Guests from practice visit the Energy Economics course

In the Energy Economics graduate course (course leaders: Prof. Dr. Nevenka Hrovatin, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Matej Švigelj and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jelena Zorić) students were offered the chance to listen to guests from the business world during their lectures.

On Monday, 23 April 2018, a lecture was given by Borut Rajer, MSc, Director of Operations at Borzen, a company dealing in the energy business. He explained the importance and characteristics of individual types of renewable energy sources (RES), the situation concerning use of RES as well as the EU’s objectives of promoting RES. Moreover, he described the possibilities and challenges of including RES in the electricity market as well as an analysis of the EU’s support schemes for producing electricity from RES.

On Wednesday, 25 April 2018, a lecture was delivered by Tarik Khalil, Director of Electricity Trading at the Interenergo company. His lecture explored trading in electricity, with a special emphasis on the factors that influence the prices. He presented the students with a series of practical examples of electricity trading.

On Tuesday, 8 May 2018, a lecture was delivered by Dr. Dejan Paravan, Chief Innovation Officer at the GEN-I company. Dr Paravan captured the students’ attention with an illustrative presentation of the transition of energy activity from a vertically organised monopolist sector to a decentralised competitive sector, marked by strong price competitiveness, and then evolving into the most recent trend in energy companies, namely, their focus on innovative services in the framework of new business models. He described the provision of comprehensive services to ensure users’ self-sustainability, energy co-operatives setting up production from RES, the provision of services of adjustable feed-in consumption, Energy Performance Contracting, and e-vehicles in terms of their shared use.

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