By a decision of its Managing Board the Croatian Energy Association (HED) organizes once a year the Forum Energy Day in Croatia, a conference that gathers scientists and experts in energy. The conference deals with a number of current topics in this increasingly intriguing field. In the frame of the Forum every year HED publishes the Proceedings of papers and discussions.

This year 18 Forum took place on 20 November 2009 in Zagreb. It gathered, as every year, a large number of energy experts who followed with great interest the presentations and debates on the topic QUO VADIS ENERGY IN TIMES OF CLIMATE CHANGES. 

At this year's Forum, about twenty presentations were held by the energy experts from the world over. The experts from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, England, Croatia, Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom conveyed their views about the energy landscape. Thus, the Forum has fulfilled its goal to be an important international place of debate about energy.

The topics of this year's Forum were the following:

• Long term goals of emission mitigation and their influence on development of production and consumption of energy
• Technological development in function of the long term plans of climate preservation
• Mechanisms of implementing the long term energy policy and climate preservation policy
• Prices for energy and their impact on implementation of the long term policy
• Security of supply
• Energy market development
• Political dimension of achieving the goals of climate protection and energy sector development

1. Goran Granić, HRVATSKA/CROATIA: How to Face the Challenges of the Climate Preservation
   
   
2. Robert N Schock, ENGLESKA/UK: Energy, the Economy and the Environment: The Need for New Thinking
   
   
3. Nigel Jollands, FRANCUSKA/FRANCE: Energy efficiency policies -priorities from an international perspective
   
   
4. Ulreich Stefan, NJEMAČKA/GERMANY: European Climate Change Policy Beyond 2012
   
   
5. Gunnar Lundberg, ŠVEDSKA/SWEDEN: Roadmap Towards a Competitive Energy Market
   
   
6. Vangelis Tzimas, NIZOZEMSKA/NETHERLANDS: Mapping low carbon technologies and analysing their impact on the European policy goals
   
   
7. Kovačević Aleksandar, ENGLESKA/UK: The Western Balkans Energy Policy Response to the Climate Change
   
   
8. Thomas Stephen, ENGLESKA/UK: The Economics of Nuclear Power: Is Nuclear Power a Cost-effective Way to Tackle Climate Change?
   
   
9. Florian Schmidt, NJEMAČKA/GERMANY: Global PV market development
   
   
10. Lechner Herbert, AUSTRIJA/AUSTRIA: Austria´s Energy Perspectives
    
    
11. Đani Brečević, SLOVENIJA/SLOVENIA: Guideline for Achieving a Target Share of Renewable Energy in Final Energy Consumption in Slovenia Until 2020
    
    
12. Strijov Vadim, G.Granić, Ž. Jurić, B. Jelavić, S. Antešević Maričić, RUSIJA, HRVATSKA/RUSSIA, CROATIA: Integral Indicator of Ecological Footprint for Croatian Thermal Power Plants
    
    
13. Goran Krajačić, Neven Duić, Brian Vad Mathiesen, Maria Da Graça Carvalho, HRVATSKA, PORTUGAL, DANSKA/CROATIA, PORTUGAL, DENMARK: The Role of Energy Storages in Energy Independent Croatia
    
    
14. Potočnik Vladimir, HRVATSKA/CROATIA: The Level of Energy Security
    
    
15. Malbaša Niko, HRVATSKA/CROATIA: Analysis of Possible Challenges in Implementation of EU Goals in Relation to Renewable Energy Sources
    
    
16. Kirac Mislav, Goran Krajačić, Neven Duić, HRVATSKA/ CROATIA: Planning Energy Sector Development in the Croatian Agro Sector Following the Guidelines of the European Energy Policy 20-20-20
    
    
17. Ćosić Drago, BOSNA I HERCEGOVINA / BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: Hydrogen fuel as ecological contribution to operation of the existing coal-fired thermal power plants