Paris: Roundtable on Grid Infrastructure
On November 21st 2008, fifty‐four members of parliament, business leaders, civil servants, researchers and NGO representatives gathered in the French Ministry of Ecology and Energy on the Avenue de Ségur in Paris.
This meeting was funded by the European Climate Foundation, and was co-hosted by the governments of France and Egypt, as the Co-Chairs of the new Mediterranean Union. The participants discussed new long‐distance electricity connections for the Europe-Mediterranean region, which could help to accelerate the growth of renewable energy.
To see notes of the proceedings, click here.
Presentations from Roundtable speakers:
Christophe Schramm, Deputy Head of Unit for Renewable Energies, DGEC, MEEDDAT
Franz Trieb, lead author of Supergrid studies, German Aerospace Agency
François Meslier, Secretary-General of MEDELEC
Gunnar Asplund, Head of HVDC Research, ABB
Wolfgang Kerner, Policy Officer for energy network policy, DG Transport and Energy, European Commission
Antonella Battaglini from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Managing Director, European Climate Forum
Nicholas Dunlop, Secretary-General of the e-Parliament
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