ENERDAY 2026 - 20th International Conference on Energy Economics and Technology

Celebrating 20 Years of ENERDAY: Two Decades of International Research, Innovation, and Progress on the Path to Climate Neutrality

Friday, 27^th March 2026
Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

The upcoming jubilee edition of ENERDAY26 will explore both the achievements of more than 20 years of dedicated research in energy economics and the continuing need for action, with fewer than 20 years remaining to achieve the ambitious target of climate neutrality in 2045. Key questions include: How can the energy sector ensure a reliable and affordable supply while integrating a high share of renewable energy sources? How can electrification further expand the use of renewable energy sources and replace fossil molecules? What are competitive solutions for the heat transition and the decarbonization of buildings? How can sustainable mobility be promoted and the challenges in the transport sector addressed? What measures can drive the transformation of the industrial sector towards greater sustainability and innovation? Discussions will also examine how energy markets can accelerate a sustainable energy transition and drive innovations in energy technologies, including the use of artificial intelligence.

Ahead of the conference, we are pleased to offer a PhD Workshop on Web Scraping with Python, one of the most successful and best-attended workshops at the Faculty of Business and Economics, TU Dresden. Participants will learn to extract and structure real-world data for research purposes, gaining hands-on experience with Python libraries, APIs, and practical applications.

Venue & Conference Program

The conference will be hosted by the Chair of Energy Economics on 27^th March, 2026 as an in-person event at the TU Dresden with the possibility of online participation.

The venue for ENERDAY26 is the Hörsaalzentrum (HSZ) at the TU Dresden Campus. In general the conference agenda is planned as followed (subject to changes):

Thursday, 26^thMarch 2026
10:00 a.m.	PhD-Workshop: Web Scraping with Python (HSZ)
18:00 p.m.	Pre-conference Dinner* (Max Altstadt)
Friday, 27^thMarch 2026	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
10:00 - 10:50 a.m.	Parallel Session 1
10:50 - 11:15 a.m.	Coffee & tea break
11:15 a.m - 12:30 p.m.	Parallel Session 2
12:30 - 13:30 p.m.	Lunch break
13:30 - 14:15 p.m.	Keynote Talk 2
14:30 - 15:45 p.m.	Parallel Session 3
15:45 - 16:15 p.m.	Coffee & tea break
16:15 - 17:30 p.m.	Parallel Session 4
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* (Hilton Dresden)
*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 ENERDAY has always been a suitable framework for social and scientific exchange, we offer the opportunity to participate in a pre-conference dinner (26^th March, 2026) and/or a gala-dinner (27^th March, 2026), 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 Abstracts

For the 20th anniversary of ENERDAY, we invite you to be part of this special edition. Over the past two decades, ENERDAY has evolved into a forum for researchers and practitioners in energy economics, systems, and policy. The jubilee conference will celebrate this shared journey, while also looking ahead to the next milestones in the next 20 years on the path toward climate neutrality by 2045. Submit your paper and be part of the dialogue in this special edition of our conference! (Call for Abstracts).

ENERDAY26 aims to advance the development of a resilient and sustainable energy system that meets future demands while supporting decarbonization across all sectors. The conference will address pressing issues in energy systems, markets and policies, reflecting on two decades of research and innovation and charting the path to climate neutrality. We invite contributions that explore empirical analysis, numerical modelling, best-practice examples, policy and market design innovations, and technological advances. Special emphasis will be placed on fostering dialogue between the economic and technical dimensions of energy systems. Contributions - whether theoretical or applied - may address, but are not limited to, the following topics::

I. Sector-specific focus and best practices	II. Cross-sectoral innovations and system transformation
Electricity sector: Infrastructure, flexibility and security of supply, e.g. grid expansion, storage, and flexibility options, investments and markets design, capacity markets and adequacy, security of supply, etc.	Future energy markets and emissions trading, e.g. innovative market designs (spot, balancing, flexibility, etc), advancing emission trading as a leading instrument, new models such as energy sharing, peer-to-peer trading, regional flexibility markets, etc.
Heat transition and building sector, e.g. promoting renewables in the heating sector, electrification, innovative district solutions, combined heat and power, etc.	Digitalisation, AI and the energy system of the future, e.g. Smart Grids and sector coupling, AI-Driven Forecasting, Control, and Optimisation, critical reflection on energy consumption, real-time data analytics, etc.
Sustainable mobility and transport sector, e.g. hydrogen, electric mobility, alternative fuels, new mobility concepts and digitalisation, etc.	Energy efficiency, sufficiency, and society, e.g. efficiency benchmarks, best practice examples, energy management systems, social innovations, energy and society, etc.
Industry: Innovation and decarbonisation, e.g. low-carbon production in steel, chemicals, cement, and other industries, energy carriers of industrial processes, carbon management and circular economy, etc.	Energy technologies and innovation, e.g. gradual and radical innovation in generation, storage, grid infrastructure, nuclear power (fission and fusion), international cooperation and competition in technologies, success stories and failures, policy design, etc.
Natural gas, hydrogen and new fuels, e.g. hydrogen economy and infrastructure, price developments, inner-European markets, power-to-X, alternative energy carriers, ammonia, methanol, synthetic fuels, etc.	Policy and regulatory frameworks, e.g. innovative policy and market design, regulation of energy access, strengthening of international cooperation, etc

Format and submisson of your contribution

Please submit an extended abstract (max. 6.000 characters, in English, including a short CV) by 2^nd February 2026 via the online submission form (submit here). To submit, you need to create an account for the conftool platform, which 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 16^th February 2026 at the latest. All accepted contributions for ENERDAY26 must be presented. Full presentations should be submitted by 23^th March 2026.

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 17^th March 2026.

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

Participant’s status	Early Bird (Deadline: 23.02.2026)	Regular (Deadline: 09.03.2026)	Late Bird (Deadline: 17.03.2026)
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/Speaker (organising 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

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.

PhD-Workshop: Web Scraping with Python

Ahead of the 20th anniversary edition of ENERDAY, we are pleased to announce one of the most successful and best-attended workshops at the Faculty of Business and Economics, TU Dresden. This hands-on PhD Workshop on Web Scraping with Python introduces participants to the fundamentals of automated data extraction from websites and APIs—an increasingly valuable skill for energy and economics research.

Participants will explore website structures, essential Python libraries (Requests, Beautiful Soup, Scrapy, Selenium), and practical examples of scraping real-world data.

Lecturer:	Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tristan Becker TU Dresden, Junior Professor in Business Administration, esp. Management Science
Date:	March 26, 2026 (10:00 a.m. – 05:00 p.m.)
Prerequisites:	Basic Python 3 programming skills recommended
Certificate:	PhD students can earn a certificate.
Assignment:	Apply your skills in a short project by scraping and structuring real-world data (e.g., weather, sports, or price data).
More details:	Workshop description as part of the Saxon Doctoral Programme in Management Research.