10th AIEE Energy Symposium
Current and Future Challenges to Energy Security
– Current and Future Challenges to Energy Markets –
Turin, 25-26 November, 2026
10th AIEE Energy Symposium
Current and Future Challenges to Energy Security
– Current and Future Challenges to Energy Markets –
Turin, 25-26 November, 2026
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Conference programme of the 10th AIEE Energy Symposium on Energy Security 2026
Venue: The University of Turin, Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis Campus Luigi Einaudi
(address: Lungo Dora Siena, 100)
Wednesday – November 25, 2026
08.30-17.00 – Registration
09.00-10.30 – concurrent sessions n. 1-4 (1h.30′ each)
1. Data-Driven Energy Transition (D2ET) – special session
Chair: Laura Andolfi, SnT – University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Designing distribution grid tariffs for a carbon-neutral future
Presenter: Laura Andolfi, SnT – University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Authors: Joachim Geske, Boris Ortega, Laura Andolfi, Martin Weibelzahl
A proposed PyPSA-LU framework for assessing battery storage impacts on security of supply in Luxembourg
Presenter: David Romero-Quete, Luxembourg Institute of Sciences and Technology, Luxembourg
Authors:David Romero-Quete, Sina Hassanzadeh, Stefania Gomez and Pedro Rodriguez
Beyond decarbonisation: energy security implications of battery-electric bus fleet electrification
Presenter:Marcin Seredynski, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Authors: Marcin Seredynski, Lex Bentner
Modeling nuclear power in Italy: the impact of network representation and temporal detail
Presenter: Matilde Cais, Politecnico of Torino, Italy
Authors: Matilde Cais, Matteo Nicoli, Alice Di Bella, Laura Savoldi
2.Hydrogen Prospects: The Role of Infrastructure and Trade
Chair:
When backbone infrastructure meets hydrogen certification: techno-economic insights into cross-border hydrogen trade in Europe
Presenter: Vincenzo Romano, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Authors:Vincenzo Romano, Paolo Marocco, Marta Gandiglio, Massimo Santarelli
Economic Viability and Environmental Assessment of Scaled-Up Photoelectrochemical Cells for Decentralized Green Hydrogen Production
Presenter: Mauro Giorgianni, Istituto di Tecnologie Avanzate per l’Energia “Nicola Giordano” – CNR, Italy
Authors:Mauro Giorgianni, Agatino Nicita, Gaetano Maggio, Stefano Trocino, Sonia Sofi
Green hydrogen and water security in the Mediterranean: assessing the water-energy nexus and policy challenges towards 2050
Presenter: Agatino Nicita, Istituto di Tecnologie Avanzate per l’Energia “Nicola Giordano” – CNR, Italy
Authors: Agatino Nicita, Gaetano Squadrito, Gaetano Maggio
3. Electricity Market Design
Chair: Lucia Visconti Parisio, University ofi Milan – Bicocca, Italy
Coordinating Multilayer Power System Flexibility: From Mathematical Optimization to Compute-Bounded Stochastic Scenario Exploration
Presenter: Théotime Coudray, UMI SOURCE, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
Authors: Théotime Coudray, Stéphane Goutte
Granularity Meets Strategy: 15-Minute Markets, Portfolio Bidding, and Electricity Price Formation
Presenter: Lucia Visconti Parisio, Università di Milano – Bicocca, Italy
Authors: Lucia Visconti Parisio, Matteo Pelagatti, Paolo Maranzano
From Hidden to Explicit Congestion: The Welfare Effects of Bidding-Zone Subdivision—The Case of the Norwegian Electricity Market
Presenter:Marta Moretto, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK
Authors:Marta Moretto, Michael G. Pollitt
An integrated mathematical and computational framework for electricity market design: Syria as a case study
Presenter: Bassam Shikha, Damascus University, Syria
Authors: Bassam Shikha
4. Digital Technologies in the Energy Sector
Chair:
Agentic AI as the operational layer of collective selfconsumption: closing the jars-to-rec value gap and making the condominium aggregator economically viable
Presenter: Christian Mari, Politecnico of Milan, Italy
Authors: Christian Mari
A Review-Informed Digital Shadow for AI-Assisted Building Energy Management
