8th Ukrainian Gas & Power Forum: New World Energy Architecture and Green Transition

REGISTRATION, WELCOMING COFFEE

08³⁰ – 09²⁰

GREETINGS FROM THE HONORABLE GUESTS OF THE EVENT

09³⁰ – 09⁵⁵

• Oleksiy Danilov (Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine)
• Artur Lorkowski (Director, Energy Community Secretariat)
• Torben Brabo (President, Gas Infrastructure Europe)

PANEL I.

UKRAINIAN GAS MARKET: FROM PRODUCTION TO THE END CONSUMER. WAYS OF DEVELOPMENT. DISCUSSION.

Moderator: Andrian Prokip (Senior Associate, Kyiv office of Kennan Institute)

10⁰⁰ – 11³⁰

Speakers:

• Dmytro Lyppa (CEO, Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine)
• Yuriy Reva (Head of the Department of International Relations and Relations with Investors, Naftogaz of Ukraine)
• Maksym Nemchinov (Independent expert)
• Andriy Mizovets (President, Association “Gas traders of Ukraine”)
• Artem Petrenko (Executive Director, Association of gas producers of Ukraine)
• Vitaliy Vitryk (Director General, “Drilling equipment” company (Burova technika))
• Mykhailo Krutikhin (Independent expert)

Topics for discussion:

• Regulation and competition. Where is the balance? How the war has affected gas demand structure in Ukraine: industrial, residential, social sectors
• “Naftogaz of Ukraine” group. What is the main purpose of the company’s activity as well as the main tasks during the war and after victory?
• The role of OGTSOU.
• Problems and successes of gas production in Ukraine. Investment attraction. New drilling technologies. The ban on the export of natural gas of Ukrainian origin.
• Gazprom’s exit from Europe: consequences for Ukraine.
• Organization of the gas market. Wholesale and retail.
• What will be the gas balance of Ukraine in 2023-2024?
• New horizons of the Ukrainian gas production.

PANEL II.

REGULATORY AND MARKET RISKS FOR THE SUPPLY OF ENERGY RESOURCES. DISCUSSION.

Moderator: Olena Antonova (ECRB electricity expert)

11⁴⁰ – 13²⁰

Speakers:

• Dennis Hesseling (Head of Gas, Coal & Power Markets Division, International Energy Agency)
• Oleksandr Kosianchuk  (Director,  Department of regulation of relations in the oil and gas sector), tbc
• Georg Zachmann (Senior Fellow, Bruegel)    
• András Hujber (Deputy Head of Unit, Directorate-General for Energy of the European    Commission)
• Oleksii Dubovskyi (Chairman of the Exchange Committee, Ukrainian Energy Exchange)
• Jan Haizzmann (Managing Director, Correggio Consulting)
• Joaquin Garcia Gimenez (Market Monitoring Officer – Infrastructure, Gas and Retail Department, ACER)
• Kathrine Stannov (Subject Manager, Transparency, ENTSO-G)
• Frank Reyer (System Operation Committee Vice-Chairman, ENTSO-E)

Topics for discussion:

• Reform of the EU electricity market and implications for Ukraine.
• Domestic energy resources market correction mechanism for households – is it needed? If so, which one?
• What does the introduction of REMIT in Ukraine means in terms of market transparency? How could reporting of transactions be materialized?
• Availability of LNG in Eastern Europe in the short and long term. How can Ukraine benefit from the new supplies and neighboring routes?
• Exchange trading of natural gas in Ukraine and Eastern European countries.
• Implementation of the plans of the EU, Energy Community and Ukraine regarding gas storage in UGS – how difficult is it going to be? Potential benefits and risks this year and in the future.
• From emergency synchronization to extensive integration of the Ukrainian power system in the Continental Europe synchronous area.
• The effect of the EU’s Joint Purchasing Gas platform – is it a necessary tool? If so, what is the place of Ukraine here?
• Lessons learned from wartime degradation to infrastructure for Ukraine’s choices in terms of energy mix in terms of power generation, energy for heating.
• The EU wholesale and retail market aspects.
• Ukraine’s future energy demand.

LUNCH

13³⁰ – 14²⁰

PANEL III. 

AREAS OF COOPERATION BETWEEN EU AND UKRAINE. RENEWABLE ENERGY. DISCUSSION.

