Programme

Registration

Workshop

Improving speed and efficiency in grid operations and work asset management to
enable a smarter grid

• Learning how an integrated OMS/DMS/SCADA solution utilises network connectivity and intelligence using a geospatially enabled Enterprise Asset Management system
• Demonstrating an integrated solution on WFM and field operations that relies on accurate real time asset information to ensure workflow efficiency and optimal grid operational performance and improved customer services
• Discussing well-conceived Roadmaps involving improvements and integration of IT /OT systems aligned to the core needs and interdependency of these two business domains
• Customer case study: demonstrating how such initiatives are successfully implemented by utilities in their Smart Grid journey

Anirban Acharya
Strategic Business Development Manager, Utilities
Infotech Enterprises
UK
Jan De Leeuw
Director Utilities, Europe
Infotech

Workshop

Privacy and security in smart grid: from risk assessment to certification

Developing a high level argumentation to outline the value of harmonised security andprivacy frameworks for the smart grid community
• Discussing fragmented approaches for security and privacy
• Presenting M/490 approach and situations in selected countries
• Security requirements: bargaining is not helpful
• Certification framework as common ground for efficient implementation

The result will be used for further discussions with all stakeholders

Thomas Weisshaupt
Senior Manager, Business Development
Cinterion Wireless Modules GmbH

Workshop

Delivering the right communications technology mix for a successful smart meter
rollout through best practice examples

• A look into how smart meter and smart grid rollouts have differed in different geographies, including North America and the UK
• Understanding how value can be obtained from the experience of previous rollouts, aswell as how communications technology can be re-used in different legislativeenvironments, and in a variety of rollout scenarios
• Why the most successful rollouts are those which look at the technology end-to-end

Neill Young
Marketing & Business Development Director
Trilliant
UK

Workshop

Introduction to global demonstration activities with a focus on power system
technologies

• Gaining an insight into Hitachi's on-going Smart Grid projects globally
• Power quality management for smart grid:
  • Optimised approach for improving power quality by transmission & distribution system such as PCS, SVC, and IT system
  • Reliable supply of electric power by controlling battery storage system
  • Demand side technologies
  • Overview of global demonstration projects

Shigeru Tamura
Senior Engineer
Hitachi Ltd
Japan

Workshop

Empowered consumers: the next wave of utility services

Main insights from power sector research: how to develop the strategic competencies to succeed in a consumer-centric power utility sector of the future?
Smart Power Model: forecasting to a high level of detail how consumer side technologies impact the regional power sector or specific players over a 20-40 year period:

• The rate of penetration and interaction of distributed generation and storage, demand response, energy efficiency measures and electric vehicle services
• Impact on supply and demand, pricing, utility revenues, investment plans and CO2
• Detailed consumer segmentation and market assessment

Geert-Jan van der Zanden
Senior Adviser
Xyntéo AS
Netherlands

Registration

Chairman's Opening Address

Chairman's Opening Address

Gunnar Lorenz
Head of Unit, Networks
Eurelectric
Belgium

MAPPING AND ASSESSING SMART GRID PROJECTS: WHAT'S NEW? LATEST RESULTS FROM THE JRC

Latest results from the 2012 JRC inventory of smart grid projects in Europe
Assessment of European smart grid projects: latest outcomes from the Smart Grid Task Force

Vincenzo Giordano
Project Officer
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Netherlands

UNLOCKING THE BENEFITS OF ACTIVE CUSTOMER PARTICIPATION IN WHOLESALE ELECTRICITY MARKETS

Why active participation of consumers is essential: managing intermittency; managing unilateral market power
Three necessary conditions for active participation: interval meters, adequate information, dynamic pricing
The role of information in active participation: information experiment
The role of dynamic pricing in active participation

• Dynamic Pricing versus Time-of-Use Pricing
• Symmetric treatment of load and generation
• Dynamic Pricing Experiment: Hourly Pricing (HP), Critical Peak Pricing (CPP), Critical Peak Pricing with Rebate (CPP-R)
• Day-ahead versus real-time dynamic pricing programmes: automated dynamic demand response, the role of symmetric treatment of load and generation

Frank Wolak
Director, Programme on Energy and Sustainable Development

USA

PRE-ARRANGED ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS AND MORNING REFRESHMENTS

STREAM 1: SMART CITY NETWORKS

• Roll out of smart meters: technical experience and customer acceptance
• Smart charging of electric vehicles
• Smart steering of decentralised generation
• Large scale Power to heat in district heating areas

