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2030 Solarise Heat in Greece Conference Draft Agenda Thursday 29 June 2023, 10.00 – 17.00 Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece

Moderator – George Findikakis

9:30 AM Arrival of participants

10:00 AM Opening and welcome


WELCOME

10:00 AM Christos Papaemmanouel – President of EBHE

10:05 AM Kostas Travasaros – President of Solar Heat Europe

10:10 AM George Patoulis – Regional Governor of Attica


KEYNOTE SPEECHES 

10:20 AM Kostas Skrekas – Minister for Energy and the Environment

10:30 AM Solar Thermal in Greece and Europe

10:30 AM   Matthieu BALLU, Policy officer, European Commission, DG Ener C Green  Transition and Energy System Integration (online intervention)

10:40 AM   Pedro Dias, Policy Director, Solar Heat Europe: ‘Solar thermal: market trends  and key policy priorities at EU level’

11:00 AM  Harry Michalopoulos, Vice President of EBHE: The Greek perspective: intro  to the Roadmap 2030 


11:20 AM ROUND TABLE

Yannis Maniatis, Professor, University of Piraeus, former Minister of Energy

Alexandra Sdoukou, General Secretary of Energy and Mineral Resources, Ministry of Energy and Environment

Valérie Séjourné, Managing Director Solar Heat Europe 

Pakis Papademetriou, Head of ESG Division, Eurobank 

Christos Konstas, Executive Secretary of EBHE


NETWORKING LUNCH

12:45 PM – 2:00 PM

2:00 PM Decarbonising Buildings with solar thermal (small-scale session)

This session will cover market trends at EU level, the impact of the EU Solar  mandate, as well as opportunities
and challenges for the small-scale
 markets (i.e. residential and commercial buildings)


INTRODUCTORY SPEECH

2:00 PM   Robert Pinter, Manager Green & Healthy Buildings Europe, European Copper  Institute


2:10 PM ROUND TABLE

Miguel Mattias, Commercial Director, Naked Energy

Edwige Porcheyre, Enerplan

Nikos Charalambides, Executive Director, Greenpeace Greece    

 

3:00 PM   Decarbonising industry and cities with solar thermal (large-scale session) 
This session will cover market trends at EU level, the latest developments,  opportunities, and challenges for the large-scale markets (i.e. district heating  and industry) 

INTRODUCTORY SPEECH

3:00 PM Guglielmo Cioni, Vice-President Business Development, TVP Solar

3:10 PM   ROUND TABLE

Charlotte Brauns, Policy & Solar Technology Officer, BSW (DE)

Andreas Zourellis, Vice President of Sales, International Markets, Aalborg CSP

Dr. Michalis Christakis, Secretary of the Association of General Secretaries of  Municipalities

Panos Lamaris, Founder, SOLE

4:00 PM Global Competitiveness

This session will cover opportunities for the Solar Thermal business at EU  level to demonstrate EU’s leadership in terms of production and project  development capacity, building on the momentum from the recent Net Zero  Industry Act launched in March 2023 and clearly confirming Solar thermal as  a Net Zero sector; it will also address the questions of Experts capacity but  also Skills, and address the potential for growth of the ST sector.


INTRODUCTORY PRESENTATION – Innovation Fund: €100 million offered  for innovative small-scale clean tech projects

4:00 PM   Carla Benauges, Energy and Hydrogen Policy Officer, European Commission,  DG CLIMA (online intervention)


4:20 PM ROUND TABLE

Joakim Byström, CEO Absolicon

Pedro Dias, Policy Director, Solar Heat Europe

Alkis Metzalis, Export Manager of Thermic LTD

Vassiliki Drosou, Head of Solar Thermal Systems Department, CRES

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