IENE’s long established event, the SE Europe Energy Dialogue is to be organized once again in Thessaloniki, in northern Greece, on 29/30 June 2016. This will be the 9thedition of the Energy Dialogue which was first launched in Thessaloniki in June 2007IENE’s long established event, the SE Europe Energy Dialogue is to be held once again in Thessaloniki, in northern Greece, on 29/30 June 2016. This will be the 9thedition of the Energy Dialogue which was first launched in Thessaloniki in June 2007. This year’s Energy Dialogue comes at a time when momentous global developments are taking place with profound implications for the region’s energy situation.
The purpose of this regional forum which is being organized by IENE for the ninth consecutive period and with the support of leading international and regional organizations and major energy companies, is to bring together high-ranking government officials, senior business executives and energy experts from all countries of S.E. Europe but also from major energy producing countries. The objective being the exchange of information and ideas, networking and developing co-operation for the tackling of the increased global and regional energy and environmental challenges. The "Energy Dialogue” has been conceived as an open forum for furthering the idea of a S.E. European energy bridge involving all countries of the region.
This year, the SE Europe Energy Dialogue meeting is highly topical following EU’s major drive to establish an Energy Union and the emphasis on energy security, in view of continuing regional instability (e.g. Syria conflict, Libya’s unrest, Ukraine territorial issues). Europe's high dependence on hydrocarbon imports and the global concern for the development of viable alternatives and the need to promote further carbon free solutions, emerge as key policy issues. Furthermore, the Dialogue will concentrate on the latest developments in the region’s evolving natural gas and electricity markets focusing on S.E. Europe’s ongoing energy partnerships with Russia, the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf, the East Mediterranean and North Africa.
In addition to the official representation from each one of the SE European countries and the participation of top management executives from most major energy companies of the region, senior executives from banks and financial institutions donor representatives as well as high ranking officials from major international organizations are expected to take actively participate in this two day high powered regional meeting.
After nine years of uninterruptible success the SEEED is now considered the seminal regional energy event that has managed to engage not only the region’s top policy-makers, financiers and entrepreneurs but also secure high-level participation from some of the world’s leading energy and banking institutions, including the International Energy Agency (IEA), the European Commission, the Energy Community Secretariat, the Energy Charter, World Energy Council (WEC), Fuel Europe, Eurelectric, Eurogas, EFET, EPIA, COGEN, EBRD, EIB and the World Bank.The forum’s delegates and speakers over the last eight years have also included senior executives from well known international corporations such as BP, Shell, Gazpromexport,Statoil, EDF, GDF Suez, ENEL, RWE, EON, Endesa, PPC, Serbgas, Plinacro, Transelectrica, KESH, AERS, RAE, Bulgarian Energy Holding, CEZ, Edison, DEPA, DESFA, Energean Oil and Gas, Hellenic Petroleum and many others.
A detailed announcement concerning the 9th SEEED, its agenda and programme will soon follow.
