8:00 – 9:15
Registration and Breakfast
9:30 – 10:00
Opening
Opening speches
SPEAKERS:
Toms Nāburgs, Head of the Latvian Wind Energy Association
Kaspars Melnis, Minister of Climate and Energy in Latvia
Žygimantas Vaičiūnas, Minister of Energy in Lithuania (tbc.)
Andres Sutt, Minister of Energy and the Environment in Estonia (tbc.)
Viktors Valainis, Minister of Economics (tbc)
Ieva Jāgere, Director General at Investment and Development Agency of Latvia
10:00 – 10:20
Wind energy in Europe: how are things looking?
Participants
Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency (tbc)
10:20 – 11:40
PANEL 1
What’s up, Baltic wind power?
Policy Update Session, challenges of wind energy industry, market saturation, vision 2040
Participants
Kaspars Melnis, Minister of Climate and Energy in Latvia
Žygimantas Vaičiūnas, Minister of of Energy in Lithuania (tbc)
Andres Sutt, Minister of Energy and the Environment in Estonia (tbc)
Mārtiņš Čakste, Chairman of the board at Latvenergo (tbc)
Andrus Durejko CEO Enefit, (tbc)
Frank Oomen, CEO, Ignitis Renewables (tbc)
Moderator: Tinne Van der Straeten, CEO, WindEurope (tbc)
11:40 – 12:00
Coffee Break ☕️
12:00 – 13:00
PANEL 2
From market design to grid reality: infrastructure, consumption & managing curtailment
SPEAKERS:
TBA
Moderator: TBA
13:00 – 14:00
Networking lunch 🍽️
14:00 – 15:00
PANEL 4
Industries powered by wind energy
Welcome by H.E. Ine Måreng, Ambassador of Norway to Latvia
SPEAKERS:
TBA
Moderator: TBA
15:00 – 15:10
Coffee Break ☕️
15:10 – 16:30
PANEL 6
Riding the same wind: advancing offshore in the Baltics
Welcome by H.E. Carl Peersman, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Latvia
SPEAKERS:
TBA
Moderator: TBA
16:30 – 16:40
Coffee Break ☕️
SPEAKERS:
TBA
Moderator: TBA
16:40 – 17:40
PANEL 8
How bankable are the wind projects onwards?
SPEAKERS:
TBA
Moderator: TBA
17:40 – 17:50
Closing remarks