Batteries and Energy Storage
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

1- Inventory of the Actual Feasibility

 • Ever changing lead batteries
 • Lithium batteries and their cooling problem
 • Super Capacitors and their rapid charge
 • Which technologies for which type of engines?


2- In the Near Future?

 • The future of the Hybrid?

What is the Future of the CAP? What is the Future of Agriculture?
Wednesday, October 22nd 2008 from 9:00AM - 12:00noon

1/The CAP and agricultural policy in Europe
•    Reminder of how the CAP works, how it is financed, of the distribution of recipients and the political conditions linked to its adoption
•    What are the risks that threaten its continuation? What are the current arguments and the timetable for future negotiations?
•    With what is it possible to replace the CAP without brutally destabilizing all those involved?
•    What could the European agricultural policy be? Is it possible to separate agriculture and the security of the food supply?
•    How can the balance between the revenue of those in the agriculture sector and the necessity to keep the price of staples low be optimized?
•    Agriculture: an industry of the future?

2/Agriculture, global warming and the end of cheap oil
•    How will global warming affect plant growth, irrigation and global surface productivity?
•    How will the drop in oil resources affect production (fertilizer and fuel for agricultural equipment)?


+ FOOD RESOURCES

1/Worldwide food demand
•    Demographic changes, migration and food needs
•    Qualitative demand: who consumes what?

2/Agriculture and food processing industry
•    Worldwide agricultural production
•    Agriculture in Europe (production and political outlooks «final agricultural outlook »)
•    Agriculture and food processing: from the farmer to the finished product (the added value of a product for everyday consumption)
•    Trading floors and large markets for food staples
•    Speculations and complex systems
•    Expected impact of global warming on production

3/Price fixing and new agricultural markets
Emerging uses (bio-mass, bio-plastics…) will they lead to an increase in the price of food?

Economic and Social Consequences of the Price Increase of Oil
Wednesday, September 17th 2008, from 9:00am - 12:00pm

1- Projected Price per Barrel
•    Changes in demand according to large geographical areas vs. changes in production (figures and specific scenarios)
•    Risks associated to geopolitical destabilization and friction between powerful countries

 2- Consequences on the Activities Most « Oil Dependent »
•    The Automobile
•    Air traffic
•    Agriculture
•    (It consists of a general overview of the consequences of a structural increase in gasoline
      prices. Each economic sector is approached, excluding the ones which have entire sessions
      dedicated to them)

 3- What Might be the Public Policy for Oil?
•        How to cushion the rising price of crude oil for the manufacturers and farmers and the price at the pump for the automobile? Is a short term policy of compensation appropriate and is it Possible?

•        Can we communicate on an energy substitution policy? This assumes that a discussion and long term measures can be compatible with the immediate nature of our needs?

4- How to Integrate the Price of Oil into Business Forecasts?
•    The impact of oil prices on the cost of raw materials, energy, transportation, mathematical design and predictability
•    The impact of oil prices on the level of inflation in the Euro Zone

 5- Envision a Time After Oil. Does it Make Sense?
•    Will there still be an economy after oil?
•    Chaos?

 CCIP (Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry), Commodity Exchange,
 Salle Baltard, 2 rue de Viarmes, 75001 Paris

Cap on the Future: Meeting of the Scientific Council
Tuesday, July 1st 2008, from 8:30am - 10:30am

Agrion’s scientific Council gets together to validate the community’s deployment calendar, the speakers’ agreement, the general conditions of the transition, the confirmation of the cycles of returning conferences, and the follow up on international offices: Frankfurt, Peking, and San Francisco.

If you wish to rejoin the Council, you can send an email to:
nina.morgenstern@agrion.org

Dinner Debate: What is the Future for Bio-Fuels?
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 7pm-10:30pm

1/Typology of bio-fuels
•    What are the different types of bio-fuels? What are the possible and effective uses? What is the percentage of dilution in the gasoline? Can it be used «pure»? What will the new generations bring?
•    Which are the productive enterprises (agricultural cooperatives, chemists, oilmen…)?
•    What is their availability on the market, in France, in other countries?

2/Energy efficiency and production
•    Efficiency: tons/hectare by plant families
•    Efficiency: used/produced energy
•    What are the available agricultural spaces to not endanger the food production?

3/Advantages/disadvantages of bio-fuels
•    Supplemental to oil: CO2 balance from cultivation, manufacturing, and fuel combustion
•    Oil substitution: What maximum quantities can be produced?
•    What could be the consequences of a broadly usage of bio-fuel on agriculture  and for the food-processing industry?


4/The state of public policies
•    What is France’s position?
•    The European Union’s?
•    The United States’?
•    Brazil’s?

Conclusion: What place could bio-fuels have in the energy mix?
What will be the evolution of public policies in this domain?


