On Thursday and Friday, 16-17 November, we invite you at the Sheraton Hotel in Bucharest for the final conference of the “Energy Efficiency for Energy Transition” campaign that Energynomics is running together with the Romanian Energy Efficiency Fund – FREE and the Directorate for Energy Efficiency of the Ministry of Energy. The project is funded by Norwegian Grants 2014-2021. We are thus continuing, for the 7th year, our efforts to raise awareness of issues relevant to digitalization and increasing energy efficiency in Romania, bringing together representatives of local authorities with experts and companies ready to contribute to the development of the cities of the future.

For in-person participation, CLICK HERE!

At the same time, we plan to organize training sessions in a small format (Workshop) on the 16th and 17th of November. We would like to have professionals from technical departments of municipalities, local and county councils, and public utility companies, as well as energy managers, energy auditors, suppliers of solutions and equipment for energy efficiency measures and renewable energy production, financial experts, consultants, and students. Access will be free, but places will be limited!

Agenda

November 16

09:30 – 10:00 Registration

10:00 – 10:05 Introduction

10:05 – 10:20 Pavel-Casian Nițulescu, State Secretary, Ministry of Energy (tbc)

10:20 – 10:30 Ștefania Racolta-Cruceru, Associate Director, Head of Climate Strategy and Regional Delivery CSEE EBRD

10:30 – 10:40 Ana Maria Lupașcu, Senior Economist EIB/JAPSPERS

10:40 – 12:00 SESSION 1: Working together to finance energy projects

Public-private collaboration for urban development * Opportunities, obstacles, solutions * Digitalisation for public administrations and companies * Service integration * Waste management * Circular economy

• Adrian Ghiță, Executive Director, Romanian Fund for Energy Efficiency – FREE
• Dumitru Becșenescu, Președintele Antares Group
• Andreea Carp, Director EU Funds & Public Procurement, SPH3RA Management Solutions
• Gabriel Tache, Country Sales Manager, Eaton Romania
• Paul Moldovan, Public Administrator of Sector 6 of Bucharest Municipality

12:00 – 12:15 Coffee break

12:15 – 12:25 Pollyanna Hangan, Member of Parliament, Chamber of Deputies

12:25 – 12:35 Dr. Lucian Toma, Lecturer in the Faculty of Energetics, Department of Electroenergetic Systems, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania

12:35 – 13:45 SESSION 2: Renewable sources of energy

Digitization for successful companies * Renewables integration solutions * Encouraging prosumers through smart grid investments * Technology response to new energy trends * Green energy generation * Urban and inter-urban mobility solutions * Electric mobility and infrastructure * District heating * Building renovation

• Sebastian Babu, Key account manager la Ensys Renewable Solution
• Elena Popescu, CEO Elektra Renewable Support
• Dan Bandrabulă, Energy and Technical Facilities Manager Zentiva
• Răzvan Ilie, Area Sales Manager Volt

13:45 – 14:30 Lunch and networking

November 17

09:30 – 10:00 Registration

10:00 – 11:00 Workshop Sources and schemes for financing energy efficiency projects

Trainer: Adrian Ghiță, Executive Director, Romanian Fund for Energy Efficiency – FREE

The course presents the main funding mechanisms available at the national level for projects proposing energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions. It will present the factors that influence project indicators and their relevance in increasing the chances of accessing several sources of funding in parallel, either separately or through the integration of a complex financing scheme.

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45 Workshop Energy efficiency and energy transition for the local administration sector

Trainer: Dr. Corneliu Rotaru, senior expert in energy efficiency

The course presents the basic concepts and guidelines of national and European policy in the field of energy transition and aims to increase the capacity of local authorities for the necessary actions and use of technologies for increasing energy efficiency and for the energy management of localities. It will address topics such as databases and digitalization, new cooperation mechanisms between TAUs and energy communities to reduce the costs of investment preparation, and contracting of energy services, as well as new approaches to identify energy efficiency solutions (e.g. decentralized generation, smart metering, cost allocators).

12:45 – 13:00 Coffee break

13:00 – 14:30 Workshop Energy efficiency from opportunity to reality

Trainer: Dr. Andrei Ceclan, professor, senior energy consultant

The course aims to present case studies of opportunities and realized energy efficiency projects in industry and at the local level, focusing on key outcome indicators, including measured and verified impacts, financial and human resources committed, barriers and overcoming them, and lessons learned.

PARTICIPATION

Access to the conference is open to all those interested, based on confirmation of participation sent by the organizers.