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 Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Schiffer Studies Committee of the World Energy Council, UK |
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| Title: Central messages of various forcasts and scenarios on the longterm perspectives of the global energy supply | |
| Abstract: Since autumn 2020, various institutions have presented studies on the prospects for the global energy supply in the coming decades. These include international institutions such as the World Energy Council and the International Energy Agency, consulting firms such as McKinsey, DNV-GL and Bloomberg NEV, and energy companies such as BP and Equinor. The methodological approaches in these papers differ. In principle, a distinction can be made between exploratory scenarios, projections and normative scenarios. The studies presented at this point fit differently into these categories. This explains differences in the central results. Nevertheless, clear trends can be derived for the future transformation of global energy supply and the development of greenhouse gas emissions. These will be identified in the Keynote, with the focus also on particularities in China and the rest of the Asia / Pacific region. | |
| Biography: Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Schiffer is member of the Studies Committee of the World Energy Council, London. He spent more than 20 years working for the RWE group in Essen, Germany, where he held various positions. He left his position as head of RWE´s General Economic Policy/Science department in April 2014, but continues to work as a consultant and advises on issues concerning international energy policy matters, in particular. Mr. Schiffer studied economics at the University of Cologne and at the Pennsylvania State University. Between 1974 and 1978, he served as scientific assistant at the Institute for Energy Economics of the Cologne University. After a nine-year career with the German Federal Economics Ministry, including a period with the British Department of Energy, he moved in 1987 to work with the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation und Nuclear Safety. Following his role as personal assistant to the parliamentary state secretary, Mr. Schiffer was appointed head of the Product-Related Environmental Protection division of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. Dr. Schiffer is a visiting lecturer for Energy Economics in the Mineral Resources Engineering master´s programme at RWTH Aachen University (Germany). He has published several articles dealing with energy market issues, the German energy transformation, the European energy and climate policy and international aspects of the energy landscape (in German, English and French), and he is author of the standard work Energiemarkt Deutschland. The book was published by Springer in October 2018 (in German). | |
