"Energy Conference 2012" at ZEW

The international conference war organised by the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation" (MaCCI). MaCCI is a joint interdisciplinary project of ZEW and the School of Law and Economics at the University of Mannheim.

Key note speakers at the plenum were Jochen Homann (president of the Federal Network Agency), Michael Pollitt (University of Cambridge, UK), Frank A. Wolak (Stanford University, US) and Michael Waterson (University of Warwick, UK).

In addition to numerous workshops focusing on the developments in energy markets, the key event of the conference was a panel discussion hosted by Georg Licht. Under the title "Small Grids Challenges", Stephanie von Ahlefeldt (Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology), Jochen Kreusel (ABB AG), Gabriele Riedmann de Trinidad (Deutsche Telekom AG) and Carla Seidel (BASF SE) discussed the topic of smart grids.