Dietmar Koering will be speaking at the conference “Energy Transition and Citizen Participation” organized by the Association for Home and Environment in Germany (BHU), Naumburg/Saale, from September 30th to October 2nd, 2013.
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 Program: 10:00 AM Welcome and Introduction Dr. Reiner Haseloff* | Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt Dr. Herlind Gundelach | Bund Heimat und Umwelt Prof. Dr. Konrad Breitenborn | State Homeland Association Saxony-Anhalt N.N.* | State Energy Agency Saxony-Anhalt
10:20 AM Sustainability and Energy Transition Oliver Richters | Association for Ecological Economics (VÖÖ)
10:50 AM Citizen Participation in Environmentally Relevant Major Projects Dr. Michael Gerhardt | Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU), Department for Citizen Participation in Environmentally Relevant Major Projects
11:20 AM Participation – How? Participate – But Correctly! Hanns-Jörg Sippel* | Stiftung Mitarbeit
11:50 AM Citizen Participation in the Energy Transition: Examples from Austria Dr. Gernot Stöglehner/Georg Neugebauer | University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Institute of Spatial Planning and Rural Development
12:10 PM Discussion, followed by Lunch
2:00 PM Opportunities and Conflicts of Citizen Participation from the Perspectives of Stakeholders: Experiences of the Federal Network Agency with Communication Linda Schreiber | Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), Network Expansion Electricity Transmission Networks Dialogue? The Daily Routine of a Network Operator Marian Rappl | Amprion GmbH Experiences with the Round Table Atdorf Peter Steinbeck* | Schluchseewerk AG Michaele Hustedt* | Moderation Round Table Atdorf Klaus Stöcklin* | Citizens’ Initiative Atdorf N.N. Schwarzwaldverein* The View of Citizens and Associations Werner Gessner-Krone* | Westphalian Association for Home and Environment
3:30 PM Discussion and Coffee Break
4:00 PM Coordinating, Planning, and Accompanying Citizen Participation Andrea Hartz* | agl Saarbrücken
4:30 PM Energy Transition, Citizen Participation, and the Role of the Press Jörg Rehmann* | Initiative Soonwald e. V.