Moderator: Oleksiy Orzhel (Head of the Kyiv office of the Secretariat of the Energy Community)

14³⁰ – 15⁵⁰

Speakers:

• Andriy Zhupanin (Committee on Energy, Housing and Utility Services, Ukrainian Parliament)
• Milan Sedlacek (Head of EU affairs and Strategy, Eustream)
• Klaus-Dieter Borchardt (Senior Energy Advisor, Baker & McKenzie CVBA/SCRL)
• Dr. Susanne Nies (Project Lead Green Deal Ukraina, Helmholtz Center Berlin)
• Maciej Zaniewicz (Senior Analyst, Forum Energii)
• Viktória Kardosné dr. Mészáros (Green Transition Office Manager, FGSZ Földgázszállító Zrt.)
• Sergiu Brasoveanu (expert, DGNPP) 
• Yaroslav Kryl (CEO, Hydrogen Ukraine)
• Willem Coppoolse (Group Director, Energy Resources of Ukraine)

Topics for discussion:

• Adaptation of European legislation on biomethane, hydrogen and other synthetic gases in Ukraine. Readiness for cooperation.
• Central European hydrogen corridor.
• Polish-Ukrainian and EU-UA potential for cooperation.
• Market of renewable gases in Ukraine. State and prospects of the development of renewable gases.
• Renewable energy sources in Ukraine for the winter period 2023-24: what is possible?
• How to ensure the transparency and data integration into the EU global tracking system for renewable gases?
• Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: what could be the negative impact on Ukraine exports into the EU 27 be assessed and how could the negative impact be mitigated?
• Security of Supply & the Reverse Flow on the Trans-Balkan Route.
• The Reform of the European Gas and Hydrogen market and its impact on Ukraine.

PANEL IV.

THE WORLD IS CHANGING. PLACE OF UKRAINE ON THE WORLD ENERGY MAP. DISCUSSION.

Moderator: Aura Sabadus (Senior Energy Journalist, ICIS)

16⁰⁰ – 17³⁰

Speakers:

• John E. Herbst (Amb., Senior Director of Eurasia Centre, Atlantic Council)
• Sergiy Korsunsky (Amb. Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Japan) tbc
• Mithat Rende (Amb.(R) Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey)
• Andriy Gerus (Chairman of the Committee on Energy, Housing and Utility  Services, Ukrainian Parliament)
• Volodymyr Kudrytskyi (Chairman of the Management Board (NPC Ukrenergo)
• Olga Khakova (Deputy Director for European Energy Security, Global Energy Center)
• Yuliya Kovaliv (Amb. Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Canada) tbc
• Suriya Jayanti (Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council; CEO, Denetek LLC)
• Olena Pavlenko (President, DiXi Group)

Topics for discussion:

• Ukraine on the world energy map. Global trends and national interests of Ukraine. What can Ukraine offer and what does it need?
• Priorities of Ukrainian energy diplomacy and ways of its implementation.
• Energy partnership (including the example of cooperation in the field of nuclear energy) and support of Ukrainian energy security from the world’s leading countries.
• Ukraine in the modern geopolitical space.

CONCLUSIONS OF THE FIRST DAY. СOFFEE.

17⁴⁰ – 18⁰⁰

 

WELCOMING COFFEE.

09²⁰ – 09⁵⁰

PANEL V.

NEW ENERGY. BIOMETHANE. THE GREAT SHIFT TO GREEN GASES:  NEW REALITY OR FANTASIES OF THE FUTURE? DISCUSSION.

Moderator: Oleksandr Dombrovskyi (President, Global 100 RE Ukraine)

10⁰⁰ – 11³⁰

Speakers:

• Georgiy Geletukha (Chairman of the Board, Bioenergy Association of Ukraine)
• Roman Maliutin (temporarily acting CEO, Ukrtransgaz)
• Frank Hofmann (Consultant International Affairs, German Biogas Association)
• Andriy Konechenkov (Chairman of the Board, Ukrainian Wind Energy Association)
• Hennadiy Zhuk (Director, The Gas Institute NAS of Ukraine)
• Giulia Laura Cancian (Secretary General, European Biogas association)
• Kyrylo Kostogryz (Deputy Director for Science, Gas Institute of Ukraine)
• Marta Halabala (Counsel, Law Firm “Asters”)

Topics for discussion:

• Presentation on Ukraine’s biogas/green hydrogen potential: how much can be produced realistically, and at what cost (before subsidies).
• Green gas as an object of regulatory framing (Ukraine, EU, World).
• Extraction/production, transportation, storage and consumption of biogas in Ukraine. Forecasting the Future: The 2030 Green/Natural Gas Balance.
• Integrating Ukraine in Europe’s green ecosystem. Steps towards alignment.
• Operating energy markets during the green transition. Challenges and benefits.
• What will Ukraine’s future energy sector look like? What role for wind, solar, biogas, biomethane and hydrogen, storage stations, distributed generation and how to rebuild the entire energy infrastructure of Ukraine?
• Gas hubs in Eastern and Central Europe. Cooperation and prospects of association.
• Successful lessons learnt from countries on their ways towards decarbonization of their industries.
• Postwar reconstruction: an opportunity to reform and decarbonize the electricity market?
• Biogas and biomethane market development in Europe with focus on Germany.
• Green Energy for Ukraine: From Biomethane to Hydrogen – legislative regulation and challenges.
• Perspectives of export of the Ukrainian biomethane to the EU countries
• Domestic technologies for the production of biomethane and bringing it to the level of a commercial product.

