SUSPLAN Regional Kick-Off Workshop

Characteristics for Northern Europe:

The SUSPLAN Regional Kick-Off Workshop Northern Europe took place:

Thursday, 19th of March 2009, 10 a.m to 4 p.m.
at Statkraft, Oslo

Programme

	Welcome and registration workshop
8.00	Registration and coffee

8.30	Welcome to SUSPLAN project workshop	Bjørn Bakken, SINTEF Energiforskning, coordinator

	Part I – Introduction to the SUSPLAN project
8.35	Introduction to SUSPLAN	Bjørn Bakken, SINTEF Energiforskning, coordinator

9.00	Setup of scenarios: Concepts, drivers, models and scenario approaches	Ingeborg Graabak, SINTEF Energifoskning

9.30	Content of scenario guidebook - key assumptions and objectives of the regional case studies	Hans Auer, EEG, Wien, WP2 task leader

10.00	*Coffee break*
10.15	Development of sets of regional RES infrastructure	Bjørn Grinden, SINTEF
	Part II – Future of Grids, Scenarios, Strategies and Politics up to 2050
10.45	The Grid development plan for the Norwegian main grid 2008-2025	Trond Arnljot Jensen, Statnett

11.15	Statkraft's Long Term Energy Scenarios	Bent Johan Kjaer, Statkraft

11.45	Incentives for Long Term Demand Reductions and Renewable Energy in Norway	Jens Musum, Enova

12.15	*Lunch*

	Part III – Decision maker interaction
13.15	Discussion on future trends

14.30	Discussion on cooperation, communication and availability of data

15.00	*Coffee break*

15.15	Discussion on workshop results (written down and formulated during workshop)	Srikandam, dena

15.45	Final conclusions	Coordinator or WP2 leader
	*End of workshop*