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2nd General Assembly

SmartGrids
"The SmartGrids Revolution†- making the earth move
8th -9th November 2007
Monastery Banz, Bad Staffelstein, Germany

1st Day: 8 November 2007
Registration and check in start at 09:00
10:00 Opening Session
Chair: Pier Nabuurs, CEO KEMA, The Netherlands

- Welcome and brief introduction of the TP-AC Chairman
Pier Nabuurs, CEO KEMA, The Netherlands

- Recorded Video Message (26MB)
Janez PotoÄÂnik, EU Commissioner for Science and Research

- Dr. Udo Niehage, CEO Siemens AG, Germany

- Premiere showing of the SmartGrids video (32MB)
12:00 Lunch Break and Visit to the Poster Exhibition
Chair: Rainer Bacher
Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), Switzerland
13:30 Scene Setting Overview
Pier Nabuurs, CEO KEMA, The Netherlands
13:45 Networks Near the Edge
A perspective from the SmartGrids Technology Platform
John Scott, Technical Director OFGEM, United Kingdom

- Are Europe’s networks at the cliff edge, or the cutting edge?
- The scale and range of the challenges for Transmission & Distribution
- The need for innovation and fresh thinking
- Some barriers and solutions to the deployment of innovation

14:00 Market, Regulation & Investment
Samer Mansour, Managing Director Senior Relationship Banking,
Rabobank International, Corporate Clients, The Netherlands

- An investor’s view of SmartGrids, their funding and risks
- Perspective on the appetite for wider energy investment
- New business models, including Virtual Power Plants
- Regulatory frameworks, their impact on investment decisions and the scope for improvements
14:25 Technology, Research & Delivery
Dr. Graham Alt, University Strathclyde, United Kingdom

- Overview of networks research in Europe & the UK
- The value of industrial engagement and how best to structure it
- Key success factors for achieving commercial deployment of innovation
- Securing the right people, adequate funds, and Intellectual Property

14:50 Coffee Break and Visit to the Poster Exhibition
15:30 Customers, Energy & Participation
Mike Messenger, Demand Response Program Manager, CEC, USA

- How customers think about energy and about networks
- Do customers want a more active role and will they respond if offered the opportunities
- How can ‘customer education’ be undertaken in these new areas
- Key factors for successful customer involvement in technology

15:55 Society, Energy & Interactions
Lise Mulpas, ELIA, Belgium

- How society responds to energy issues and energy networks
- Electricity grids are largely ‘taken for granted’ by customers and by society in general; why is this and is it a satisfactory state of affairs
- The challenge of gaining consents and permissions for development
- How the energy industry can best build constructive external relationships

16:20 Panel with the afternoon speakers
Moderator: Rainer Bacher, Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), Switzerland
17:00 Visit to the Poster Exhibition
End of the first day of the conference
20:00 Conference Dinner


2nd Day: 9 November 2007


Validating and finalising the Strategic Deployment Document (SDD)
Chair: Duncan Botting, Head of Technology and Business Development, ABB, United Kingdom

9:00 Four Working Group Parallel Sessions
Four parallel Workshops under the moderationof SamrtGrids Workgroup-Leaders. The aim will be to gather inputs and build consensus on the deployment approach.

- WG1: Network Assets
Edmund Handschin, Professor University of Dortmund, Germany

- WG2: Network Operations
Tahir Kapetanovic, Director Electricity, Energy-Control GmbH, Austria

- WG3: Demand and Metering
Maher Chebbo, Vice President Utilities Industry, Europe Middle East and Africa SAP AG, Germany

- WG4: Generation and Storage
Nikolas Hatziargyriou, Professor National Technical University of Athens, Greece

11:00 Coffee break and Visit to the Poster Exhibition
11:30 Short Presentations of Working Group considerations
12:10 Concluding Remarks

Pier Nabuurs,
Chairman of the Technology Platform
Chief Executive Officer KEMA, The Netherlands

Duncan Botting,
Head of Technology Business Development, ABB, United Kingdom

12:30 End of 2nd General Assembly
12:30 Lunch or Lunch Packages
13:00 Shuttle Buses to Nürnberg and München Airport

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