Presenter: Vahid Arabzadeh, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Authors: Vahid Arabzadeh, Sasan Jafarnejad, Sasu Saalasti, Raphaël Frank
Data Centre Capacity Expansion and European Energy System Dynamics: Assessing Demand Absorption, Carbon Intensity, and Renewable Moderation
Presenter: Mohammad Hosseinzadeh, University of Pavia, Italy
Authors: Mohammad Hosseinzadeh, Claudio Mascardini
10.30-10.50 – Coffee break – (20 minutes)
10.50-11.30 – Opening Welcome Address (Aula Magna)
University of Turin:
Rector’s Delegate
Elisabetta Ottoz, Head of the Dipartment of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Matiis
Marcello Baricco, Energy Transition Inter-university Group
Valeria Di Cosmo, Conference General Chair, Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the “Cognetti de Martiis” Department of Economics and Statistics
Italian Association of Energy Economists – AIEE
Guido Bortoni, AIEE President, Italy
Parallel sessions
11.30-12.20 – Round Table (50′)
(Aula Magna)
Chair: Guido Bortoni, AIEE President, Italy
Speakers:
Livio de Santoli, Member of ARERA – The Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy, Full Professor of Environmental Technical Physics at Sapienza University of Rome *
Gianluca Calabretta, Director General of the Directorate for Digital Transition, Data Processing and Data Protection (DIGIT), Enea – Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Representative of GSE – Italian Energy Services Operator
11.30-12.20 – IAERE Special Session (50′)
(Room 2)
Chair: Fulvio Fontini, Università del Salento, Italy
Climate change, catastrophes and the Mediterranean basin: outcomes from the rice-med model under uncertainty
Presenter:Marta Castellini, Department of Economics and Management “Marco Fanno”, University of Padua, Italy; Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milan, Italy
Authors: Marta Castellini, Camilla Gusperti, Veronica Lupi, Sergio Vergalli
European climate policy, GHG Emissions and R&D in a panel setting: Economic Development perspectives using a Functional principal component analysis
Presenter: Massimiliano Mazzanti, University of Ferrara & SEEDS
Authors: Massimiliano Mazzanti, Antonio Musolesi, Hervè Cardot
Policy anticipation and consumer response to incentives for electric and low-emissions cars: evidence from the Italian car market
Presenter:Attilio Di Sabato, University of Turin, Italy
Authors:Anna Alberini, Attilio Di Sabato, Valeria Di Cosmo
12.20-13.00 – Keynote speech (40′)
(Aula Magna)
Lucia Parisio, Full Professor of Public Economics at the University of Milano-Bicocca and Board member, Italy
13.00-14.00 – Lunch – (1h)
14.00–15.30 Plenary Session (1h:30′)
Security, Transition and Geopolitical Uncertainty: a challenge for the international energy markets
(Aula Magna)
Chair: Adnan Shihab-Eldin, Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford Institute for Energy Studies founding member of the Kearney Energy Transition Institute, UK
speakers:
Federico Augusti, CEO Cleverse, Italy
Massimo Derchi, Chief Infrastructure Operations, Engineering & Construction Officer Snam
Igor Malgieri, Head of International Affairs, Edison, Italy
Federico Mauri, Institutional Affairs – Public policy & market design, Eni, Italy
Representative GE Vernova (invited, to be confirmed)
15.30-17.00 Plenary Session (1h:30′)
Energy Market Design: the strategies for stability, autonomy and competitiveness
(Aula Magna)
Chair: Salvatore Pinto, Presidente Axpo Italia (confermato)
speakers:
Derek Bunn, Professor, London Business School, UK
Luca Bragoli, Chief Regulatory & Public Affairs Officer di ERG, Italy
Luca Dal Fabbro, President Iren, Italy* (invited, to be confirmed)
Fabrizio Iaccarino, Head of Institutional Affairs Italy at Enel, Italy
Matteo Leonardi, Co-Founder & Executive Director ECCO – Italian Climate Change Think Tank, Italy
Speakers: Franco Del Manso, lnternational Environment Affairs manager of UNEM, Italy >>>
17.00-18.30 – concurrent sessions n. 5-8 (1h.30′ each)
5. Nuclear Power in Energy System
Chair: Valeria Di Cosmo, University of Turin, Italy
Entry Costs and the Viability of Nuclear Generation Technology in a Stackelberg–Cournot Electricity Market
