ANKARA
The 6th World Forum on Energy Regulation, sponsored by Anadolu Agency, will be held in Istanbul later this month.
The forum, hosted by the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA), will be held in Istanbul from May 25 to 28.
The starting session will focus on trade-offs between investors' and consumers' interests, and the role which regulators can play in balancing interests of stakeholders in the energy market.
Right of access to energy, empowering consumers, improving investment environment, transparency and reliability of regulations will be discussed in other sessions during the first day.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will open the forum with a speech.
The forum is intended to be a bridge between different markets, concerns and regulatory principles. The forum will include four main subjects for discussion: "Balancing the interests of shareholders;" "Benefiting from innovation;" "Regulation and sustainability;" and "Ways to more rational regulation."
The forum will also hold high-level discussions on sustainable and reliable energy supply, as well as common approaches to more reasonable and compatible regulatory systems.
The speakers and moderators were selected after 14 months of discussion, and were formally invited by the EMRA. With 120 moderators and speakers, the event will have a total of 24 sessions with other topics such as integrating energy networks, universal energy access and the role of the regulator in security of supply.
The forum will also host two special sessions relating to the struggle of energy-poor regions of the world and a G20 session, as energy will be one of the main topics of the G20 agenda in 2015 under the Turkish presidency.
