6th European Utilities Smart Grid & Metering
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Deregulation, metering regulatory development and climate change issues are impacting European utilities servicing, metering and grid strategies. Many European governments and utilities are escalating their efforts in compiling the legislative demands set forth for 2020 to ensure greater energy efficiency and to combat climate changes. Likely will this gather further pace on competition in energy markets and engaging consumers in energy issues.
The newly adopted EU energy-climate legislative package with its triple goals represents infrastructural and operational challenges for the electricity grid. To be able to integrate large and small scale renewable and distributed energy sources of intermittent nature, and allow more efficient electricity routing as well as enable consumers to manage their demand, upgrading the current grid with ‘smarter’ technologies has become one of the key priorities in an effort to overcome such. The ‘smarter’ technologies on the grid will also enable connection of new electricity applications such as Electric Vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps to the grid whose growth is expected to bring considerable impact. For Transmission System Operators (TSOs) and Distribution System Operators (DSOs) to adopt new market approaches and new legal obligations will also mean a change of their traditional role of solely securing network reliability and supply.
The significance of smart grids in reaching the goals has been recently recognized by European Commission’s Green Paper on Energy Networks and smart grids will help equip system operators with necessary tools to contribute to the 2020 objectives.
How do you prepare for the implementation and operation of smart metering, and the transition to smart grids? How will the development be financed and incentivized? What is the optimal business model? How should the policy and regulatory framework be shaped to support the development? And how to engage customers in your energy efficiency programs? What is the status of intelligent network interoperability? And what do you do with the much large volume of information?
Keeping
on trend with the metering and grid development, Inoventa is proud to
introduce its 6th edition of Intelligent Metering event added with
significances
in smart grid issues – 6th European Utilities Smart Grid and
Metering, which seeks to explore and address the key topics that
will shape the future utility industry and its networks – a
not-to-be-missed
event for those who are to achieve successful implementation and to
shape the smart grids future.
| Who Will You Meet: |
Executives from electricity and multi-utilities (Transmission System Operators TSOs, Distribution System Operator DSOs, energy supply (sales & marketing) and metering services), assuming the following responsibilities:
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…and executives from:
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What delegates said about our utility events:
”Very good range of companies present – people who are doing smart metering and those like us who are thinking about it.” (Delegate, 2008)
”The exhibition was better than expected!” (Delegate, 2008)
”Interesting in-depth information on what’s going on in Europe about smart metering!” (Delegate, 2007)
”I really appreciated to participate this event: great speakers and content; very useful for my day-to-day job.” (Delegate, 2007)
”Very interesting conference!” (Delegate, 2007)
Program
Day 1, 20 October 2010
Wednesday
0800-0900
Delegate Reception
0900-0910
Conference starts.
Chairperson Opening Remarks
Per Hallberg, Senior Advisor European Affairs Brussels & Chairman WG Smart Grids, Eurelectric
Vattenfall,
Sweden
| Vision & Realisation |
0910-0940
Stockholm Green
Capital of Europe
Gunnar Söderholm,
Head of the Environment Administration
City of Stockholm,
Sweden
0940-1010
Smart revolution
– BEAMA´s view on achieving a Smart Grid
Howard Porter, CEO
BEAMA, UK
1010-1040
Creating the Amsterdam
Smart City
Joost Brinkman, Project Manager
Amsterdam Smart
City, the Netherlands
1040-1110
Morning Coffee Break
| TSOs: Towards Smarter Grids |
1110-1140
EU-Ecogrid - A fast
track for Smart Grids in Europe
Kim Behnke, Head of
R&D & Smart Grids
Energinet.DK, Denmark
1140-1210
Tennet’s vision
on Smart Grid: Drivers & network interaction
Mart van der Meijden,
Manager Innovation & Vision 2030
Tennet, the Netherlands
| Making ’Smart’ Happen |
1210-1240
Achieving Smart
Grid reality
Per Hallberg, Senior
Advisor European Affairs Brussels & Chairman WG Smart Grids, Eurelectric
Vattenfall, Sweden
1240-1340
Lunch
1340-1410
National Grid: The
transformation to a ‘smart’
utility
Declan McLaughlin,
Head of Business Transformation
On Stream National
Grid, UK
| Smart Grid Technologies for Future Power Systems |
1410-1440
Towards the intelligent
power grid of the future
Tomas Wall, Vice President
R&D Sweden
Fortum Corporation,
Sweden
1440-1510
The deciding factors
and impact of Smart Grid technologies
Andreas Breuer, Head
of New Technologies
RWE Rheinland Westfalen
Netz AG, Germany
1510-1540
Afternoon Coffee Break
1540-1610
Enexis: Innovation
and achieving the Distribution Power System of the future
Else Veldman, Innovator
Enexis, the Netherlands
1610-1640
Pending Presentation
1640-1720
Open Panel Discussion
Are we ready
for Smart Grid? What is needed to develop Smart Grid?
