The Challenge of Green Energy
The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) has the pleasure of inviting you to our seventh Energy Day. This year the focus will be on environmental aspects of energy. Over the last decades environmentally friendly energy has become a key challenge for society. Indeed, there is a pressing need to cut pollution and the emission of greenhouse gases in the face of climate change and environmental damage. However, a shift to a “greener” energy mix is inevitably costly. Besides, such a shift may potentially undermine energy security in many countries. How can we balance these different forces? What role should be played by national and supra-national regulation? What is required to make investments in green energy attractive? This Energy Day will bring together experts from the energy industry, financial sector, policy community and academia to discuss these challenges.
9.15-9.25 Registration
9.25-9.30 Welcome by Jesper Roine, Deputy Director, SITE 9.30-10.30 Greener Energy: benefits and trade-offs
Global Energy Dilemmas: energy security, globalisation and climate change
Michael J. Bradshaw, Professor of Human Geography, University of Leicester, UK Power System Challenges toward a 100 percent renewables
Silas Harbo, Danish Energy Association
Discussant: Elena Paltseva, Assistant Professor, SITE and New Economic School, Moscow 10.30-10.45 Coffee Break
10.45-11.45 Investing in Green Energy Future of Renewables in Russia
Grigory Dudarev, Managing director, Evli Russia Oy Developing Wind Energy in Ukraine
Fredrik Svinhufvud, Chairman, Vindkraft Ukraina Discussant: Chloé Le Coq, Assistant Professor, SITE Date: Thursday, November 21, 9.15 -11.45
Place: Stockholm School of Economics, Room TORSTEN
RSVP: Thursday, November 14, gun.malmquist@hhs.se, Phone: 08-736 96 72
