September 9-12, 2012 in Venice, Italy
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Call for papers - Energy challenge and environmental sustainability

September 9-12, 2012 in Venice, Italy
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Abstract submission starts November  7 , 2011 -  deadline:  April 16, 2012

Conference objectives

Recent events - such as the conflicts within several North African and Middle East oil and gas-exporting countries, and the nuclear disaster in Japan - have added elements of uncertainty in the already complex evolution of the energy situation in the world and in Europe in particular. Security of supply, geopolitical aspects and environmental problems are once more at the forefront. The Conference aims at providing a forum for an analysis of the new developments and a new vision of the future. No better stage can be imagined for this discussion than the magic and fragile environment of one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

Call for papers

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 12th European Conference of the IAEE to be held September 9-12, 2012 in the beautiful city of Venice, Italy .

The concurrent sessions of the Conference will be organized from accepted abstracts. Authors may be encouraged by the Programme Committee to organise specific sessions.
You are cordially invited to submit proposals for presentations at the concurrent sessions on a range of topics including, but not limited to those highlighted below. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is April 16, 2011. Those interested in organizing sessions should propose topic and possible speakers to:
assaiee@aiee.it; info@iaeeu2012.it

The information and rules for submitting abstracts are available under  Abstract Submission

Six of the 48 concurrent sessions will be devoted to the themes covered in the dual plenary sessions, to present further papers on these subjects and to discuss further these priority topics. The other themes will largely be identified from the clustering of relevant presentations submitted by the participants.

The topics of the papers to be presented in the plenary sessions:

• Energy supply and security
• Economic recovery and the evolution of energy demand
• Climate change and the new GHG emission limitation regime
• Toward Independent markets for energy commodities?
• Environmental threats and opportunities for energy systems
• Re-thinking nuclear power
• The closing session will try to make sense of the results of the discussions throughout the Conference.

A market price modelling
A sectorial approach to energy efficiency in industry
Access to energy in Africa
Access to energy in Asia
Access to energy: General and South America
An Analysis of transport sector
Bioenergy for sustainable system
CCS: opportunity in different countries
Climate change: the challenge
Climate policy and emission trading
Climate policy and technology mix
ClimTech Special session
Economic framework: between crisis and recovery
Effect of large-scale RES electricity production
Effects of  RES on the MA
Effects on hydrocarbon commodity price
Electric and alternative vechicles
Electricity market
Electricity market: country studies
Energy Demand:country studies
Energy efficiency in buildings
Energy efficiency in the residential sector
Energy efficiency: country studies
Energy from biomass
Energy innovation and patenting
Energy modelling
Energy poverty in developed countries
Energy regulation and electricity market
Energy storage: case studies
Energy storage: general
Energy supply and security
Environmental threats and opportunities for energy systems
Extending the horizons of energy regulation
Financing RES
Financing transition to low-carbon economy
General aspects of energy saving in Industry
GHG emission limitation regime
Hydrocarbon supplies
Influence of geopolitical changes on energy supply
Learning by doing: cost reduction for RES
Market instruments for energy efficiency
Modelling energy supply
Natural gas market: country studies
New energy policies in EU countries
Reflections on energy price market
RES policies in developing countries
RES policies in industrial countries 
Re-thinking nuclear power: the Post Fukushima
Smart grids
Smart meters
Sustainable communities and citizen-led activities
Sustainable development and economical growth
Technologies for securing supplies
Technology development
The challenges of nuclear power
The elements of influence on electricity price
The European Carbon Market
The formation of gas price
The future energy demand
The future of transport sector
The impact of PV on the merit order
The perspective of gas sector
The perspective of LNG
The 'resource curse'
The roadmap approach
Towards a low-carbon economy
Wind energy

All abstracts must conform to the standard template.  At least one author from an accepted paper must pay the registration fees and attend the conference to present the paper.
The lead author submitting the abstract must provide complete contact details - mailing address, phone, fax, e-mail, etc.

Please send also a short CV (one page) to the conference secretariat after submitting your abstract.The file should be sent to info@iaeeu2012.it

Authors will be notified by May 22, 2012 of their paper status.
Authors whose abstracts are accepted will have to submit their full-length papers (10 page limit suggested) by July 1st 2012.

While multiple submissions by individual or groups of authors are welcome, the abstract selection process will seek to ensure as broad participation as possible: each speaker is to deliver only one presentation in the conference. If multiple submissions are accepted, then  a different co-author will be required to pay the speaker registration fee and present the paper.

Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be contacted to return their papers for publication on-line and will receive the general instructions for the paper format and the copyright transfer agreement form.