KUTALMIŞ ERSOY
Secretariat Türkiye, Zero Emission Traders Association (ZETA)
KUTALMIŞ ERSOY
Secretariat Türkiye, Zero Emission Traders Association (ZETA)
Title: Hydrogen Exports to the EU and the European Regulatory Environment
Bio: Kutalmis is a dedicated lawyer with extensive experience in regulatory and compliance realms within the energy sector. He is acting as the Secretary General of the Zero Emissions Traders Alliance Türkiye, which is independent organization committed to creating transparent markets for low-carbon and renewable energy. He is based in Brussels and following regulatory developments in the EU.
VAHID VAHIDINASAB
Associate Professor of Smart Power & Energy Systems and Leader of Sustainable Energy Research Group (SERG) Director of NTU-GridLab, Nottingham Trent University
VAHID VAHIDINASAB
Associate Professor of Smart Power & Energy Systems and Leader of Sustainable Energy Research Group (SERG) Director of NTU-GridLab, Nottingham Trent University
Title: Vehicle-for-Everything (V4X): Empowering Energy Citizens through EV-Driven Flexibility Markets
Bio: Vahid Vahidinasab is an Associate Professor of Smart Power and Energy Systems, Leader of Sustainable Energy Research Group (SERG), and Director of NTU-GridLab at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), Nottingham, UK. The focus of his research is on the development of local energy systems and markets with an emphasis on the development of innovative solutions to empower people and communities and enhance the resilience of energy systems in the transition toward net-zero. He has more than two decades of experience in academia and industry and is a committed volunteer for professional organizations. In addition, he has a remarkable record of attracting significant external funds and effectively managing large-scale industrial projects, in addition to his extensive involvement in 12 large and complex national and international projects. He is the Vice Chair of UK and Ireland IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Springer Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy, Subject Editor of IET Smart Grid, IET GTD, and Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Vahid is the recipient of the Vice-Chancellor Research Excellence Award and the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award in 2023.
MICHAEL POLLITT
Professor, Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge Centre on Regulation in Europe, Brussels
MICHAEL POLLITT
Professor, Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge Centre on Regulation in Europe, Brussels
Title: Lessons for electricity market design from the 2021-23 European Energy Crisis
Bio: Michael Pollitt is Professor of Business Economics at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is an Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) and an academic co-director of the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE). Michael is a Fellow in Economics and Management at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Michael was external economic advisor to Ofgem from 2007 to 2011. He has published 13 books and over 100 refereed journal articles on efficiency analysis, energy policy and business ethics. He was Vice President of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) for 2020-23 and has been the convenor of the Association for Christian Economics UK, since 2000.
AUDUN BOTTERUD
Principal Research Scientist, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
AUDUN BOTTERUD
Principal Research Scientist, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Title: Towards Zero-Carbon: Challenges and Solutions for Electricity Markets
Bio: Audun Botterud is a Principal Research Scientist in Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT, where he leads the Energy Analytics Group. He has a co-appointment in the Energy Systems and Infrastructure Analysis Division at Argonne National Laboratory. His research interests include power systems, electricity markets, renewable energy, and energy storage. Audun holds a M.Sc. (Industrial Engineering) and a Ph.D. (Electrical Power Engineering), both from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He was previously with SINTEF Energy Research in Trondheim, Norway.
HASAN ÖZKOÇ
Director, Mediterranean Energy Regulators (MEDREG)
HASAN ÖZKOÇ
Director, Mediterranean Energy Regulators (MEDREG)
Title: The role of a coherent regulation in establishing a functioning Mediterranean energy market
Bio: Mr. OZKOC is the Director of the Mediterranean Energy Regulators (MEDREG). He leads MEDREG in developing activities, tools, regulatory standards and good practices to promote a functioning, interoperated, compatible and sustainable regulatory framework in the Mediterranean region.
