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GAS DILEMMAS IN CEE - How to Navigate Investment Uncertainty, Volatile Markets, and the Path to Net-Zero

9:00 - 15:30 CET, Regional Energy Policy Forum

20 of October, - Budapest Music Center, 1093 Budapest, Mátyás u. 8.

Central and Eastern Europe faces an acute challenge: securing winter energy supplies amidst price volatility, while advancing legally binding decarbonization goals. At this year’s Regional Energy Policy Forum we aim to bridge the gap between macro-geopolitics (such as the ongoing Strait of Hormuz crisis) and local realities, directly addressing the risk of underutilized gas infrastructure alongside the rapid push to electrify the power and heat sectors. By bringing together top-tier European regulators from ACER, regional infrastructure operators, and leading clean energy analysts, we discussed how to navigate investments at both supply and demand sides.

Opening and keynotes:

  • Krisztina Tarjányi, Deputy State Secretary, Ministry of Economy and Energy

  • Eszter Szekeres, CEO of MET Hungary Ltd.

  • Péter Kotek, Senior research associate, REKK
  • Veit Bürger, Head of Department, ÖkoInstitut (Germany)

Panel 1 -Geopolitics, LNG Volatility, and CEE Winter Preparedness

  • Anne-Sophie Corbeau, Global Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University (online)

  • Andrej Nosko, energy policy and security expert, SFPA

  • András Deák,Senior Research Fellow at Institute of World Economics, HAS

  • Zombor Smaraglay, Executive Director of Gas Wholesale - MET Central Europe Hungary

  • Moderator: Agata Łoskot-Strachota, Project coordinator at OSW Centre for Eastern Studies (Poland)

Panel 2 -Short and midterm future of gas supply in CEE

  • Csilla Bartók, Head of Department at ACER (online)

  • Gábor Szokodi, Director of Trading and Business Development, FGSZ Ltd.

  • Predrag Grujičić, Head of Gas Unit, Energy Community Secretariat

  • Martin Vladimirov, Director Energy and Climate Program/Geoeconomics Program, Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) (online)

  • Moderator: Borbála Takácsné Tóth, Senior research associate, REKK

Panel 3 - Is Natural Gas a Bridge or a Stranded Asset in the CEE Power Production?

  • Jan Krčál, Lead Analyst at Fakta o klimatu (Czech Republic)
  • Péter Horváth, CEO, Dunamenti Erőmű Zrt.

  • Kacper Kwidziński, Project Manager, Power Programme, Forum Energii (Poland)

  • Mihai Constantin, Senior researcher, Energy Policy Group (Romania) (online)

  • Moderator: László Szabó, director of REKK

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1093 Budapest, Mátyás u. 8.