Future Challenges for Electricity Security

Background

Agenda

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Keisuke Sadamori, Director, Energy Markets and Security, IEA

The IEA’s Electricity Security Action Plan
‌Laszlo Varro, Head of Division Gas, Coal and Power Markets, IEA

SESSION 1: POWER GENERATION

Financing New Generation

Challenges of Financing Power Generation
Martin Brough, Director European Utilities Research, Deutsche Bank

The Economics of Gas and Coal Power Plants: an industry perspective
Martin Brough, Director European Utilities Research, Deutsche Bank

The Economics of Gas and Coal Power Plants: an industry perspective
Graham Weale, Chief Economist, RWE

Resource Adequacy

Capacity and Energy Market Design
Matthew White, Senior Economist Market Development, ISO New England

Development of a Capacity Mechanism in Great Britain
Edmund Hosker, Director Energy, EU and Energy Security, DECC

SESSION 2: TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION NETWORK SERVICES

Transmission Network Services

Network Infrastructure: transmission planning, regulatory frameworks and institutional design
Kersti Berge, Partner, Transmission, OFGEM

Network Reliability
John N. Moura, Director, Reliability Assessment, North American Electric Reliability Corporation

Transmission’s key role in energy transition
Pieter Boot, Head, Department of Climate, Air and Energy, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

Distribution Network Services

Distribution Networks: the hidden challenges and solutions
Gunnar Lorenz, Head of Unit “Distribution System Operators”, Eurelectric

Distributed Generation
Thomas Ackermann, Founder and CEO, EnergyNautics

SESSION 3: REGIONAL MARKET INTEGRATION

Market Integration and Regional Electricity Policies

Market Designs and Cross Border Trade
Craig Glazer, Vice President-Federal Government Policy, PJM Interconnection

Pentalateral Forum: developments from a market perspective
Ruud Otter, Manager Market Affairs Energie-Nederland/Chairman, Market Parties Platform

Electricity Market Integration in Japan
Yuki Sadamitsu, Director of Industrial Research JETRO /Special advisor to METI

EU Commission/DG Energy: Guidelines on state aid and consideration of capacity mechanisms
Tadhg O'Briain, Policy Officer, European Commission, DG Energy, Internal Market II: Wholesale markets; electricity & gas

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