Presenter:Lior Gallo, The Bank of Israel and Tel Aviv University, Israel
Authors: Lior Gallo, Irena Milstein and Asher Tishler
On the Impact of Renewables and Nuclear power on Electricity Prices: The case of France
Presenter: François Benhmad, Montpellier University, France
Authors: François Benhmad, Jaques Percebois
When Nuclear Falters: Electricity Trade, Gas Prices, and Energy Security in France
Presenter: Alberto Sergio, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Authors: Alberto Sergio, Anna Alberini, Francesco Pietro Colelli
The impact of variable renewable energy sources on balancing markets
Presenter: Valeria Di Cosmo, University of Turin, Italy
Author: Valeria Di Cosmo
6. Hydrogen Prospects: End-Use Applications
Chair:
How RFNBO Regulation Reshapes the Cost and Geography of Green Ammonia Production in Europe
Presenter: Alessandro Magnino, Politecnico of Torino, Italy
Authors: Alessandro Magnino, Paolo Marocco, Massimo Santarelli, Marta Gandiglio
Beyond diesel: cost-optimal choices for a cleaner and more secure European railway network
Presenter: Gabriele Peyrani, Politecnico of Torino, Italy
Authors: Gabriele Peyrani, Marta Gandiglio, Paolo Marocco, Pierpaolo Cherchi, Massimo Santarelli
Evaluating Luxembourg’s Gas Security of Supply and Hydrogen Retrofit Pathways Using a Coupled PyPSA–pandapipes Framework
Presenter: Sina Hassanzadeh Saraei, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg
Authors: Sina Hassanzadeh Saraei, David Romero Quete, Stefania Gomez Sanchez, Pedro Rodriguez
7. Market-Based Instruments for the Energy Transition
Chair: Claudio Agostini, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile
Which Energy Insecurity Gets Funded? Fiscal Selectivity in EU ETS Auction-Revenue Use across the EU-27
Presenter: Andrés Felipe Olarte Peña, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Authors: Andrés Felipe Olarte Peña
FTR economic inefficiencies under the flow-based approach in Europe
Presenter: Diyun Huang, KULeuven, Belgium
Authors: Diyun Huang, Geert Deconinck
ETS2 revenue use for energy efficiency and citizens’ support
Presenter: Iva Zverinova, Charles University, Czech Republic
Authors: Iva Zverinova, Milan Ščasný, Ivan Savin, Jeroen van den Bergh
The role of natural gas subsidies in shaping the generation mix and hindering decarbonization: the case of Magallanes in Chile
Presenter: Claudio Agostini, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile
Authors: Claudio Agostini, Shahriyar Nasirov; Miguel Castillo; Rene Henriquez; Nelso Vasquez
8. Designing Climate Policy for a Low-Carbon Future
Chair:
Distributional CO2 emissions control in multi-horizon generation and transmission expansion planning via increasing convex order
Presenter: Maria Teresa Vespucci, University of Bergamo, Italy
Authors: Maria Teresa Vespucci, Giovanni Micheli
Environmental Policy and International Trade: New Evidence from Structural Gravity
Presenter: Laura Bonacorsi, University of Milan – Bocconi, Italy
Authors: Elena Verdolini, Laura Bonacorsi
Emission Caps versus Hourly Renewable Mandates: Storage, Flexibility, and Decarbonization Costs in Türkiye’s Power Sector
Presenter: Nurdan Yağmur Bulut, Gebze Technical University, Turkiye
Authors: Kemal Sarıca, Nurdan Yağmur Bulut
Pollution Pricing in the Indo-Gangetic Plains and Himalayan Foothills
Presenter: Govinda Timilsina, World Bank, USA
Authors: Govinda Timilsina, Hagen Kruse, Franziska Ohnsorge, Martin Heger, Wendan Zhang
19.30-22.00 – Gala dinner


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Thursday – November 26, 2026
09.00-10.30 – concurrent sessions n. 9-12 (1h.30′ each)
9. Institutions, Regulation and Energy Transition
Chair: Antonio Geracitano, Adjunct Professor, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy
Effects of Policy Reversals on the Emissions from Passenger Cars: Evidence from Slovakia
Presenter: Marián Sedlák, Charles University, Czech Republic
Authors: Marián Sedlák, Anna Alberini, Milan Ščasný
Ensuring Information Quality Under Mandatory Disclosure Regimes: The Case of Industrial Energy Audits in Italy
