27th Annual National Energy and Development Conference
November 14-15, 2023, Divani Caravel Hotel, Athens
The interaction of energy security with geopolitics and the challenges involved in the transformation of the energy sector are two key aspects of IENE’s 27th Annual National Conference "Energy and Development", which will be held on November 14 and 15, 2023, at the Divani Caravel Hotel in Athens.
Once again, the "Energy and Development" conference, which has been established as one of Greece’s main events for energy policy and business, will cover a wide range of topics, including oil, electricity and gas market, RES, decarbonation etc., while discussing the economic, social and geopolitical implications of pursued policies. As usual the conference is expected to attract a large number of senior executives and experts from the energy sector of Greece and from abroad.
As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, the EU's energy security for next winter remains a big gamble. Furthermore, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned in a report in mid-July, that if Russia decided to completely stop the flow of natural gas, the situation could become most difficult for Europe during the winter period 2023-2024 - especially in low temperature conditions - even if its storages facilities were almost 100% full. Thus, the surge in energy prices and the consequent overall burden on the budgets of member states will once again bring to the fore issues related to inflation, fiscal stability and social cohesion in Europe.
In this context, the energy autonomy of the EU is becoming not only a matter of strategic choice but is also presents a great challenge. As it will be thoroughly discussed in this year's "Energy and Development" conference, this setting will have to be contrasted with the goals set by the policies for green transition, as summarized in the ambitious REPower EU plan. Therefore, the conference is expected to discuss if RES are sufficient for the EU's energy sufficiency or whether they should be supplemented by the utilisation of the hydrocarbon deposits of the continent. Also, as Europe’s energy efficiency policy is related to the EU's RES strategy, this year the conference will analyze the policies for buildings, transport and industry, examining, at the same time, how much they contribute to the development of the European and especially of the Greek economy. Moreover, in the light of increased demands on energy security, issues related to energy infrastructure will be examined, both for electricity and also for oil and natural gas. Cutting-edge technologies, such as hydrogen will also receive ample attention.
But also with regard to the domestic agenda, the "Energy and Development" of 2023 will discuss the significant challenges faced by RES, as their high penetration in Greece’s electricity grid brings to the table , and rather urgently, a number of issues. Although bilateral contracts (PPAs) are emerging as a useful tool for the further development of RES without subsidies, while the legislative framework for net metering has also improved, the need to expand and upgrade the country's electricity networks remains a top priority, as it is underlined in a latest IENE study. Already, during the summer, the ERAEF tender for energy storage units was announced, while the critical issue of the management of RES generated electricity, which is lately rejected by the system due to overload, has also arisen. It is expected that both energy storage and rejected RES production will be hotly debated in this year’s IENE conference.
As far as Greece is concerned, but also with implications at EU level, this year's conference will discuss the new scenario that potentially opens up in hydrocarbons. As the recent seismic findings south and southwest of Crete are auspicious, and with the first exploratory drilling planned for the second half of 2024, Greece is likely to emerge as an important hydrocarbons producer. Thus, in combination with the discovered gas potential of Cyprus and Israel, the Eastern Mediterranean could soon emerge as a major producing area similar to the North Sea, a development that will upgrade Greece's geostrategic role and enhance its position as a pilar of European energy security.
At the same time, the transformation of the energy sector is highlighted through latest developments in the electricity and natural gas markets in Greece and generally in Europe, as these took shape during last winter, but also through the emergence and promotion of new technologies. Consequently, this year's IENE "Energy and Development" conference will analyse issues related to energy software used for energy production-demand management, but also the use of hydrogen and biomethane as well as synthetic fuels and carbon capture, storage and utilization (CCUS) applications, which are already appearing on the energy agenda. Furthermore, new issues such as digitalization and, in particular, artificial intelligence, which aspire to drastically change every aspect of human activity, will be discussed in some depth at the conference.
In this context, the requirements posed by energy security and strategic autonomy as well as the issues raised by energy transformation, are expected to impact energy investment decisions. Hence the approach that should be adopted by investors in the energy sector in Greece and the EU need to be discussed. Finally, the conference will cover the strategies that should be followed in relation to employment in the energy sector, given its strategic role in the economy.
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1. Personal Data - Order Placement
In order to place and complete an order at iene.eu, the visitor/user necessarily gives the following personal data: name, surname, email address, telephone number. The visitor/user is not obligated to give these personal data, but without them his/hers order cannot be completed and processed. By filling in his/hers personal data the visitor/user gives his consent for their use by IENE, as controller of data processing, through automated means either by IENE, or by any other person appointed by IENE to process the data upon its orders and on its behalf.
2. Personal Data Processing
The above mentioned personal data will be kept by IENE in a data base on a server and will be processed for the sole purpose of providing the sales service of www.iene.eu to the visitors/users, and more specifically to process the order, deliver the purchase and keep a record of it. IENE retains the right to process part or all of the personal data given by the visitor/user for statistic and financial reasons, for improving its service and information.
