Regional Session
Reliability and Flexibility for Carbon Neutral Central, West and East Asia
Organized by: Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Thursday, 6 June 2024
2:00 - 5:30 p.m. (GMT +8) | Auditorium Hall 1
Countries in Central, West and East Asia have made ambitious RE targets. Accelerating the energy transition calls for enhancing flexibility in energy systems and pushing boundaries to increase the penetration of renewables to meet these targets. Cross border electricity trade has immense opportunity for decarbonizing power sector in Central and East Asia and meeting seasonal demand and supply gap, through the development of large-scale cleaner, greener and sustainable energy infrastructure & facilitating renewable energy grid integration. Cross border trading of excess RE and hydropower could also play an important role in clean energy transition, grid balancing and energy security in Central and East Asia.
This will require countries, among others, to establish suitable policies and an enabling environment as well as mobilize public and private capital to promote power system transformation and regional power trade for carbon-neutral Central and East Asia and beyond.
AGENDA
2:00 - 2:10 p.m.
Welcome Remarks
Joonho Hwang, Director, Energy Sector Office, ADB
2:10 - 3:30 p.m.
Sub-Session - Dialogue with Policy Makers:
Reliability and Flexibility for Carbon Neutrality in Central, West and East Asia (CWEA) Region
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Serik Zharkinbayev, Energy Specialist, ADB
100% Renewable Energy and Least Cost Flexibility Sources for Power Systems
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Jaquelin Cochran, Director of the Grid Planning and Analysis Center, NREL
Central Asia Power System (CAPS) Interconnection Status and Potential
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Bakhtiyor Shamsiev, CDC Energia
Northeast Asia Power System Interconnection (NAPSI). Status. Lessons learned
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Alfredo Baño, Senior Energy Specialist, ADB
Carbon neutrality policy and renewables in Kazakhstan
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Zulpat Aziyeva, Climate Change Project office (Kazakhstan)
Renewable Energy Integration and Flexibility. Lessons from Kazakhstan
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Bekzhan Mukatov, Consultant, ADB
Panel discussion: all speakers and guests
3:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:20 p.m.
Sub-session - Dialogue with Champions:
Renewable Energy Sources Development, Reliable, and Flexible Power System. Lessons from Denmark
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Henrik Gunnertoft Bojsen, Senior Manager, EnergiNet (TSO, Denmark)
Advancing Grid Reliability and Flexibility
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Gilmo Yang, Senior Manager, KEPCO, (TSO, South Korea)
Smart Grid Solutions to Improve Reliability and Flexibility
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Gökhan Tosun, Head of Technology & Smart Infrastructure, MRC Turkey
Long-term Duration Energy Storage Technology
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Hans Mikael Svanbom, Independent consultant, (Sweden)
KEPCO experience in Renewable Energy Integration
Sangcho Yun, KEPCO (TSO, South Korea)
Panel discussion: all speakers and guests
5:20 - 5:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks