SOUTHEAST EUROPE: Belgrade Energy Forum greets top officials, global investors in renewable on May 13-14

Belgrade Energy Forum 2024 will welcome some of the most influential names in the energy sector in the region and Europe. Among the new sponsors are companies and financial institutions currently the most ambitious and prepared in the market. The governments in the region can count on them to conduct the energy transition.

The leaders of the energy transition in Southeast Europe are convening on May 13 and 14 in Crowne Plaza in Serbia’s capital city.

Belgrade Energy Forum 2024, the most relevant multistakeholder event of its kind in the region, is an opportunity to hear from energy ministers, chiefs of international organizations, and the leading companies in the energy sector about the new trends, challenges, and possible solutions. Belgrade Energy Forum and Balkan Green Energy News portal represent a media and event platform for matching future partners in the growing sustainable energy sector.

The conference will feature leading investment companies and developers that are currently developing more than 20 GW of green capacities across the region, as well as the heads of Serbian power exchange SEEPEX – Miloš Mladenović, Slovenian BSP Energy Exchange – Anže Predovnik, and Hungarian HUPX Mátyás Vajta. The three exchanges were recently integrated into a regional Adex Group.

The companies currently negotiating with the governments in the region on establishing strategic partnerships, an emerging model for the development of capital energy projects in the region, will also be at the BEF 2024 conference.

The conference’s agenda is ready and available on the conference website. According to the organizers, the conference will be opened by Energy Community Secretariat Director Artur Lorkowski. The confirmation of the participation of Dubravka Djedović Handanović, Minister of mining and energy, is still pending and is expected in the first days of May when the new Government is expected to be appointed

Minister of Energy and Mining of Montenegro Saša Mujović will speak at the panel on strategies for advancing energy transition in SEE. It will be the first time the newly elected minister will speak at a conference in Serbia. Mujović is participating in the discussion with his peers from the Republic of Srpska and Romania, Dirk Buschle from the Energy Community Secretariat, and Gurbuz Gonul, an executive from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

What should we do to secure a timely and meaningful carbon-neutral future? is the name of a panel in which WindEurope’s Chief Executive Officer Giles Dickson will participate.

He will discuss the topic with Alexandra Sombsthay, vice president for Europe in French company Akuo Energy and Vice President of SolarPower Europe; Vugar Veysalov, from the company Trans Adriatic Pipeline, who is responsible for external affairs and social and environmental investment; and Daniel Calderon, Managing Director of Alcazar Energy.

An Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co. – Masdar representative will also speak at the panel. Headquartered in the United Arab Emirates and active in Southeast Europe through a joint venture with Masdar Taaleri. It won a market premium in August for its Čibuk 2 project in Serbia at the country’s first wind power auction. In addition, Masdar is preparing to invest in green energy with Romanian state-owned company Hidroelectrica under a joint venture partnership.