Erik Landeck
Managing Director for Strategy and Regulatory Management
Vattenfall Europe Distribution
Germany

STREAM 2: ICT INFRASTRUCTURE

Network concepts for the future

• Most important changes for the DNO over the next decades. Key drivers for those changes
• Drivers for success: meeting the customer needs.
• Addressing quality of service, quality of supply andacceptable costs
• Pilots and experiments within Stedin
  • Social energy projects to get in contact with the customer and communities to learn what is important in relation to smart metering and electricity use
  • Demand response: experimenting with diverse incentives and adapting our criteria for network capacity to the future situation
  • Remote fault location: introducing methods of locating fault in the network from the control center to minimise future disturbances and facilitate a quick supply restoration
  • Introducing and evaluating MV substation automation
  • Self-healing grid: the first part of an underground medium voltage grid in Europe in which the restoration process is fully automated
• Implementing results and lessons learned
• Next steps derived from the new roadmap for future grid developments

Inge Wijgerse
Stedin
Senior Specialist Innovation
Netherlands

STREAM 3: DEMAND RESPONSE

When smart grid meets smart home

• Interfaces between smart grid and homes
• Exploring solutions to enable energy efficient homes
• Forecasting energy demand
• Danish examples from the research and innovation project iPower (www.ipower-net.dk)

Søren Østergaard Jensen
Project Manager
Danish Technological Institute, Energy and Climate
Denmark

WORKSHOP

Operating smart grids in the deregulated environment

• Grid4EU demonstrator 6: Nice Grid, France
• Enabling demand side management in the distribution grid
• Reducing curtailment of renewable generation
• Providing system services to the transmission grid
• Optimising the power system in the distribution grid
• Towards extensions to the regulatory framework

Matthias Muscholl
Smart Grid Pilot Projects Technical Lead
Alstom Grid
Germany

WORKSHOP

Everything's about data nowadays

• What data do we need to deliver on the promise of the
• smart grid?
• What's all this noise about Big Data? And do I need it?
• What opportunities are there to deliver new value by exploiting the data I have and the data I will have in the new smart world?
• What other businesses (utilities and others) have done it before? What could I learn from them?

David Socha
EMEA Utilities Practice Leader
Teradata
UK

WORKSHOP

A single communications infrastructure for multi-utilities

• Deploying a single communications infrastructure to
  support gas, water, and electricity smart metering and
  grids. Addressing different characteristics of these utility
  sectors
• Sensus to have successfully developed and deployed a
  communications technology that supports all
  three sectors on a single fixed infrastructure
• Saving investment capital, reducing operational costs and
  enabling accelerated deployment for those utilities where
  the business case for a standalone system is
  challenging
• Client case studies and trial results to gain an insight into
  how this technology works and what the benefits are

Andy Slater
Engineer and Marketing Director
Sensus
UK

NETWORKING LUNCHEON

STREAM 1: SMART CITY NETWORKS

Towards the implementation of a smart city vision: tools,
methods and real life experiences

• On-going challenges in neighbourhood energy management practices
• Methodological approaches for multi-energy systems A
• pplying the concept of Dual Demand Side Management as an approach to Neighborhood energy management
• A local use case: the E.ON Energy Research Center main building
• A city level use case: projects in the area of Bottrop
• A new EU Level experience: the project Cooperate
• Advanced concepts for future energy infrastructures: distributed intelligence and smart sensors
• Conclusions

Antonello Monti
Director of the Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems
E.ON Energy Research Center
Germany

STREAM 2: ICT INFRASTRUCTURE

Progress update from European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS) 

• Overview of the stakeholders and key objectives of Europe’s newest cyber security agency
• Outlining how ENCS intends to embrace open collaboration on a pan European and global level to address security concerns around critical infrastructure
• Progress update on new initiatives for smart grid and process control cyber security

Monique Janzen
International Account Director
European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS)
Netherlands

STREAM 3: DEMAND RESPONSE

eTelligence: where Energy meets Intelligence

The R&D-project ‘eTelligence’ is a winner of the national technology competition ‘E-Energy‘ by the BMWi. From 2008 till 2012 eTelligence developed and field-tested in the region of Cuxhaven, a small town in the northwest of Germany

• A regional market place for electricity
• Smart meter, feedback systems, tariffs and incentive programmes,
• Power generation and demand side control systems
• Modern ICT and international standards eTelligence shows the demand side management potential of small and medium size consumers such as households and cold storage houses
• How these actors can stabilise production and consumption in tomorrow’s smart grid

Tanja Schmedes
Managing Director eTelligence
EWE
Germany

WORKSHOP

Smart grids – big data: how can we securely and efficiently manage vastly increasing amounts of data?

