CONFERENCE TOPICS

Climate Neutral Cities
Clean, affordable and secure energy
- Land based renewable energy technologies
- Off-shore renewable energy technologies
- Integration of Renewables
- Green Hydrogen Production
Energy and resource efficient buildings
Sustainable and smart mobility
Strengthening knowledge in support of the European Green Deal
- Climate adaptation
- Climate mitigation
Empowering citizens
- Deliberation and participation
- Behavioral and Cultural Change
- Enabling citizens through education and civic engagement

Adaptation to Climate Change: support at least 150 European regions and communities to become climate resilient by 2030.
100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030.

Enabling Technologies
- Utility-scale batteries
- Behind-the-meter batteries
- Electric-vehicle smart charging
- Renewable power-to-heat
- Renewable power-to-hydrogen
- Internet of things
- Artificial intelligence and big data
- Blockchain
- Renewable mini-grids
- Supergrids
- Flexibility in conventional power plants
Business Models
- Aggregators
- Peer-to-peer electricity trading
- Energy-as-a-service
- Community-ownership models
- Pay-as-you-go models
Market Design
- Increasing time granularity in electricity markets
- Increasing space granularity in electricity markets
- Innovative ancillary services
- Re-designing capacity markets
- Regional markets
- Time-of-use tariffs
- Market integration of distributed energy resources
- Net billing schemes
System Operation
- Future role of distribution system operators
- Co-operation between transmission and distribution system operators
- Advanced forecasting of variable renewable power generation
- Innovative operation of pumped hydropower storage
- Virtual power lines
- Dynamic line rating