Presenter: Martina Mancini, University of Roma Tre, Italy
Authors: Martina Mancini, Elina De Simone, Alessia Naccarato, Francesca Fortuna and Chiara Martini
Single Price vs. Profit Sharing capacity auctions in power markets
Presenter: Fulvio Fontini, Università del Salento, Italy
Authors: Fulvio Fontini, Michele Moretto
10. Global dynamics of the fossil fuel market
Chair:
Energy Security under Geopolitical Risk: OPEC+ Supply Shocks and Oil Price Dynamics, 2017-2026
Presenter: Sofia Polevaya, HSE University, Russia
Authors: Sofia Polevaya
The Missing Supply: A Structural Counterfactual Decomposition of Oil Price Dynamics
Presenter: Marta Visconti, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Italy
Authors: Marta Visconti, Niloofar Adel, Andrea Bastianin, Luca Pedini
11. Driving the Electric Shift: From Policy Rules to Grid Integration
Chair:
Assessing the Feasibility of Urban Convoying in Peripheral Areas: The Florence Science Campus and Tramway Feeder Case
Presenter:Silvia Orchi, ENEA, Italy
Authors: Silvia Orchi
The economic benefits of electric vehicles integration in energy communities: comparison of smart charging and vehicle-to-grid
Presenter:Andrea Franzoso, Politecnico of Torino, Italy
Authors: Andrea Franzoso, Michel Noussan, Gabriele Fambri, Marco Badami
Taking bans seriously: intended and unintended consequences of restricting car imports into Ukraine
Presenter:Volodymyr Svirskyi, Charles University Environment Center, Czech Republic
Authors: Volodymyr Svirskyi, Anna Alberini, Milan Ščasný
Perceived alternative value and electric vehicle adoption in emerging markets: evidence from Indonesia’s power utility ecosystem
Presenter:Dzikri Firmansyah Hakam, School of Business and Management, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
Authors: Dzikri Firmansyah Hakam, Khairil Insan Bintang
Capacity screening errors in battery reuse and implications for stationary energy storage
Presenter:Ahreum Han, Research Institute, Mano inc., Republic of Korea
Authors: Ahreum Han, Taeheum Hwang
12. Enabling the Energy Transition: Technology, Decarbonisation and Energy Security
Chair:
Empirical Determinants of Energy Import Independence in European States: Re-evaluating the Decarbonization–Security Nexus
Presenter:Philip Walsh, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Authors: Philip Walsh
The technological foundations of energy efficiency: technological sovereignty, critical green technologies and the twin transition
Presenter:Nikolaos Chatzistamoulou, University of Patras, Greece
Authors: Nikolaos Chatzistamoulou
Pathways to the 2035 NDCs: energy-system enablers of decarbonisation and energy security
Presenter: Alessandro Chiodi, E4SMA, Italy
Authors: Alessia Elia, Tommaso Pillon, Alessandro Chiodi, Maurizio Gargiulo, Pietro Lubello, James Price, Marie Pied, Alaa Al Khourdajie, Adam Hawkes, Shivika Mittal
Towards sustainable, secure, and socially acceptable energy futures: a systematic literature review of energy scenario sustainability assessment
Presenter:Andrea Fumagalli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Authors: Andrea Fumagalli, Davide Chiaroni
10.30-11.00 – Coffee break – (20 minutes)
11.00-12.30 – concurrent sessions n. 13-16 (1h.30′ each)
13. Presentation of the papers that will receive the “Best Student Paper Award” – (Aula Magna)
14. Energy Security, Markets and Geopolitical Challenges
Chair:
Market design and cost of multi-carrier energy independency
Presenter: Hicham Rahali, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Authors: Hicham Rahali, Joachim Geske
Development of a methodological framework for assessing and enhancing the resilience of military
Presenter: Ilias Manolis, University of Aegean, School of Environment, Grece
Authors: Ilias Manolis, Athanasios Sfetsos, Christos Makropoulos, Antonis Skouloudis
Assessing supply security in Central and Eastern Europe after the EU–Russia gas phase-out
Presenter: Florian Boehnke, Independent Commodity Intelligence Service (ICIS), Germany
Authors: Florian Boehnke, Andreas Schröder, Aura Sabadus
Identification of Aggregate Demand Elasticity with Wind in Interconnected Electricity Markets: Evidence from Norway