3. Personal Data Security - Obligation
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4. Visitor/user rights
The visitors/users as well as any person that gives their personal data to iene.eu website have the right to ask and receive from IENE the following information:
All the personal data that concern them, and where they came from
The reasons for processing the data, any receivers of the data or the categories of receivers
The progress of the data processing since the last time the visitor/user was informed
The logic involved in the automatic processing
The correction, deletion, or allocation of the data that are kept in the archives and which have been not lawfully processed
The notification of such correction, deletion, or allocation of the data to the third party to which the data have been communicated, in case this is feasible
They also have the right to oppose personal data processing in writing by making a claim for a specific course of action such as correction, temporal pause of their use, allocation, deletion. They also have the right to oppose to any kind of commercial use of their data. Moreover they have the right to receive their personal data in a usable and legible (by a pc) interoperable format and to forward them to another processor. In order to exercise these rights they can write to the following email address [email protected].
The visitor/users can exercise their abovementioned rights by addressing a claim to to which IENE will respond without charge, and without delay and in any case within thirty (30) days from the date the claim was sent. In exceptional cases the aforementioned period of time can be extended by two months, if it is required, taking into consideration the complexity of the claim or the high number of claims. IENE will let the visitor/user know in case an extension is needed and the reasons for it, within one month’s time since the receipt of the claim.
In case IENE cannot satisfy the claim, the company will notify the visitor/user without delay, within one month the latest from the date of the receipt of the claim. IENE will mention the reasons that explain the inability to satisfy the claim, and will notify the visitor/user of the possibility to file a complaint at the Personal Data Protection Authority and the right to appeal to the judicial authorities.
7. Procedure for making a complaint
In case the visitor/user believes that his/hers rights concerning the protection of personal information is infringed, he/she reserves the right to file a complaint at the Personal Data Protection Authority (1-2, Kifissias av., 115 23 Athens, tel.: 2106475600, email: [email protected]). Moreover the visitor/user has the right to appeal to the judicial authorities for the protection of their personal data.
8. Security measures
IENE has taken all the appropriate technical and organisational measures in order to secure the application of the law and the appropriate level of security for the visitor/users’ personal data. IENE has also trained accordingly the staff and keeps each and every employee who acts in the company’s behalf as Data processing operator under agreements that contain the guarantees and assurances of the General Data Protection Regulation.
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Apart from the abovementioned personal data, when a visitor/user visits www.iene.eu, the site collects data that are necessary for showing the content of the site to the visitor/user. More specifically, every time a visitor/user visits www.iene.eu , the navigation program sends automatically to the node manager one IP address (Internet Protocol), and some other information (including the type of reader-program used by the visitor/user).
Moreover, the networking traffic and the way the site www.iene.eu is used is recorded and analyzed in order to improve the service provided, with the help of sessions that operate transparently and do not save any information from the visitor’s system. The website www.iene.eu uses a type of technology named “cookies”, as most websites do; by using this technology the site www.iene.eu does not collect any personal information from the visitor/user, nor is IENE S.A. able to communicate with the visitor/user (unless the visitor/user gives voluntarily his/hers information according to what has been stated above), and no information is extracted from the visitor/users’ computer. “Cookies” are small text files that are saved at the hard drive of every visitor/user of www.iene.eu, as long as the visitor/user has allowed the use of “cookies”. This type of technology, “cookies”, is used for the smooth provision of various services, as for example is order status, personal settings, adding items in the shopping basket or keeping them there in between two different visits and others, that could not be provided without the use of “cookies”. “Cookies” are also used for statistic reasons, in order to access the areas where the website services are useful and popular. The visitor/user of www.iene.eu can set his/hers server so that he/she is notified either for the use or not of “cookies” or not to allow the use of “cookies” at all. When the visitor/user does not allow the use of “cookies”, he/she cannot have any further access to the particular webpages and services for the use of which “cookies” are indispensable. When the visitor/users unveils personal information according to the above mentioned clauses they give their consent to the terms of use of this information as stated here.
IENE e-shop policy
1. iene.eu
The visitor/user declares that he/she agrees to the following terms and conditions by using iene.eu and that he/she uses it lawfully.
The visitor/user of iene.eu uses the site at his/hers full responsibility. IENE is not liable for the malicious intervention of a third party.
All users of iene.eu are hereby bound not to hurt others by using it maliciously nor to violate their personal data. The visitor/user visits or shops at www.iene.eu provided that he/she has agreed unreservedly to these terms and conditions.
2. Payment by credit card
The visitor/user expresses his interest to purchase a registration from IENE by providing his/hers credit card details. The purchase is chronologically defined by the moment the visitor/user presses the button “Register”.
IENE will not, for security reasons, save the information of any credit card for future use. Therefore the visitor/user will have to re-enter his/hers credit card information every time he/she wants to make a new purchase. By entering his/hers credit card details the visitor/user expressly declares that he/she has the legal right to use the credit card.
