School of Geography and the Environment

Profile

I am visiting ECI for nine months as a CEU/FCO Chevening scholar. During this period I will join the research on the SUPERGEN project that investigates how the electricity network will function if the generation is highly distributed and what is needed to achieve this. I am contributing to the project by doing research on the existing policies and barriers in the UK and by participating in the debate of what new policies should be developed to foster such large deployment by 2050. My research at the ECI will also complement the work on my PhD at the Central European University (CEU) – an international university situated in Budapest, Hungary.

The topic of my dissertation at the CEU is: Developing Sustainable Energy Systems: Policies, Barriers and Prospects of Distributed Electricity Generation in Bulgaria and my main supervisor is Prof. Diana Urge-Vorsatz. In my research I am using multidisciplinary methods to analyze the current policies and barriers in Bulgaria and I also do a comparison study with the UK situation. As an outcome I am aiming at creating a comprehensive policy framework for the promotion of distributed generation in Bulgaria.

I have a MSc degree in Ecology and Environmental Protection from Sofia University, Bulgaria and a MSc degree on Environmental Sciences and Policy from the Central European University, Hungary. In addition, I have been taking short courses on energy and environmental protection policy and legislation, and on leadership in Germany, Norway, Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria.

I have participated in several projects financed under the Fifth and Sixth Framework Programme, by the European Parliament, and under the PHARE preaccession programme. I have worked for several environmental NGOs in Bulgaria, as research assistant for the CEU in Budapest, and as an energy expert at the Black Sea Regional Energy Centre - an intergovernmental organization of the countries of the Black Sea region and the Balkans, based in Sofia. I was also a traineeship for the European Commission, DG Energy and Transport in Brussels.

Research Interests

Policy for sustainable energy generation and supply, environmental protection, international politics, and EU integration and affairs.

Recent and forthcoming publications

Reports

• Miladinova, G. 2006, Dynamics and prospects of distributed electricity generation in Bulgaria. Report for WP1.2 and 1.3 in Distributed Generation in the Associated States - Research Priorities and Challenges on the Open Electricity Market (DIGENAS) Project FP6-2003-TREN-2-513517.
• Miladinova, G. 2005, Evaluation study on the integration of Distributed Generation in Bulgaria. Report for WP1.1 in DIGENAS Project.
• Miladinova, G.. 2005. Bulgaria. In: Arrested development: Energy efficiency and renewable energy in the Balkans, Ed. G. Aitken. Stability Pact Watch Group: Praha, 23:41.
• Ürge-Vorsatz, D., Mez ,L., Miladinova, G., Antypas, A., Bursik, M., Baniak, A., Jánossy, A., Beranek, J., Nezamoutinova, D. and G. Drucker. 2003. The impact of structural changes in the energy sector of CEE countries on the creation of a sustainable energy path. Report for Project No IV/2002/07/03 for the European Parliament.

Book Sections

• G. Miladinova. in press. Country Study of Bulgaria, In: Chernobyl +20. International Perspectives of Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power, Eds. Lutz Mez, Mycle Schneider and Steve Thomas. Brentwood: Multi-Science Publishing.

Publications

• Carper, M., Miladinova, G. and Georgiev Z. forthcoming. Fading Radiance: Bulgaria's Power Loss and the New Energy Mix. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Silk Road Symposium, 27-29 October 2006, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.
• Ürge-Vorsatz, D., Miladinova, G. and R. Paizs. 2006. Energy in Transition: From the Iron Curtain to the European Union. Energy Policy, Vol. 34, 15: 2279-2297.
• Miladinova, G., 2006.The Prospects of Nuclear Energy in Bulgaria: the Rush towards the Construction of Belene Nuclear Power Plant. Energy & Environment Special Issue on Energy Policy and Nuclear Power - 20 Years after the Chernobyl Disaster, Vol. 17, No. 3, 401:416
• Ürge-Vorsatz, D. and G. Miladinova. Energy efficiency policy in an enlarged European Union: the Eastern perspective. In eceee 2005 Summer Study. Energy savings: What Works & Who Delivers?, Mandelieu la Napoule, France, May-June 2005, Attali, S. and Tillerson, K. 1: 252-267.
• Mez, L., Ürge-Vorsatz, D., and G. Miladinova. 2004. Energiepolitik im Osten Europas – Ein Forschungsbericht. Osteuropa: Europa unter Spannung Energiepolitik zwischen Ost und West. 8-10: 80-94.
• Lyubenova, M. and G. Miladinova. 2002. Primary Production of the Grassland Communities in the Region of Dragoman Marsh, Annual of Sofia University, vol. 95, book 2, Sofia

Selected presentations at workshops and conferences

• G. Miladinova. Developing sustainable energy systems: The barriers and perspectives of distributed generation in Bulgaria. Presented at the International conference on Green Power Markets, Future Energy Policies, and Emission Trading Schemes in Comparison. 10th meeting of the Reform Group, 26 - 30 September 2005, Schloss Leopoldskron / Salzburg, Austria.
• G. Miladinova. Distributed generation in Europe: benefits and barriers and policy measures for its wider deployment. Presented at the European Seminar on Renewable Energies, 22-29 August 2004, Escanda, Spain.
• G. Miladinova. Combined Heat and Power Generation - An Option for the Improvement of Sustainability of the Energy Sectors in the Visegrad Four Countries, Presented at the International Workshop of Cogeneration "Komárno 2004", May 5-6, 2004, Komarno, Slovakia.