Solarplaza Summit | Balkans

Ante Krecak is Head of Project Finance, with a focus on financing infrastructure projects and renewables in Croatia and markets in the close region. His previous professional expertise included Corporate financing, Financial restructuring and Commercial Real Estate. He has overseen numerous financing transactions over the local and regional markets including renewables projects such as solar, hydro, wind projects, etc. With his teams, he regularly advises clients on market specifics and the bank's preferred financing conditions, beginning from the early stages of development and continuing through the period of defining offtake structures until financial close and operational stages.

Antun Andric is at Croatian Transmission System Operator Plc., currently as head of the market department. Actively participates in the green transition of the power system, mostly through flexibility market development, R&D projects, participation in regulatory framework creation processes, and implementation of the new technologies/processes in the regular TSO operations. He has been a member of various national and international working groups (ENTSO-E Market committee – member, ENTSO-E subgroup Annual report on load- frequency control - convenor, CORE groups, National CIGRE committee C5 – Electricity markets, etc.) and also involved in the preparation of many national and international R&D projects (e.g. FP 7 framework, Horizon 2020 framework). In the last period, his focus is on the flexibility market development in Croatia.

Ms. Naida Hausmann has more than twelve years of international experience in the fields of renewable energy, sustainable development, energy modelling and electricity markets. She currently serves as a Lead of the Renewable Energy Task Force & Senior Renewable Energy Expert within the European Green Deal Unit at the Energy Community Secretariat. In this capacity, Ms. Hausmann assumes responsibility for all matters concerning renewable energy. Her primary focus revolves around providing support to Energy Community Contracting Parties in their efforts to transpose and implement the EU acquis. This includes work related to the design of market-based support schemes, systems for guarantees of origin, self-consumption, power purchase agreements (PPAs), and more. Prior to the Secretariat, Ms. Hausmann was employed at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Ms. Hausmann holds a master's degree in Electrical Power Engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Sarajevo and is a Certified Expert in Climate & Renewable Energy Finance, having completed program at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Saša Jovičić heads the Projects, Infrastructure and Energy practice in the Zagreb office of Wolf Theiss. He has been advising a number of prominent international clients and is currently focusing on energy projects in Croatia and the region. He regularly advises clients on market entry and regulation, all stages of project development (including permitting and environmental topics, financing and project acquisition), commercial contracts and, if need be, dispute resolution in the energy sector.

Aljoša in his 20+ years of professional experience, which started in ICT sector on management positions is sales, for last 15 is in renewable energy sector as pioneer especially in solar PV. From development and construction of first large scale PV project in Croatia in 2012, is involved in founding and establishing several Croatian renewable energy association and actively participating in opinion making and creating of RES legal framework. Since 2015 is general manager of Acciona energy Croatia, part of Acciona group, in charge of development, construction and operation of utility scale RES projects in Croatia and region.

Ioanna joined Aurora in October 2023. She is part of Aurora’s Southeastern Europe Power and Renewables Research team which offers market services in Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia. Ioanna has 8 years of energy and environmental consulting experience.

Bojana Mihić works as Principal Technical Expert for Future System Design at TenneT TSO B.V. Her focus is on successful application and usage of technology as well as system integration in order to have a reliable and secure operation. She provides her expert input in the phase of technical design and risk assessments in order to achieve successful system operation for the integrated offshore and onshore system that will in the future have a primarily renewable sources-based generation mix. Additionally, Bojana has worked for Serbian TSO Elektromreža Srbije (EMS) from 2014 to 2017.

Lahorko Wagmann works as a Director of Electricity Division in Croatian Energy Regulatory Agency, where he works on regulatory issues. His main focus lies on regulating of electricity network operators, approving 10Y network development plans , modeling network tariffs and connection fees.

Petar is a Partner with over 15 years of experience, who heads the regional Energy and Natural Resources Industry Group at Karanovic & Partners. He advises clients in high-profile matters related to the development, operation and financing of new energy projects (with a particular focus on renewables), capacity-building matters that aim to improve the regulatory framework in the WB6 and energy efficiency. Petar is a highly valued energy lawyer among relevant stakeholders, top-ranked in all relevant legal directories and is an active member of all key professional associations in Serbia and internationally, such as the International Bar Association (IBA), AmCham Serbia Energy Committee (Vice-chairman), Serbian Energy Law Association, and Energy Law Group (ELG). Petar was also part of the working group of the Ministry of Energy and Mining for preparation of bylaws for implementation of the Law on Use of Renewable Energy Sources, in front of AmCham Serbia.

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