A Green Energy Union to meet our Climate Objectives
A Greens/EFA workshop
DRAFT PROGRAMME
PART 1 : Conference on Energy Union
All participants are welcome
09:30
Registration and coffee
10:00-10:15
Welcome and introduction
by Rebecca Harms, Co-President of the Greens/EFA
10:15-11:00
The big contradiction: how to build an energy union without clear priorities?
- Sven Teske, Senior Advisor Climate & Energy Unit, Greenpeace International
- Mechthild Woersdoerfer, Director for Energy Policy, DG ENER
11:00-11:45
Panel I: Energy transition driving forces: cities, citizens and progressive companies
- The development of energy cooperatives
by Dirk Vansintjan, REScoop (Renewable Energy Sources Cooperatives) - Cities as living labs of the energy transition
by Claire Roumet, Executive Director, Energy Cities - The concept of energy productivity
by Jean-Pierre Kempeneers, Head of European Affairs Office, Phillips
Moderated by MEP Claude Turmes
11:45-12:30
Panel II: The economics of the energy transition
- Building a stable regulatory framework
by José Lopez-Tafall Bascuñana, Acciona - How to develop off-shore wind farms at 103 €/MWh
by Peter Meibom, Head of Department for Analysis, Danish Energy Association - A new market design for a fair remuneration of renewables
by Pieter Joseph, Grids and Power Markets department, 3E
Moderated by MEP Bas Eickhout
12:30-14:00
Walking lunch, under the format of World Cafés offering networking opportunity with green representatives on the following subjects :
- Regional cooperation: The new hype?
- South-East Europe - Moderated by MEP Davor Škrlec (Croatia)
- Baltic - Moderated by MEP Peter Eriksson (Sweden)
- North see - Moderated by Eamon Ryan, Head of Green Party in Ireland
- Leading the energy transition at local level
- What is the energy vision for Belgium? - Moderated by Els Reynaert (Groen) and Julien Vandeburie (Ecolo)
- Why is Germany out of nuclear but not out of coal? - Moderated by Bärbel Höhn, Member of the German Bundestag, Bündnis 90/die Grünen
- The 3rd Industrial revolution in practice - Moderated by Jean-François Caron, Europe Écologie Les Verts (France)
PART 2 : Workshop to sharpen ideas and strategies to green the Energy Union
Participation open to Greens only
Tour-de-Table
14:00-15:30
Workshop I: Towards a Green energy union: how to spread the Green narrative?
- Introduction
by MEP Claude Turmes - General discussion
Moderated by MEP Rebecca Harms
15:30-17:00
Workshop II: Towards a successful Paris conference (COP 21): presentation and discussion of the climate campaign
- Introduction
by Evelyne Huytebroeck, Member of the Parliament of Brussels' Region, Ecolo: A green leader in an international climate conference. - General discussion
Moderated by MEP Yannick Jadot
17:00-17:15
Concluding remarks
by Monica Frassoni, European Green Party
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This event will be in English, no translation will be provided
