[KS] Climate change and Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) as a solution for the EUMENA (Europe, Middle East, North Africa) and Northeast Asian region – perspectives for Korea’s energy policy

[Bernhard Seliger]

International Conference on
Climate change and Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) as a solution for the EUMENA 
(Europe, Middle East, North Africa) and Northeast Asian region – perspectives 
for Korea’s energy policy 

 
With the commitments and peer pressure resulting from the United Nations 
Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen last December, the search 
for renewable energy sources which are economically viable became a priority for 
Europe and Korea and its Northeast Asian neighbours. At the same time, the 
diversification of energy sources remains an important task due to the expected 
steadily increasing demand for energy. 

 
            The generation of concentrated solar power through large-scale 
plants in desert areas promises to achieve the provision of clean, cheap and 
inexhaustible energy in the future. However, successful application of CSP 
technology on a large-scale needs an important amount of policy coordination and 
institutionalization in energy policy. The DESERTEC idea is to integrate energy 
grids of population and industry centres with desert areas ideal to generate 
solar-thermal energy. Given the right framework in terms of energy policy and 
political cooperation, for the EUMENA region (Europe, the Middle East, North 
Africa) as well as for Northeast Asia (China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula and 
Mongolia) this promises to be a major way to tackle the challenges of climate 
change, energy security and fostering regional integration. 

 
            The Gobitec Initiative Research Network promotes the idea of energy 
cooperation in Northeast Asia through an integrated network for renewable 
energies with a particular focus on CSP technology. In the EUMENA region, the 
countries participating in the Desertec project already started to build 
large-scale CSP plants and integration of European energy policy is progressing 
fast. It is our pleasure to invite you to a conference bringing together experts 
from Europe, Northeast Asia and Korea to discuss the potential of “electricity 
from the desert” for Europe and Northeast Asia. The conference will take place 
at the Grand Hilton Hotel on December 8, 2010. We would sincerely appreciate 
your presence and active participation in this important discussion. Thank you.
 
Dr. Bernhard Seliger                                          
                     Prof. Dr. Young-Ryeol Park 

Resident 
Representative                                                            
Director
Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea                                               
Yonsei-SERI EU Centre
 
 
Co-hosts:Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea, Yonsei-SERI EU Centre
Date: December 8, 2010 (Wednesday)
Location:Grand Hilton Hotel Seoul, Convention Centre 3rd fl., Diamond Hall
 
R.s.v.p.
 
Programme
 
Time Programme Speaker 
12:30~
1: 00 Registration 
1:00~1:50 Opening Remarks Bernhard Seliger, Resident   Representative, HSS Korea 

Welcoming Remarks Park Young-Ryeol, Director,   Yonsei-SERI EU Centre 
Congratulatory Remarks Uwe Wissenbach, Acting Head,   EU Delegation to the 
Republic of Korea 

Keynote Speech Woo Ki-Jong,   Secretary-General, Presidential Committee on Green 
Growth 

1:50~2:00 Coffee Break 
2:00~2:50 Session 1: The Concept of   CSP and its application in Desertec EUMENA 
Moderator: Kim Gi-Eun (Gobitec Initiative Research   Network/ Seokyeong 
University)
Presentation: Mrs. Katrin-Susanne Richter (Desertec   Foundation, Munich) 
Discussant: Lee Moo-Sung (Myeongji University) 
2:50~3:00 Coffee Break 
3:00~4:20 Session 2: CSP Solutions   for Northeast Asia – towards Gobitec? 
Moderator: Park Kyung-Moon (Hongik University)
Presentation I: Tetsunari Iida (Institute for   Renewable Energy, Tokyo)
Presentation II: Namjil Enebish (International   Renewable Energy Agency, Abu 
Dhabi)
Discussant: Park Chang-Young (Kolon Construction   Corp.) 
4:20~4:30 Coffee Break 
4:30~5:50 Session 3: CSP Solutions and the role of   South Korea Moderator: Pak 
Young-Sukh (Vice-Director,   Yonsei-SERI EU Centre)
Presentation I: Park Moon-Hee (Daesung Group/Daegu   City Gas)
Presentation II: Bernhard Seliger   (Hanns-Seidel-Foundation)
Discussant: Matthias Vollert (Germany Embassy in   Korea) 
5:50~6:00 Concluding Remarks Bernhard Seliger, Resident   Representative, HSS 
Korea 

6:15~8:00 Dinner and Inaugural Meeting of Gobitec Initiative   Research Network  

Simultaneous translation service Korean-English will be provided.



 
Dr. Bernhard Seliger
Hanns Seidel Stiftung - Seoul Office
Room 501, Soo Young Bldg., 64-1, Hannam 1 Dong, Yongsan-gu
Seoul, Republic of Korea
Tel.+ 82 2 790 5344
Fax. + 82 2 790 5346


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