Keynote speakers
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Jean-Michel Glachant
"European energy system and market development under new rules of Winter package" |
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Jean-Michel Glachant is the Director of the Florence School of Regulation and Holder of the Loyola de Palacio Chair at the European University Institute (EUI). He took his Master’s degree and Ph.D. in economics at La Sorbonne in France. He regularly advises European Commission and European energy regulators. He has been coordinator or scientific advisor of several European research projects (as: SESSA, CESSA, Reliance, EU-DEEP, RefGov, TradeWind, Secure, Optimate, THINK, Towards 2030, Promotion). He is a research partner in the CEEPR at MIT (USA), and the EPRG at Cambridge University.
His main research interests are the building of a common European energy policy (security of supply, renewable energy, and climate change policy), the achievement of the European energy internal market (design, regulation and competition policy), the industrial organization and market strategy of energy companies. He is / has been on the editorial board of the journals: Energy Journal, Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, European Energy, Latin-American Economic Review, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, and Revue d’Economie Industrielle. Glachant has been a member of the “EU-Russia Gas Advisory Council” of former European Energy Commissioner Oettinger. His last published books are: "Building Competitive Gas Markets in the EU" (Edward Elgar, 2013); "The Manufacturing of the Markets" (Cambridge University Press, 2014); "Electricity Network Regulation in the EU: The Challenges Ahead for Transmission and Distribution” (Edward Elgar, 2018). He is extensively tweeting @JMGlachant (circa 38.4 K tweets).
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Albert Moser
"One European Electricity Market – Where do we stand?" |
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Albert Moser is the University Professor and the Head in the Institute of Power Systems and Power Economics (IAEW) in the RWTH Aachen University. He is an author or co-author of over a 100 publications. He took his master degree in Electrical Power Engineering in RWTH Aachen University, where he was further employed as a research assistant in the Institute of Power Systems and Power Economics. For two years he was working in Simens AG in Nuremberg and Minneapolis (USA). He gained his great knowledge of energy markets while working for nine years in the EEX European Energy Exchange AG. Since 2010, he is the Managing Director in the Research Association for Power Systems and Electricity Economics (FGH e.V.) in Mannheim and Aachen. Prof. Albert Mosel is a Member of Scientific and Technical Advisory Boards in: Innogy SE, 50 Hertz, TenneT and BNetzA. He is also a Member of Scientific and Technical Societies such as: IEEE, CIGRE, VDE, ETG and FNN. |
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Athanasios Krontiris
"High-Voltage Direct Current transmission: enabling single EU energy market" |
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Athanasios (Thanos) Krontiris received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in the Technical Univeristy of Darmstadt, Germany. He has graduated from the National Technical University of Athens. In 2011 Thanos Krontiris started his career in ABB. He has been working with grid integration studies for several HVDC projects before taking over the Leader Engineer responsibility for HVDC tenders. He is currently working as product manager for HVDC connections, with special focus on HVDC Back-to-Back systems. For four years he has been a Treasurer in The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE). |
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Liutauras Varanavicius "Litgrid Lithuania Synchronizing the Baltic power system with ENTSO-E" |
| Liutauras Varanavicius has a master’s degree in business management. Liutauras is serving in the position of the strategy department director at Lithuanian electricity transmission operator LiTGRID since September 2013. He is the main person at leading and managing project of Baltic States synchronization with Continental Europe Networks from 2013 until today. Additionally, Liutauras Varanavicius under nomination of Lithuanian energy minister is chairing a national committee on network codes implementation in Lithuania. | |
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Władysław Mielczarski
"Energy Revolution or Evolution" |
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Władysław Mielczarski is a Life Professor in Electric Power Engineering nominated by the President of Poland in 2002 for his achievements in liberalisation of power supply industry in particular the design of the Polish electricity market structure and rules for planning and operation of the balancing markets. He has published 10 books and over 150 journal and conference papers including books published by prestigious publishing houses such as Springer Verlag– Heidelberg and Nova Science Publishers in New York.
He received his degree in Electrical Engineering, at the Technical University of Lodz in 1973. He worked for two years as an engineer in the power supply industry before he became a PhD student in 1975. After three year study he received a PhD degree and joined the Institute of Electric Power Engineering at the same university as a Lecturer. In 1987 he was awarded a DSc degree (habitation) and received a post of Associate Professor.
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