V Sloveniji vse bolj odmeva ideja o gradnji novega jedrskega reaktorja. T.i. jedrski scenarij je tudi eden izmed dveh ponujenih scenarijev v osnutku dolgoročne podnebne strategije Slovenije.

Ker si o tako pomembni temi želimo argumentirane javne razprave, v kateri bodo slišani tudi kritični glasovi, vas vabimo na spletno konferenco “Critically examining nuclear as a (false) climate solution” s šestimi mednarodnimi strokovnjaki, ki bodo z različnih vidikov kritično ovrednotili vlogo jedrske energije pri reševanju podnebne krize, zlasti novih jedrskih gradenj, ter predstavili trenutne energetsko-ekonomske trende in potencial obnovljivih tehnologij. Med drugimi se nam bodo pridružili govorci iz Univerze v Sydneyu, ETH Zürich in Nemškega inštituta za ekonomska raziskovanja (DIW).

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CRITICALLY EXAMINING NUCLEAR AS A (FALSE) CLIMATE SOLUTION

EVENT PROGRAM

OCTOBER • 13 • 2020 (9:00 – 12:30, CEST)

9:00 AM – 9: 10 AM: INTRODUCTION (Katja Huš, Climate and energy campaigner, Greenpeace Slovenia)

9:10 AM – 9:40 AM: THE STATE OF ELECTRICITY TRANSITION IN EUROPE AND GLOBALLY (Dave Jones, Senior electricity analyst, Ember)

9:40 AM – 10:20 AM: THE MARKET HAS ALREADY DECIDED: WHY WE ARE HEADING TOWARDS 100% RENEWABLES (Dr. Sven Teske, Research director, University of technology Sydney)

10:20 AM – 10:50 AM: Q&A SESSION

20 MIN BREAK

11:10 AM – 11:50 AM: ECONOMICS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS: REVIEW OF RECENT TRENDS AND ANALYSIS OF FUTURE INVESTMENTS (Ben Wealer, Research Associate, German institute for economic research, DIW Berlin)

11:50 AM – 12:20 PM: Q&A SESSION

OCTOBER • 14 • 2020 (9:00 – 12:30, CEST)

9:00 AM – 9: 10 AM: INTRODUCTION (Katja Huš, Climate and energy campaigner, Greenpeace Slovenia)

9:10 AM – 9:50 AM: WHY IS THE UK NUCLEAR PROGRAMME FAILING? (Stephen Thomas, Professor Emeritus, Greenwich University)

9:50 AM – 10:10 AM: Q&A SESSION

10 MIN BREAK

10:20 AM – 11:00 AM: QUALITIES OF DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL-MILITARY NUCLEAR INTERDEPENDENCIES: EXPLORING INTERNATIONAL PATTERNS AND THE UK’S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS (Philip Johnstone, Research fellow, University of Sussex)

11:00 AM – 11:20 AM: Q&A SESSION

10 MIN BREAK

11:30 AM – 12:10 PM: LOW-CARBON ENERGY TRANSITION: WHY NUCLEAR CANNOT BENEFIT (Dr. Jochen Markard, Senior researcher, ETH Zürich and Zürich university of applied sciences)

12:10 PM – 12:30 PM: Q&A SESSION

SPEAKERS

Philip Johnstone

works as a research fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit of University of Sussex. His work has focused on energy policy, the role of the state in sustainability transitions, industrial policy, phase out policies and discontinuation in science and technology, and nuclear power, including issues around civil-military connections in civil nuclear policy.

Dave Jones

is a senior electricity analyst at Ember and the lead author for Ember’s Global Electricity Review. From 2000 to 2013 he was working as an electricity market analyst at E.ON – one of the world’s largest power utilities – and previously also Powergen and TXU. His role was price forecasting and power plant hedging for E.ON’s power plant portfolio, which included working on fossil, nuclear and renewable assets in most countries across Europe.

Dr. Jochen Markard

works as a senior researchet at ETH Zürich and ZHAW (Zurich University of Applied Sciences). His work focuses on issues of technology decline, technological innovation systems and sustainability transitions. He studies the interaction of technology, actor strategies, policies and institutional structures associated with sustainability, particularly focusing on the emergence of new technological systems.

Stephen Thomas

has researched and lectured on energy policy for more than 30 years. He was member of the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex from 1979-2000 and later leading the energy research at the University of Greenwich Business School. He has published widely in the field of energy policy research, focusing on nuclear power policy, corporate policies of European energy utilities and economic regulation of energy.

Dr Sven Teske

is a research director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney. Dr Teske and his team specialised in 1.5 °C compatible decarbonisation concepts as input for National Determined Contributions (NDC) required under the Paris Climate Agreement. He has 25 years’ experience in renewable energy market surveys and forecasts, especially solar photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, onshore and offshore wind.

Ben Wealer

is a research associate at the Workgroup for Economic and Infrastructure Policy at Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), and at DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research). His field of research is nuclear power economics with a focus on decommissioning, radioactive waste management and nuclear power plant new build.