Fri June 15, 2012 @ 9:00
Reinventing the energy landscape: Shaping a future sustainable retail energy business
Changes taking place in the energy industry landscape today mean business leaders must think about meeting tomorrow’s demands for power supplies.
Research and academia have an important role. Key topics include prospects and policies for sustainability, innovations in technology for power generation and storage, the role for consumers and the search for investment capital.
The Future Energy Business Forum in Rotterdam on Friday, 15 June 2012 is an opportunity for integrating viewpoints and expertise, networking and sharing knowledge.
This one-day event includes presentations, debates and discussions from leading policy makers, decision makers in business and academics – on the topic of robust, intelligent, efficient, and sustainable energy networks for the future.
The Energy Forum 2012 will be hosted by the Erasmus Centre for Future Energy Business and will take place at the floating Drijvend Paviljoen in Rotterdam’s central harbour district.
Schedule:
09:00 – Welcome
by Dean of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University,
Prof. Dr. Steef van de Velde
Opening Address
by Deputy Mayor for Sustainability, City of Rotterdam, Alexandra van Huffelen
Insights into the new German Energy Policy
by the German Ambassador to the Netherlands, Dr. Heinz-Peter Behr
Overview of Erasmus Centre for Future Energy Business
by Scientific Director Dr. Wolf Ketter
Benchmarking energy market strategies through competitive simulation
Research overview from the online research application ‘Power TAC’, the 2012 Power Trading Agent Competition, in which agents act as retail brokers to solve a supply chain problem to balance supply and demand. Includes a demonstration by Dr. Wolf Ketter and Power TAC Operation Chair Dr. John Collins from the University of Minnesota
Reinventing the Smart Grid: putting ‘prosumers’ at the centre of attention
Cassandra Energy project overview by Dr. Andreas Symeonidis. This is a cross-European project to create a platform for modelling the interactions of energy market stakeholders in the Smart Grid environment, predicting growth in smaller-scale energy production sites and their effect on the dynamics of the energy market. The project involves academic researchers, industrialists and entrepreneurs in seven countries.
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 – Industry presentations and discussions
Moderated Panel by Dr. Wolf Ketter
Panel discussion with representatives from industry, finance, policy, and academia, involving the audience
12:30 – Closing Remarks and Outlook
by Scientific Director Dr. Wolf Ketter
12:45 – Networking lunch and poster session
The Energy Forum 2012 will be hosted by the Erasmus Centre for Future Energy Business and will take place at the floating Drijvend Paviljoen in Rotterdam’s central harbour district.
More info: Erasmus Energy Forum