IENE is not responsible in case of the illegal use of credit cards. By giving his/hers credit card details, the visitor/user agrees to have the amount of his/hers purchase reserved and by completing his/hers order he/she agrees to have the amount charged on his/hers credit card.
In case the credit card transaction is declined for any reason by the bank which has issued the card or the credit card network, such reasons being for example exceeding the card limit or suspicion of fraud, then the visitor/user is considered not to have completed the Purchase.
In the case of an incomplete Purchase, IENE is obligated to discharge the amount of his/hers purchase from the credit card.
IENE has contracted with Alpha bank Online payment provider in order to carry through credit card transactions at www.iene.eu.
In the case where credit card charges and reservation of amounts are not carried through, responsible are either the Online Payment Service or the Internet Service Provider and not IENE Here are some cases, indicative and not inclusive, for which IENE is not responsible:
Hardware or software failure caused by the Online Payment Service In case the server of the Online Payment Service stops working according to its specifications, due to either content failure( for example failure of hard drives, loss of power, memory failure) or due to software problems, the visitor/user will be considered not to have completed his/her purchase.
In case IENE is not notified of the completion of the transaction. In case the transaction is charged or reserved on the credit card, but IENE is not notified by acceptable means, then IENE will not regard the purchase as complete. The lack of notification here may be brought about either by the Online Payment Service or the Internet Service Provider.
The above cases are indicative but are not a complete list of the cases where IENE is not to be held liable. In these cases IENE does not receive any payment from the visitor/user.
The credit card transactions at the www.iene.eu e-shop are operated by Alpha Bank. The high security level of Alpha Bank’s services are hereby declared. All payments made using the card are processed through the electronic payment platform of "Alpha e-Commerce" of Alpha Bank and uses TLS 1.2 encryption protocol encryption with 128-bit (Secure Sockets Layer - SSL). Encryption is a way of coding the information until it reaches its recipient, who will be able to decode it using the appropriate key.
Alpha Bank uses systems and procedures that do not allow access to their data or their IT systems.
IENE does not have access to the credit card information of the visitor/user because payment is executed by redirecting him/her to Alpha Bank’s website which is specifically formed and encrypted for this purpose. IENE keeps only the contact information, such as the Name, Surname, email address and telephone number of the visitor/user. The visitor/user has to provide the following personal data in order to fill the “Complete your order” form: name, surname, delivery address, email address, telephone number. These data are protected by the order code which the visitor/user receives at his/hers email address, after pressing the button “Register” and completing the payment through Alpha Bank’s electronic payment platform.
3. Limitation of liability
The visitor/user agrees that he/she will use www.iene.eu services at his/hers own responsibility and that the content is provided “as it is” without any kind of direct or indirect guarantees. More specifically without a) the guarantee of uninterrupted supply of www.iene.eu service b) guarantee for availability, reliability, ampleness and precision of the information and content of the service c) guarantee of the suitability for a specific purpose
This clause of limitation of liability applies to all damage caused by failure to provide, error, omission, interruption, flaw, delay of the transmission or service, virus on the P/C, failure of the telecommunication connections etc.
IENE is not liable for any legal, civil or/and penal claims nor for any damages (positive damages, or consequential loss which indicatively and not restrictively, jointly or/and cumulatively leads to profit loss, data loss, loss of earnings, financial satisfaction etc) presented by visitors/users of iene.eu or a third party because of the operation or not of the service, or/and the use of the service, or/and failing to provide the service or/and information given by the service or/and forbidden interference with products, or/and services or/and information provided by the website, by a third party. IENE is not responsible for the malfunction of the visitors/users’ pc which may be caused by the incorrect installation of the software provided by the website and by the digitized document which the visitor/user receives.
4. Right of cancellation and return policy
The visitor/user can cancel his/hers order and ask for a reimbursement within 5 days from the day he/she made the purchase. In order to place a cancellation and reimbursement claim you either have to send an email at [email protected] or communicate with costumer service at 0030 210 3628457. IENE will reimburse payments by making a bank account deposit.
5. Applicable Law
Any dispute between the visitor/user and IENE is regulated by the Greek Law and is subject to the exclusive responsibility of the Courts in Athens.
6. Communication
For any information pertaining to the service of www.iene.eu the visitor/users can call the customer service numbers at 0030 210 3628457.
Alternatively, he/she can send an email to the following email address: [email protected]
IENE is entitled at any time to alter, change or delete one or all of the above terms and conditions of use or to add new terms of use. Every alteration, change or deletion is active from the day it is published on iene.eu. By using www.iene.eu after the aforementioned publication, the visitor/user accepts the alterations, changes and deletions. IENE has the right to change, alter, suspend, obstruct, or stop the use of part or all of the service at iene.eu whenever and for any reason or for no reason, and without warning and without being liable.
