Conference
"External costs of energy technologies"

Co-organised by the European Economic and Social Committee and the 6th Framework Programme-funded research project "NEEDS: New Energy Externalities Development for Sustainability"

 

Brussels, 16-17 February 2009

 

European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

Civitas Room - JDE 62 (6th floor)

EESC headquarters - 99, rue Belliard - 1040 Brussels

 

PROGRAMME

 

16 February - Day 1: Policy Session

14:00 – 14:30             Welcome coffee and registration

 

14:30 – 14:45             Welcome from EESC

Janos Toth, President of the EESC's Section for Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and the Information Society

 

14.45 – 15:00              Welcome EC

                                   Gilles Lequeux, European Commission, Unit "Horizontal aspects and coordination"

 

Chair: Stephane Buffetaut EESC

15:00 – 15:15             Introduction to NEEDS: how the project helps facing the challenges of the future energy systems

                                    Andrea Ricci, NEEDS Coordinator, ISIS, Rome

 

15:15 – 15:35             Future technology options for electricity generation: technical trends, costs and environmental performance

                                   Wolfram Krewitt, DLR, Stuttgart, Germany

 

15:35 – 15:55            The external and social costs of energy technologies

Rainer Friedrich, IER University, Stuttgart, Germany

 

15:55 – 16:10             Debate

 

16:10 – 16:30             Coffee Break

 

Chair: Edgardo Iozia, EESC

16:30 – 17:00             Energy scenarios for the future and policy implications

Vincenzo Cuomo, IMAA-CNR, Potenza, Italy; Socrates Kypreos PSI, Villigen, Switzerland

 

17:00 – 17:20             Technology assessment under stakeholder perspectives

                                    Stefan Hirschberg, PSI, Villigen, Switzerland

 

17:20 – 17:35             Policy conclusions and recommendations: elements of a sustainable energy policy

                                    Andrea Ricci, NEEDS Coordinator, ISIS, Rome

 

17:35 – 17:50             Debate

 

17:50 – 18:00             Conclusions

Derek Osborn, EESC

 

18:00 – 19:30             Cocktail offered by the NEEDS project

 

17 February – Day 2: R&D Session

 

09:00 – 09:30             Introduction to NEEDS

Andrea Ricci, NEEDS Coordinator, ISIS, Rome

 

09:30 – 10:10             Life cycle based approaches for the assessment of innovative energy technologies

                                    Rolf Frischknecht, ESU-services, Uster, Switzerland

 

10:10 – 10:50             Private, external and social cost calculations for energy life cycles

Philippe Preiss, Markus Blesl, IER University, Stuttgart, Germany

 

10:50 – 11:20             Coffee Break

 

11:20 – 12:00             New External Costs Calculation for Extraction and Transport of Fuels

Sohbet Karbuz, OME, Paris

 

12:00 – 12:40              Generalisation - Aggregation - Transferability

                                    Philippe Preiss, IER University, Stuttgart, Germany;

                                   Milan Scasny, CUEC, Prague, Czech Republic

 

12:40 – 14:00             Lunch Break

 

14:00 – 14:40                 The NEEDS TIMES Pan EU modelling platform and  main results of    scenario analysis

Vincenzo Cuomo, IMAA-CNR, Potenza, Italy; Markus Blesl, IER University, Stuttgart, Germany; Denise Van Regemorter, KUL, Leuven, Belgium

 

14:40 – 15:20             Energy Technology Roadmap & Stakeholders Perspectives

                                    Stefan Hirschberg, PSI, Villigen, Switzerland

 

15:20 – 16:00             Geographical Extension and Cost Benefit Analysis

                                   Jan Melichar, CUEC, Prague, Czech Republic

Stεle Navrud, SWECO, Oslo, Norway

 

16:00 – 16:20             Coffee Break

 

16:20 – 16:50             Integrated Framework for Sustainable Energy Policies, current and future (The Integrated NEEDS Toolbox)

                                    Andrea Ricci, NEEDS Coordinator, ISIS, Rome

Richard Loulou, KANLO, Lyon, France

 

16:50 – 17:00             Conclusions

                                    Andrea Ricci, NEEDS Coordinator, ISIS, Rome