3rd General Assembly of the European Technology Platform

Welcome
Alejo Vidal-Quadras, MEP and Vice-President of the European Parliament

Raffaele Liberali, Director at the Directorate-General for Research,
European Commission
Gerhard Seyrling, President AREVA T&D France

Andreas Umbach, President of European Smart Metering Industry Group
(ESMIG)

Setting the scene

Ronnie Belmans, Full Professor and Chairman of ELIA, K.U. Leuven,
Belgium

SmartGrids Strategic Deployment Document (SDD)

Duncan Botting, Managing Director, ITI Energy, UK

Tahir Kapetanovic, Director Electricity, Energie-Control GmbH

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-Deployment Priorities (DP) A, B and C: (“power engineering business
cases”)

Chair: Duncan Botting, Managing Director, ITI Energy

• DP A: Optimizing Grid Operation and Usage

Carlo Sabelli, Director TERNA, Union for the Coordination of Transmission
of Electricity (UCTE)

• DP B: Optimizing Grid Infrastructure

John Scott, Market Issue leader Network Innovation and New Technologies,
KEMA

• DP C: Integrating Large Scale Intermittent Generation

Henning Kruse, Chairman Wind ETP

-Deployment Priority D: SmartGrids ICT (focus impact
on energy effi ciency and User readiness)

Chair: Maher Chebbo, Vice President Utilities Industry, Europe Middle
East and Africa, SAP A.G., Germany

• The DSO experience

Eugenio Di Marino, Head of Engineering and Standardization, Infrastructure
and Networks Division, Enel, Italy

• Telecommunications: only one infrastructure

Miguel A. Sánchez Fornié, Director Control Systems and Telecommunications,
IBERDROLA, Spain

• Linking SmartGrids and Telecom networks: improving or endangering
security?

Nouredine Hadjsaid, IDEA and Grenoble Institute of Technology

• DG INFSO information society and media

Colette Maloney, European Commission (DG INFSO), Head of Unit ICT for
Sustainable Growth, Brussels, Belgium

-Deployment Priority E: (Active Distribution Networks
“empowering the customer”)

Chair: Tahir Kapetanovic, Director Electricity, Energie-Control GmbH,
Austria

• Paola Petroni, Head of Networks Technologies, Infrastructure and
Networks Division Enel and Project Manager for EU

Address Project, Italy

• Smart interactions between customers and grid: what the future
could look like

Yves Bamberger, Executive Vice-President, Head of Corporate EDF R&D,
EDF, France

• Nikos Hatziargyriou, Vice Chairman and deputy CEO, PPC, Greece

• EU PV approach, future developments and expectations on SmartGrids

Emiliano Perezagua, Chief Operations Offi cer, ISOFOTON S.A., Chairman
of the Photovoltaic Technology Platform

-Deployment Priority F: New Market Places, Users and
Energy Effi ciency

Chair: Rainer Bacher, Bacher Energie, representing Swiss Federal Offi
ce of Energy - Vice Chairman, Switzerland

• Responsive Applications in a SmartGrid

Klaas Vegter, Chief Technology Offi cer Philips Lighting

• Setting up customer centric retail markets

Clara Poletti, Director IEFE Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

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Key Messages:

John Scott, Market Issue leader Network Innovation and New Technologies,
KEMA

2nd Day: 9 October 2008

Modernising and Finansing the Grid

Wrap-up

• Report DP A+B+C

Ruud de Bruijne, SenterNovem, Expert Renewable Energy, The Netherlands

• Report DP D

Gunta Slihta, Vice-Director of the Institute of Physical Energetics,
Latvia

• Report DP E

João A. Peças Lopes, INESC Porto and Faculdade de Engenharia,
University of Porto, Portugal

• Report DP F

Nick Jenkins, Professor, University of Manchester, United Kingdom