Presenter: Shuyi Pan, Norge Handelshøyskolen, Norway
Authors: Shuyi Pan, Niaz B. Behmiri, Gunnar S. Eskeland
15. Energy Poverty, Vulnerability and Resilience Across Regions
Chair:
Socio-economic and Urban Determinants of Energy Poverty in Africa: an approach based on the water-energy-food nexus
Presenter: José Dos Venal, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Authors: José Dos Venal, António Cardoso Marques, Tiago Jorge Afonso
Energy poverty and active ageing in Italy
Presenter: Alessandro Sapio, Parthenope University of Naples, Italy
Authors: Alessandro Sapio, Martina Polito
International Conflict, Climate Concern and Energy Security: An African Perspective
Presenter: Sabiu Sani Bariki, University of Abuja, Nigeria
Authors: Sabiu Sani Bariki
Citizens’ acceptance of energy-saving measures in times of crisis: evidence from Germany, Austria, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland
Presenter: Veronica Lupi, Joint Research Centre, European Commission – Ispra, Italy
Authors: Veronica Lupi, Katharina Gangl, Christoph Ungemach, Andra Blasco
16. Decarbonizing the Residential Sector
Chair:
Encouraging structural changes to private homes to reduce carbon emissions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of (quasi-)experimental evidence
Presenter: Sven Hansteen, RWI – Leibniz-Institute for Economic Research, Germany
Authors: Sven Hansteen, Lukas Tomberg, Diana Danilenko, Tarun M Khanna, Jan C Minx, Mark Andor
Beyond Average Temperature: Measuring Regional Heating and Cooling Requirements in Iran’s Residential Sector
Presenter: Fazel Moridi Farimani, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
Authors: Fazel Moridi Farimani, Sina Saeidi, Hamed Sahebhonar
Control Before Compensation? Household Preferences for Flexibility Across Residential Energy Services
Presenter: Sylvain Weber, HES-SO / Haute École de Gestion de Genève, Switzerland
Authors: Sylvain Weber, Laurent Ott, Matthïas Ribard
Capitalisation of energy efficiency in the residential housing market: spatial econometric modelling
Presenter: Milan Scasny, Charles University, Czech Republic
Authors: Krystof Vertat, Milan Scasny
Short-term energy affordability risk under climate stress: an interpretable AI framework for early warning and policy design
Presenter: Elisa Trujillo-Baute, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
Authors: Elisa Trujillo-Baute, Álvaro Gomez
12.30-13.00 Best Student Paper Award Ceremony (30′)
(Aula Magna)
13.00-14.00 – Lunch – (1h)
14.00-15.00 – Keynote speech (1h’)
(Aula Magna)
Anna Alberini, Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resources Economics at University of Maryland, USA
15.00-16.30 – concurrent sessions n. 17-20 (1h.30′ each)
17. Energy Security and Strategic Dependencies: Global Perspectives
Chair:
Assessing energy security in BRICS: dimensions, challenges and pathways for cooperation
Presenter: Pooja Sharma, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi, India
Authors: Pooja Sharma, Pooja Joshi, Mohan Lal Kohle
The Energy Quadrilemma: Integrating Ethics into the Energy Trilemma Framework
Presenter: Adonis Yatchew, University of Toronto, Canada
Authors: Adonis Yatchew
National Conceptualization of Energy Security: A Comparative Analysis of Russia, China, the US and the EU in the Context of the Blockage of the Strait of Hormuz
Presenter: Daniel Mucke, Expert Analytical Association “Sovereignty, Germany
Authors: Daniel Mucke
One dependency for another? Mapping and reducing Europe’s exposure to Russia, the United States and China
Presenter: Virginie de Araújo-Recchia, Attorney and Public Policy Analyst, France
Authors: Virginie de Araújo-Recchia
18. Energy Transition: Integrating Renewables into Energy Markets
Chair: Francesco Marghella, ACEA, Italy
The Competitiveness of Renewables: An Analysis of Magnitude, Geography, and Drivers
Presenter: Pascal Fröhlich, Chair of Energy Economics Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
Authors: Pascal Fröhlich, Maximilian Bernecker, Felix Müsgens
A coherent model for socio economic evaluation of renewable energy projects
