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Clean energy for EU islands forum 2021

This year’s Clean energy for EU islands forum took place on May 20 - 21. The event was a great success with around 270 participants and more than 50 speakers. Kadri Simson, European Commissioner for Energy, held an intriguing opening speech on the first day.

“The clean energy transition and our climate ambitions are not about stripping away our way of life. They are about evolving towards a new one. I don’t see it as a challenge to overcome, but an opportunity to be seized.  And I hope that all of you can see and embrace those opportunities for your islands.” - Kadri Simson

The EXPLORE area of the event was filled with various exhibitor booths that participants could browse through or engage with. There were 104 meeting requests during the two days of the forum.

If you want to have a more detailed overview of the forum and the sessions' content, have a look at this written and illustrated summary link

EU Islands have sent their energy transition story as a video to the Clean energy for EU islands secretariat. If you woud like to rewatch the trailer, take a look at the individual videos or get inspired, click here

During day two of the forum, the outcome of the Call for Technical Assistance was published and the chosen projects announced. For more information on the results of the call and the 20 selected projects, click here.  

Topics of sessions included how to enable funding and financing for islands’ clean energy transition projects. Day two of the event included online site visits to various successfully implemented clean energy island projects that gave an insight into challenges and lessons learned from the overall process. Engaging workshops that aimed at clarifying questions and promote projects’ development phases to the next level also took place on day two, followed by a project pitch.

The winners of this project pitch are, by public vote, the wave to energy project from Saint-Phillipe, La Réunion presented by Fanny Sauvignon and by expert vote, AquaBattery from Pantelleria in Italy presented by Juan-Sebastian Alvarez Rincon. 

 

 

Agenda & Slides

  1. DAY1 | 20 May 2021

    Program details

    1. 10:00 am - 10:15 am CEST
      Welcome to the Clean energy for EU islands forum

      Kadri Simson

    2. 10:15 am - 10:30 am CEST
      Keynote

      Tonino Picula

    3. 10:30 am - 10:45 am CEST
      Clean Energy for EU islands secretariat

      Jan Cornillie

    4. 10:45 am - 11:00 am CEST
      Call for action

      Message from the islands

    5. 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CEST
      Panel discussion

      Paula Pinho | Markku Markkula | Giuseppe Sciacca | Marino Mlacović | Maša Zbunjak | Jan Cornillie

    6. 12:00 pm – 12:15 pm CEST
      Enabling financing and funding for island energy transition

      Edita Dranseikaite | Kristina Čelić

    7. 01:00 pm – 02:00 pm CEST
      Expert lecture ACT

      Miquel Garcia Edo | Carlos Sanchez | Georg Houben | Jorge Rodrigues de Almeida

    8. 02:30 pm – 03:30 pm CEST
      Session EXPLORE

      Henrik Micski | Nuria Albet Torres | Riccardo Novo | Claudio Moscoloni | Pau de Vilchez Moragues

  2. DAY 2 | 21 May 2021

    Program details

    1. 10:00 am - 10:15 am CEST
      Welcome to the ACTION Day

      Simon De Clercq

    2. 10:15 am - 10:45 am CEST
      EXPLORE: Islands in Action

      Tina Gams-Fučić | Katarina Golubović | Maja Jurišić | Tanja Kremenić | Franjo Toić | Ugo Toić

    3. 10:45 am - 11:30 am CEST
      EXPLORE: Site visit | Samsø, Denmark

      Alexis Chatzimpiros | Søren Hermansen

    4. 11:30 am - 12:00 pm CEST
      Site visit talk:

      Alexis Chatzimpiros | Søren Hermansen | Ugo Toić | John Walsh

    5. 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm CEST
      Session SHAPE:

      Marina Montero Carrero | Andrea Martinez

    6. 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm CEST
      Workshop ACT

      Tadhq O’Briain | Nikos Ntaras | Riccardo Novo | Diogo Vasconcelos | Virge Pihel | Lucija Rakocevic

    7. 01:00 pm - 02:30 pm CEST
      Workshop ACT

      Catalina Spataru | Antonia Proka | Jorge Rodrigues de Almeida | Simon De Clercq

    8. 01:00 pm - 02:30 pm CEST
      Session ACT

      Carlos Moreira | Eckard Quitmann | Alberto Jorge Bernardo | Maria Jaen Caparros | Gabriele Rampinelli | João Peças Lopes

    9. 02:30 pm - 03:00 pm CEST
      Wrap-up & Reporting back from the workshops

      Simon De Clercq | Carlos Moreira | Lucija Rakocevic | Marina Montero Carrero

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