Introduction

The conference has a long tradition started in 2004 in Łódź, Poland and continued in Warsaw and Cracow in 2006 and 2007 respectively. After four events took place in Poland, the fifth conference was held in Lisbon in 2008, the sixth event was organized in Leuven in May 2009. The subsequent conferences were located in Madrid in 2010, Zagreb in 2011, Florence 2012, Stockholm in 2013, Cracow in 2014, Lisbon in 2015, Porto in 2016 and Dresden in 2017.
In 2018, we are back in Łódź. It is a city located in the very heart of Poland and Europe, with a modern train station and its own international airport. It is surrounded by a network of motorways and express roads providing easy access to Warsaw, Wrocław, Poznań, Berlin, Dresden, Prague and other European cities.
European Energy Market 2018  conference will be held in the Expo-Łódź trade centre on 27th – 29th June 2018. It is organized by the Polish Association of Electrical Engineers in cooperation with the Lodz University of Technology. The conference will be an excellent opportunity to present researches, share ideas and discuss European market operation, its  development and main challenges.

Call for paper

Important date

2017-12-25
Abstract submission deadline
2018-01-10
Abstract notification of acceptance
2018-02-20
Draft paper submission deadline
2018-04-01
Draft paper acceptance notification
2018-06-01
Final paper submission deadline

The conference discussions will cover the following fields of power industry:

1. Electricity Market Design, Regulation and Monitoring

  • Structure of electricity market
  • Design and implementation of the capacity market
  • Market monitoring
  • Alternative market models for Europe – nodal or price zone markets
  • Local balancing market and balancing areas
  • Further unbundling: TSO model and unbundling of distribution business
  • Transmission and distribution tariffs
  • Market power and market strategies
  • Merges and acquisitions
  • The role of the last resort supplier
  • Pan-European regulation, the role of ACER and national energy market regulators

2. Technical aspects of electricity market operation

  • Market enabling and enhancing technologies
  • Provision  of ancillary services
  • Smart grid technologies
  • Long term grid planning
  • System operation planning in market environment
  • Economic aspects of energy storage technologies
  • Cost of new nuclear safety requirements
  • Innovative generation technologies
  • Demand site management
  • Internet based technologies

3. Operation, modelling, forecasting and simulation of commodity, technical  and financial markets

  • Technical markets: system balancing, short term reserve and ancillary services provision
  • Carbon market
  • Green certificate markets
  • Cross-border transmission capacity access and trading
  • Futures, forward and other derivative markets
  • Network congestion management
  • Electricity market modelling and simulation
  • Risk management in energy markets
  • Economic modelling of energy market
  • Economic analysis of energy price evolution
  • Portfolio management

4. Implementation of the European energy and climate policy

  • Security of supply
  • Integration of regional electricity markets. Building a single European market
  • Economics of renewables, support schemes  and their impact on the European power systems and electricity markets
  • De-carbonisation of the power sector
  • Economics of climate change
  • Stakeholder vision on the future power system

5. Infrastructure development and asset management

  • Investments in the transmission and distribution systems
  • Incentives for investments in transmission and distribution, merchant investments
  • Investment analysis
  • Transmission and distribution asset management pricing models

6. Presence and future of gas and coal markets

  • Natural gas and coal commodity markets and derivate markets
  • Economic and environmental impact of unconventional gas
  • Carbon market regulation and its footprint on electricity market
  • Liberalization and regulation  of the European gas market
  • Recent development s in the reducing  carbon footprint of fossil fuels
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Important Date
  • Conference Date

    Jun 27

    2018

    to

    Jun 29

    2018

  • Dec 25 2017

    Abstract Submission Deadline

  • Jan 10 2018

    Abstract Notification of Acceptance

  • Feb 20 2018

    Draft paper submission deadline

  • Apr 01 2018

    Draft Paper Acceptance Notification

  • Jun 01 2018

    Final Paper Deadline

  • Jun 29 2018

    Registration deadline

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