Winding down nuclear energy - the declared political
goal of the German federal government - as well
as deregulation of the electricity market are
the two major issues preoccupying the energy sector
at present. The consequences of these political
decisions for the German electricity industry
and its competitors particularly the European
ones, deserve closer analysis.
Both economic and
technological issues are at the core of the debate.
The
pivotal importance of elictrical energy to welfare
and economic growth in all sectors of the world
will also be a central issue.
Energy Summit
Part I: Energy policy
The Energy Summit on 22 March 2000 will begin
with a high-calibre panel discussion on the subject
of energy policy. Politicans and managing directors
of well-known companies will be discussing a new
policy implications of a competitive energy market
and the future potential of renewable energy sources.
Issues debated will include the role and acceptance
of state intervention in the new market-led system.
Part
II: Energy industry
Tkis section will focus on the economic consequences
of the liberalised electricity market in Europe,
with insights from top level representatives of
the energy industry. Competition tends to encourage
a continual search for the best possible purchasing
and supply structures. It is therefore to be expected
that the introduction of competition to the electricity
market will put even more pressure oj technology
providers to improve the performance levels of
energy plants.
Part
III: First steps toward a Hydrogen industry -
full steam ahead!
You
can follow discussions with international experts
about the implementation of renewable energies
in a combined hydrogen economy. The world market
leaders will present recent examples of cheap
hydrogen fuel production and give examples of
worldwide activities in the use of fuel cells
for transportation and household applications.
New ideas
The Energy Summit 2000 will provide you with new
impetus for those all-important strategic decisions.
Make sure you are there to hear some controversial
political, technological and economic viewpoints
on the subject of " Leaving the nuclear energy
- where we are moving to?"
Programm:
Wednesday,
22.03.2000
Part
I Energy policy
Chair:
Dr. Hans D.Barbier, Chief economic policy
editor at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper
(FAZ)
10:00
-
12:30 a.m.
Discussion
Politics:
Dr.
Herrmann Scheer, MdB, President
of EUROSOLAR, the European Solar Energy
Association, Holder of the Alternative
Nobel Prize 1999
Economy: Dr. Hans-Dieter Harig, Managing
Director of PreussenElektra AG, Hannover
Prof.
Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, Executive
board member of Deutsche Shell AG,
Hamburg
Research
Amory
B. Lovins, Vice President and
Head of Research Rocky Mountain Institute,
Colorado, USA
12:30
a.m.
Lunch-Break
Part
II Energy industry
Chair:
Martin Czakainski, Editor-in-chief of the
specialist publication
"Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen"
14:00
-
16:30 a.m.
Dr.
Malcom W. Kennedy, President of the
Institution of Electrical Engineers, Great
Britain
Dr.
Eberhard Meller, General Managing
Director of VDEW Association of German
Energy Suppliers
Dr.
Christof Bauer, Head of Corporate
energy sector Degussa-Hüls AG Association
of Industrial Power Industry
Kjetil
Knutsson, Managing Director of Leipzig
Power Exchange
Harald
Schmoch, Head of the Department
of Strategic Business Development EnBW
Energie Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH
Dr.
Volker Stuke, Managing Director
German Federal Association of Energy Consumers
Inc. -VEA-
Thursday, 23.03.2000
Part
III Research and development. A composite approach
to using renewable energy sources.
Chair:
Ulrich Walter M.A., Team Arno A. Evers
FAIR-PR, Starnberg
"The
implementing of windmills is only the
question of politics."
Photo-Voltaics
- the market of the future
Georg
Salvamoser, Managing Director
of Solar-Fabrik GmbH, Freiburg
"In
the future we can not avoid to change
our energy mix to renewable energy sources."
The
potential of fuel cells
Jorge
Barrigh, Business Development,
Ballard Generation Systems Corp
"The
prospect for fuel cell technology is spectaculous."
From
the producer to the consumer
Dipl.
Ing. Reinhold Wurster, Ludwig-Bölkow-Systemtechnik
GmbH
"Worldwide
there are less people who are developing
the storage of hydrogen. If you do not
invest the result will be zero."
Networking
in energy systems
Dipl.-Ing.
Wolf Hatje, In charge of fundamental
Questions at PreussenELEKTRA AG
"The
situation is not only to solve in national
affairs but it has to be regarded all
over in Europe."
Nicholas
Abson, CEO ZeTek Power Remsgate,
UK/Geel, Belgium
"With
the building of the world's first fully
automated fuel cell production plant we
are planning to produce more fuel cells
than all the world's fuel cell companies
combined."
Marcus
A. B. Nurdin, Managing Director,
World Fuel Cell Council e.V.
"The
commercialisation of the fuel cell has
already begun."
Driving
on fuel cells
Andre´
Martin, Manager, Sales and Marketing
Europe, Ballard Automotive Inc.
"In
the future we will provide fuel cells
for mobile systems."
Mobile
and stationary fuel cell products and
services
H.Frank Gibbard, Chief Executive
Officer H-Power Corp., Belleville,
N.Y., USA
"Due
to the various sizes of fuel cell systems
you can cover a worldwide market with
these units in mobile, stationary and
transport applications."
Hydrogen
Fuel Production at lowest energy consumtion
Dr.
Hugo Vandenborre, Managing Director
of Hydrogen Systems N. V.,Turnhout,
Belgium
"The
on-site generation of pure hydrogen is
possible at extremely high efficiency
rates."