Ancillary Services Europe
14-15 April 2010, Brussels

 

Speakers - Day 1


Dirk Biermann, Convenor of the Working Group Ancillary Services, ENTSO-E/Director Energy Management, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH 

 Dirk Biermann joined 50Hertz Transmission (former Vattenfall Europe Transmission) in 2007 as Director Energy Management. He is responsible for the energy business including Ancillary Services, Renewables and CHP support schemes, balancing group settlement and other market related issues. In addition he is chairman of the board of EMCC (European Market Coupling Company) in Hamburg and supervisory board member of CAO (Central Allocation Office) in Freising. In ENTSO-E Dirk Biermann is member of the Market Committee and convenor of the Working Group Ancillary Services.

Ruud Otter, Chairman SG Balancing & Intra-day markets, Eurelectric

Ruud works as a manager for market affairs at EnergieNed,  the Dutch association of Energy producers, traders and retailers. He is also Chairman of the Eurelectric Sub Group Balancing & Intra-day markets. Prior to EnergieNed he has been working for KEMA Consulting where he was active in the market and regulation projects.

Dirk-Christof Stüdemann, EFET Europe/ Regulatory Affairs Gas and Power Trading, EnBW Trading GmbH

Dirk-Christof Stüdemann is an advisor in regulatory affairs for gas and power trading at EnBW Trading GmbH in Karlsruhe, Germany. Having graduated with an M.A. in Political Science and Communication at theUniversity  of Mainz, he joined the company´s Power Desk in 2007. In addition to market coupling, market design and cross-border power trading issues, Mr. Stüdemann got involved in the market development of EnBW´s gas trading business in 2008. Since February 2009 he chairs the EFET Deutschland German Task Force Gas.

Jean-Paul Harreman, Manager Marketing, PVNED BV

Jean-Paul Harreman spent 4 years in an Energy Trading environment before moving to PVNED in 2008. Using his background in trading, risk,  banking, accounting and ETRM-systems, he has been involved in defining the new (Ancillary) Services that PVNED has successfully implemented in the Benelux markets. Today he is responsible for business development, analysis and product development.

Tahir Kapetanovic, Co-Chairman Electricity Market Task Force, ERGEG/ Director Electricity, E- Control GmbH

Dr. Tahir Kapetanovic is Director Electricity at the Austrian Energy Regulatory Authority Energie-Control GmbH. He joined the Au­thority at its establishment in spring 2001. He is also the Co-Chairman of the ERGEG Electricity Market Task Force and the CEER Electricity Security of Supply. In the EU Technology Platform SmartGrids he is the Chairman of the Network Operations Work­ing Group and the member of the Advisory Council. From 1988 to 2001 he was on dif­ferent assignments in the industry and has spent several years of academic research in power systems in Zagreb, at Imperial College of London and at Vienna University.

Javier Paradinas Zorrilla, Head of the Generation Control Centre, Energy Management, Iberdrola

Javier has a master degree in Electrical Engineering from the School of ICAI (Spain). He has developed his career at Iberdrola. He is currently the Head of the Generation Control Centre, and is responsible for the energy business in the Ancillary Services and Intraday markets and the operation of Iberdrola’s power plants.

From 2000 to 2004 he was the Power Trading Manager, and he traded in the prompt and forward desks and finally focused on Origination. When he joined Iberdrola in 1998, he started as the responsible for the maintenance and operation of the hydro power stations in the north-west of Spain. In addition he is the Assistant Professor on different MBA courses connected with the electricity sector.

Miguel de la Torre Rodríguez, Engineer in the Control Centre Department, Red Eléctrica de España

Miguel  is a senior engineer in Red Eléctrica’s Control Center Department in the support area of the National Electrical Control Center (CECOEL) where he has been working for the past 5 years. He has been actively involved in the development and commissioning of the Control Center for Renewable Energies (CECRE). At present he supervises and executes the day to day work of the CECRE integrating new facilities.

He received a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering by the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany).

Klaus Baggesen Hilger, Senior Innovation Manager, Group R&D, Dong Energy

-  M.Sc. Eng., Ph.D., PhD in applied statistics and optimization
 -  Visiting scholar at Stanford and Oxford University
 - More than 7 years of experience in business development and R&D.
 - Currently responsible for strategies and development projects on integration of wind power and flexible customer solutions.

Gitte Agersbæk, Senior engineer, Energinet

- Graduated 1992 from Technical University of Denmark
 - 1993 – now: Employed at Energinet (former ELSAM, ELTRA) as an engineer in Operation, Planning and Marked departments.
- 2005 - 2008:  Convenor of ETSO's Renewable group
- 2006-2009: Part of the EWIS study

Jacques Deuse, Chief Engineer – Power System Consulting, Tractebel Engineering S.A.

Jacques Deuse is electrical & mechanical engineer from the University of Liège, Belgium (1972) and has a Ph. D. in electrical engineering from the same University (1976). He began working in the Belgian electric supply industry in 1977 for developing software programs and methodologies for special studies. He is expert in dynamic behaviour of electrical power systems; he participated to the development of EUROSTAG® software.

