Smart Grids Summit 2010

Dates: 13th – 14th September 2010

Venue: NH Málaga, Málaga, Spain


Delivering Electricity Smarter

"A total overview of all the changes we have in the next ten years."
Senior Advisor CR, Enexis


day one | day two

Day One13 September 2010
08:00
Registration and coffee
08:55
Summit Welcome

Dave Sowden, Managing Director, JDS Associates CEO, Micropower Council
09:00
Welcome to Málaga

Dr. Francisco de la Torre Prados, Mayor, Málaga ,
09:05
Realising all the smart grid and smart home concepts in one city - providing energy efficiencies, integrating renewables, improving security of distribution, smart storage solutions, integrating electric vehicles and advanced metering systems
Keynote presentation - Malaga smart city
  • Planning for the energy efficient city for the future - assessing the investment and policies undertaken
  • Outlining key project partners and future developments in Malaga
  • Customer participation - feedback and findings from Malaga’s smart customers to aid the development of the smart city
  • Linking projects to achieve 20% energy savings, reduce CO2 emissions by 6,000 tonnes per year and increase the use of renewable energy sources in Malaga
  • Future electric vehicle projects - Elvire and G4 vehicles

Jose Arrojo de Lamo, Technology and Innovation Director, ENDESA , Spain
09:50
Keynote: Securing network reliability: assessing the impact of adding smart services and new technologies into networks
  • Maintaining security in the grid as technologies are developed and deployed
  • Balancing the security risks of greater smart grid automation systems
  • Maintaining integrity of supply in smart grids through greater and effective data measurement

Mark Osborne, System Strategy, National Grid, UK Transmission , UK
10:30
One-to-one meetings, networking and morning coffee

11:50
Workshop - Lessons from implementing the Smart Grid: Malta Case Intelligent Utility Business Solution
Case study: Building Malta the Smart grid island - making the power grid smarter
  • Solutions for electricity supply and water services - Roll out of 250,000 smart meters to enable the national utilities and customers to better manage energy and water usage
  • AMM Solutions to support business decision making through remote monitoring, meter reading and real-time management of the network based on advanced IT
  • Client motivation behind AMM project engagement

Marta Sánchez, Global Business Services Utilities, Partner at IBM Global Business Services Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel
 
Workshop: Workforce Management for Utilities
  • Improve Productivity while reducing costs
  • Improving Data Accuracy - collecting data at source to reduce in-accuracies
  • Improved Accountability – tracking ongoing work to monitor progress effectively.
 
12:30
Networking Buffet Luncheon
13:40
Smart Regions
Case study: Smart grids, smart regions, smart cities - Poland and Eastern European projects
  • Examples of smart city projects across Central and Eastern Europe
  • Smartening the delivery of electricity, gas and water to consumers

Magdalena Wasiluk-Hassa, Director of Innovation and External Funds, PSE Operator S.A. Poland
 
Storage and DSM
Demand side management and storage projects for network transmission balancing
  • Control, balance and customer usage applications to achieve active demand management
  • Achieving greater efficiencies through smart storage - batteries, electric vehicles and planned network storage devices
  • Future challenges as the network becomes more active, complicated and further technologies and systems are added

Susana Banares, Head of Demand Response, Red Eléctrica de España Spain
 
14:20
Workshop - Smart Grid City - Boulder, Colorado
Investigating the value proposition for smart cities – findings from Boulder Colorado
Case study: Completing the first fully functioning smart grid enabled city in the world to increase reliability and provide customers with greater energy usage information
  • Customer and community experience and engagement results
  • Impact on the customer – overall satisfaction, outages, demand response etc.
  • Lessons learned from different perspectives – customer, regulatory and project partners

Aaron Zurborg, Director, Smart Grid Strategy, Ventyx USA
 
Workshop: Quality Management
Improving quality of supply in the distribution network
  • Managing the measurement and diagnostics of faults and potential problems
  • Back up security measures, storage and flow technologies now required
  • Adopting the two way transfer of both power and data information
 
15:00
One-to-one meetings, networking and refreshments

16:45
Interoperability and ICT Standards
Achieving standardisation across different systems – strategies, frameworks and current projects
  • Protocol standardisation and strategies now required to meet the communications demands of the smart grid
  • Regulatory frameworks required for SmartGrids and metering deployment
  • Examples of metering and other interoperability projects throughout Europe

