Speakers
M.Sc. Damjan Stanek
Borzen, Power Market Operator
Damjan Stanek is the General Manager of Borzen, the Slovenian Power Market Operator, starting 2003. As Borzen’s General Manager, he introduced a new strategy to establish an active and competitive Slovene market and to support its integration in the European internal market. The company focuses on developing partnerships in order to establish a regional energy market in the SE European area.
He finished his study at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana in 1994. In the same year he also completed a three-month placement at Bernische Kraftwerke AG in Bern. Later that year he started working as a protection engineer at Elektro Gorenjska.
In 1996 he began working as an independent engineer for power analyses at ELES (Slovenian Transmission System Operator), where he played an active role in several company projects.
From the end of 1997 until 2000 he took part as responsible for network analyses in the second phase of the project to develop the National control centre for electricity system.
Since May 1998 until November 2000 he participated in the project “The Stability of synchronized operation of UCTE/CENTREL; Bulgaria and Romania” as the representative of ELES. At the time he also worked as an internal auditor in the project for launching of ISO standards.
While working at ELES and participating in several projects, he also took an active part in professional international organizations as the national correspondent of UCTE, as a member of the UCTE working group “Operational statistics”, as a member of the UCTE/CENTREL/UKRAINE technical committee, and as a member of the EURELECTRIC SYSTINT working group.
In 2001 he became the trustee and the manager of the analyses and development sector at Borzen. He was responsible for projects dealing with the implementation of Market Organiser’s trading information system, the clearing system, and the development of the legal framework for all aspects of power market trading.
In 2003 he finished his Masters Degree at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana.
On 1st July 2003 he became Borzen’s General Manager. He introduced a new strategy for the establishment of an active and competitive Slovene market and its integration in the European internal market.
At the end of 2004 he was appointed President of EuroPEX (Association of European Power Exchanges) for a two-year term.
In 2005 he was appointed to the working group in the national reform committee and later that year also to the working group for the privatisation in the electricity sector.