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

  • Serik Zharkinbayev, Energy Specialist, ADB

100% Renewable Energy and Least Cost Flexibility Sources for Power Systems

  • Jaquelin Cochran, Director of the Grid Planning and Analysis Center, NREL

Central Asia Power System (CAPS) Interconnection Status and Potential

  • Bakhtiyor Shamsiev, CDC Energia

Northeast Asia Power System Interconnection (NAPSI). Status. Lessons learned

  • Alfredo Baño, Senior Energy Specialist, ADB

Carbon neutrality policy and renewables in Kazakhstan

  • Zulpat Aziyeva, Climate Change Project office (Kazakhstan)

Renewable Energy Integration and Flexibility. Lessons from Kazakhstan

  • 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

  • Henrik Gunnertoft Bojsen, Senior Manager, EnergiNet (TSO, Denmark)

Advancing Grid Reliability and Flexibility

  • Gilmo Yang, Senior Manager, KEPCO, (TSO, South Korea)

Smart Grid Solutions to Improve Reliability and Flexibility

  • Gökhan Tosun, Head of Technology & Smart Infrastructure, MRC Turkey

Long-term Duration Energy Storage Technology

  • 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

SPEAKERS

Joonho Hwang

Joonho Hwang

Director, Energy Sector Office, ADB

Jaquelin Cochran

Jaquelin Cochran

Director of the Grid Planning and Analysis Center, NREL

Alfredo Baño Leal

Alfredo Baño Leal

Senior Energy Specialist, ADB

Bekzhan Mukatov

Bekzhan Mukatov

Independent Expert for Regional Power System Planning

Gökhan Tosun

Gökhan Tosun

Head of Technology & Smart Infrastructure, MRC Turkey

Serik Zharkinbayev

Serik Zharkinbayev

Energy Specialist, ADB

Zulpat Aziyeva

Zulpat Aziyeva

Climate Change Project office (Kazakhstan)

Gilmo Yangg

Gilmo Yang

Seinor Manager, KEPCO

Sangcho Yun

Sangcho Yun

Manager, KEPCO

Henrik Gunnertoft Bojsen

Henrik Gunnertoft Bojsen

Senior Manager, Energinet

HHans Mikael Svanbom

Hans Mikael Svanbom

Independent Consultant

PRESENTATIONS