The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), was created by the Third Energy Package to further progress the completion of the internal energy market both for electricity and natural gas. As an independent European structure which fosters cooperation among European energy regulators, ACER ensures that market integration and the harmonisation of regulatory frameworks are achieved within the framework of the EU’s energy policy objectives.
ACER plays a central role in the development of EU-wide network and market rules with a view to enhancing competition. The Agency coordinates regional and cross-regional initiatives, which favour market integration. It also monitors the work of European networks of transmission system as well as the functioning of gas and electricity markets in general, and of wholesale energy trading in particular.
The Italian Regulatory Authority for Electricity and Gas (AEEGSI) is an independent body established to regulate and control the electricity and gas sectors. Its regulatory powers include the setting of tariffs and the definition of service quality standards and the technical and economic conditions governing access and interconnections to the networks for those services where technical, legal or other constraints would interfere with normal competitive market conditions and the ability of the market to protect the interests of users and consumers. Its aim is to pursue two main objectives as laid down in Law 481/95: “guaranteeing the promotion of competition and efficiency” while “ensuring adequate service quality standards” in the electricity and gas sectors.
The Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER) was established in 2000 for the cooperation of the independent energy regulators of Europe. It is a Belgian not-for-profit association that aims to foster energy markets and to empower customers. It seeks to facilitate the creation of a single, competitive, efficient and sustainable EU internal energy market.
The CEER acts as a platform for cooperation, information exchange and assistance between Europe’s national energy regulators and is their interface at EU and international level. On EU issues, CEER works very closely with (and supports) the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), an EU Agency formed for the cooperation of energy regulators.
CISCO is the worldwide leader in IT that helps transform both customer experience and businesses through technology. Their mission is to provide Cisco customers and sales teams with accurate and timely information about internal deployments of leading Cisco products and services, resulting business benefits and IT best practices, in order to help others succeed, shorten sales cycles and to improve customer satisfaction.
Clevergy Ltd. is a system integrator in charge to interconnect with each other objects in any context, to make them communicate and interact on the network, with more people, implementing remote management and its usability through applications and services.
CyberGRID was founded in 2010 as a specialist in development of innovative Virtual Power Plant (VPP) solutions, located in Vienna, Austria. It focuses on consulting, training, research and development within its core strength dedicated to the new energy area. cyberGRID boosts the efficient use of existing generation resources and the integration of renewable energy resources contributed to the European wide research agenda.
The Danish Energy Association is a non-commercial lobby organisation for Danish energy companies. It is managed and financed by its member companies, mainly the electricity companies, and works to secure for them the freest and most favourable conditions for competition and development in order to ensure development, growth and well-being in Denmark.
DONG Energy is an energy company with a strong profile in renewables. With activities primarily in Northwestern Europe, their aim to create value for our customers, shareholders and the communities in which the company operates. The company’s strategy focuses on identifying and growing areas of activity where they have key competences and building an energy company with a renewables portfolio based on leading competences in offshore wind, bioenergy, and energy solutions.
EDP Distribution is the company that operates as a distribution network operator on the mainland of Portugal, an activity regulated by the Regulatory Authority for Energy Services (ERSE), which holds the concession for the operation of the National Distribution Network (RND ) of electricity Medium Voltage (MV) and High Voltage (HV), and municipal concessions for electricity distribution in Low Voltage (LV).
The distribution of electricity is our main focus, which is marked by high standards of quality and efficiency, independence and transparency enshrined in the Company’s Code of Conduct. Links to the Grid; Technical Assistance Network and Customers; Support in choosing Energy Solutions Efficient and metering equipment reading are some of the services provided by EDP Distribution.
EDSO for Smart Grids gathers leading European distribution system operators (DSOs) for electricity, cooperating to bring smart grids from vision to reality in Europe and is focused on guiding EU RD&D, policy and member state regulation to support this development.
EDSO is committed to taking on the challenge of achieving the EU’s ambitious energy and climate objectives to 2020, while at the same time ensuring the reliability of Europe’s electricity supply to consumers and enabling them to take a more active part in our energy system.
EDSO is the key-interface between Europe’s DSOs and the European institutions, promoting the development and large-scale testing of smart grid models and technologies in real-life situations, new market designs and regulation.
