Conference Topics

Electricity market policies, structures and rules

• Structure of electricity markets
• Integration of electricity markets
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Energy policies
• Security of supply
• Power generation strategic planning
• Regulation of transmission and distribution systems
• Capacity and ancillary services markets
• Market power and market strategies
• Electricity markets modeling and simulation
• Market monitoring

Transmission and distribution systems

• System operation planning in market environment
• Network congestion management
• Ancillary services
• Real time balancing
• Inter TSO compensation
• Crossborder trading and tariffs
• Nodal pricing
• Cost of losses
• Power quality
• Unbundling of distribution business
• Last resort suppliers

Renewable energies, distributed generation (DG) and Smart Grids

• DG technologies
• Impact of renewable energies and DG on networks
• Real costs of renewable energies and DG development
• Imbalances caused by renewable energies and DG: areas, markets and trading
• Incentives to investment in renewable energies and DG
• Impact of renewable energies and DG on security of supply
• Energy storage
• Smart Grid technologies
• Efficient integration of renewables and DG by using Smart Grids

Towards a fully functioning IEM

• European regulation
• Investments in the transmission system
• Impact of new technologies on IEM (FACTS/HVDC)
• Merchant investments
• Incentives for investments
• ACER, ENTSO-E and G and the new EU regulatory framework
• Cross-border issues
• International coordination and co-operation
• Stakeholders vision on future power systems

Gas, carbon and financial markets

• Natural gas markets
• CO2 emissions trading, CDM and JI
• Green certificate markets
• Risk management in energy markets
• Futures, forwards and others derivatives in energy markets