SUSPLAN Regional Kick-Off Workshop

Characteristics for the Central/Western Europe:

The SUSPLAN Regional Kick-Off Workshop Central/Western Europe took place:

Thursday, 2nd of April 2009, 9:00 to 15:30
at MVV Energie AG, Mannheim

Programme

	Welcome and registration workshop
9.00	Welcome to SUSPLAN project and workshop	Nicolai Herrmann, MVV Energie

	Part I – Introduction to the SUSPLAN project
9.10	Introduction to SUSPLAN	Ingeborg Graabak, SINTEF (Coordinator SUSPLAN)

9.20	Objectives of the regional study and role of stakeholders	Luuk Beurskens, ECN, Task Leader 2.3

9.40	*Coffee break*

10.00	Content of SUSPLAN project "Guidebook"	Hans Auer, EEG
	Part II – Future of Grids, Scenarios, Strategies and Politics up to 2050
	Presentation by Stakeholders on future of grids, scenarios, strategies and policies up to 2050 (from electricity, heat and gas)
10.30	Impact of RES and especially offshore wind on the transmission networks in Germany	Joern Runge, RWE-TSO

11.00	RES integration from the perspective of a multi-utility	Frieder Schmitt, MVV Energie

11.30	Regional concepts for the demand and supply of RES	Martin Pehnt, IFEU Heidelberg

12.00	The future of the gas infrastructure in Germany	Benjamin Peschka, 24-7-Netze

12.30-13.30	*Lunch*

	Part III – Decision maker interaction
13.30	Discussion on future trends	Luuk Beurskens, ECN

14.15	Discussion on cooperation, communication and availability of data	Hans Auer, EEG

14.45	*Coffee break*

15:15	Discussion on workshop results (written down and formulated during workshop)	Chanthira Srikandam, dena

15:30	Final conclusions	Ingeborg Graabak, SINTEF (Coordinator)

	*End of workshop*