RegEnergy Midterm Conference

Online event

20 May 2021

Midterm Conference

Renewable Energy Regions

Creating Partnerships for Renewable Energy


On 20 May 2021 the Midterm Conference of the „RegEnergy“ project was successfully hosted by Climate Alliance as an online event. Project partners, municipalities, non-profit organisations, regional authorities, energy agencies and cooperatives, renewable energy providers, consultancies, policy and science joined the conference.

Participants got an insight of the challenges faced by European stakeholders involved in the building of renewable energy partnerships, discovered inspiring ideas and had the opportunity to network with European actors working for the energy transition. A fruitful exchange of ideas and perspectives on partnerships for renewable energy within urban and rural areas was fostered during a roundtable session, a workshop on three different topics, the project partners’ poster slams and additional networking sessions in groups. The main focus of the conference was set on solutions and problems regarding urban rural partnerships for production, distribution and organisation of renewable energies.

Agenda

9:45 – 10:00

Registration and connection tests
10:00 – 10:45

Welcome

  • Tarek Al-Wazir | Hessian Minister of Economics, Energy, Transport and Housing
  • Thomas Brose | Executive Director, Climate Alliance

  • RegEnergy - what is it about?
    Hélène Rizzotti | Climate Alliance
    Birgit Haupter | INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT     
10:45 – 12:00

Roundtable: Insights into the challenges of renewable energy partnerships

  • Albert Vendrell Roca | Barcelona Provincial Council – Diputació de Barcelona (ES)
  • Oliver Arendt | HAW Hamburg (DE)
  • Stefan Drexlmeier | Energiewende Oberland (DE)
  • Susanne Supper | Green Energy Lab, Vienna (AT)
12:00 – 12:15 Coffee break
12:15 – 13:15

Workshop: Overcoming the barriers preventing cooperation for renewable energy

  • Understanding and supporting regional transformation processes in Germany
    Jenny-Claire Keilmann | Climate Alliance (DE)
    Marcus Andreas | Climate Alliance (DE)
  • Innovative contract between city and countryside – Brest métropole and the county of Central West Brittany (France)
    Sylvie Mingant | Brest Métropole (FR)
    Alexandre Guirinec | ALECOB (FR)
  • Energy communities as drivers for regional renewable energy – examples from Belgium and Germany
    Tom Schaeken | Interreg Project ECCO Energy Community Cooperatives,  Innovatiesteunpunt (BE)
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch break
14:15 – 15:40

Poster Slam & Networking

  • Room 1:
    Regional network for 100 % renewable energies 
    Edgar Bazing | Climate Alliance (DE)

    Win-win urban-rural partnership
    Alexandre Guirinec | ALECOB (FR)

  • Room 2:
    Community-owned renewable energy
    Dan Turner | Plymouth City Council and Plymouth Energy Community (UK)

    Enhancing Community Partnership
    Paddy Phelan | 3cea (IE)

  • Room 3:
    Creating a biogas network
    Yorick Schigt | Waterstromen (NL)

    Making biomethane available
    Michael Murphy | Ormonde Upgrading Limited (IE)

  • Room 4:
    CO2 neutral research park
    Marc Vermeeren | Flux50 (BE)

    Photovoltaic and e-mobility
    Geoffrey Orlando | PLANAIR (CH)
     
    Technical and regulatory progresses
    Sean Lyons | Waterford Institute for Technology (IE)

15:40 – 15-45 Closing
Links & Downloads

Roundtable

Insights into the challenges of renewable energy partnerships

 

Susanne Supper | Green Energy Lab, Vienna (AT)
susanne.supper(at)greenenergylab.at

Green Energy Lab
News
Publications
Videos


 

Oliver Arendt | HAW Hamburg (DE)
oliver.arendt(at)haw-hamburg.de

HAW Hamburg
NEW 4.0
Netzampel

Stefan Drexlmeier | Energiewende Oberland (DE)
drexlmeier(at)energiewende-oberland.de

Energiewende Oberland
Project INOLA
Action plan PDF

 

 

Albert Vendrell Roca | Barcelona Provincial Council – Diputació de Barcelona (ES)
vendrellra(at)diba.cat

Barcelona Provincial Council

 

 

 

Workshops

Overcoming the barriers preventing cooperation for renewable energy

 

Transform-R

Understanding and supporting regional transformation
processes in Germany

Jenny-Claire Keilmann | Climate Alliance (DE)
j-c.keilmann(at)climatealliance.org

Marcus Andreas | Climate Alliance (DE)
m.andreas(at)klimabuendnis.org

Transform-R

 

 

Brest Métropole, France

Innovative contract between city and countryside – Brest métropole and the county of Central West Brittany (France)

Sylvie Mingant | Brest Métropole (FR)
sylvie.mingant(at)brest-metropole.fr

Brest Métropole 

Alexandre Guirinec | ALECOB (FR)
alexandre.guirinec.alecob(at)gmail.com

ALECOB

Interreg Project ECCO Energy Community Cooperatives, Innovatiesteunpunt

Energy communities as drivers for regional renewable energy – examples from BE and DE

Tom Schaeken | Interreg Project ECCO Energy Community Cooperatives, Innovatiesteunpunt (BE)
tom.schaeken(at)innovatiesteunpunt.be

ECCO

ECCO one-stop-shop and ECCO timeline

Innovatiesteunpunt

About Innovatiesteunpunt (PDF)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poster Slam & Networking

A regions network for 100% renewable energies
Edgar Bazing | Climate Alliance (DE)
e.bazing(at)klimabuendnis.org

Climate Alliance

 

Win-win urban-rural partnership
Alexandre Guirinec | ALECOB (FR)
alexandre.guirinec.alecob(at)gmail.com

ALECOB

 

Community-owned renewable energy
Dan Turner | Plymouth City Council and Plymouth Energy Community (UK)
Dan.Turner(at)plymouth.gov.uk

Plymouth City Council

 

Enhancing Community Partnership
Paddy Phelan | 3cea (IE)
pphelan(at)3cea.ie

3cea

 

Creating a biogas network
Yorick Schigt | Waterstromen (NE)
y.schigt(at)waterstromen.nl

Waterstromen

Making biomethane available
Michael Murphy | Ormonde Upgrading Limited (IE)
mmurphy(at)@ormondeorganics.ie

Ormonde Upgrading Limited

 

CO2 neutral research park
Marc Vermeeren | Flux50 (BE)
marc.vermeeren(at)flux50.com

Flux50

 

Photovoltaic and e-mobility
Geoffrey Orlando | PLANAIR (CH)
geoffrey.orlando(at)planair.ch

PLANAIR

 

Technical and regulatory progresses
Sean Lyons | Waterford Institute for Technology (UK)
sean.lyons(at)waltoninstitute.ie

Waterford Institute of Technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contact

Hélène Rizzotti      | h.rizzotti@climatealliance.org
Susanne Brandt    | s.brandt@climatealliance.org

 

 

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