Prior to MEDREG, he occupied the position of Sector Manager for Energy at the Delegation of the European Union to Turkey, managing reform process, implementation and follow-up of pre-accession developments, monitoring and coordinating the programmes/projects under the EU Financial Assistance to Turkey between July 2010 and March 2018. In 2006, he worked as Senior Gas Expert (Head of Hydrocarbons) for the Energy Community Secretariat in Vienna, where he contributed to the development of strategies for gas market structures in the South-Eastern European Countries and monitored the compliance of Members with the EU’s internal energy directives. He worked for the Turkish Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA) from its establishment in 2001 until 2009. He was involved in the preparation and implementation of the implementing legislation of the Natural Gas Market Law. Following his graduation, he joined Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAS) in 1994 as a natural gas engineer and specialised on natural gas and LNG sales and purchase agreements as well as gas infrastructures. He received a BS in Metallurgical and Materials Science Engineering and later an MS from the Middle East Technical University (METU).
OKAN YARDIMCI
Head of Digital Transformation Group, Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA)
OKAN YARDIMCI
Head of Digital Transformation Group, Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA)
Title: Empowering Türkiye's Energy Future: The Role of Digital Transformation in Energy Transition
Bio: Dr. Yardimci graduated from the Middle East Technical University (Türkiye), Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering in 2004. He joined an Executive Program on economics of regulation in the Michigan State University (USA) in 2008. Afterwards, he participated in Master of Law (LL.M.) at the PennState University (USA) between 2013-2015. He completed Ph.D. on finance in the Hacettepe University (Türkiye) in 2016 and held a post-doctorate research at the University of Oxford, St Antony’s College, South East European Studies (UK) between 2019-2021. He had been working as a reservoir engineer in an international oil company before he was recruited by the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA) of Türkiye. He has been working for EMRA since 2006 and currently serving as the Head of the Digital Transformation Group under the Energy Transition Department. He held teaching positions at undergraduate and graduate levels in several universities. He teaches energy economics, financing energy investments and economics of regulation.
NURİ ŞENSOY
Data Analytics Manager, Senkron.Energy Digital Services
NURİ ŞENSOY
Data Analytics Manager, Senkron.Energy Digital Services
Title: The key to the transition to the New Power System: Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence
Bio: Dr. Şensoy serves as the Data Analytics Manager at Senkron.Energy Digital Services, a subsidiary of Enerjisa Üretim, one of Turkey's leading energy production companies. After completing his bachelor's and master's degrees in Mathematics at Koç University, he earned his PhD in Industrial Engineering. In 2023, he completed the Executive MBA program at Sabancı University. Nuri Şensoy began his career as an operational research specialist at Energy Exchange Istanbul. With nearly 10 years of experience in the energy sector, he has specialized in solving complex energy problems. He manages a team of data engineers and data scientists, developing innovative applications to enhance the performance and profitability of energy production facilities and energy trading operations.
STEIN-ERIK FLETEN
Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
STEIN-ERIK FLETEN
Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Title: Electricity Forward Curves: The Challenges of High-Resolution Estimation
Bio: Stein-Erik Fleten received the Ph.D. degree in operations research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, in 2000. He is currently Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. His areas of interest include electricity markets, hydro scheduling under uncertainty, hedging and risk management in electricity utilities, real options, and bidding in short-term electricity auctions. His main scientific fields are stochastic programming, finance and energy economics, with applications for electricity companies. He has been doing research on the liberalized electricity market since the 1990s. He has been a visiting scholar in University of British Columbia, University College London and University of Michigan. Fleten has extensive experience in participation and leadership of applied research projects, both nationally and internationally, within the electricity area.
JALAL KAZEMPOUR
Associate Professor and Head of Section for Energy Markets and Analytics, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
JALAL KAZEMPOUR
Associate Professor and Head of Section for Energy Markets and Analytics, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Title: The P90 requirement of Energinet: How does it promote stochastic flexible assets bidding in Nordic ancillary service markets?
Bio: Jalal Kazempour is an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Wind and Energy Systems, where currently heading the section "Energy Markets and Analytics" with 15+ research staff. He is also the head of studies for the MSc program "Sustainable Energy Systems" of DTU. Jalal is interested in data-driven and market-oriented approaches to power system operation and planning, also in coordination with other energy systems (hydrogen, gas, heat, etc). His focus area is the intersection of multiple fields, including optimization, game theory, control, and machine learning for energy applications. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for INFORMS Operations Research.
