February 20, 2025
The Repower World Summit 2025 will take place in Katowice, Poland, on March 4th – March 5th. The summit is hosted by the Silesian University of Technology, partnering with Quantified Carbon, who are ‘Technical Patrons’. Up to 300 people can participate in the event. The Repower Initiative Summit, a smaller meeting for Repower Initiative members, will also take place in Gliwice, Poland on March 6th. The co-organisers of this event are the Silesian University and Quantified Carbon.
The two summits will explore strategies to ‘Repower’: that is, decarbonising coal-based energy systems by replacing them with low-emission generation sources.
The principal sponsors of the event in Katowice are GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy and EDF. GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy is a technology provider currently focusing on the market deployment of the BWRX-300 nuclear reactor in Poland and the region. EDF is the world’s largest nuclear operator and technology provider.
The Katowice summit will stage 8 different panels across 2 days, and feature presidents and senior leaders of Poland’s largest energy companies, CEOs of companies developing decarbonisation technologies, coal asset owners, and representatives of major utilities and financial institutions.
The opening keynote speech of the summit will be given by Staffan Qvist, the Founder of the Repower Initiative and CEO of QuantifiedCarbon.
Panel I: ‘Polish strategies for repowering in the energy system’
Panel II: ‘Energy Transition in the context of a just transition’
Panel III: ‘Polish strategies for repowering in district heating systems’
Panel IV: ‘Local content in the energy sector’
The keynote speech for Day 2 will be provided by Professor Ning Li, Founding Dean, of the College of Energy, Xiamen University
Panel V: ‘World strategies for repowering in the energy systems’
Panel VI: ‘Coal-to-RES’ (Renewable Energy Sources)
Panel VII: ‘Coal-to-Nuclear’ – GE Hitachi Nuclear and EDF will be participating in this panel discussion.
Panel VIII: ‘Investment financing models’
Bryony Worthington, Staffan Qvist, and the Repower Initiative wider network (including academic partners, engineers, software developers, scientists and many others) will gather in Gliwice at the Silesian University of Technology to discuss accelerating the transition of global coal plants to cleaner energy sources. The meeting will be hosted by Łukasz Bartela, Head of DEsire– Energy Transition Platform.
Repowering can eliminate one third of global carbon emissions. It can protect trillions of dollars of investment and ensure a just workforce transition for the 8.4 million people who currently work in the global coal industry.
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