Presenter: Jerome Massiani, University of Milan – Bicocca, Italy
Authors: Jerome Massiani
When Does Renewable Electricity Reduce Emissions? Evidence from Fossil-Dependent Emerging Markets
Presenter: Evzen Kocenda, Charles University, Czech Republic
Authors: Evzen Kocenda, Nundo Chillima
A Grid Resilience Assessment Framework For Tanzania’s Energy Transition
Presenter: Pauline Tumaini, Studio Santi Limited, Italy/Tanzania
Authors: Pauline Tumaini, Benezeth Benedictor Ntamuti, Fidelis John Tiotem, Minaclara Allan Lwiwa
19. Renewable Energy Communities: Policy, Markets and Technological Innovation
Chair:
State-aware cloud-edge orchestration for resilient der flexibility dispatch: a closed-loop architecture for operational visibility and assurance
Presenter: Ebenezer Anikwenwa, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg
Authors: Ebenezer Anikwenwa, Diego Aragon Sotelo, Abdelhaq Dabaghia, David Pera, Pedro Rodriguez Cortes
The role of low-temperature hydrogen storage in achieving high self-sufficiency and decarbonization targets in a renewable energy community
Presenter: Marta Gandiglio, Department of Energy – Politecnico of Torino, Italy
Authors: Omar Najoui, Paolo Marocco, Massimo Santarelli, Marta Gandiglio
Peer-to-peer energy trading within energy communities: the case of Chile’s net billing framework
Presenter: Cristian Cortes-Aguirre, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Spain
Authors: Carlos Silva, Cristian Cortes-Aguirre, Claudio Agostini & Joaquín Matthei
From data to policy: what can we learn from the Italian Renewable Energy Communities development so far?
Presenter: Marina Bertolini, University of Padova, Italy
Authors: Marina Bertolini, Marta Castellini; Sergio Vergalli
20. Emerging Electricity Demand and Power System Resilience
Chair:
Quantifying Capacity Risk Scenarios Emerging from Data Centre Electricity Demand in a Small-scale Power Grid
Presenter: Sasu Saalasti, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Authors: Sasu Saalasti, Vahid Arabzadeh, Raphaël Frank
From Duck to Turtle: 2040’s Synchronized Demand Response Reshapes Distribution Grid Load
Presenter: Boris Ortega, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Authors: Joachim Geske, Boris Ortega, Laura Andolfi, and Zihan Yang
One Facility to Rule Them All: Infrastructure Vulnerabilities the European Energy System
Presenter: Nicholas Gouw, University of Bologna, Italy
Authors: Nicholas Gouw, Sergej Zikovic
How detailed transmission constraints reshape Italy’s energy transition
Presenter: Matteo Catania, Politecnico of Milan, Italy
Authors: Matteo Catania, Giacomo Bastianel, Fabrizio Fattori, Paolo Colbertaldo, Hakan Ergun
16.30-18.00 – concurrent sessions n. 21-24 (1h.30′ each)
21. Decarbonizing Industry: Efficiency and Clean Energy Technologies
Chair:
Does lower energy intensity deliver actual energy savings? Rebound and backfire effects in EU agribusiness
Presenter:Kacper Mańkowski, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland
Authors: Kacper Mańkowski, Bartłomiej Bajan; Aldona Mrówczyńska-Kamińska
Enhancing energy security through heat pumps: an industrial, energy and climate perspective
Presenter: Pier Paolo Raimondi, Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Italy
Authors: Pier Paolo Raimondi, Michel Noussan
Evidence on solar PV diffusion in the Italian Industrial sector
Presenter: Emna Kanzari, University of Palermo, Italy
Authors: Stefano Fricano, Gioacchino Fazio, Emna Kanzari
Quantifying permitting and construction drift in utility-scale solar PV: application of a project stability index (psi) to Italian case studies
Presenter: Cecilia Servi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Authors: Cecilia Servi, Francesco Castellani, Maria Carmen Falvo, Federico Santi
22. Wind Power and Energy System Integration
Chair:
Sources of Uncertainty in Long-Range Wind-Power Forecasts
Presenter: Sadig Amanli, Fraunhofer IEE, Germany
Authors: Sadig Amanli, Abhinav Tyagi
Site-specific seasonal wind power forecasting for enhanced grid resilience: a machine learning simulator-forecaster framework
Presenter: Muhammad Arsalan, Fraunhofer IEE, Germany