– Stakeholders’ roles, strategies and challenges
Selective speakers
from the panel will discuss the issues with the fellow delegates, facilitated
by the chairperson.
1720-1730
Conference day one
finishes. Chairperson closing remarks.
1730-1900
Drinks & Networking
Reception. All
participants are invited!
1900
Networking Dinner. Continue the day’s discussion
and network with other participants while dining in a relaxing environment.
Please book your place during registration.
Day 2, 21 October 2010
Thursday
0830-0900
Delegate Reception
0900-0910
Conference day 2 starts.
Chairperson Opening Remarks
| Home Energy Management & Smart Consumers |
0910-0940
Combining
home energy management with Smart Grid
Björg Bisgaard, Segment
Manager
SEAS-NVE, Denmark
0940-1010
MeRegio for an energy
efficient future
Hellmuth Frey, Project
Manager MeRegio
EnBW, Germany
| Standardisation for System Integration & Data Usage |
1010-1040
Business system integration & standardisation for utilising metering data
Willem Strabbing, Technical Director
ESMIG, the Netherlands
1040-1110
Morning Coffee Break
| Microgrids |
1110-1140
Microgrids - Unlocking
the potential of Distributed Energy Resources (DER)
Prof. Nikos Hatziargyriou,
Deputy CEO
Public Power Corporation
(PPC), Greece
| Policy & Regulary Development |
1140-1210
A smart subject
for smart metering & grid: Policy and regulatory development
To be confirmed:
DECC (Department
of Energy and Climate Change), UK
1210-1240
Smart Grids in Ireland,
regulatory development & programs
Cathy Mannion, Director
of Electricity Networks & Retail
Commission for Energy
Regulation (CER), Ireland
1240-1340
Lunch
1340-1410
The significance
of consumer focus in energy regulation
Zoe
McLeod, Principal Policy Advocate
Consumer
Focus, UK
| Active Demand Control Strategies |
1410-1440
Control of active
demand on smart grids
Koen Vanthournout, Researcher
Vito, Belgium
| Evolving Standards for Smart Grid, Smart Metering |
1440-1510
One European standard
– The OPEN meter project
Gisele Widdershoven,
Senior Consultant
KEMA, the Netherlands
1510-1540
Afternoon Coffee Break
1540-1610
Pending Presentation
1610-1640
Open Panel Discussion
What offerings
can utilities develop on smart metering & smart grid platform? What
are the opportunities? How to overcome the limitations?
Panelists:
Eugene Maguire,
Strategic Business Development Manager
Northern Ireland
Electricity
...and selective speakers
from the panel will discuss the issues with the fellow delegates, facilitated
by the chairperson.
1640-1650
End of Conference.
Chairperson closing remarks.
Per Hallberg, Senior Advisor European Affairs Brussels & Chairman WG Smart Grids, Eurelectric
Vattenfall,
Sweden
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