The Joint Programme on Smart Grids was officially launched at the SET Plan Conference. It aims at addressing in a medium- to long-term research perspective, one of the most critical areas directly relating to the effective acceleration of smart grid development and deployment and to gradually evolve into fully operational virtual research institutes in order to speed up the development of new low carbon technologies.
The Joint Programme research organisation joins institutions in other European countries to work on shared priority setting and research projects. More than 175 organisations in the EU and associated countries are working together in our 17 Joint Programmes. On December 2013, the JP programme successfully launched ELECTRA the EC funded (FP7) Integrated Research Programme on Smart Grids technologies.
The Milan Vidmar Electric Power Institute is a Slovenian engineering and scientific-research organisation acting in the area of electric power engineering and general energy. From the economic and technological perspective it addresses issues of generation, transmission and distribution of electricity. It releases feasibility and implementation studies, expert reports, makes technological, environmental and other analyses, inspects quality and operation of electric power systems and facilities as required by electric power utilities, ministries, as well as national and regional authorities.
The public company ELES, Ltd., Electricity Transmission System Operator (ELES) has the exclusive right to perform the public service of the transmission network system operator in Slovenia.
Through a reliable electric power transmission ELES provides for the quality of life, stabile operation of organisations and development of the society in Slovenia and in the region. With one of the most technologically advanced networks ELES will gain a leading role in the Slovenia’s electric power system and will be a key element of energy stability in the region.
ENEL is a multinational energy company and one of the world’s leading integrated electricity and gas operators. E-distribution is the Enel Group company that deals with the distribution of electricity in Italy. The company works respecting the environment by using and searching for innovative technologies to improve the quality of the service offered, respecting the environment and with the utmost attention to the safety of persons.
ENEL is a multinational energy company and one of the world’s leading integrated electricity and gas operators. The company works in more than 30 countries across 4 continents, generating energy with a net installed capacity of around 90 GW and distributing electricity and gas across a network spanning about 1.9 million km. With more than 61 million end users around the world, the company is one of Europe’s leading energy companies by installed capacity and reported EBITDA.
The company’s portfolio of power stations is diverse, running on hydroelectric, wind, geothermal, solar, thermoelectric, nuclear and other renewable sources of power. Almost half of the energy generated by Enel is produced with zero carbon dioxide emissions, making the group one of the leading producers of clean energy.
ENTSO-E, the European Network of Transmission System Operators, represents 42 electricity transmission system operators (TSOs) from 35 countries across Europe. ENTSO-E was established and given legal mandates by the EU’s Third Legislative Package for the Internal Energy Market in 2009, which aims at further liberalising the gas and electricity markets in the EU.
ENTSO-E members share the objective of setting up the internal energy market and ensuring its optimal functioning, and of supporting the ambitious European energy and climate agenda. The company is committed to develop the most suitable responses to the challenge of a changing power system while maintaining security of supply. Innovation, a market based approach, customer focus, stakeholder focus, security of supply, flexibility, and regional cooperation are key to ENTSO-E’s agenda.
The European Technology and Innovation Platform for Smart Networks for the Energy Transition (ETIP SNET) set-out a vision for research and innovation for smart networks, storage and integrated systems and engage stakeholders in this vision. It has gathered actors from electricity, storage and ICT but also heating, transport and gas to identify innovation barriers, notably related to regulation and financing.
The mission of the platform is to guide research, development and innovation (RD&I) activities to support Europe’s energy transition. ETIPs have been created in the framework of the new Integrated Roadmap of the Strategic Energy Technology Plan (the SET Plan) – Europe’s energy RD&I master plan.
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Inc. conducts research and development relating to the generation, delivery and use of electricity for the benefit of the public. An independent, non-profit organization, the company brings together scientists and engineers as well as experts from academia and the industry to help address challenges in electricity.
Our research provides both short- and long-term solutions that enable the transformation of power systems to be more flexible, resilient and connected. Our ultimate goal is to provide society with safe, reliable, affordable and environmentally responsible electricity.
The Union of the Electricity Industry – EURELECTRIC is the sector association which represents the common interests of the electricity industry at pan-European level, plus its affiliates and associates on several other continents. The company currently has over 30 full members, representing the electricity industry in 32 European countries.
EURELECTRIC’s mission is to contribute to the development and competitiveness of the electricity industry, to provide effective representation for the industry in public affairs and to promote the role of a low-carbon electricity mix in the advancement of society.
