List of Workshops
The workshops will take place the first day of the conference, on Monday, 3 November.
Morning Session (9.00 - 12.30)
Afternoon Session (14.00 - 17.30)
Description of Workshops
The workshops will take place according to the following format: introduction by the moderator, presentations and roundtable discussion with the speakers and panelists.
WS1: "On-Going Smart Grid Implementations and Pilots: Spotlight on Communications"
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Room A+B
Content
This workshop aims to showcase achievements and lessons learned by major smart grids projects and implementations, while highlighting the architecture and technologies of the communication infrastructure. The invited speakers will introduce the drivers motivating the development of the projects, the challenges that are targeted, the recent achievements and the related lessons learned. Selected projects will discuss the specific pilots they roll out, and how technology providers support the stakeholders needs in their setting. The technical presentation will be followed by a panel discussion among the speakers and invited experts, to debate questions such as:
- What are the most important findings and lessons learned?
- What are the challenges stakeholders still face?
- What are the emerging business models with special reference to the communication aspects?
- What open questions do remain, both from the utilities and communications/ICT providers perspective?
- What tools are suitable for validation in an early stage of the project?
Moderator
Michele de Nigris, ISGAN & RSE, Italy
Roberta Bigliani, IDC Energy Insights, Italy
Roberta Bigliani, IDC Energy Insights, Italy
Presentations
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Michele de Nigris, ISGAN & RSE, Italy
Michele de Nigris, ISGAN & RSE, Italy
Kevin Mercier, GRID4EU project, France
Satoshi Morozumi, New Energy and Industrial Development Organization (NEDO), Japan
Ronald B. Melton, Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project, USA
Roundtable Discussion
Bert Claessens, Vito, Belgium
Ronald B. Melton, Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project, USA
Kevin Mercier, GRID4EU project, France
Satoshi Morozumi, New Energy and Industrial Development Organization (NEDO), Japan
Takayuki Shimizu, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA
WS2: "Managing Heterogeneous and Secure Communication Networks for Smart Grids"
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Room C
Content
This workshop aims to address the communication challenges of smart grid applications. The presentations will deal with how to develop a holistic communication strategy and manage multiple communication networks, i.e., a scalable information infrastructure supporting a broad range of smart grid applications and communication technologies, as well as managing multiple/heterogeneous communication networks. They will explain the idea of smart grid control based on adaptive layers and information centric networking, with the support of a reference architecture providing an integrated view of several control cases such as Automated Meter Reading, Customer Energy Management Systems, Electrical Vehicle Charging in Low Voltage Grids, External Generation Site, Voltage Control in Medium Voltage Grids. Security challenges/requirements and possible solutions of some smart grid use cases will be highlighted.
The developments in the EU SmartC2Net and C-DAX projects will set the technical background for the roundtable discussion among the speakers and the invited panelists, to address key questions such as:
The developments in the EU SmartC2Net and C-DAX projects will set the technical background for the roundtable discussion among the speakers and the invited panelists, to address key questions such as:
- What is the dependency and the impact of ICT in the management of distribution networks?
- What are adequate control strategies?
- What are the necessary security measures for the different business cases?
- Cyber risk assessment of smart grids: does it help in the implementation of security measures?
- What are the benefits of monitoring the smart grid ICT infrastructures?
Moderator
Giovanna Dondossola, RSE, Italy
Presentations
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Hans Schwefel, FTW, Austria
Konstantinos Katsaros, University College London, UK
Rasmus Olsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Erik Poll, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Roundtable Discussion
- Herman Bontius, Alliander, The Netherlands
- Nuno Silva, Efacec, Portugal
- Konstantinos Moulinos, Enisa EC, Greece
- Aurelio Blanquet, EDP, Portugal
WS3: "Integrating Renewables and Exploiting Customer Flexibility"
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Room C
Content
This workshop explores challenges, research questions, and proposed solutions to deal with the challenge of increasing penetration of distributed renewable energy sources (DRES), especially at the distribution grid level (while respecting the operating conditions, e.g., in terms of voltage deviations). The invited speakers will present technical solutions to connect DRES, as well as accommodate their variable power output (given the dependency on natural phenomena that are not controllable) through steering the consumption, for instance using demand side management. The latter thus involves a study on the potential flexibility on the energy consumption side, and techniques for automating the adaptation of consumption patterns at the end user level. The technical presentations, as well as the panel discussion will address questions such as:
- How to increase RES penetration, esp. at the distribution grid level?
- How to gather more detailed insight, e.g., via data mining, in the energy consumption/production patterns?
- How to identify and/or exploit flexibility in the energy consumption side?
- How to realize distributed control to address the distribution network operator's technical challenges?
Moderator
Chris Develder, Ghent University, Belgium
Presentations
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Marjan Jerele, Elektro Gorenjska, Slovenia
Marjan Jerele, Elektro Gorenjska, Slovenia
Enrico Tronci, University of La Sapienza, Italy
Bert Claessens, Vito, Belgium
Gianfranco Chicco, Politecnico of Torino, Italy
Roundtable Discussion
- Anna Scaglione, University of California at Davis, USA
- Stella di Carlo, Enel Distribuzione SpA, Italy
WS4: "Standards for Smart Grid Communications and EMC"
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Room A+B
Content
Standards and interoperability are essential to economically implement smart grid projects and to foster economies of scale in the industrial production and supply of components. This workshop focuses on communication standards, interoperability and electromagnetic compatibility issues of smart grid devices, and it aims to pragmatically address the following items:
- Where do we stand?
- What is actually going on with regards to emerging standards?
- What is utilities' pragmatic approach, today and in the near future?
- What is the opinion of technology manufacturers?
- Are there best practices from other industries to evaluate?
Moderator
Claudia Imposimato, RSE, Italy
Presentations
David Johnson, Consultant, UK
Focus on M/441 Communications Reference Architecture, Smart Metering & the Smart Home
Paolo Giubbini, Enel Distribuzione SpA, Italy
Standards activity in DLC (Distribution Line Communication) media
Bill Radasky, Metatech Corp., USA
Focus on the activities of the US Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP/NIST) and EMC testing for Smart Grids
Masamitsu Tokuda, Tokyo City University, Japan
Focus on Wireless Power transfer emission standards and EMC below 150 kHz on telecommunication systems
Roundtable Discussion
- Giuseppe Michele Salaris, Enel Distribuzione SpA, Italy (on behalf of Meters and More)
- Thierry Lys, ERDF, France (on behalf of G3-PLC Alliance)
- Alfredo Sanz, Atmel, Spain (on behalf of PRIME Alliance)
- Larry Colton, Echelon, USA (on behalf of OSGP Alliance)
- Jaroslaw Kussyk, Siemens AG, Austria