PANEL VI.

PHYSICAL AND CYBER RISKS TO ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE. LESSONS LEARNT FROM UKRAINE. DISTRIBUTED GENERATION. DISCUSSION.

Moderator: Ivan Grygoruk (Vice-president, Energy Club)

11⁴⁰ – 13⁰⁰

Speakers:

• Sergii Kolosov (Deputy Director General for Development, Enpaselectro)
• Igor Petryk (Business Development Director, Wärtsilä Energy Solutions, East Europe)
• Gareth Davies (Managing Director, Aquatera)
• Régis Le Drézen (General Secretary, Think SmartGrids Association)
• Sergiy Iermilov (member of the Council of Experts on the Energy Security at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine)
• Sergiy Galagan (CIO, NPC Ukrenergo)
• Andriy Pylypchuk (Director of IT and communications, Cherkasyoblenergo)
• Roman Sologub (CEO, Information Systems Security Partners)

Topics for discussion:

• What can Ukraine teach Europe in terms of dealing with extreme infrastructure risks? The struggle for energy supply resilience. Success stories and review of mistakes.
• The Energy Community’s critical role in helping Ukraine secure equipment – lessons learnt.
• How vulnerable is Europe’s energy infrastructure? Energy infrastructure vulnerability assessment. What can be done to address this vulnerability?
• French experience of smart grids, costs, return on investment, opportunities for renewable energies.
• Mandatory reserves of critical energy equipment and uniform classification of equipment – a new area for the EU policy makers’ intervention? If so, what are the mechanisms?
• Concrete steps to eliminate the vulnerability of the Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
• Distributed generation projects implemented in Ukraine.
• Integrated energy systems – a successful example of the ReFLEX project in Orkney, Scotland.
• How will energy network construction codes and good practices evolve following the physical destruction brought by war (and natural catastrophes) ?
• Cyber security of energy networks, power stations – what is important?

LUNCH

13¹⁰ – 14⁰⁰

PANEL VII.

RESTORATION OF THE UKRAINIAN ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE. DISCUSSION.

Moderator: Oleksandr Chalyi (President, Grant Thornton Ukraine) 

14¹⁰ – 15³⁰

Speakers:

• Oleg Terletskyi (Member of the Supervisory Board, Ukrhydroenergo)
• Nataliya Katser-Buchkovska (Co-Founder, Ukrainian Sustainable Fund, energy expert)
• Olga Yeriomina (Associate Director, Senior Banker, EBRD)
• Stephanie Gil (Practice Manager, Energy and Extractives Global Practice, World Bank)
• Marc-Antoine Eyl Mazzega (Director, Center for Energy, French Institute of International Relations)

Topics for discussion:

• Examples from history after the post-war reconstruction of destroyed infrastructure. Reconstruction or construction?
• Creation of energy clusters as a mechanism for restoring and optimizing energy supply.
• Investment potential to restore Ukraine’s infrastructure- funds, loans, programs, grants.
• The role of financial institutions and banks, in particular, in ensuring the restoration processes of Ukraine.
• The ability of the Ukrainian economy to develop significant financial resources, starting from the management structures necessary for the development of complex projects and the execution of contracts, as well as the formation of labor resources required by profession and number.
• New technologies and know-how in the construction and reconstruction of the energy storage-transportation-distribution chain infrastructure. Best practices, strategies and recommendations for Ukraine.
• Turning destructions into opportunities, or how to “build back better” Ukraine’s energy infrastructure: hydropower – Ukrainian perspective.
• Problems with connecting of the new industries and enterprises to the existing energy capacities.
• Prospects of the atomic industry.

PANEL VIII.

EXPERTS TALK ABOUT UKRAINIAN.

Moderator: Petro Bilyan (Chief editor, Energobusiness)

15⁴⁰ – 16⁴⁰

Speakers:

• Gennadii Riabtsev (Professor,  National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”)
• Volodymyr Omelchenko (Director, Energy Programmes, Razumkov Centre)
• Oleksiy Kushch (financial analyst, economic expert, Think Tank United Ukraine)
• Oleksandr Romaniuk (independent expert)
• Ihor Maskalevych (journalist, Zn.ua)
• Mykhailo Gonchar (President,  Centre for Global studies “STRATEGY XXI”) tbc

Topics for discussion:

• Current state of Ukrainian energy.
• Energy industry during martial law – centralization of power or market reforms?
• Recommendations for a successful heating season 23/24.
• Financial condition of the energy industry enterprises. What to do with the debts that keep piling up?
• Restoration of the energy infrastructure during the war, how to do it?
• What should be done to increase our own production?
• Prospects of the Ukrainian energy industry for the future. Plans and forecasts.

CONCLUSIONS OF THE SECOND DAY. COFFEE.

17⁰⁰ – 18⁰⁰