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Towards the Euro-Mediterranean platform:Financing energy efficiency and renewable energy sources

http://www.enea.it/en/events/medener_10apr15/Naples

International ConferenceMEDENER3rd

AprilMostra d’Oltremare - Centro Congressi - Sala Ischia - h. 10.00

10th

2015

MEDENER, the Mediterranean association of national agencies for Energy E�ciency and Renewable Energy, in partnership and with the support of ENEA (the Italian National Agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economic development) and ANEA (the Agency for Energy and the Environment of Naples) is organizing its 3rd International Conference.

The Conference intends to focus on the role of the di�erent stakeholders, national, local and multilateral, as well as their complementarities, in view of the new “Euro-Mediterranean Platform on Renewable Energy and Energy e�ciency” now under discussion. Namely, the agenda gives an in-depth on a few best practices so far carried out to �nance Energy E�ciency and Renewable Energy Sources.

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Under the patronage of

Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean Assemblee Parlementaire de la Mediterranee

Conference organized in the frame of

ANME presidency of MEDENER association with the support of

ANEA, ENEA and in close cooperation with:

The context

Energy has been the main factor of interdependence between Europe and Southern Mediterranean countries for decades. This interdependence has provided security of demand for Mediterranean gas producers as much as security of supply for European consumers.The twenty-year history of energy cooperation in the Mediterranean region began with the “Barcelona process” in 1995.The Barcelona process through the so-called Barcelona Declaration signed on 28 November 1995 established as its principal objective to build a free trade zone by 2010. Within the framework of this broad objective, the Declaration recognised the crucial role that energy plays. Following the Barcelona Declaration, the foreign ministers of the signatory countries and the Euro-Mediterranean ministers for energy met many times: from Barcelona 1 in 1995 to Barcelona 9 in Cyprus in 2007. Numerous studies, preparatory documents and declarations have been produced; however, now the shared opinion of the Barcelona process is that it has not lived up to expectations.In July 2008, the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) was launched as an upgrade of the Barcelona Process, to create new dynamism with a view to revitalising EU relations with neighbouring countries from North Africa and the Middle East. The Mediterranean Solar Plan (MSP) was launched by the Heads of State and Governments of the 27 EU Member States and 16 Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries (SEMC) as one of the priority projects of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) at the Founding Summit of July 2008. The role of the MSP is to serve as the common strategic policy framework to help identifying and creating the adequate politico-institutional, socio-economic, and infrastructural conditions for a rapid, cost-effective, and lasting roll-out of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency technologies also with the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the Mediterranean region. The UfM Secretariat in Barcelona has been tasked to act as a key facilitator in this regard. At the high level Conference in Rome on 19 November 2014, the Conference participants confirmed that there is broad agreement among the Euro-Mediterranean Countries on the importance of regional energy cooperation for ensuring secure, affordable and sustainable energy supply which is a key factor for underpinning stability and shared prosperity in the Mediterranean area.It is proposed to invigorate the cooperation by establishing, in the context of the Union for the Mediterranean process, three thematic platforms dedicated to pursue the high level dialogue on the topics covered by the Conference. The intention is to provide a permanent high level forum for discussing energy policy objectives and measures, with a view to identify specific and concrete partnership actions and following up on their implementation.Namely, the 'Euro-Mediterranean Platform on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency' should assist governments and industry operators in the deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies and projects. National energy efficiency action plans and the creation of favourable conditions for private sector investments are also key actions. It is proposed that the UfM Secretariat supports this platform, building on its experiences, inter alia, in relation to the Mediterranean Solar Plan.Moreover, this energy crucial issue linked to the Mediterranean adds to the social, economic and environmental wider. Indeed, in the global context of climate change that aims to limit the temperature increase to 2°C, the Mediterranean, rich but vulnerable areas are identified as high-risk areas, which may have consequences in several sectors: agriculture, industry, tourism and energy. The question on how to carry with climate change will particularly be the next climate negotiations in Paris, in late 2015.MEDENER, whose expertise is based on most of the national Mediterranean Energy Agencies, is modernising its statute as well as its internal rules in order to be more effective and ready in implementing the new approach in energy cooperation, namely for its core business on Energy Efficiency (EE) and Renewable Energy Sources (RES). The main outcomes of this Conference are expected to contribute to the MEDENER scope’s and mission’s reappraisal in view of the next Energy Ministerial meeting in the second semester of 2015, where the work of the proposed dialogue platforms can be presented and discussed in detail. In addition, the exchanges during this Conference will highlight good practices from projects as well as EE and RES financing mechanisms that will contribute to build real agenda solutions for the Mediterranean region in view of Paris negotiations.