Gunnar Lorenz, Head of Unit - Networks, EURELECTRIC Belgium
 
Smart Metering
Developing advanced functionality for Smart meters
  • Fraud detection through smart meters in the Netherlands
  • Outage detection in electricity and gas via advanced metering and network technologies
  • Management of the data flood of extra information received from consumers
  • Linking smart grid projects together - combining budgets to achieve more from each project

Jan Bozelie, Smart Grids Consultant, Alliander Netherlands
 
17:25
Renewable integration, transmission and distribution projects and investments
Case Study - Denmark. Addressing the large scale renewable integration issues faced by Dong Energy as a leading energy company on wind power and smart grids development. Key challenges are market shaping, balancing issues, ancillary services, mobilization of new flexible demand, and active customer participation.
  • Mobilisation of renewable energy throughout the value chain
  • Market integration of renewable wind from offshore and electricity from central production sites
  • Optimisation of heating, gas and electricity through intelligent portfolio management
  • Challenges in the advance grid architecture – technological, customers and regulatory policy factors

Klaus Baggesen Hilger, Senior Innovation Manager, Dong Energy ,
18:05
Chairman's closing comments and observations from Day 1

Dave Sowden, Managing Director, JDS Associates CEO, Micropower Council
18:15
Networking drinks reception
18:45
Malaga Smartcity tour

Smartcity is a pioneer project where new systems and technologies are applied to reduce electricity consumption in Malaga, involving 11,000 homes and 1,200 businesses in the area of the Misericordia Beach. With this objective, energy generation systems based on renewable energy sources will be installed in homes, offices and industries in the area, so that a user can produce not only the energy that it consumes, but also store it in batteries for later use by other inhabitants, for lighting purposes, climatisation of buildings or public transport.

Smartcity tour will visit and demonstrate:


  • Smart metering
  • Energy efficient buildings
  • Smart public street lighting
  • Electric vehicle charging points
  • Availability on the tour is on a first come first serve basis. Therefore, if you wish to attend please contact us, as soon as possible. You are only confirmed a place on the tour, once you have received written confirmation from the World Trade Group. For further questions or queries, please contact Sarah Boyne on +44 (0) 207 202 7691

day one | day two

Day Two14 September 2010
08:00
Registration and coffee
09:00
Chairman's welcome and recap from Day 1

Dave Sowden, Managing Director, JDS Associates CEO, Micropower Council
09:10
Keynote - ADDRESS Project - Development of Interactive Distribution Energy Networks and advanced data management
  • Flexible, accessible, reliable and sustainable - frameworks required to meet the smart grid challenge
  • Assessing the impact of active demand research - understanding the different participants, data acquired and their effects on future transmission
  • Providing real-time optimisation of energy flows at local and global level

Paola Petroni, Vice President, Infrastructure and Networks Division, Enel Distribuzione spa , Italy
09:55
Regulatory debate
Panel Debate: Regulation now required to build the European Smart Grid vision
Should utilities be incentivised to meet low carbon targets or should traditional a mandate approach for regulation be imposed?
  • Different forms of regulations in different regions - what can be learned and standardised?
  • Mechanisms and frameworks required for electric vehicles, home technologies and consumer based grid interactions
  • Interconnection projects and regulations role in completing projects obligations and in budget

Rachel Fletcher, Partner, Distribution, Ofgem UK

Hélder Milheiras, Engineer, ERSE Portugal

Francis Ghigny, Président, CWaPE - Commission wallonne pour l'Energie Belgium
 
Smart Grids Japan
Japan Smart Community Alliance: Examples of research and deployment of smart grid projects across Japan
  • Smart grid standardisation: forming the public-private cooperative community to address future energy needs
  • Smart city pilots and development projects
  • Linkage and technological focus for Japan to remain competitive globally

Dr. Satoshi Morozumi, Director, Smart Community Department, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) Japan

Dr. Shigeru Tamura, Senior Engineer, Japan Smart Community Alliance, Hitachi
 
10:40
Morning refreshments
11:10
Workshop - Electric Mobility meets Smart Grid
Workshop - M2M Technology Empowering Green e-Mobility
Electric vehicles require a totally new and smart infrastructure, which must be developed and implemented in the very near future in order to meet growing demand. Integrated wireless machine-to-machine communication is a crucial component to empowering “green” e-mobility and to integrated the charging infrastructure into the power grid in a smart way.
  • M2M benefits for the charging station ecosystem
  • Combining wireless and advanced technologies to allow complete data communication
  • Integration and control of the charging infrastructure by the smart power grid

