World Energy Council to present potential energy scenarios following COVID-19 in online conference
An online conference entitled ‘COVID-19: accelerating a better energy future for
all’ is set to
be held on 17 June 2020 at 11:00 (BST)/13:00 (GMT+3). The event will be held in
a digital format and will be broadcast live on Russia 24 and Bloomberg Live Go (Bloomberg Terminal subscribers only). The conference will be the first in a
series of online events as part of Road to Congress 2020. These events will
take place biannually in the run up to the 25th World Energy Congress (to be
held on 24–27 October 2022 in St. Petersburg).
The conference is organized by the
Roscongress Foundation and the World Energy Council with the support of Global
Energy Association and OJSC Rosseti.
The coronavirus pandemic has affected all sectors
of the economy in varying degrees. Although energy companies are demonstrating
their resilience to the crisis by ensuring that their customers have a
continuous supply of energy, the crisis could still culminate in a ‘perfect
storm’ – in other words, a fatal combination of circumstances that may lead to
many companies in the energy sector going bankrupt. Participants in the
discussion will consider the emerging pressure points in the global energy
system, the current priorities of energy-producing states and energy companies
in light of the crisis and the measures already taken to ease the energy system
back into post-crisis normality.
Speaking at the conference will be
Alexander Novak, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, and Dr Angela
Wilkinson, Secretary General and CEO of the World Energy Council. The event will
bring together top experts from the energy sector to discuss the increasing
fragility of the global energy system along with the provision of support
measures for fuel and energy companies aimed at ensuring that they successfully
adapt to the changing energy climate and return to post-crisis normality. Other
participants in the discussion will include Pavel Livinsky, Chairman of the
Management Board and Director General of Rosseti; Helima Croft, Managing
Director and Global Head of Commodity Strategy, Global Research, at RBC Capital
Markets; and Dr Leonhard Birnbaum, Member of the Management Board at E.ON, CEO
of Innogy and Chair of the Studies Committee of the World Energy Council. The
discussion will be moderated by Sergey Brilev, President of Global Energy
Association.
The event will be broadcast live on Russia 24 and Bloomberg Live Go (Bloomberg Terminal subscribers only). A live stream of the conference will be available on the 25th World Energy Congress website and on its dedicated YouTube channel. With media support ofEnergy Policy Magazine.
