Tuesday, January 17, 2023 | 11:00am–12:20pm CET | Webinar Language: English
The EU is currently facing an energy resilience and energy affordability crisis. To the current context of scarcity of supply while decarbonising the ecomony, we have in addition a change in locality of energy resources, with significant amounts of new demand and electricity generation in places where they were not previously present, notably at the edge of the system, in the form of distributed energy resources.
The current Electricity Market Design already foresees that DSOs shall procure flexibility services from these resources, in accordance with transparent, non-discriminatory and market-based procedures. This is however not yet the case across all of Europe, with different levels of implementation and experience by DSOs.
Join us in this webinar together with some of Europe's leading service providers and DSOs to learn about how they are developing new systems to procure flexibility from local resources to deal with system constraints. We will look at three different perspectives, from the aggregator selling flexibility to the buyers, local DSOs and learn how they are incorporating flexibility in their network plans as an alternative for further grid infrastructure reinforcement.
During the webinar participants can submit their questions to get them answered by the experts in the live Q&A. In addition, both the recording and the speakers' presentations are made available to all registrants after the webinar.
Andrés Pinto-Bello Gómez, is the Head of Research and Projects at smartEn the European business association driving the digitalisation and decentralisation of the European electricity sector. He is an Economist specialised in the electricity sector with a deep knowledge on EU energy regulatory affairs and energy policy.
He is the lead author of The smartEn Map report series, the flagship publication for demand-side flexibility, with an innovative approach to market research and intelligence, mapping the European electricity landscape one topic at a time. He also leads smartEn involvement in numerous European projects, putting into practice innovative demand-side solutions supporting a new decarbonised and decentralised energy system.
Andrés Pinto-Bello Gómez will be the moderator for this webinar.
Presentation title: "Creating the power grid of the future by facilitating more flexible power consumption"
Presentation title: "How to integrate flexibility in a useful, cost-effective way"
Simon Bushell is the Founder and CEO of Sympower. Simon has dedicated his career to transforming the energy sector to persevere through the climate crisis. He was previously an Energy Analyst for Ameresco, and an inaugural committee member of the Dutch Youth Climate Movement. In 2018, Simon made the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Social Entrepreneurship.
Presentation title: "How flexibility is empowering DSOs to cope with the new demands and new uses of distributed generation added to the network"
Torsten Knop spent his whole career in the utility industry. After a brief period working for an industry association he joined the RWE Group (today E.ON) in 1999. Here he was mostly focused on public affairs issues concerning transmission and distribution grids. With the start of formal regulation in Germany in 2005 he moved to regulatory affairs and is currently responsible for European Regulation at E.ON SE. He is an economist by formation.
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