Holger Lenz, Director Business Development,, Cinterion Wireless Modules
 
Workshop – Renewable energy integration
Workshop - Building a more reliable grid by integration of decentralised renewable energy
Installing large amounts of decentralized energy sources can create problems on the local distribution network, but can we use these energy sources in a smart way to increase the quality and reliability of the distribution network?
  • Integrate large amounts of renewable energy sources
  • Control and managing the energy flow
  • Improving the distribution grid

Freek Smits, Business Development Manager, Nedap NV - Energy Systems Netherlands
 
12:00
Smart Homes - Sustainable Heat
Heat pumps - capacity measurement and future application
Case study
  • Benefiting from measurement capacity findings from Stedin's 1 year research programme in CHP
  • What are the control and load balancing effects upon the distribution network?
  • Recommendations, investments and implications for smart networks
  • Changing the behaviour of pumps to fit customer and grid requirements

Inge Wijgerse, Specialist Asset Management, Innovation, Stedin Netherlands
 
T&D - Medium Voltage Integration
Analysing the impact of integrating voltage control into grid networks
Case study
  • Applying the best regulatory framework to enable integration through advanced control technologies
  • Testing of penetration levels and various scenarios to allow medium voltage integration

David Trebolle, Head of Operation Systems and Operational Optimisation, Union Fenosa Spain
 
12:45
Networking Buffet Luncheon
14:00
iSmart Grid - Case Study
iSmart in Bern - Metering, energy efficiency and data management pilot results
  • Findings and standardisation challenges of the Bern iSmart project
  • Customer consumption and energy efficiency monitoring and target setting
  • Virtual power plants - allowing reselling back to the grid operators
  • Demand side management - customer energy cost choices and incentives for using renewable energy sources
  • Are customers now willing to participate long term in their energy management?

Urs Bänziger, Energy Projects Director , BKW
 
T&D - eTelligence lighthouse project
Applying a new approach to optimising distribution grid operations
  • Complete picture and introduction to of the eTelligence project
  • Examples of power optimisation approaches from Cuxhaven pilot to optimise grid operation
  • Market operators - defining concepts and systems to integrate with all market operators and local distribution grid aspects
  • Piloting research programmes investigating adaptive grid protection techniques

Hannes Rüttinger, Project Manager, Fraunhofer-Application Center System Technology
 
14:45
Smart technologies - Smart Meters
Smart Metering in Spain: Endesa’s roll-out for 13,000,000 customers
Case study
  • The importance of the creation of a reliable and cost efficient standard for Smart Meters
  • Integration into the existing control and monitoring systems
  • Roll-out plan for meters across the Endesa region
  • Milestones achieved so far and future challenges for metering projects

Dr. Rocio Millan, Smart Metering Project Director, Endesa Distribution Spain
 
T&D - Long Distance Transmission
Achieving long distance transmission via high voltage system
Case study
  • Smart Energy on a European Scale - benefits from high voltage transmission
  • Policies and political frameworks required to transport and distribute electricity over long distances
  • Linking remote RES electricity production to cities
  • Examples of planned projects – North Sea wind and Desertec solar

Erik Hauptmeier, Corporate Research and Development, Technologies - Power Networks and Storage, RWE AG Germany
 
15:30
Keynote: Customers driving energy management - myth or reality?
Creating customer value and loyalty. How to win over the customer
  • Customers are waking up: commodity energy becomes a 'high interest' product
  • Changing energy markets: Will Google and Microsoft and others become the new energy companies?
  • The business case challenge for suppliers: how to make money but not comprise the security of supply (grid) - what is the solution?
  • The role of the customer - enabling their interaction through real energy management in a new energy world

Jeroen Scheer, Manager IT Strategy & Architecture, Nuon Energy ,
16:15
Panel debate: Projects and realism in Europe - securing funding and ROI from smart grid projects
  • What is the business case for smart grids? Where will funding and investment come from?
  • What is the biggest barrier to achieving smart grid advancement - regulatory? funding? skills? interoperability? technical demands?

Dave Sowden, Managing Director, JDS Associates CEO, Micropower Council
Jeroen Scheer, Manager IT Strategy & Architecture, Nuon Energy ,
Peter Bretschneider, Deputy Director, Fraunhofer-Application Center System Technology , Germany
Paola Petroni, Vice President, Infrastructure and Networks Division, Enel Distribuzione spa , Italy
16:45
Chairman's closing comments and end of summit

Dave Sowden, Managing Director, JDS Associates CEO, Micropower Council

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