• Transmitting and processing critical mass data, as secure and scalable cloud solutions
• Big data drivers & trends in a smart grid context
• Secure and efficient solutions for mass data management
  • In-Memory Computing
  • Analysis of structured and unstructured data
• Case study: creating value for customers and utilities with big data applications

Gabriele Riedmann de Trinidad
SVP Strategic Market Energy
Deutsche Telekom
Germany

WORKSHOP

Securing the smart grid backhauling network in view of future applications

• Description of common smart grid backhauling solutions and their security capabilities
• Insight into future smart grid applications and their impact on current security concepts
• Secure network architecture for the future smart-grid applications
• Customer case study: deploying a future-ready secure smart-grid network

Ilan Barda
CEO
RADiFlow
Israel

PRE-ARRANGED ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS AND REFRESHMENTS

ESTABLISHING THE ENERGY SYSTEM OF THE FUTURE: ANATOMY OF GRID4EU PROJECT

Part 1: Realisation of large-scale demonstration of advanced smart grid solutions with wide replication and scalability potential for Europe

• Developing and testing innovative technologies
• Defining standards through the set up of demonstrators
• Guaranteeing the scalability of these new technologies
• Guaranteeing the replicability over Europe
• Analysing smart grid cost-benefits

Part 2: GRID4EU in Germany: demonstrating that European MV networks can use the concept of autonomous, self-organising nodes

• Features of advanced MV network operations using a multi agent system
• Integration of an increasing number of decentralised energy resources in the MV and LV networks
• Achieving higher reliability, shorter recovery times after grid failures
• Avoiding unknown overloads
• Fulfilling the needs of surveillance and remote control in MV networks

Andreas Breuer
Vice President, New Technologies/Projects
RWE Deutschland AG
Germany
Jean-Baptiste Galland
Director Strategy and Smart-Grids of ERDF
ERDF Distribution
France

PANEL DISCUSSION

Implementation of smart grids in Germany

Moderated by:

• Experiences with smart grid projects
• Potential and marketability of technologies
• Necessary changes in regulation
• Legislation for smart grids
• The interaction of network operators and market (unbundling and liberalisation in times of energy transition and increasing decentralisation)

Andreas Breuer
Vice President, New Technologies/Projects
RWE Deutschland AG
Germany
Eric Malte Ahlers
Division Manager Commercial Asset Management
Federal Association of the Energy- and Water Industries (BDEW e.V.)
Germany
Erik Landeck
Managing Director for Strategy and Regulatory Management
Vattenfall Europe Distribution
Germany
Tanja Schmedes
Managing Director eTelligence
EWE
Germany

END OF DAY 1 AND DRINKS RECEPTION REGISTRATION

Registration

Chairman's Opening Address

Gunnar Lorenz
Head of Unit, Networks
Eurelectric
Belgium

EXPECTED BENEFITS OF POWER SYSTEMS AND NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR BUSINESS MODELS WITH SMART GRID ROLL-OUT

• Recent context evolution in smart grids
• Expected benefits on the power systems value chain
• Towards new business models of interactions between players
• Examples of new business models in smart grids demonstrators
• Challenges for successful roll-out of smart grids

Bernard Delpech
R&D COO
EDF
France

VIRTUAL POWER PLANT AS A MARKET PLATFORM

• Developing business models and technical concepts for the creation of a virtual power plants (VPP)
• Forming an integrated network and involving the customer
• The anatomy of the VPP IT infrastructure
• The impacts and lessons learnt

Ivan Kristian Pedersen
VPP Programme Manager
DONG Energy

ADDRESS PROJECT. PLUGGING IN THE CONSUMER: ENABLING ACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF COMMERCIAL AND DOMESTIC CONSUMERS IN THE MARKET FOR THE SUCCESS OF SMART GRID PROJECTS

• Customer behaviours: changing the thinking habits
• Tackling the early stages of customer awareness
• How to motivate the domestic consumer to get involved?
• Enhancing customer experience
• The role of aggregators and different models
• Ensuring data privacy and protection
• Improving product offering and development

Alexander Horch
Management Board Member
ADDRESS Technical Board
Switzerland

Morning refreshments

STREAM 1: ENERGY STORAGE

Energy storage applications: gaining momentum

• Necessary market, economic and regulatory conditions for successful energy storage
• development in Europe
• Where energy storage market is headed?
• Types of energy storage technologies applied
• Strengths and weaknesses, drivers and restraints of these technologies

