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Conference Program
Dii Annual Conference 2010
“Energy from the Desert”


26 - 27 October 2010
Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

26 October: Annual Conference, 1st day

Registration & Expo Opening, 08:30 – 09:30
09:00 – 09:40 Welcome remarks
  • Paul van Son, Chairman and Moderator, CEO Dii
  • Jordi Hereu i Boher, Mayor of Barcelona (tbc.)
  • José Montilla Aguilera, President of Catalonia (tbc.)
KEYNOTE SESSION
09:40 – 10:00 Keynote speech - Günther Oettinger, EU Commissioner for Energy
10:00 – 11:00 Government Representatives:
  • Antonio Hernández García, Director General for Energy Policy and Mining, Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Spain
  • Amina Benkhadra, Minister for Energy, Morocco (tbc.)
  • Jamila Matar, Director of Energy Department, League of Arab States
  • Jochen Homann, State Secretary Ministry of Economics and Technology, Germany
Coffee break, 11:00 – 11:30
Renewable Energy from MENA deserts
11:30 – 12:00 Reference projects as reality proof for desert energy generation
- Rainer Aringhoff, COO Dii
12:00 – 12:30 Potential for Renewable Energy in Algeria - Issad Rebrab, CEO Cévital (Shareholder of Dii), Algeria
12:30 – 13:00 Q&A with speakers
Lunch break, 13:00 – 14:30
Parallel In-depth sessions, 14:30 – 16:00

Panel I: Desert Energy Generation
Moderator: Rainer Aringhoff, COO Dii

Panellists
  • Robert Schlögl, Director Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Max-Planck- Gesellschaft
  • Rainer Tamme, Head of Department Thermal Process Technology, GermanAerospace Center (DLR)
  • Walid Shahin, President, National Energy Research Center, Jordan
  • Eicke R. Weber, Director Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE
  • Santiago Seage, CEO Abengoa Solar
  • Holger Gassner, Director Markets and Politics RWE

  • Karim Asali, Project Finance Manager, First Solar GmbH

Panel II: Strategic connections between EU / MENA grids and Markets
Moderator: Aglaia Wieland, Senior Director Strategy Dii  
Panellists:
  • Georges de Montravel, Executive, Transgreen Foundation, France
  • Ali Fassi-Fihri, CEO ONE, Morocco
  • José Luis Mata, Head of Regulation and Studies Department, Red Eléctrica Group, Spain
  • Dimitrios Chaniotis, Senior Advisor System Development ENTSO-E
  • Benaissa Ayadi, Managing Director STEG Renewables, Tunisia
Panel III: Economic and social development in MENA
Moderator: Gerhard Knies, Chairman of the board of trustees DESERTEC Foundation
Panellists:
  • Omran Al Kuwari, CEO Green Gulf, Qatar Science & Technology Park, Qatar
  • Robert Pitz-Paal, Head of Department Solar Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
  • Mouldi Miled, CEO ULYSOFT, Tunisia
  • Christian Stoffaës, CEO, Transgreen Foundation, France
Refreshment break, 16:00 – 16:30 
16:30 – 17:30 Presentation of key results of In-depth-sessions
Moderator: Hans Müller-Steinhagen, Head of Dii Advisory Board
Panellists: Representatives from In-depth-sessions
 Keynote speech
17:30 – 18:30
Developments in the international climate and renewable financing sector
Guest speaker – Caio Koch-Weser, Vice Chairman, Deutsche Bank Group
Cocktail Reception/ Networking on Expo, 18:30 – 21:00

 

27 October: Annual Conference, 2nd day

09:30 – 09:40 Welcome remarks, Klaus Töpfer, Chairman and Moderator, Strategic Advisor Dii
09:40 – 09:50

Dii under a foreign policy perspective
Stephan Auer, Deputy Director-General, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Financing and Market issues for Renewable Energy in EUMENA
09:50 – 10:10 Global financing to tackle climate change
– Laszlo Lovei, Director Sustainable Development Department World Bank
10:10 – 10:30 Masdar’s experience: challenges for RE assets in the Middle East
– Frank Wouters, Director Masdar Power, UAE
10:30 – 10:50 Financing renewable energy in the Mediterranean region: lessons learned from the EIB’s experience
– Sophie Jablonski, Energy Specialist, European Investment Bank
10:50 – 11:10 Q&A with speakers
Coffee break, 11:10 – 11:30
Policy and regulatory mechanisms for enabling energy from the desert
11:30 – 11:50 Challenges of the Union of the Mediterranean
– Ahmad Masa’deh, Secretary General UFM (tbc.)
11:50 – 12:10 Legislation for Renewable Energy in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
- Abdelkrim Benghanem, former CEO of Sonelgaz, Algeria
12:10 – 12:30 Building a comprehensive framework for RE in EUMENA
- Philippe Lorec, Deputy Director General, Ministry for Ecology and Sustainable Development, France
12:30 – 12:45 European law and regulation perspectives for 2020/ 2050
- André Poschmann, Germany Ministry for Environment
12:45 - 13:00 Closing remarks - Anni Podimata, Vice President Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, European Parliament
Lunch break, 13:00 – 14:30
Closing of Expo at 15:30