Thursday, September 22, 2011

Meeting in the lobby of the hotel at 8:30am for buses to depart to KEMPINSKI HOTEL BADAMBDAR for Opening Ceremony and Joint Session with the ERRA Tariff/Pricing Committee 

09:00 Visit to the grave of National Leader Haydar Aliyev and to the Martyr's Avenue

KEMPINSKI HOTEL BADAMBDAR (Gebele Hall, Section B) 

10:20 Opening Ceremony

• The Honorable Shahin Mustafayev, Minister, Ministry for Economic Development, Azerbaijan Republic 
• dr. Gábor Szörényi, Chairman, Energy Regulators Regional Association

10:50 Coffee break 

11:10 Roundtable Discussions: Updates on Recent Energy Regulatory Issues by ERRA Chairmen

• (Each Chairmen will be requested to give a max. 5 minutes verbal update on the recent developments in their country in the field of energy regulation)

12:15 Buses depart back to Crown Hotel 

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Crown Hotel Baku
(Meeting Room Crown Meeting Hall) 

12:30               Lunch

14:00               Introduction of New Committee Members, NARUC Commissioners and Other Guests 

14:10               Elections of the Vice-Chairman of the ERRA Tariff/Pricing Committee

Moderator: Mr. Ainars Mengelsons, Director of the Energy Department, Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Latvia; Chair of the Tariff/Pricing Committee 

14:40               Tariff/Pricing Committee Work Plan for 2012
(Discussion on the Topics Suggested by the Committee Members for the Workplan, preparing the voting list)

15:00               Price regulation of start-up ("greenfield") distribution networks
This topic was suggested for discussion in 2011 by Serbia. Here we shall ask Mr. Nebojsa Despotovic from Serbia to briefly introduce the problem and moderate a discussion on this issue between the Members of the Tariff Committee 

15:30               Coffee break 

15:45               Voting on the Topics of the 2012 Workplan  

16:00               Presentations of data submission in the new format (separately stating the energy, the network and the tax components) for the ERRA Tariff Databaase (presentations of tables by Moldova (Mr. Alexandru Mija), Latvia (Mr. Ainars Mengelsons), Serbia (Mr. Nebojsa Despotovic), Turkey (Mr. Cetin Kayabas)) Each presenter has 10 minutes to present the data.

17:00               Meeting Concludes  

17:10               Social Programme 

Friday, September 23

 Crown Hotel Baku
(Meeting Room Crown Meeting Hall) 

09:00               Finalization & Approval of the 2012 Workplan
Share of Duties and Responsibilities Among Committee Members 

09:15              Roundtable Discussions: Tariff/Pricing Updates by Committee Members
(Each Committee Member will be requested to give a max. 3 minutes verbal update on the recent developments in their country in the field of tariff/pricing)

10:15               Presentation and discussion of the content of the future issue paper on Renewable support schemes for electricity produced from renewable energy sources. Review in the ERRA Member countries and in 2 selected European non-ERRA Member countries

• Mr. Peter Kaderjak, Director, Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research (REKK), Hungary
• Discussion 

11:30               Coffee break 

11:45               Benchmarking of Energy Distribution Companies in the ERRA Countries (Data for 2009)

• Updates by Nebojsa Despotovic (Serbia)
• Questions & Answers 

12:00               Lunch 

13:30               Performance indicators of electricity distribution companies after their privatization

• Country Case Study of Bulgaria by Ms. Ecaterina Istatkova
• Country Case Study of Romania by Ms. Mihaela Indre
• Questions and Answers 

14:30               Load research

• US Experience in allocation of costs among the consumer groups by Denise Kay Parrish, Deputy Administrator, Office of Consumer Advocate, Wyoming Public Service Commission; National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), U.S.A.
• Questions & Answers 

15:15               Coffee break 

15:30               Update on the Future ERRA Activities

• Ms. Andrea Farkas, Program Manager, ERRA Secretariat 

16:00               Meeting concludes