Participants

• Benoît GARBRIELLE, researcher at the center of AGROTECH GRIGNON
• Jean-François GRUSON, Head of the Economic Department at IFP  (French Institute of Oil)
• Pierre MACAUDIERE, Person in charge of the Fuel Emissions and Decontamination Department at PEUGEOT CITROEN
• Bernard CHAUD, Director of bio-fuel projects at TEREOS replaced by Jérôme BIGNON, Director in charge of relations with the French and European Administration at CRISTAL UNION and Director of FCB-UCB
• Valérie CALLAUD, Person in charge of the Bio-fuel Mission at TOTAL 

Moderator : Pierre REBOUL, President of ELENBI

The hydrogen sector, dreams, and concrete projects
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 9am - 12pm

1/Current and future uses of hydrogen resources

• Why use hydrogen? Current projects
• Brakes and driving forces in the development of the hydrogen sector as well as technological and economic deadlocks
• Logistics: Infrastructure, distribution and applications
• Storage and security

2/Production: Inventory of what is currently available together with R&D projects

• R&D: reforming, electrolysis
• Energy assessment of different production techniques
• Ecological aspects: Co₂ assessment of the hydrogen sector covering production, distribution and applications

3/The specific case of fuel cells

• Their applications, the sectors involved, gaps to be filled, markets
• Experiments under way and the outlook for general implementation
• Undersea fuel cells and coupling with renewable energy sources
• Applications in vehicles and a comparison of the different solutions: H2 internal combustion engines, fuel cells, hybrids

Participants

• AIR LIQUIDE - Erwin Penfornis, H2 Energy Business Development
• CEA - Paul Lucchese, Director of the New Energy Technologies program, Head of the fuel cells project – Technological Research department
• HELION – Jean-Daniel Reber, Commercial and Project Manager
• RENAULT - Jérôme Perrin, Manager of Advanced Projects, CO2 environment

Moderator : Jean-Charles Mulet, Manager of the Energy Process Environment Department at Bertin Technologies

The Development of the Natural Gas Fuel Network
Friday, June 15, 2007 9am to 12pm

Revue of development opportunities in terms of energy, sanitation and environmental policies and an inventory of the marketing of natural gas fuel in France.

Inventory and Perspectives on the “Clean” Fuel Legislation
•    European measures and the perspectives of Euro laws
•    Measures in place in France and the perspectives
•    Impacts for the contributors of the natural gas fuel network

The Natural Gas Fuel Network and the Environmental and Sanitary Balance
•    Natural gas: role and perspectives in the framework of energy diversification
•    The CO2 balance: comparative CO2 emissions between fuels and perspectives
•    The sanitary balance: comparative fuels

Natural Gas Fuel Network and its Commercial Development: Carrefour (French International Hypermarket Chain), the Development of a Supply Station
•    The Carrefour engagements and the sustainable development policy
•    Operational inventory of the development of natural gas fuel stations and the perspectives

Natural Gas Fuel Network and its Commercial Development: Fiat (Italian Automobile Manufacturer), a manufacturer who gets involved
•    The development of natural gas fuel in Italy: a benchmark of reference
•    Achievements in France: available models and new promotions

The Natural Gas Fuel Network and its Commercial Development: the natural gas fuel market in France
•    Inventory in France: the supply, the development of different markets
•    Development perspectives and key factors for success

Participants

 

•    Gaz de France (French gas company) - Thierry Renaudie, Head of GNV (natural gas vehicle) at the Research Branch
•    Gaz de France (French gas company) - Pascal Zanetta, Person in charge of the development of the Natural Gas Fuel Network, and spokesperson for the National Center of Information on the GNV (natural gas vehicle)
•    Fiat ( Italian automobile manufacturer) France - Elisabeth Babled, Product Manager; along with Gérard Clautour, Technical Consultant
•    Bureau de Gide Loyrette Nouel - David Desforges, Associate Advocate, Person in charge of Environmental Public Law Department
•    Carrefour (French International Hypermarket Chain) - Philippe Duffau, Person in charge of Environmental Security and alternative fuel projects

Moderator : Delphine Desgurse, Person in charge of the Natural Gas Fuel Network assignment, Orgaconsultants (one of the leading firms of French strategy and management consulting)

The Ethanol Network in France and Europe, and the Parallel Alternatives
Thursday, March 8, 2007, from 9am - 12pm

At a time when we announce the imminent end of fossil fuels, what are the advantages and disadvantages of the alternatives to all fuels?

Overview
•    The various networks of bio-fuels.
•    Inventory of the policies and objectives for the Member States.
•    The bio-fuels plan: what objectives?

Tax Exemption Incentive, Tax Deterrent
•    What tax provisions are given to encourage the ethanol network?
•    A diagram of obsolete calculations of tax provisions?
•    The competitiveness of bio-fuels compared to fossil fuels.
•    What production capacity to what consumption?
•    What is the real environmental impact of bio-fuels? Uncertainty of the results?
•    Pure or blended: why keep a portion of fossil fuels?

The Actual Achievements
•    What are the immediate technical answers from the automobile industry?
•    What deployment in public transportation?

The Second Generation Bio-fuels
•    What are the technical improvements predicted?
•    What are the solutions of the future? E85 (alcohol fuel mixture)? BTL (biomass to liquid)? Ethanol cellulose

Participants

•    Minagri, DGPEI (French Directorate General of Economic Policies, European and International) - Bernard Chaud, Head of the Bureau of Bio-mass, Bio-fuels, Bio-energy, Bio-materials
•    IFP (French Oil Institute) - Xavier Montagne, Director of the « Fuels, Lubricants and Emissions » Department
•    PSA Peugeot Citroën - Gérard Belot, Fuel Director
•    RATP ( Paris Transport Authority) - Henri Bordenave, Head of the Engineering Unit and Bus Moving Equipment Supplies
•    SNPAA (Syndicate of Producers of Agricultural Alcohol) - Alain d’Anselme, President
•    UFC QUE CHOISIR (Federal Union of Consumers & Magazine) - François Carlier, Assistant Director of Studies and Communication

Moderator : Dan Vogel, Co-founder and President of Enablon