Smart Grid

Chairperson's welcome

Duncan Botting

EERA joint programme on smart electricity grids

• Goals, objectives and recent achievements of European Energy Research Alliance’s joint programme on Smart Grids

Luciano Martini, Coordinator of the Joint Project on Smart Electricity Grids, European Energy Research Alliance

 Smart Grid case study: Boulder and Amsterdam

• Utility challenges and benefits
• Smart grid lessons for the future
• Utility challenges
• Initial benefits
• Ventyx footprint at SmartGridCity™
• Smart grid lessons for the future

Wayne Collins, Senior Director, Strategic Marketing, Ventyx (an ABB company)

Smart energy systems

•  The energy and carbon challenge
•  What changes in transmission and distribution are needed to support the smart grid?
•  Components required to successfully launch a smart grid: demand and asset management, transmission upgrades and consumer engagement

Richard Smith, Head of Future Networks, National Grid

Storage and demand side management

• 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
• Overcoming future challenges as the network becomes more active, complicated and further technologies and systems are added

Andres Sainz Arroyo, Demand Side Management, Red Electrica De Espana 

Standards needed to implement the smart grid

• Review of the architectures and roadmap's that the IEC has developed do define the standards and players involved to implement the smart grid

Jack Sheldon, Standardisation Strategy Manager, International Electrotechnical Commission

Case study: Delivery of the largest DNO-based real-time ratings project in the world

• Real time thermal ratings over wide geographical areas

Marc Bartlett, Principal Power Systems Engineer, Parsons Brinckerhoff

DNO discussion: what are DNOs prioritising in preparation for the smart grid?

• What are DNOs prioritising in preparation for the smart grid?

Simon Brooke, Low Carbon Project Manager, Electricity North West
Alan Claxton, Director of Energy Future, ENA
David MacLeman, Distribution R&D Manager, Scottish and Southern Energy
Cristiano Marantes, Technical Solution Lead, UK Power Networks

Closing keynote presentation: Overview of Korea's Jeju test bed project 

• Current status of smart grid projects:- smart electricity services, smart power grid, smart renewables, smart transportation and smart place
• Lessons learnt 

Seong-Chul Kwon, Senior Researcher, Transmission and Distribution Lab, Kepco Research Institute

Smart grid: the emerging reality

• Why smart grids are required - transforming energy generation, consumption and network behaviour
• What role(s) will smart grids perform - understanding different stakeholder needs and benefits, their interactions and conflicts?
• How will smart grids be realise - what are the key issues for implementation?

Mike Wilks, Principal Consultant, Pöyry Management Consulting 

Smart grids – the emerging picture

• Creating a regulatory environment to boost smart grids

Stuart Cook, Senior Partner for Smarter Grids and Governance, Ofgem

Case study: Planning and implementing a customer focused smart grid plot

• Regulators and consumer advocates must engage in system demonstration and deployment to ensure customers benefit from smart grids
• Building awareness and seeking consensus on the value of smart grids must be a priority
• Smart grids roadmap

Willie Donaghy, Executive Director, SmartGridIreland

Smart meters, smart people: Feedback from consumer study, Ireland

• Using smart meters to change lifestyles, patterns of electricity consumption and altering people's attitudes to energy use and efficiency over time

Paddy Turnbull, Digital Energy - Growth and Strategy Leader, GE

Ensuring security of the smart grid

• Creating a secure and reliable communications backbone for the Smart Grid

David Bell, Consulting Solutions Architect, Cisco

Challenges facing future distribution grids and their solutions

• How to build a cost efficient communication infrastructure for smart grids
• First smart grid applications and their influence on the efficiency of the grid
• Case study examples

Eugen Mayer, Managing Director, Power Plus Communications

The next generation of distributed intelligence products and solutions for the smart grid

• Distributed automation and the need for dedicated communication solutions for the distribution electricity network 
• Self-healing technology using distributed intelligence
• Energy storage - community energy storage and the advantages of placing distributed energy storage in close proximity to customers

Andrew Jones, Sales Director, S&C Electric Company

Wireless smart grid solutions

•  Harnessing the power of WiMAX technology to create a reliable, high-performance communications infrastructure to enable a high-performance smart grid

Paul Pearson, Field Application Engineer EMEA, RuggedCom

Smart metering and smart grid consortium – and the roadmap to cover 28m homes and businesses by 2020

• Delivering national, large-scale, communications and IT infrastructure projects to meet the smart grid challenge

David Green, Programme Director Smart Metering, Smart Reach

Malta - smart meter case study

• Project rationale and expected benefits
• Progress to date and problems encountered
• Lessons learnt

Antonia Gauci, Manager - Automoted Metering, ARMs Lts (a subsidiary of Enemalta)

Low Carbon Networks Fund

• How will the funds advance Smart Grids in 2011?
• Ofgem’s criteria for selection

Anna Rossington, Head of Distribution Policy, Ofgem

Update - Customer-led network revolution project being funded by the second tier of the low carbon network fund

• The key learning outcomes from the project
• Specific trial networks in the project, looking at:
• The challenges faced by the network operator
• Potential network-side solutions
• Potential customer-side solutions

Mark Drye, Director of Asset Management, CE Electric
Dave A Roberts, Group Strategy Manager, EA Technology

Low carbon London - a learning journey

Cristiano Marantes, Technical Solution Lead, UK Power Networks