Smart Metering -European Opportunities and Solutions
27-28 February 2008, Amsterdam

 

Day 1: Wednesday February 27

9:00 – 9:30 Registration and Coffee

9:30 – 9:45 The chairman Jessica Strömbäck from VaasaETT opens the conference.

9:45– 10:30 The Italian experience in regulating smart metering

  • Need to introduce minimum functional requirements
  • AMR roll-out in the gas sector: towards the second phase of the consultation process
  • Electricity: recently completed the obligations for metering operators
  • Smart metering and demand response: the way forward

Ferruccio Villa, Head of Smart Metering Regulation for the Electricity and Gas sectors, Italian Regulatory Authority for Electricity and Gas, Italy.
Ferruccio Villa joined the Italian Regulatory Authority for Electricity and Gas in 2002. He works with quality of electricity supply and his current services include continuity of supply, voltage quality and commercial quality regulations. Since 2006, he is the Head of smart metering regulation for both electricity and gas sectors. He is member of the ERGEG Retail Market Functioning Task Force (formerly Customer Switching TF). He is the author of many papers on quality of supply and smart metering regulation.

10:30– 11:15 AMR in the Nordic countries

  • AMR status in Nordic countries
  • AMR-related initiatives, risk factors and challenges in Nordic countries
  • Background for initiation of Nordic AMR Forum
  • Nordic AMR Forum project in nutshell
  • Outlook for AMR in Nordic Countries and conclusions

Andrei Z. Morch, Research Scientist, SINTEF, Norway.
Andrei Z. Morch has worked at SINTEF Energy Research, Department Energy Systems since 1999. He was a project manager for several European and national R&D projects related to strategic planning on deregulated electricity markets, implementation of Automatic Meter Reading systems, Distributed Generation, implementation of DRR and Energy efficiency actions and Final Customers’ behaviour. He is coordinator for “Initiation of Nordic AMR Forum” project, which is supported by Nordic Energy Research.

11:15 – 11:40 Coffee and networking

11:40 – 12:10 Perspectives from CEER/ERGEG

Results and outcomes from the Costumer Focus Group

Gunn Oland, Head of the Electricity Market Section at the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE), Representing the Retail Market Functioning Task Force, CEER/ERGEG, Norway.
CEER The Council of European Energy Regulators works to facilitate the creation of a single competitive, efficient and sustainable internal market for gas and electricity in Europe. CEER also maintains close working relations with regulatory authorities in North America and Central and Eastern Europe.
ERGEG The European regulators’ group for electricity and Gas is an Advisory Group of independent national regulatory authorities to assist the Commission in consolidating the Internal Market for electricity and gas.

12:10 – 13:15 Lunch

13:15 - 14.00 Results from European Energy Efficiency Research Study commissioned by LogicaCMG

  • Energy efficiency: a financial or an environmental concern? 
  • The role of information and technology in energy efficiency
  • Case study from Vattenfall outlining their new automated metering infrastructure

Alan Chandler, Global Strategy Manager, LogicaCMG, UK
Alan Chandler has been at LogicaCMG for 32 years. He has held senior roles as a technical strategist, responsible for product strategy, IT infrastructure and software engineering techniques and has a wide understanding of the details of electricity liberalisation and related market rules. Using that knowledge he has helped local LogicaCMG units around the world set up energy and utility practices and supported them in winning key projects.

14:00 – 14:45 Smart Metering in the Netherlands

  • Experiences from smart metering in the Netherlands
  • Regulatory and technical challenges
  • Looking at the future

Ferry Cserép, CEO, NETINIUM, The Netherlands
Ferry Cserép is CEO and co-founder of NETINIUM®, a company established in 1990 that offers advanced IT solutions that transform businesses into real-time enterprises. Between 1999 and 2005 -in addition to his duties at NETINIUM®- he was chairman of the VLN, a national trade organization representing manufacturers and system integrators in Echelon’s LonWorks technology for building automation. Here he played a key role in uniting international sister-organizations to streamline European marketing and standardization efforts.

14:45 – 15:15 Coffee and Networking

15:15 – 16:00 Life cycle costs simulation for energy metering

  • Description of accurate cost calculation method
  • Traditional vs AMR metering life cycle costs in 15 year cycle
  • Comparison of different ways of organizing energy measurement
  • Actual cost data from actual finnish utilities

Petri Trygg, Reseacher, Tampere University of Technology, Institute of Power Engineering and Managing Director, PowerQ Oy, Finland.
Petri Trygg got his M.Sc. in Tampere University of Technology (TUT) in 2003 he is also the managing directior of “PowerQ Oy”. The company is specialized in metering information analysis e.g. power quality monitoring and web-applications. He is currently doing his Ph.D. studies and is working as a part time researcher at TUT. The focus fields cover business model analysis in energy metering and distribution. Latest studies cover life-cycle cost analysis of metering processes in Finnish electricity distribution companies and development of AMR additional value features.

16:00 – 16:45 Attenuation and noise level – potential problems with communication via the power grid

When the communication fails: Real world examples
Impedance level of end-user equipment and how it affects the communication

Sarah Rönnberg, R&D engineer, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Sarah Rönnberg received the BSc degree from Luleå University of technology, Skellefteå Sweden in 2006. Currently she is working as research engineer at the same university. Her main interest is the behaviour of end-user equipment and problems concerning power line communication between 3 and 148.5 kHz.

