ENERDAY 2025 - 18th International Conference on Energy Economics and Technology

Shaping Markets, Shaping Futures: Renewables and Flexibility in Modern Energy Systems

Friday, 4^th April 2025
Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

The upcoming ENERDAY25 will explore how future energy systems with a high share of renewable energy and flexibility options can work, addressing key challenges for market design, infrastructure development, and balancing supply and demand. Key questions include how market design needs to be adapted to accommodate renewable energy sources, what market structures best support flexible energy systems, and how demand-side responses can be incentivized to balance loads. Infrastructure development is essential for increased renewable generation, depending on simultaneous transmission- and distribution grid as well as renewables extension. Discussions will also explore how regulatory frameworks can accelerate the deployment of renewables and drive innovation in energy technologies, including smart grid solutions. Beyond electricity, district heating networks and alternative carriers like hydrogen are gaining importance. These systems provide essential flexibility through storage capabilities while facilitating sector coupling to achieve a fully decarbonized energy system.

Venue and Agenda

The conference will be hosted by the Chair of Energy Economics on 4^th April, 2025 as an in-person event at the TU Dresden with the possibility of online participation.

The venue for the ENERDAY25 is the Hörsaalzentrum (HSZ) at the TU Dresden Campus. While living up to the concept of having short ways at conferences, all session rooms are in close proximity to each other, which are located at the 3rd and 4th level of the HSZ. Information on how to get to the HSZ and a highlighted floor plan of the conference can be found here

A first version of the program will be made availabe soon after the call for paper ends. So stay tuned!

In general, the conference agenda will be planned as followed (subject to changes):

Thursday, 3^rdApril 2025
18:00 p.m.	Pre-conference Dinner* (HSZ)
Friday, 4^thApril 2025	Hörsaalzentrum TU Dresden (HSZ)
8:00 a.m.	Registration (conference office)
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.	Opening Adress
9:00 - 9:45 a.m.	Keynote Talk 1
9:50 - 10:50 a.m.	Parallel Session 1
10:50 - 11:15 a.m.	Coffee & tea break
11:15 a.m - 12:15 p.m.	Parallel Session 2
12:15 - 13:15 p.m.	Lunch break
13:15 - 14:00 p.m.	Keynote Talk 2
14:05 - 15:35 p.m.	Parallel Session 3 (including a short break)
15:35 - 16:00 p.m.	Coffee & tea break
16:00 - 17:30 p.m.	Parallel Session 4 (including a short break)
17:45 -18:00 p.m.	Group Picture
18:00 p.m.	Bus transfer to gala dinner
18:45 p.m. - 23:30 p.m.	Gala Dinner* (tba)
23:30 p.m.	Bus transfer to Dresden central station
*registration mandatory via the registration platform

Evening Events

In the spirit of its long-standing tradition, the conference provides a platform for sharing experiences and engaging in discussion with international representatives from science, industry and politics on current topics in the field of energy economics and technology. Since the ENERDAY should also be a suitable framework for social and scientific exchange, we offer the opportunity to participate in a pre-conference dinner (3^rd April, 2025) and/or a gala-dinner (4^th April, 2025), which are covered by the conference fees. In order to avoid subsequent organisational inconveniences, we kindly ask you to announce your participation already during the registration process. You can select either both, only one or no event in which you plan to participate.

Call for Papers

For the 19^th ENERDAY we seek contributions that address the challenges and opportunities presented by the current energy crisis, and how it is influencing our future energy system (Call for Abstracts).

The ENERDAY25 aims to contribute to developing a resilient and sustainable energy system that meets future demands while supporting decarbonization efforts across sectors. The conference will address pressing issues in energy systems, markets and policies, focusing on flexibility and the deployment of renewable energy. We welcome contributions that explore empirical analysis, numerical modelling, best practice examples, policy and market design innovations, and technological advances. Special attention will be given to fostering the dialogue on the economic and technical aspects of energy systems. Contributions - whether theoretical or applied - may address the following topics:

I. Cross-sectoral focus	II. Sector-specific focus
Energy markets and tenders, e.g. designing energy markets: spot, future, balancing, redispatch, flexibility, green power, demand side, emission allowance markets, etc.	Electricity sector, e.g. investments in infrastructure, reserve, capacity markets and adequacy, congestion management, etc.
Pricing and demand response, e.g. Modern end users tariffs, flexibility potentials of demand, smart meters, the role of the demand side in the energy market, etc.	Heating sector, e.g. promoting renewables in the heating sector, efficiency measures, combined heat and power, etc.
Energy efficiency and sufficiency, e.g. efficiency benchmarks, best practice examples, social norms supporting energy efficiency, energy management systems, etc.	Transport sector, e.g. hydrogen, electric mobility, traditional fossil fuels, new mobility concepts, etc.
Energy and society, e.g. acceptance and behavioural aspects of energy efficiency measures and demand response, value of energy security, etc.	Natural gas and hydrogen, e.g. price developments and infrastructural analysis, inner-European markets, etc.
Energy technologies, innovations and policy, e.g. gradual and radical innovation in generation, storage, grid infrastructure, international cooperation and competition in technologies, success stories and failures, policy design, etc.	Sector coupling, e.g. convergence of electricity, heat and gas markets (power-to-gas, power-to-heat), etc.

Format and submisson of your contribution

Please submit an extended abstract (max. 6.000 characters, in English, including a short CV) by 26^th February 2025 via the online submission form (submit here). To submit, you need to register to the conftool platform. Registering allows you to track the status of your submission as well as to make changes after uploading. You will receive a confirmation of acceptance by 5^th March 2025 at the latest. All accepted contributions for the ENERDAY25 must be presented. Full presentations should be submitted by 31^th March 2025.

Book of Abstracts

The Book of Abstracts will be made available soon after the call for papers. The BoA allows for a more detailed description of the sessions you might want to attend. Also, the BoA holds further information on the layout of our venue location as well as how to get there.

Registration and conference fees

All speaker and participants are required to register via the online registration form (register here). Registrations will be possible until 21^th March 2025.

Depending on the time of the registration and participant status, different conference fees will be charged:

Participant’s status	Early Bird (Deadline: 21.02.2025)	Regular (Deadline: 07.03.2025)	Late Bird (Deadline: 21.03.2025)
Participant/Speaker	180,00 EUR	230,00 EUR	280,00 EUR
Participant/Speaker (enerCONNECT or GEE Member)	140,00 EUR	190,00 EUR	240,00 EUR
Participant (online participation)	50,00 EUR	65,00 EUR	80,00 EUR
Participant/Speaker (organisation committee member / sponsoring partner / TU Dresden student)	free of charge (proof of verification needed)
* The offer of online participation is subject to change until the venue has been finally determined Catering is not covered for students of the TU Dresden**

The conference fee includes admission to plenary and scientific sessions, the pre-conference dinner, gala dinner, lunches, and coffee breaks. Hotel and travel costs are not included in the registration fee.

The conference fee for online participants only includes the admission to the plenary and scientific sessions.