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Matchmaking Session

EE & RES Congress & Exhibition

Al Gore Film “The Inconvenient Truth”

Opening:

Svend Brandstrup, Director of the board AEBIOM European Biomass Association, Denmark,

Raffaello Garofalo, Secretary General EBB - European Biodiesel Board, Belgium

Representatives of Bulgarian Ministries

EU Biomass & biofuel policy and legislation

Moderator: Svend Brandstrup, Director of the board AEBIOM European Biomass Association, Denmark,

• Alexandra Langenheld, European Commission DG Transport and Energy, Belgium; The current EU biofuels policy and the overall EU energy policy - The vision for biofuels, how the EU policy creates a clear pathway to a viable long term industry

• Raffaello Garofalo, Secretary General EBB - European Biodiesel Board, Belgium The biodiesel industry and the latest EU legislation

• Svend Brandstrup,Chairman of the board DANBIO (Danish Biomass Association), Denmark, European policy developments in biomass and bioenergy. Vision of AEBIOM

• Randy Mott, Regional Environmental Coordinator, CEC Government Relations – Poland/USA - Legal solutions to market obstacles for accelerated use of biomass fuel; Legal оbstacles to biofuel development in Bulgaria

Legislation, fiscal regimes , supply-chain and market structures for bio fuels in the transport. “Second generation” biofuels

Moderator: Raffaello Garofalo, Secretary General EBB - European Biodiesel Board, Belgium

• Frank Scillig, Ecofys, Germany - Biofuels in Europe – opportunities for the South East Europe

• Eirini Peitzika, Agricultural Economics and Policy Research Institute, NAGREF, Greece - Organisation and Efficency of Biofuel Supply Chains in Greece: From Crop to Energy production

• Boyan Kavalov, European Commission, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre, Institute for Energy, Clean Energies Unit, ACETech, Netherlands - A brief overview of Biomass-to Liquid (BTL) fuels

• Prof. Dr. Engin Ture, Director, Sponsored Programmes, UNIDO-ICHET, Turkey - Prospect of Hydrogen Energy: Damage by fossil fuels; General view of world energy consumption; The need for hydrogen energy; advantages and disadvantages of hydrogen energy; Hydrogen production; from mainly renewable energy sources; Hydrogen safety issues; Hydrogen energy systems and economy

• Velimir Segon, Energy Institute Hrvoje Pozar, Croatia - Recent Developments in Croatian Biofuels Industry

• Miryana E. Misheva, Dimitar Zamfirov, National Biofuels and Renewable Energy Sources Association, Bulgaria – Main factors influencing the national targets for encouragement the biofuels usage in Bulgaria.

Agriculture and Energy – Energy Crops. Farmers as bioenergy producers

Moderator: Anna Aladjadjian, - Vice Rector Agriculture University, Bulgaria

• Prof. Ion Stroia, Scientific Secretary Institute for Food Research, Romania – From the Agriculture Raw Materials as Energy Crops to Bioethanol

• Anna Aladjadjian, Vice Rector Agriculture University, Bulgaria The potential of the Bulgarian Agriculture concerning the biomass supply for energy

Round Table: How to Create Investment Opportunities and to Attract capital?

Moderator: Randy Mott, Regional Environmental Coordinator, CEC Government Relations

• Magda Kmiecik, FutureCamp GmbH, Germany - Opportunities for Renewables on the Carbon Market

• Rosa Tarrago, Center of Competence for Renewable Energies, Commerzbank AG Germany, - Are capital markets a useful tool to contribute to the diffusion potential of renewable energies?

• Vasil Simov, Director Sofia Stock Exchange, Bulgaria

• Dimitar Brankov, Director Clean Industry Center, BIA, Bulgaria

Matchmaking Session, EE & RES Exhibition

Matchmaking Session

EE & RES Congress & Exhibition

Al Gore Film “The Inconvenient Truth”

Heating and cooling using biomass

Moderator: Ing. Daniel Minev, Area Sales Manager GE Energy Jenbacher Gas Engine, Bulgaria

• Ella Stengler, Managing Director of CEWEP (Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants), Belgium, Heating and Lighting from Waste-(To-Energy)

• Martina Sumenjak, SLOBIOM – Slovenian Biomass Association , Slovenia, EU Pellets Market

• Prof. Giacomo Bizzarr, University of Ferrara, Faculty of Architecture, Italy - South-Eastern European Biomass Energy Market: Highlightening Potential Envisioning Perspectives

• Nikolay Yosifov, Vasko Velkov, Dyavach Ltd., Bulgaria - Mobile Technology for production of Efficient Densficated Biofuels.

• Michael Temmerman, VALBIOM Walloon Agricultural Research Center, Belgium, Pellets Physical and mechanical properties

• Julije Domac, Energy Institute Hrvoje Pozar, Croatia - Charcoal Industry in Croatia - First Results of a FAO TCP Project

Electricity Generation from Bioenergy

• Frank Scillig, Ecofys, Germany - Business opportunities for energy utilities in the field of bioenergy

Waste – to – Energy

Moderator: Martina Sumenjak, SLOBIOM – Slovenian Biomass Association , Slovenia,

• Horst Muller, Muller Abfallprojekte Gmbh, Austria - 3A-biogas; Three step fermentation of solid state biowaste for biogas production and sanitation

• Ing. Daniel Minev, Area Sales Manager GE Energy Jenbacher Gas Engine, Bulgaria - Jenbacher gas engines – cogeneration (CHP) with biogas and landfill gas.

• Dr. Ing. Maria Nacheva, Enviro-Chemie, Bulgaria - Biogas production during treatment of highly contaminated waste water

• Sebastian Wahe, Kalin Ignatov, Amandus Kahl, Germnay, Amandus Kahl plants for recycling - turning the RES into the ecology products

• Dr. Risto V. Filkoski, University “Sts Cyril and Methodius", FYRO Macedonia - Waste Biomass for Energy Purposes in Macedonia: Some Regional Aspects

• Ognen Dimitrov, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Skopje, FYRO Macedonia - Municipal Waste in the Republic of Macedonia as Energy Resource

• Olexander Tashirev, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Utilization of municipal wastes with methane or hydrogen production

• Alan Sherrard, Elmia AB, Sweden - Growing interest for waste-to-energy solutions in Sweden