Since 1989 he is working with Tractebel Engineering – Suez as power system expert. He is Chief Engineer in the “Power System Consulting” Service of the “Energy & Industrial Solutions” Department. He participated to a large number of studies: large international interconnection projects, security of supply of auxiliaries of nuclear power plants, development of defence plans, analyses of blackouts, set up of restoration plans, etc.

He has been Technical Director of the European Project EU-DEEP about decentralised generation. EU-DEEP is an Integrated Project of the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, funded by European Commission under grant SES6-CT-2003-503516.

Stéphane Rapoport, Project Manager – Power System Consulting, Tractebel Engineering S.A.

Stéphane Rapoport is Project Manager within Power System Consulting – Tractebel Engineering. He is currently project manager of the Gas and Electricity Master plan of Libya and is involved as economic expert in the tariff study of CEM (Macao).

He started his career as Project Engineer within Power System Consulting. He was involved in software development dealing with generation planning or probabilistic power system analysis, power system studies and economic studies.  He took part in several projects on power system assessment of Saudi Arabia (SEC-SOA, SEC-WOA). He also worked on a probabilistic approach to evaluate the needs of network investment for ELIA, the Belgian grid operator.

Since then, he is mainly involved in planning studies of power systems. His recent achievements include the analysis of grid related risks (congestion management) for generation investment decisions and the economic study of the electrical interconnection feasibility study between Saudi Arabia and Egypt and of the electrical interconnection feasibility study between Dubai and Iran.

 

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Speakers - Day 2

 

Peter Hoffmann, Head of system operation concepts, Transpower

Dr. Peter Hoffmann has more than 20 years of experience in the energy sector. He has worked for several institutions in Central Europe, among them E.ON-Energie AG and EuroBayernwerk GmbH. He has worked as assistant to the board of the Southwest Hungarian regional distribution company DÉDÁSZ, as the country manager for Czech Republic at Bayernwerk AG and as the head of sales at E.ON Bohemia in Prague. He is currently the head of system operation concepts and deputy head of system operation at Transpower Stromübertragungs gmbh. He is also a member of ENTSO-E RG CE and the chairman of FNN PG Systemverantwortung.

Kjell A Barmsnes, Vice President, Grid Operations,
Statnett SF

Kjell Barmsnes is working for Statnett SF, the Norwegian TSO, where he is managing the System Operator Services department. His main responsibilities are strategic system operations - development and implementation of new solutions and mechanisms for system operations, industry requirements, and international coordination. He has been involved in the design and development of the trading solutions over the NorNed cable between Norway and the Netherlands, and has participated in several European market development projects. He is also engaged in ancillary services development work within ENTSO-E.

Leen Vandezande, PhD researcher, K.U.Leuven – ESAT/Electa

Leen Vandezande received the M.S. degree in commercial engineering in 2005 from the K.U.Leuven. She is a member of the K.U.Leuven Energy Institute and of the Electric Energy research group ELECTA of the department of Electrical Engineering of the K.U.Leuven, where she is finalising a Ph.D. on balancing market design.

Alain Taccoen, Regulation and Finance Department, RTE

Alain Taccoen is the Deputy Manager of the RTE Regulation and Finance Department. He joined RTE in 2001 where he had several assignments around regulation topics, interconnection access, incentive regulation, benchmarking or transmission tariff. Alain Taccoen is the convenor of the WG Market Information and Transparency of ENTSO-E and the secretary of the CIGRE Study Committee "Electricity Markets and Regulation".

Gerard Doorman, Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim

Gerard Doorman is a professor at the Department of Electric Power Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. His research interests include market design, investment in generation capacity, including renewables, demand elasticity, power system balancing and the use of optimization techniques in power systems. He is strongly involved in the project "Balance Management in International Power Markets", a cooperation between NTNU and TU Delft.

David Wildash, Account Manager, National Grid

David joined the electricity industry six years ago after graduating in Economics from Edinburgh University.

He joined National Grid on the graduate scheme. Subsequently he has undertaken several different roles including:
- Power trading in the UK markets and on the UK-France Interconnector
- Forecasting the annual constraint (congestion) management costs for England and Wales
- Leading on the development of demand side service provision in the UK market

Konrad Purchala, Advisor to the Board, Polish TSO PSE Operator

Konrad Purchala is an Adviser to the Board of the Polish transmissions system operator PSE Operator. Previously he was with Power System Consulting of Tractebel Engineering from the GdF-SUEZ group, where he was an expert in techno-economic studies, active in projects ranging from cross-border electricity markets, support of generation investment decisions, to research on wind energy integration and business models related to distributed generation. 

His main interest are the interactions between the technicalities of the power system and the economics of electricity markets, which translates into techno-economic implications of market design choices, congestion management schemes, and policy decisions. He was involved in studies of capacity auctioning and market coupling algorithms for the TLC market coupling between Belgium, Netherlands and France, studies for DG TREN on the integration of European balancing markets and inter-TSO transit compensation schemes. He also took an active role in large research projects on distributed generation, wind energy integration and institutional support for tackling the future R&D challenges of the European TSOs. 

Konrad Purchala received a M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1999 from Warsaw University of Technology, and a Ph.D. 2005 degree from University of Leuven (K.U.Leuven) in Belgium for his work on management of congestion in liberalized electricity markets in 2005. He authored and co-authored over 30 international papers. He is an active member of various CIGRE working groups.