09:00-11:00: Opening Plenary Session – Zeremoniensaal
„Energy and the current crisis“

Chair: Reinhard HAAS (AAEE, Vienna University of Technology)

Welcome:

·                   Hans AUER (AAEE, Vienna University of Technology)

·                   Michael PAULA (Austrian Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology)

·                   Sabine SEIDLER (Vice-rector, Vienna University of Technology)

 

Key-note presentations:

 

“ENERGY, SPECULATION & THE FINANCIAL CRISIS”

 

·                   Fatih BIROL (Chief Economist of the IEA)

·                   Georg ERDMANN (President of the IAEE, Technical University of Berlin)

 

11:30-13:00: Dual Plenary I A - Zeremoniensaal
“WHAT DRIVES The oil price UP AND DOWN? DEMAND, PHYSICAL LIMITS AND/OR SPECULATION?”

Chair: Mine K. YÜCEL (USAEE)

·                     Reinhard HAAS (Vienna University of Technology)

·                     Joseph M. DUKERT (Energy Analyst, USAEE President)

·                     Behrooz ABDOLVAND (Free University of Berlin, Germany)

 

 

11:30-13:00: Dual Plenary I B – Rittersaal
“DRIVE Innovations AND technical efficiencY IMPROVEMENTS energy consumption UP OR DOWN?”

Chair: Lukas Kranzl (Vienna University of Technology)

·                     Joachim SCHLEICH (ISI, Fraunhofer Institute of Systems and Innovation Research)

·                     Christian von Hirschhausen (Dresden University of Technology)

·                     Reinhard MADLENER (RWTH Aachen University)

 

 

 

 

12.00-13.30: Dual Plenary II A - Zeremoniensaal
“European energy and CO2 policies and strategies at crossroads: WILL THE TRY&ERROR STRATEGY EVER SUCEED?”

Chair: Roberto MALAMAN (Italian Electricity Regulatory Authority)

·                   Pantelis CAPROS (National Technical University of Athens)

·                   Aviel VERBRUGGEN (University of  Antwerp)

·                   Benjamin HOBBS (John Hopkins University, USA)

 

 

12:00-13:30: Dual Plenary II B – Rittersaal
“Sustainable transport systems – BIOFUELS, ELECTRIC VEHICLES, INCREASING EFFICIENCY – IS THERE ANY SILVER BULLET?”

Chair: Amela AJANOVIC (Vienna University of Technology)

·                   Myrsini CHRISTOU (Centre for Renewable Energy Sources)

·                   Charles RAUX (Laboratoire d'Economie des Transports, Université Lyon)

·                   Martine UYTERLINDE (Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands)

 

 

 

15.00-16.30: Dual Plenary III A – Rittersaal
“Electricity and Natural Gas markets: HOW MUCH REGULATION NEEDS LIBERALISATION?”

CHAIR: Einar HOPE (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)

·                   David NEWBERY (University of Cambridge)

·                   Ignacio PEREZ-ARRIAGA (Comillas University)

·                   Jean-Michel GLACHANT (University of Paris XI)

 

 

15:00-16:30: Dual Plenary III B – Zeremoniensaal
“HOW TO PromotE renewables effectively AND EFFICIENTLY”

CHAIR: Jaroslav KNAPEK (Technical University in Prague)

·                     Gustav RESCH (EEG, Vienna University of Technology)

·                     Eirik AMUNDSEN (University of Copenhagen)

·                     Karsten NEUHOFF (University of Cambridge)

 

 

 

 

10:45 -12:15: Dual Plenary IV A - Rittersaal
“STRATEGIES FOR Enhancing energy supply security --  JUST POTEMKIN’S VILLAGES?”

Chair: Hans Auer (Vienna University of Technology)

·                     Jeroen DE JOODE (Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands)

·                    Manfred HAFNER (FEEM, Italy)

·                    Gerhard MANGOTT (University of Innsbruck)

 

 

10:45-12:15: Dual Plenary IV B - Zeremoniensaal
“Will the financial crisis kill the nuclear renaissance?”

Chair: Aviel Verbruggen (University of Antwerp)

·                     Hans-Holger ROGNER (IAEA, Vienna)

·                     Lutz MEZ (Free University of Berlin)

·                     Stephen THOMAS (University of Greenwich)

 

 

15:30-17:00: Closing Plenary - Zeremoniensaal
“Scenarios for global and local paths towards sustainable energy systems”

Chair: Georg ERDMANN (Berlin University of Technology)

·                   Nebojsa NAKICENOVIC (Vienna University of Technology)

·                   Gunnar LUNDBERG (Vattenfall, Sweden)

·                   Niels MEYER (Technical University of  Denmark)