Authors: Muhammad Arsalan, Abhinav Tyagi
What’s next for wind repowering? from best practice to common practice: the future of repowering
Presenter: Francesco Peccianti, ERG, Italy
Authors: Francesco Peccianti, Manuel Pala
Energy security and maritime governance in the expansion of floating offshore wind
Presenter: Emilio Rodríguez Díaz, University of Cadiz, Spain
Authors: Ruth García-Llave, Emilio Rodríguez Díaz; Manuel Andrade Gullón
23. Residential Energy Systems: Flexibility and Consumer Response
Chair:
When the peak moves: household flexibility under static time-of-use tariffs
Presenter: Elena Sestini, Unvierstity of Bologna, Italy
Authors: Elena Sestini
Rooftop solar deployment: an empirical study of households in Delhi
Presenter: Pooja Sharma, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi, India,
Authors: Pooja Sharma, Abhishek Ranjan, Sanjay K. Bhardwaj, Mohan Lal Kohle, Samantha Wijewardane, Shrutika Chawdhary, Mayank Dhyani,
Perfect-Information Sizing and Flexibility of Residential Air-Source Heat Pumps: A Best-Case Benchmark for Smart Heat-Pump Management
Presenter: Kemal Sarıca, Gebze Technical University, Turkiye
Authors: Kemal Sarıca, Nurdan Yağmur Bulut , Nouraldin Salameh, Bekir Berk Çelik
Salience of two-part energy tariffs: Quasi-experimental evidence from UK households’ responses
Presenter: You Wu, University of Sheffield, UK
Author: You Wu
24. Decarbonizing Italy: Energy System Pathways
Chair: Maurizio Gargiulo, E4SMA, Italy
The Spatial Value of Storage in a Decarbonising Italian Power System: A Multi-Zone Analysis to 2050
Presenter: Maurizio Gargiulo, E4SMA, Italy
Author: Maurizio Gargiulo, Ioannis Vrochidis, Claudio Pregagnoli, Alessandro Chiodi, Francesco Gracceva, Giuseppe Dino
Decarbonizing residential space heating and cooling across Italy’s twenty regions: an energy system optimization model approach
Presenter: Icmi Safitri, Politecnico of Torino, Italy
Author: Icmi Safitri, Matteo Nicoli; Andrea Lanzini; Laura Savoldi
The role of flexible technologies in the future Italian energy scenarios
Presenter: Giuseppe Edoardo Dino, ENEA, Italy
Author: Giuseppe Edoardo Dino, Francesco Gracceva
Assessing the competitiveness of district heating for residential users: historical trends in real tariffs in italy compared with alternative heating technologies
Presenter: Michel Noussan, Politecnico of Torino, Italy
Author: Michel Noussan, Chiara Monzani
Conference Closing
Conference Organizers and Plenary sessions speakers
Guido Bortoni
AIEE President
Valeria Di Cosmo Professor University of Turin,Conference General Chair
Fulvio Fontini
AIEE Vice President, Professor of Economics, University of Salento, ItalyChair of the Scientific Committee
Carlo Di Primio
AIEE Honorary President, Chair of the Organization Committee
Cecilia Camporeale
Chair of the Program Committee, Research scientist, (SSPT-STS), ENEA, Italy
Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resources Economics at University of Maryland, USA
Derek Bunn
Professor London Business School, U.K.
Salvatore Pinto
President Axpo Italia
Lucia Visconti Parisio
Professor of Public Economics at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Institutional Affairs Manager, ERG, Italy
Adnan Shihab-Eldin
Research Associate at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Chief Infrastructure Operations, Engineering & Construction Officer Snam, Italy
Federico Mauri
Institutional Affairs – Public policy & market design. Eni, Italy
Head of International Affairs, Edison, Italy
Fabrizio Iaccarino
Head of Institutional Affairs Italy at Enel, Italy
Matteo Leonardi,
Co-Founder & Executive Director ECCO – Italian Climate Change Think Tank, Italy
Livio De Santoli
Member of the Regulatory Authority for Energy, Full Professor of Environmental Technical Physics at Sapienza University of Rome
Gianluca Calabretta,
Director General of the Directorate for Digital Transition, Data Processing and Data Protection, Enea, Italy
Roberta Galli
Executive – Enterprise Commercial Development, GE Vernova, Italy
10th AIEE Energy Symposium – Conference Proceedings
ISBN 978-88-942781-5-6
publication date: December 31st, 2026