16:00– 16:45 Low voltage network and power quality monitoring using AMR

  • Ideas for rural area additional values for AMR
  • Case description of actual pilot for new metering philosophy
  • Fault location in DSM
  • Power quality in selected points with AMR module

Petri Trygg Reseacher, Tampere University of Technology, Institute of Power Engineering and Managing Director, PowerQ Oy, Finland

16:45 – 17:00 Questions and summary of the day

19:00 Conference dinner

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Day 2: Thursday February 28

9:00 - 9:15 The Chairman Jessica Strömbäck from VaasaETT opens the conference

9:15 - 10:00 The state of demand responce schemes and tools from around the world

  • The myth of customer benefit
  • Psychology underpinning Demand Response behavior
  • Customer feedback
  • Pricing schemes
  • Reward schemes
  • Gaming for demand response
  • Demand response schemes for a positive business case

Jessica Strömbäck, Business Unit Manager, Project Manager, Finland
 Jessica Strömbäck works as project manager at VaasaETT Global Energy Think Tank. She specialises in executive development, Russian consultation projects and human resources.  She has carries out research on such energy related issues as: smart metering, wind generation and customer psychology. 

10:00 - 10:45 Customer choice in competitive electricity markets

  • The role of the customer in liberalised markets
  • Retail switching, experiences, best practices and prospects
  • Demand responding to price
  • The role of smart meters to empower electricity customers.

Ulrik Stridbaek, Senior Policy Advisor Electricity Markets, IEA International Energy Agency, Belgium.
 Ulrik Stridbaek has worked as a Senior Policy Advisor, Electricity Markets at the IEA since April 2004 focusing on energy policy issues on market reform, investments, natural gas in power generation and nuclear power. Most recent publications are the IEA books Lessons from Liberalised Electricity Markets from December 2005 and Tackling the Investment Challenges in Power Generation from May 2007.

10:45 - 11:05 Coffee and networking

11:05 - 12:00 Demand response, demand reduction and energy literacy

  • shifting priorities and changing roles for suppliers and their customers
  • smart metering to enable demand response
  • possibilities for demand reduction
  • what communications are needed for each?

Dr Sarah J Darby, Research Fellow, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University, UK
 Dr Sarah Darby joined the ECI in 1995 and gained her doctorate there, looking at social, behavioural and educational aspects of energy use. Sarah Darby was awarded an interdisciplinary fellowship by the Economic and Social Research Council, running from April 2007-2010, to carry the research into domestic energy feedback. During this time she was also a part of the external evaluation team for the UK Demand Reduction Pilot.

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 13:45 Can you find gold in your mountain of AMR-data?

  • How to dig for knowledge to increase income, decrease costs and improve capital turnaround
  • Internal hindrances
  • Dig gold from your huge data information – what is “customer intelligence” and what good can it do for you.

Erik Philipson, Consultant, Philipson Biz, Sweden.
Erik Philipson is a strategic management consultant with a focus on customer relationships and project management. He started his career by testing some 300 business software systems and later on became a product manager and marketing manager for such systems. Making organisations improve and create a positive Return of Investment with customer centric strategies and business systems is one of his key tasks.

13:45 - 14:00 Smart Metering in Sweden

  • AMM experiences from a pioneer
  • Challenges
  • Solutions

Johan Lindehag, AMM Project Manager, Fortum Power and Heat, Sweden

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee and Networking

15:00 - 15:45 From the carbon trust advanced metering trials

  • The Carbon Trust Advanced Metering Trials 2004 – 2006 
  • Experiences from Pilot Systems’ participation
  • Smart metering in SMEs
  • MeterPod™ technology
  • Updates from the UK government intervention

Nigel Orchard, CEO, Pilot Systems, UK.
 Nigel started Pilot Systems in 1989, following his work at Landis and Gyr in the development of one of the first electronic meters. Nigel established the FLAG protocol jointly with Siemens (then Ferranti – Ferranti Landis And Gyr).  Nigel continued his pioneering work in metering with the CHIRPS kernel software developed in conjunction with Siemens and GEC Meters (now Elster). Nigel is one of the founding members of the EU funded European Smart Metering Aliance, managed by Beama with a key objective to raise awareness amongst all energy users.

15:45 - 16:30 How Smart Meters can help reduce consumer's carbon foot print

  • Use of pre-pay meters in Northern Ireland - an example of how the price mechanism can be used to reduce consumer consumption
  • How Utility suppliers could use information gathered by Smart Meters, to reduce consumption peaks

Karl Wills, Managing Director, Abacus Billing, UK
 Karl is an independent consultant with a focus on Smart Meter Information systems and their effective deployment.  Previously, Karl was CEO of Abacus Billing, a company that specialised in Utility and Telecomms Billing and Information systems.  Karl holds a Masters degree from the University of Manchester and is a visiting fellow at Manchester University's Strategy department.  Karl is a member of the British COmputer Society, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, a fellow of the RSA and on the steering committee for the SSME UK Network (Services Science, Manufacturing and Engineering Network UK).

16:30 - 17:00 Questions and closing of the conference