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We are glad to announce that prior to the Solar Heat Europe General Assembly and Elections, on 29 June from 10:00 to 17:00 Greek time, we will be hosting a full-day event in partnership with EBHE, the Greek solar thermal association.

This event, taking place at the prestigious Acropolis Museum, will serve as a platform to highlight the benefits of solar thermal in both small-scale and large-scale markets to policymakers, clients, and the media. Relevant topics will be discussed, such as market trends in Europe and Greece, the implementation of EU policies at the national level, and future steps in the different market segments.

This is an external event and as such we kindly invite and welcome all stakeholders interested in the topics to join us and contribute to the discussions.

*Invited

AGENDA

Moderators: George Findikakis, Marisol Oropeza

PART 1: Introductory

9:30 Arrival of participants

10:00 Opening and welcome

WELCOME

10:00 Christos Papaemmanouel - President of EBHE

10:05 Costas Travasaros - President of Solar Heat Europe

10:10 George Patoulis – Regional Governor of Attica

KEYNOTE SPEECH

10:20 Kostas Skrekas, Minister for Energy and the Environment

PART 1: Session 1

10:30 Thermal Solar in Greece and Europe

10:30 Matthieu Ballu, Policy officer, European Commission, DG Ener C Green Transition and Energy
System Integration

10:40 Pedro Dias, Policy Director, Solar Heat Europe – Solar thermal: market trends and key policy priorities at EU level

11:00 Harry Michalopoulos, Vice President of EBHE – The Greek perspective: intro to the Roadmap 2030

11:20 ROUND TABLE

Alexandra Sdoukou*, General Secretary of Energy and Mineral Resources, Ministry of Energy and Environment

Yannis Maniatis*, Professor, University of Piraeus, former Minister of Energy

Val├®rie S├®journ├®, Managing Director Solar Heat Europe

Pakis Papademetriou Head of Eurobank’s ESG Division

Christos Konstas, Executive Secretary of EBHE

12:45 NETWORKING LUNCH

PART 2 – Session 1

14:00 Decarbonising Buildings with solar thermal (small scale session)

This session will cover market trends at EU level, impact of the EU Solar mandate, as well as opportunities and challenges for the small scale markets (i.e. residential and commercial buildings)

INTRODUCTORY SPEECH

14:00 Robert Pinter, Manager Green & Healthy Buildings Europe, European Copper Institute

14:10 ROUND TABLE

Miguel Mattias, Commercial Director at Naked Energy

Edwige Porcheyre, Solar Thermal Project Coordinator, Enerplan

Nikos Charalambides, Executive Director, Greenpeace Greece

George Melissaropoulos, CEO Prismatherm

PART 2 – Session 2

15:00 Decarbonising industry and cities with solar thermal (large scale session)

This session will cover market trends at EU level, the latest developments, opportunities and challenges for the large scale markets (i.e. district heating and industry)

INTRODUCTORY SPEECH

15:00 Guglielmo Cioni, Vice-President Business Development, TVP Solar

15:10 ROUND TABLE

Charlotte Brauns, Policy & Solar Technology Officer, BSW (DE)

Andreas Zourellis, Vice President of Sales, International Markets, Aalborg CSP

Michalis Christakis* Secretary of the Association of General Secretaries of Municipalities

Panos Lamaris, Founder, SOLE

PART 2 – Session 3

16:00 Global Competitiveness

This session will cover opportunities for the Solar Thermal business at EU level to demonstrate EU’s leadership in terms of production and project development capacity, building on the momentum from the recent Net Zero Industry Act launched in March 2023 and clearly confirming Solar thermal as a Net Zero sector; it will also address the questions of Experts capacity but also Skills, and address the potential for growth of the ST sector.

INTRODUCTORY PRESENTATION – Innovation Fund: Ôé¼100 million offered for innovative small-scale clean tech projects

Carla Benauges, Energy and Hydrogen Policy Officer, European Commission, DG CLIMA (online intervention)

16:20 ROUND TABLE

Joakim Bystr├Âm, CEO Absolicon

Pedro Dias, Policy Director, Solar Heat Europe

Alkis Metzalis, Greek Manufacturer Representative

Vassiliki Drossou, Head of Solar System Department CRES

Leus Frederik, XCarb Business Development, ArcelorMittal Flat Carbon Europe S.A.

17:00 CLOSING

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