The ObjectivesWhile the first MEDENER Conference, organized in September 2013 in Tunis, identified the issues and analysed the energy transition prospects in the Mediterranean, the second, on April 24th 2014 at the Villa Mediterranée in Marseille, discussed regional projects in the building sector, industry and training projects, considering synergies with actors and projects between the two shores of the Mediterranean, the objectives of this third MEDENER Conference are:

• Having a better understanding of the new route to cross a wider Euro Mediterranean Energy Market pivoting on EE and RES

• Understanding the role of different actors national, local and multilateral as well as their complementarities within the new “Euro-Mediterranean Platform on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency” agreed in Rome.

• Identifying the best practices to finance EE and RES

Agenda 9.30 Welcome of Participants and Registration

10.00 Welcome addresses

Tommaso Sodano, Deputy-Mayor of Naples Hamdi Harrouch, Director General of ANME and MEDENER President 2014-2016 Cristina Corazza, Deputy-Chair of ENEA Francesco Gagliardi, Chair of ANEA

10.40 Co�ee and Tea Break + Family photo

Opening Session

11.10 A new route to cross a wider Euro Mediterranean Energy Market pivoting on Energy E�ciency and Renewable Energy Sources

Overview of the challenges

Sergio Piazzi, Secretary General, Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean Samuele Furfari, Senior Advisor of General Director, Directorate Energy, European Commission Gilberto Dialuce, Director General, Directorate for Security of Supply and Energy Infrastructures, MISE, Italy Sonia Mezzour, Secretary General ADEREE, National Agency for the Development of Renewable Energy and Energy E�ciency of Morocco Gabriela Prata Dias, Chief Executive O�ce, ADENE, Agency for Energy, Portugal Houda Ben Jannet Allel, Director General OME, Mediterranean Observatory for Energy Olgu Okumus, Project Manager, Energy Division UfM, Union for the Mediterranean

13.00 Lunch Break

14.00 Challenges in �nancing Energy E�ciency and RES in the Mediterranean Region

Which funding schemes? Which exemplary projects? How to create synergies to mobilize public and private actors?

Chair: Alessandro Ortis, President of States-General for Energy E�ciency, Italy

Gianpiero Nacci, Head of Industry and Business Energy E�ciency, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Javier Gòmez Prieto, Project O�cer, Joint Technical Secretariat MED Programme Sophie Jablonski, Energy Specialist (Engineer), EIB (European Investment Bank) Q & A

15.15 Good practices for innovative �nancing projects in the Mediterranean region

Which good practices? What the role of di�erent actors national, local and multilateral as well as their complementarities?

Chair: François Moisan, Executive Director of Strategy, Research and International A�airs, ADEME, France

- Local Agencies for EE & RES: possible synergies within the new European Mediterranean Platform

Antonio Di Nunzio, Deputy Chair of RENAEL, National Network of Local Energy Agencies, Italy

- Financial Mechanisms of EE & RES in Lebanon From PEEC to NEEREA

Adel Mourtada, Technical Advisor, ALMEE, The Lebanese Association for Energy Saving & for the Environment, Lebanon

- ELENA programme in Liguria Region

Maria Fabianelli, Director of Energy Department, IRE S.p.A., Italy

- Energy E�ciency in Public Administration (Eco.AP): Advantages of the ESCO model

Dinis Rodrigues, Head of the Eco.AP Department, ADENE – Agency for Energy, Portugal

- Tunisian good practices: PROSOL & PROSOL-ELEC programs

Hassen El Agrebi, Head of International Cooperation Department, ANME, National Agency for Energy Conservation, Tunisia

- MED DESIRE: practical actions to remove solar market and technology barriers

Anna Maria Sàlama, ENEA, Italian Agency for Energy E�ciency, Italy

Q & A

17.00 Closing Remarks (By MEDENER)

Conference animated by Dario Chello (ENEA)