Urban Keussen
Senior Vice President Technology & Innovation
E.ON AG
Germany

STREAM 2: SMART CITIES

Case study on smart city Kalundborg

Municipal planning moving beyond conventional thinking in long term planning:
addressing a clear nexus between water and energy sectors

• It takes more energy to produce more water and it takes more water to produce more
• energy
• Optimised water management in the industrial and utility sectors
• Clash between legislation in the EU directives adhering to the energy package:
• renewables and energy efficiency directives vs. intensified energy requirements
• stipulated by the water framework directives
• Smart cities as a solution to deal with problems of increased energy consumption from
• increased requirements of water treatment
• Smart grids and new services targeting this nexus
• Reducing wasted energy and creating new business opportunities

Martin Andersen
EU Director
Kalundborg Municipality

STREAM 1: ENERGY STORAGE

Development and operation of a smart storage solution in the LV distribution grid

• Development of a compact battery storage system
• Optimal grid utilisation through storage
• Optimised integration of renewable energy sources
• Improving network reliability through storage

Robert De Groot
Project Leader, Smart Storage
Enexis
Netherlands

STREAM 2: SMART CITIES

Evora InovCity. Implementing a pilot smart grid project: lessons learned and results

• The smart grids paradigm as an answer to the challenge of sustainability and driver for the transformation of the DSO
• InovGrid: EDP’s umbrella programme for the development of a smarter distribution grid
• The Evora InovCity pilot: testing concepts, technology and customer acceptance
• Core AMM platform architecture and technology
• Tested concepts and results regarding:
  • Energy efficiency: new products, services and technologies
  • Technical losses
  • Asset monitoring and management
  • Technical quality of service
  • Commercial losses
  • Operational efficiency
  • Commercial quality of service
  • Integration of microgeneration and electric vehicles
• Customer acceptance and the InovCity dynamic
• Looking ahead – current developments and next steps for the InovGrid programme:
  • The InovGrid business case
  • Current developments and short-term plans
  • Long-term trends and issues

Rui Gonçalves
Smart Grids Programme Manager
EDP

Lunch

STREAM 1: POWER GRID INFRASTRUCTURE

A sustainable energy future for islands: EDA experience

• Introduction to EDA’s power systems in the Azores islands: investing in renewables to use the endogenous resources of Azores
• Addressing the difficulties of a large penetration of renewables
• Setting the objectives: increasing wind energy production and grid stability
• Case studies: examples of projects to maximise energy production from renewables
• Future steps
• Conclusions

Paulo Jorge C. André
Head, Power Production Investment Department
EDA – Electricidade dos Açores, S.A.
Portugal

STREAM 2: DEMAND RESPONSE

Smart energy from the consumer perspective

• What does the consumer know about smart energy?
• The smart metering rollout: analysing experiences and consumer reactions
• Addressing the privacy issues
• How does the consumer perceive the advances in smart homes, electrical vehicles as
• storage, energy efficiency programmes?
• Key motivating factors to get the consumer on your side

Frauke Rogalla
Policy Officer for Energy Efficient Products
Federation of German Consumer Organisations
Germany

ESB’S EXPERIENCE IN EV CHARGING NETWORK ROLLOUT: REDUCING THE IMPACT OF HIGH EV PENETRATION ON NETWORK VOLTAGE

• Assessing the impact of fast and slow charging on networks: experiences from Roebuck Downs ESB Test Site and from 30 locations of 50kW fast chargers
• Preventing network voltage drops when using EV charging: developing a Smart Charging system and exploring the possibility of LV network meshing
• System charging post rollout: understanding the costs of installation. Lessons learnt from the rollout of 30 fast chargers, 400 public slow charging points and 450 home charging points
• Development of ESB system which allows for an open charge network where customers can use any charge post and buy electricity from any retailer
• Exploring FP7 projects including Merge, Green eMotion, Finseny and Hubject

James Gallagher
Senior Engineer, ESB ecars
ESB Networks
Ireland

PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER: THE DSO PERSPECTIVE ON EUROPEAN SMART GRIDS POLICIES

• Improving consumer participation in a smart market: DSO as a facilitator
• Network codes and smart grids standardisation: new rules for the European electricity sector
• Green light for RES? Innovative ideas to switch off the red light on the European distribution grids
• Distribution in EURELECTRIC’s innovation action plan
• Electric vehicles: how to foster the infrastructure development

Gunnar Lorenz
Head of Unit, Networks
Eurelectric
Belgium

Close of day two and end of the Summit