading
• The role of renewable energies
• The future of generation technologies: Nuclear, Gas, Oil, Coal

María Luisa Huidobro, President OMEL (Spanish Operador for the Electricity Market)
Pedro Miras Salamanca, Oil Director CNE (Spanish National Energy Commission)
Ramón de Miguel, President EBIO (European Bioethanol Association)
Juan López de Uralde, Executive Director GREENPEACE SPAIN

Friday, April 27th 2007

• Refine
• Investments in the electric power sector. Regulatory frame and tariffs.
• Investments in renewable energies
• Quality in suplí

Francisco Bas, General Director AAE (Andalucia’s Energy Agency)

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

• Distribution and Commercialization: ¿Unbundling or integration?
• Distribution infrastructure
• Energy planning, to what extent?
• The Iberian market

ROOM 2: TECHNOLOGIES

Wednesday, April 25th 2007

Fabrizio Barbaso, Deputy Director-General DG TREN EC
José Ortega Valcárcel, Regional Secretary for the Environment C.A. DE CANTABRIA
Marc Verwilghen, Minister for Economy, Energy, Foreign Trade and Scientific Policy BELGIUM

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

• Current situation
• The future of nuclear energy: public opinion’s role
• International cooperation
• New security techniques
• Radioactive waste management
• Centralized storages
• ITER Project
• Project presentation

José Pérez Torrent, Director for Nuclear Power ENDESA  
Enrique González, Director Nuclear Department CIEMAT (Spanish Energy, Environmental and Technological Research Centre)

• Spanish legal framework
• Combined cycles
• GTL: Gas to Liquids. Diesel from Natural Gas
• LNG subterranean storages
• Regasification Plants
• Contracts
• Present and future for Coal, Natural Gas and Oil
• Project presentation

17:30 – 19:00   BIOFUELS

• Crops
• Biomass
• Spanish and International Legislation
• Global Energy Policy for  Biofuels
• Bioethanol
• Biodiesel
• Projects

Roderic Miralles, President for Biofuels Division APPA (Spanish Association of Renewable Energy Producers)
Jorge Xibertá, Professor UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO

Thursday, April 26th 2007

• Land systems
• Materials
• Solar Panels
• Uses
• Project presentation

Javier Anta, President ASIF (Spanish Association for the PV Industry)
Miguel Arrarás, President for the Solar Power Division APPA (Spanish Association of Renewable Energy Producers)
Jaume Margarit, Director for Renewable Energies IDAE (Spanish Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving)
Gustavo Carrero, Adviser MECASOLAR
Ernem Llobet, Manager ECOTECNIA SOLAR
Alfredo Laiz, General Manager ECOSTREAM SPAIN
Sven Kallen, Manager TRANSFER CONSULTANCY

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 – 13:30   USES PV SOLAR POWER

• Land systems
• Materials
• Solar Panels
• Uses
• Project presentation

Adriá Agüera, Commercial Technician MULTICONTACT
Ignasi Prat, Advising Service for Solar Power Projects SCHUCO
Hao Jun Qiu Xia, President SKY GLOBAL
César Torralba, Head of PV Solar Department TASOL
Jochem Beese, Manager AXITEC SOLAR
Gustavo Barbero, Responsible Solar Thermal Power SUNTECNICS SISTEMAS DE ENERGÍA
Jordi Serrano, Responsible PV Solar Power SUNTECNICS SISTEMAS DE ENERGÍA

13:30 – 15:30 Luncheon

15:30 – 17:00  DEVELOPMENT OF SOLAR THERMAL POWER

• Legislation and Directives. Spanish Technical Building Code.
• Electricity from solar thermal power
• Sales services produced by solar devices
• European Energy Certification for Buildings
• Challenges for sustainable urbanism
• Key-hand solution contracts
• Projects

José Marco Montoro, President AGECAM (Energy Agency of Castilla La Mancha)
Víctor Almagro, Vicepresident APERCA (Catalunya’s Association for Renewable Energy Professionals)
Francisco Ayala Schraemli, Director ARGEM (Murcia’s Energy Agency)
Pascual Polo, Secretary General ASIT (Spanish Association for the Thermal Solar Industry)
Klaus Liebisch, Responsible for Training Programmes IBERSOLAR
Pilar Zubizarreta, Technical Director CONERGY ESPAÑA

• Legislation.
• Materials
• Uses
• Project presentation

Ricardo García, Product Manager for Absorption IBERSOLAR
José Manuel Serrano, Director Energy Division ARIES INGENIERÍA

Friday, April 27th 2007

• Regulatory framework
• Global outlook
• New scenarios: offshore technology
• Technological advances and problems
• Environmental aspects
• Project presentation

José Miguel Villarig, President for the Wind Power Division APPA (Spanish Association of Renewable Energy Producers)
Xoan Ramón Doldán, Director INEGA (Galicia’s Energy Institute)
Joan Martín, Technical Director OPTRAL
Ramon Carbonell, President EOLICCAT (Catalunya’s Wind Power Association)
Juan Carlos Martínez-Amago, President AEE (Spanish Wind Power Association)

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

• Integrated resource management for energy production
• Future infrastructuras and technologies
• Small hydropower
• Marine energy
• Biomass

Albert Vallejo, President for the Hydropower Division APPA (Spanish Association of Renewable Energy Producers)
Juan Manuel Buil, Assistant director for Engineering, R&D, and responsible for hydropower projects ENDESA GENERACIÓN
Luis Mingo, President for the Marine Division APPA (Spanish Association of Renewable Energy Producers)
Josep Turmo, President for the Biomass Division APPA (Spanish Association of Renewable Energy Producers)
Loreto Daza, President APPICE (Spanish Association for Fuel Cells)