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Webinar - Geopolitics in Motion: How the Middle East War Is Reshaping Gas & LNG Markets

Organiser: (IAEE)

We will tackle the most pressing questions facing energy professionals today:

• Supply Security & Volatility – Navigating the immediate impact of Middle Eastern instability on LNG pricing and shipping routes.
• Europe’s Strategic Pivot – How the dependency shifts initiated in 2022 are being tested by new geopolitical frictions.
• The New Map of Global Gas – Identifying the long-term structural changes in trade flows that will define the next decade.

"If you are navigating the intersection of energy, commodities, or macroeconomics, this discussion is essential for understanding the risk landscape of 2026 and beyond."

You can find more information here and register via this link.

Webinar - Building the electricity distribution grid Southeast Asia needs

Organiser: Agora Energiewende

Recent energy supply disruptions have brought energy security back to the forefront of Southeast Asia’s policy agenda. At the same time, electricity demand is rising and clean technologies are scaling across the region. Together, these trends are reshaping power systems and placing distribution grids at the centre of both the challenge and the solution.

This webinar will explore how policymakers and regulators can respond. Drawing on Agora Energiewende’s upcoming policy brief, the session will highlight five priority areas for action: modernising planning and investment, streamlining permitting and connections, unlocking distributed flexibility, accelerating digitalisation and strengthening coordination between transmission and distribution.

Participants will gain insights into how to anticipate grid constraints, design enabling regulatory frameworks and prioritise near-term actions. The discussion will focus on how distribution grids can move from a bottleneck to a foundation for resilient, affordable and clean power systems, with particular relevance for Southeast Asia.

You can find more information here and register via this link.

Webinar - Driving Industrial Transformation: Understanding the EU Industrial Accelerator Act

Organiser: Florence School of Regulation (FSR)

The European Commission has tabled the Industrial Accelerator Act on March 4th, 2026. The main aim of the draft Act is to see a rejuvenation of investment in the EU’s industrial base.

It proposes the headline goal of increasing manufacturing to represent 20%+ of EU GDP by 2035, from its current level of around 14%. To do so it proposes a range of measures, including accelerating planning procedures and implementing ‘Industrial Acceleration Areas’.

However, the most impactful proposals for industry concern:

• ‘Lead Markets’ requirements on Member States to buy low-carbon steel, cement and aluminium for part of their procurement and support schemes,

• EU content obligations on Member States to require that a proportion of the goods under procurement and support schemes come from ‘EU origin’ producers. This is proposed to cover steel, cement, aluminium, battery storage systems, PV, heat pumps, wind, nuclear, hydrogen and certain vehicles.

• A significant restrictions on non-EU union producers investing in the EU. When non-Union companies wish to invest in key sectors (battery technologies, EVs, PV, critical raw materials (the list expandable by Commission Delegated Act)), Member States, in addition to applying Foreign Direct Investment requirements, must put limitations on the investment which may include ownership, employment, IP, EU sourcing, and R&D, and

• Voluntary green product labelling schemes.

In combination with the Net-Zero Industry Act, the Foreign Subsidies and Foreign Direct Investment Regulations, the draft revision of the Cybersecurity Act, and the anti-dumping rules, the EU is putting into place a more protective framework for industry, focused particularly on ‘Net-Zero’ Green Deal technologies.

During this webinar, Professor Jones will first give an explanation of the proposals in the Industrial Accelerator Act focussing on energy sectors, followed by comments from key industry figures on whether the draft measures are both adequate and effective to meet the challenges facing industry.

You can find more information here and register via this link.