Repower Spring Summit Poland

Katowice and Gliwice |4th - 5th MAR, 2025

Repower Spring Summit Poland

The mission of the Repower Initiative is to accelerate the energy transition by enabling the Clean Repowering of coal power. Your participation to this event, together with the other distinguished participants as well as members of the Repower Initiative, its partners and the larger ecosystem will be critical to make sure we find a way to repower the close to 2 TW of coal power globally by 2050.
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The event in Katowice is under the honorary patronage of Polish Minister of Industry Marzena Czarnecka, who has announced her participation in the event. The presidents and senior leaders of Poland’s largest energy companies, as well as CEOs of companies developing decarbonization technologies have also announced their active participation

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Programme
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4 March 2025
9:00
Opening ceremony
9:30
Keynote Speech
Staffan Qvist, Quantified Carbon. Global pathways for coal repowering
10:00
Panel I: Polish strategies for repowering in the energy system
Polish strategies for repowering in the energy system, Stanisław Tokarski, Towarzystwo Gospodarcze Polskie Elektrownie
11:30
Coffee break
12:00
Panel II: Energy transition in the context of a just transition
A just transition - a balance between climate, economy and society, Patryk Białas, Director of the Innovation and Competence Centre at the Euro-Centre Science and Technology Park in Katowice
13:30
Lunch break
14:30
Panel III: Polish strategies for repowering in district heating systems
Transformation of the district heating sector in Poland - directions and regulations, Dorota Jeziorowska, Director of the Polskie Towarzystwo Energetyki Cieplnej
16:00
Coffee break
16:30
Panel IV: Local content in the energy sector
Local content in the energy sector, Łukasz Grela, President of the Management Board, Energoprojekt-Katowice S.A.
18:00
Summary of the day
19:00
Gala dinner
5 March 2025
9:00
Keynote Speech
Prof. Ning Li, Dean of College of Energy, Xiamen University A first-principles analysis of energy transition and lessons from China’s practice.
09:30
Panel V: World strategies for repowering in the energy systems
Coal-to-X pathway - what is the global potential? Paweł Gładysz, Silesian University of Technology
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
Panel VI: Coal-to-RES
How energy storage brings flexibility to renewable and fossil power plants on the path to the energy transition Janina Hippler-Nettlau, Project Execution Director, Malta Inc.
13:00
Lunch break
14:00
Panel VII: Coal-to-Nuclear
Coal-to-Nuclear as the preferred path for domestic energy transformation, Łukasz Bartela, Silesian University of Technology
16:30
Coffee break
17:00
Panel VIII: Investment financing models
Cheap energy from own atom for Silesia, Zagłębie and Małopolska, Bożena Horbaczewska, Warsaw School of Economics
17:45
Summary of the day and closing ceremony
Meet the Speakers
Meet the experts and leaders driving the global transition to clean power.
Wojciech Wrochna
Government Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure
Marzena Czarnecka
Minister of Industry, Republic of Poland
Michal Orlowski
Tauron Polska, Energia S.A
Professor Ning Li
Founding Dean, College of Energy, Xiamen University
Pawel Gadja
Ministry of Industry, Republic of Poland
Piotr Andrusiewicz
ENEA Group
Łukasz Bartela
Academic
Dr. Staffan Qvist
Founder
Thierry Deschaux
Director of the EDF Representative Office
Gzegorz Lot
Chairman, Tauron Polska Energia S.A
Jacek Janas
Enea Group
Jacek Kaczorowski
PGE Group
Andres Calderon
CCSF
Bryony Worthington
Advisor
Damien Kalakowsi
Selesian Metropolitan Union
The Organisers
Discover the organisations and partners making Repower events possible.
Wojciech Wrochna
Government Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure
Marzena Czarnecka
Minister of Industry, Republic of Poland
Michal Orlowski
Tauron Polska, Energia S.A
Professor Ning Li
Founding Dean, College of Energy, Xiamen University

A distinguished professor, who has held notable roles at UC Berkeley and Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is globally recognised for his work in nuclear research and development. He is the co-founder and senior advisor of Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, a US company dedicated to the development and commercialization of advanced nuclear energy based on innovations on fuel and micro modular reactor. He has been a member of the Expert Committee for the State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (working with Westinghouse to build the world’s first AP1000s and develop new designs), a senior advisor and Director for Asia Development of TerraPower, a research affiliate of MIT, and the Industrial Fellow for Civilian Nuclear Programs at LANL.

Dr. Li has extensive R&D experiences in nuclear energy and fuel cycle technologies, and was a planner, leader and participant in a number of US DOE civilian nuclear energy programs, including Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems, Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative and Accelerator-driven Waste Transmutation.

Pawel Gadja
Ministry of Industry, Republic of Poland
Piotr Andrusiewicz
ENEA Group
Łukasz Bartela
Academic

Łukasz Bartela is an Associate Professor in the Department of Power Engineering and Turbomachinery at Silesian University of Technology.

Dr. Staffan Qvist
Founder

Staffan is a Swedish engineer and consultant to clean energy projects around the world. He is the coauthor of the book, A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow (PublicAffairs Books, January 2019).

Thierry Deschaux
Director of the EDF Representative Office
Gzegorz Lot
Chairman, Tauron Polska Energia S.A
Jacek Janas
Enea Group
Jacek Kaczorowski
PGE Group
Andres Calderon
CCSF
Bryony Worthington
Advisor

Baroness Bryony is a life peer in the UK House of Lords and a life-long environmental campaigner. She was the lead author on the 2008 Climate Change Act, a landmark piece of legislation which legally requires the UK to reduce its emissions to a level 80% lower than its emissions in 1990.

Damien Kalakowsi
Selesian Metropolitan Union