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  1. Swedish-German Heat Transition Dialogues
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Agenda

Location: Nordic Embassies, Rauchstraße 1, 10787 Berlin

Date & Time: 17 March, 15:00 – 19:00 pm


15:00 

Registration and coffee

15:30 
Opening remarks by the Embassy of Sweden in Berlin
15:35 
Welcome remarks by the Swedish Energy Agency
15:45 
Impulse by dena (Deutsche Energie-Agentur)
16:00 
Breakout sessions 

  • Financing as a catalyst for the heat transition: Business models and financing for district Energy
  • Harness the power of waste heat resources: Untapped potential and cross-sector collaboration
  • Ensuring a just and inclusive heat transition: Social equity, acceptance and citizen participation
17:05 
Group discussion - Key takeaways and next steps
17:25 
Closing remarks
17:30 
Networking reception 



Speakers

Kristina Lygnerud is Professor at Lund University, Sweden and a senior energy expert at the Swedish Environmental Research Institute. She is an economist who has focused on understanding how risk exposure and business models shift as a result of energy transition activities.

Kristina has often studied the district energy sector as a case and has followed its development since 2004. She has supported the development of research on low temperature waste heat sources and how they can be recovered into district heating systems (international projects: ReUseHeat, Rewardheat, Annex TS2 IEA-DHC, Sowhat, Sun horizon, Flexi Sync, Thunder, Rewich and Uses4heat). She has also worked on identifying the business model of district heating 2050 (funded by the IEA-DCH).

Currently she is developing social sustainability key performance indicators for district heating by studying a new case in Canda, supporting the first waste heat recovery from medical waste in a project in India and supporting the development of a European wide DHC Academy.

Kristina has been the chair of the European knowledge hub of DHC, DHC+ of Euroheat & Power for 6 years and is currently on the EU’s investor dialogue on energy (working group 4 of heating and cooling).


Marie Klingmann is Project & Business development Manager at Kraftringen. She has a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Lund University of Technology and a Ph.D in District Heating. She has been at Kraftringen för five years and have over three decades of experience in the energy sector. Marie has been a Product Manager at EON and Marketing Manager at Lunds Energi amongst other previous positions.






Dr. Anders Sandoff is a researcher at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, specializing in energy systems from a business perspective, with a focus on strategy, business models, investment practices and corporate governance. Since 2008, he has served as an expert on the Swedish District Heating Board. In addition, Dr. Sandoff has extensive experience in research on urban transformation and issues related to New Public Governance and collaboration on sustainable innovation, development and organizational change.