Specialist in Social and Economic Matters Related to Renewable Energy,

Biogas Utilisation Specialist

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Education:

• Master of Science (MSc), University of Manchester—Central European University (CEU) in Budapest (the Stefan Batory Foundation), Faculty of Environment Protection,
• Master of Science Engineer, the Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Environmental Engineering, specialisation: sewage and waste utilisation equipment.

• Forecasting the development of the RES sector by means of specialised computer tools,
• Balancing energy demand and renewable energy resources,
• Market and non-market support mechanisms for RES,
• Collecting, collation and processing of data on RES,
• Legal and political issues related to the development of the RES sector in Poland and all over the world,
• Climate policy instruments (the Kyoto Protocol, emission trading),
• Geothermal energy and biogas utilisation.

My Major Tasks at the Institute:

• Implementation and coordination of projects sponsored by the European Commission, the State Committee for Scientific Research and other sponsors.

Sample projects coordinated by myself and/or those I participated in:

• Impact of Cultural Factors on Social Acceptability of Renewable Energy Sources and the Development of Strategies Promoting such Acceptability among Key Social Groups. Create Acceptance, a project under the 6th Framework Programme,
• Environmentally Friendly Energy Technologies on the Emission Trading and Kyoto Mechanism Market, JI I CDM. T@W, a project under the 6th Framework Programme,
• Technology and Social Visions of Europe’s Energy Future. A Delphi EURENDEL Pan-European Study. A project under the 5th Framework Programme,
• Design of Heating Installation in the Polish Tatra Highlands. Monitoring Carbon Dioxide Emissions. A World Bank project implemented in conjunction with KWI, Austria,
• Energy Planning at a Local Level Recognising RES, a project sponsored by the British Know-How Fund,
• Use of Safire Model for Generation of Development Scenarios for Renewable Energy Sources in Poland, a project sponsored by the British Know-How Fund under the auspices of the Polish Ministry of Environment, implemented jointly with ESD, Great Britain.

Other Interesting Things Done by Myself Recently:

• A guest researcher with the framework of a scholarship from the Nowicki Foundation at the Bundesforschungsanstalt fuer Landwirtschaft, Brunswick, Germany,
• A designer of biogas installations in a design office.

Additional Functions:

• Expert of the European Commission: evaluation of proposals for the Intelligent Energy—Europe programme in June 2004,
• Member-founder of the ‘Środowisko dla Środowiska’ association of the Nowicki Foundation scholarship holders.

The most interesting comment I have heard at work:

What you secure for yourself today, you will have tomorrow (anonymous, EC BREC, June 2005).