An international conference of initiative ELECTRA 2020 was held on 13, May in the Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre LITEXPO. The conference ‘Manufacturing for climate and climate for manufacturing’ was organized by association LINPRA together with the European engineering industries association ORGALIME and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization CENELEC.

The event began with Welcome and introductory message of  Mr. Vaclovas Đleinota, president of association LINPRA, Henrikas Bernatavičius, vice minister of  Lithuanian Ministry of Energy,  Pierre Lucas, senior advisor of ORGALIME.
The program of the event was divided into four thematic parts. Speakers at the first panel spoke about Energy strategy of the European Union and Lithuania.

The second part of the program focused on co-operation of public sector and the business. Presentations were made by Valdas Lukosevicius, president of association LEKA and Zita Tverkutë, head of the Ecology Division of the Panevëţys City Municipality.

Very interesting and useful was the third part of the program, where the electricity transmission and distribution equipment and services (Italian case) were presented by Giuliano Monizza, vice president of association T&D European and vice president  for ABB Group of Companies. Tony Field, working group representative of CENELEC shared the British experiences how to improve energy generation, transmission and distribution fro reaching "intelligent" networking goals – by 2020 years reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20%, increase renewable energy by  20% in total energy balance and increase energy efficiency up to 20%.
 
The fourth part of the program called ‘More progressive manufacturing and competitive products: innovations, products and solutions‘. At this panel Almantas Danilevicius, Director of Department of Innovation and Knowledge Society ofthe Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Lithuania outlined the strategic objectives of the development of innovation strategy of Lithuania and  Arvydas Galinis, the Chief Researcher of the Energy Complex Research Laboratory of the Lithuanian Energy Institute confirmed all the effort by presenting substantial research that had been made at the Institute of energy.
After that, representatives of engineering industries companies – JSC Axis Indusries, JSC Baltic Information Systems, Ltd., JSC Gaudrë, finished  the last part of the thematic panel and presented their innovative products and progressive solutions: JSC Axis Industries summed up the experience of Lithuanian companies and their technological solutions for renewable energy use,  JSC BIS has introduced enterprise solutions for building and developing the “smart” networks. Very practical was presentation of JSC Gaudrë - the answer to the question of what are capable 3 watts. The speaker  not only talked about advanced lighting technologies but also gave the daily examples of how to save up to 70% of electricity
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The event concluded with the roundtable discussion, recommendations and initiatives in perspective - the attendees summed up the workshop, shared their impressions and suggestions.

Association LINPRA were happy to have successful event, full of audience. Many thanks for the event sponsors, speakers and participants, and in the future we hope more constructive cooperation in the implementation of sustainable energy development and production targets.

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