N A T O

Advanced Research Workshop

 

Energy Options Impact

on Regional Security

 

 

 
 

 

17-20 June 2009

MedILS - Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences

Split, Croatia

 

Workshop Co-Directors:

Sergio Ulgiati, Energy and Environment Research Unit, Department of Sciences for the Environment, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy

Frano Barbir, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (FESB), University of Split, Croatia

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Based on the results of the previous Workshop (ARW on Sustainable Energy Production and Consumption and Environmental Costing, Naples, Italy July 1-4, 2007) this Workshop will continue to deal with energy, environment and sustainability issues, but in light of the energy options that the European and Mediterranean countries are facing and try to identify what economic, environmental, societal and regional security issues may come out of those options.

 

Urgent issues of energy security call for increased reliance on local resources, with special focus to development of cost effective solar and wind technologies for electricity production as well as to the role of agriculture for biomaterials and "green" energy supply. The use of thermal solar modules and devices should also be explored in depth, since a large part of energy demand occurs locally in the form of low and medium temperature heat. Energy security also calls for diversification of import supplies both in terms of quality and nature of energy resources (oil, natural gas, coal, etc) and areas from which resources come from. How such a diversification can be achieved and what are safe and effective infrastructures for this to happen is matter of urgent debate. This Workshop will address the technological, financial, legal and institutional barriers to a transition to an economy characterized by energy efficiency, increased use of renewable energies, increased matching of supply with use quality, globalization of energy market, higher security of energy supply as well as increased safety of energy generation facilities, transportation devices, energy use. 

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM:

1st day - Wednesday, 17. June 2009.

09:00 a.m.: Opening session by the Course Co-Directors.

Session on Energy Options

9:30 a.m.: Hans Schnitzer, Energy efficiency and renewables in production processes

10:15 a.m.: Frano Barbir, Role of hydrogen in renewable energy future

11:00 a.m.: Khalid Benhamou, Energy options for regional integration and development

11:45 a.m.: Niko Malbaša, Goals of the EU in using renewable energy and possibility of Croatia in realization of those goals

12:30 p.m. Lunch break

1:45 p.m.: Ljubomir Majdandžić, Potential and problems of solar energy utilization in Croatia

2:30 p.m.: Marco Raugei, Cadmium flows and emissions: CdTe PV friend or foe?

3:15 p.m.: Igor Winkler, Advances in small hydropower energy production in Ukraine

3:45 p.m.: Mihaela Lazarescu, Environmetal impact assessment of wind energy in Romania

4:15 p.m.: Discussion on energy options

 

2nd day - Thursday, 18. June 2009.

Session on multi-criteria analyses

9:00 a.m.: Sergio Ulgiati, Multicriteria analysis of energy options

9:45 a.m.: Eden Mamut, Multicriterial & multiscale modeling of the impact of R E S on regional sustainable development

10:30 a.m.: Sandrine Nonhebel, Agriculture for energy and/or food  

11:15 a.m.: Antonio Achille,  Electrical energy production by renewable sources: market, scenarios, opportunities, strategies; Renewable sources Energy COnsortium of Producers Project: could it be a good practice and a strategy to improve on rural areas

12:00 p.m. Lunch break

1:00 p.m.: Folke Günther, The possibilities for an eco-unit structured society to meet future energy and environmental challenges

1:45 p.m.: Discussion on multi-criteria analyses

3:00 p.m.: Field trip

 

3rd day - Friday, 19. June 2009.

Session on regional issues and security

Session on regional issues and security

9:00 a.m.: Tariq Muneer, Sustainable energy for world economies

9:45 a.m.: Francesca Allievi and Burkhard Auffermann, Changing energy production, emerging technologies and regional security

10:30 a.m.: Cornelia Ohl and Jan Monsees, Securing energy supply at the regional level – the case of wind farming in Germany

11:15 a.m.: Oleg Udovyk, Analysis of energy options impact on regional security

12:00 p.m. Lunch break

1:00 p.m.: Alexander Gorobets, Development in Ukraine, energy and security

1:45 p.m.: Goran Majstrović, The key aspects of electricity and natural gas supply in Croatia

2:30 p.m.: Zlatko Jankoski, Security of energy supply of Split and Dalmatia region

3:15 p.m.: Discussion on regional issues and security

04:00 p.m.: Free time

8:00 p.m.: Farewell Dinner

 

4th day - Saturday, 20. June 2009.

Session on sustainability and societal issues

9:00 a.m.: Mario Giampietro, Societal metabolism: Assessment of the quality of alternative energy sources

9:45 a.m.: Hella Tokos, Development of strategic scenarios and optimal structures for sustainable production of biofuels in Slovenia

10:30 a.m.: James Greyson, Inability of current policies to resolve worsening regional and global problems, including energy security

11:15 a.m.: Igor Matutinović, Energy security and the social use of energy

12:00 noon: Discussion on sustainability and societal issues; Closing remarks

1:00 p.m.: Lunch

 

Contacts:

Co-directors:

Sergio Ulgiati, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy

sergio.ulgiati@uniparthenope.it

Frano Barbir, University of Split, Croatia

fbarbir@fesb.hr

Local organizing team:

Ante Krstulović, Faculty of natural and mathematical sciences, University of Split, Croatia

krsta@pmfst.hr

Travel and accommodations:

Marijana Kostović, Generalturist d.o.o., Split, Croatia

Marijana Kostovic

 

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