Once again, the Institute of Energy for SE Europe (IENE) convenes the annual National Conference “Energy and Development 2025”, which this year marks 29 years of continuous organization with a wide participation from speakers, organizations and companies active in the energy sector both in Greece and in the wider region of SE Europe. Covering almost all aspects of the current energy debate, the “Energy & Development 2025” Conference will take place on November 11-12, 2025 and will be held at the OTE Academy in Athens.
Responding to international and regional developments, the scientific committee of the Conference has prepared a very interesting program which includes a wide range of the burning energy issues which are of interest to Greece and SE Europe. Thus, for another year, the IENE National Conference "Energy and Development" sets the energy agenda of the region, attracting the interest of a large number of executives from Greece and abroad.
More than 80 speakers and moderators are participating this year in the top annual national event of IENE, among whom many senior executives from major energy companies and organizations in Greece and abroad, as well as academics, scientists, representatives of international organizations and well-known stakeholders. Moreover, acclaimed experts and analysts will share their perspective on highly topical energy matters.
The basic subjects to be covered in this major national annual IENE event are electricity and natural gas markets in Greece and SE Europe, as well as power grids, emphasizing the issues involved in their further development and upgrade, with special focus on subsea electricity interconnections, energy storage systems, offshore wind farms and the difficulties faced in their construction supply chain. Of particular interest is the large penetration of RES in the power generation mix and the problems created by load shedding, as well as energy efficiency with emphasis on buildings and its importance in the energy upgrade of the built environment. Also of great interest will be the discussion on the role of nuclear energy as part of the decarbonization drive of the energy system and the shift towards clean fuels.
The importance of energy security will also be examined in the context of the ever-changing geopolitical environment, at the heart of which both Greece and the overall region of SE Europe are located.
New energy technologies and their adoption will be another area of interest at the 29th “Energy and Development” Conference, with special reference to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how the latter is already being used in the management of energy systems, as well as the important role it is expected to play in the evolution and transformation of the energy sector. In this context, i.e. of new technologies, electromobility and its impacts on networks and electricity production, the role of hydrogen and its applications in industry and transport, new advanced low-carbon fuels as well as CO2 capture, storage and utilization systems, known as CCUS, will be examined.
The flagship publication of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the “World Energy Outlook”, will once again be one of the highlights of the Conference, since this Report provides a global perspective of the developments in the energy field with assessments on how the situation is going to evolve in the coming years. In the same context of macro-view and analysis, IENE will present its own major study, the “SE Europe Energy Outlook 2025”, which is published by the Institute every three years.
Finally, this year's “Energy and Development” Conference will address the investment prospects in the energy sector in the light of regional and international geopolitical developments. In this context, the prospects for the discovery and exploitation of the significant hydrocarbon deposits estimated to exist in the Greek subsoil and seabed will also be examined.
As every year, this year too, the IENE National Conference “Energy and Development” is held under the auspices of Greece’s Ministry of Environment and Energy (MEER), the Regulatory Authority for Energy, Waste and Water (RAAEY), and the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The Conference is supported by a group of major energy companies active in Greece and SE Europe.
