Solarplaza Summit | Hungary

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Wednesday 16 September 2026

19:00

Pre-Conference Networking Event

Kick off the Solarplaza Summit one day early and connect with fellow solar and storage professionals in an informal setting before the conference begins. Join industry leaders, investors, developers, utilities, and technology providers for an evening of networking, drinks, and valuable conversations.

Attendance is free of charge, but spaces are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Be sure to include the Networking Drinks when registering for your ticket to secure your spot. The event will take place at a surprise location, which will be shared with registered participants closer to the event date.

Thursday 17 September 2026


08:30

Registration & welcome coffee

09:30

Opening words

presentation

10 min.

Radmyla Nikitchenko

Solarplaza


Session 1

The lay of the land: policy, economics, and the new market reality

09:40

The cost of midday: market overview

presentation

20 min.

A data-led briefing on the operational reality that the new policy framework will have to address. We will gain insights into the current status and outlook of Hungary’s solar market, alongside the latest developments and future prospects of the BESS sector.

Dr. Pálma Szolnoki

Zero Carbon Hub


10:00

The buyer's table: to sign, to build or to buy?

panel

35 min.

Three corporate offtakers on stage: Bosch, an international industrial manufacturer, Linde, a global industrial gases operator, and Prologis, a logistics real estate landlord, each solving the same net-zero challenge with a different structural response. An originator moderates, quering on price, tenor, and shape. If you are modelling contracted revenue for a Hungarian asset, this is the session where you find out whether your offtake assumption survives contact with the buyer.

  • Three structural answers to the same question. Bosch, Falco, and Prologis walk the audience through why each chose a different corporate energy strategy: PPA-led, hybrid procurement, and on-site generation respectively
  • What's actually on the table: walk  through the live HU offtake pipeline: what tenors are clearing, where pricing sits, and which structures are getting traction with industrial buyers
  • What the buyer actually needs to sign a long-term PPA: Scope 2 commitments, green-baseload requirements versus GoO, tenor preferences, and the counterparty and credit questions that stop deals from closing

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moderator

Ákos Pesti

Krisztián Somosi

Linde

Sjaak Voogd

Prologis

Tamás Szoták

Bosch

Katalin Szécsi

KPMG


10:35

Morning networking break

Session 2

The upside: flexibility and aggregation

11:20

Revenue stacking case study: 1 MW / 2 MWh in Hungary, a profit & loss walk-through

presentation

30 min.

Why attend: Real numbers. Not 'opportunities exist', a 12-month back-cast of stacked revenues from a Hungarian asset, with the gross margin breakdown.

  • Day-ahead arbitrage capture vs aFRR/mFRR
  • Imbalance fees: the actual numbers, not theoretical ones
  • Why the second hour matters more than the first

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Péter Horváth

Dunamenti Power Plant

Bálint Vass

MET Group


11:50

Aggregation deep-dive: optimizations at the portfolio level

presentation

20 min.

A cash flow model deep-dive from a leading aggregator. The contract structures, fee models, and line-item revenue breakdown of a 1 MW / 2 MWh asset operating in Hungary’s Power Exchange (HUPX) through 2025, including the negative-price hours.

  • The arbitrage / aFRR / mFRR / imbalance revenue split, with real numbers
  • Fixed-floor vs profit-share aggregator contracts — what each does to the operator's IRR
  • How negative-price hours change the optimization logic — what assets earn when prices are at zero

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Péter Kósa

Voltrack


12:10

Hybrid or stranded: revenue model, grid access, and the new business agreements

panel

35 min.

Co-location is no longer a future trend in Hungary, but is the new standard that the structure is being built around. But the legal, regulatory, and commercial framework is currently being figured out in real deals, not in theory. The operators putting hybrid projects on the ground will walk us through what's actually being negotiated, what's hitting walls, and how the new government's stance is shaping the next 18 months.

  • The three-party negotiation (original grid user, BESS investor, and third party), and where each side is giving ground in 2026
  • The permitting and licensing reality under the 2025 co-location framework, and what's still missing in practice
  • How the new government's policy direction is changing the calculus for hybrids in development today

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moderator

Beáta Szoboszlai

PwC

Thomas Neff

meteocontrol

Laszlo Modos

Renalfa

John Susa

WHES

Bálint Frang

E.ON Group


12:45

Networking lunch break

Session 3

Bankability and offtake: financing what gets built

14:30

When midday prices are zero: the new bankability bar

presentation

20 min.

A bank's perspectives on negative hours: what changed in the lender model for Hungarian PV and hybrid assets between 2023 and 2026, and what financing looks like for the next wave of co-located projects.

  • The DSCR thresholds and capture-price haircuts that are now being applied to Hungarian solar deals
  • The replicability of cash-sweep and merchant-tail compromises in existing projects
  • What additional structuring (hedge, partial PPA, BESS scale-up) banks now want to see before close

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Nikoletta Zóna

K&H Bank


14:50

Financing Hungarian hybrids: DSCRs, merchant tail, and international lessons

panel

35 min.

During this panel, five experts will test the bankability bar across international financing institutions, commercial banks, infra funds, borrowers, and international comparisons. What's replicable from Renalfa, what's specific to it, and what should Hungary learn from the UK’s Cap-and-Floor and Italy’s MACSE market structures, as these countries are two years ahead on the same curve.

  • Cross-lender comparison of DSCR thresholds and tenor for HU hybrid deals in 2026
  • International lessons: what UK Cap-and-Floor and Italian MACSE got right, and what HU should avoid
  • The ticket sizes each lender type will actually be writing for the next 5–10 HU hybrids

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moderator

Louiza Moutafi

Aurora Energy Research

Sándor Végh

Erste Bank

Amila Colakhodzic

Kommunalkredit

Bence Klemanovits

CIB Bank

Péter Gyurcsák

otpbank


15:25

Afternoon networking break

Session 4

What's next: AI, Data Centers, and Hungary's next frontier

16:10

Bidding, hedging, and the negative hour: a strategy session made for Hungary

presentation

40 min.

A 40-minute interactive session with Jan Willem Zwang, founder of Stratergy, whose BESS and energy-trading trainings regularly sell out to Dutch industry. Rather than a straight presentation, Jan Willem walks the audience through the three trading decisions every HU BESS operator will face in the next 18 months, using live audience input via Sli.do at each decision point. This is his only 2026 appearance in Hungary. 

Jan Willem Zwang

Stratergy


16:50

Hungary 2030: viable or unfeasible?

panel

35 min.

The day's closing panel. Five market leaders, one moderator, three predictions each. By the end of this panel, the audience will have learned about the Ministry's roadmap, the cost of midday, the hybridization playbook, the offtake question, the financing reality, and the 2027 capture-price forecast. This panel takes everything from the day and converts it into a position. Not "what might happen", what will happen, who's already moving on it, and what the audience should do on Monday morning.

  • A named 2030 number from each panelist
  • The one thing each panelist is doing in the next 18 months
  • The one thing Hungary needs to get right by the end of 2027 for the bull case to hold

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moderator

András Jenei

W2W

Csaba Polgár

Pontes

Eszter Nagy

Electron Holding

Gábor Makai

Raiffeisen Bank Hungary

András Kósa

ABO Energy


17:25

Closing words

presentation

5 min.

Radmyla Nikitchenko

Solarplaza


17:30

Networking drinks

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Radmyla Nikitchenko
Junior Event Manager

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Business Developer

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