WindEurope promotes wind power in Europe and worldwide by coordinating international policy, communications, research and analysis and providing various services to support members’ requirements and needs to help their development. It has over 500 members, active in over 50 countries, including wind turbine manufacturers with a leading share of the world wind power market, plus component suppliers, research institutes, national wind and renewables associations, developers, contractors, electricity providers, finance and insurance companies, and consultants.
WindEurope analyses, formulates and establishes policy positions for the wind industry on key strategic sectoral issues, cooperating with industry and research institutions on a number of market development and technology research projects. In addition, the lobbying activities undertaken by WindEurope help create a suitable legal framework within which members can successfully develop their businesses.
Grid Solutions, a General Electric and Alstom joint venture, is serving customers globally with over 20,000 employees in approximately 80 countries. Grid Solutions helps enable utilities and industry to effectively manage electricity from the point of generation to the point of consumption, helping to maximize the reliability, efficiency and resiliency of the grid.
GME was set up by Gestore dei Servizi Energetici (GSE S.p.A.), a company wholly owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. GME carries out its activities in accordance with the guidelines given by the Ministry of Economic Development and the regulatory provisions issued by Autorità per l’energia elettrica e il gas e il Sistema idrico (AEEGSI, the electricity, gas and water regulator). Its mission is to organise and economically manage the Electricity Market, under principles of neutrality, transparency, objectivity and competition between or among producers, as well as of economically managing an adequate availability of reserve capacity.
GME operates power, gas and environmental markets. As part of the process of liberalisation of the electricity sector, Gestore dei Mercati Energetici S.p.A. (GME) was initially vested with the organisation and economic management of the wholesale Power Market under principles of neutrality, transparency, objectivity and competition. On the power market platform managed by GME (also known as Italian Power Exchange, IPEX), producers and purchasers sell and buy wholesale electricity. With reference to power, GME operates a forward physical market (MTE), a market for the trading of daily products (MPEG) with continuous trading mode, a day ahead auction market (MGP), an intraday auction market (MI) based on 5 sessions.
Iberdrola is a Spanish public multinational electric utility company based in Bilbao, Basque Country. Iberdrola has a workforce of around 31,330 employees in dozens of countries on four continents serving around 31.67 million customers. Subsidiaries include Scottish Power (Scotland), Avangrid (United States) and Elektro (Brazil), amongst others
Since embarking on its growth and international expansion plan in 2001, Iberdrola has become Spain’s largest energy group by market capitalisation, the global leader in wind energy and one of the world’s largest utilities by market capitalisation.
The main objective of the ISGAN Annex VI is to establish a long term vision for the development of “Smarter” total electricity systems. Power transmission and distribution provides the enabling infrastructure for integration of distributed and large-scale renewable energy and has to be recognised as such. The Annex shall consist of efforts to improve understanding of Smart Grid technologies applicable to or influencing system performance, transmission capacities, operation practices; accelerate their development and deployment; and promote adoption of related enabling regulatory and government policies.
This annex focuses on system related challenges including both transmission and distribution systems. However due to longer planning and execution times as well as need to increased attention, the first phase of this annex will focus on Transmission Systems. The Annex should be of real relevance to key stakeholders for both Power System Planning and Power System Operation (e.g. TSOs, DSOs) by addressing the most relevant issues, such as risk management, risk based planning, technology to enhance capacity and utilisation, lower maintenance costs and increased reliability by introducing new technologies.
As the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, the Joint Research Centre’s mission is to support EU policies with independent evidence throughout the whole policy cycle. Its work has a direct impact on the lives of citizens by contributing with its research outcomes to a healthy and safe environment, secure energy supplies, sustainable mobility and consumer health and safety.
The JRC draws on over 50 years of scientific experience and continually builds its expertise. Located across five different countries, the JRC hosts specialist laboratories and unique research facilities and is home to thousands of scientists working to support EU policy.
At its founding in 1861, MIT was an educational innovation, a community of hands-on problem solvers in love with fundamental science and eager to make the world a better place. The Institute is an independent, coeducational, privately endowed university, organized into five Schools (architecture and planning; engineering; humanities, arts, and social sciences; management; and science).
The mission of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. We are also driven to bring knowledge to bear on the world’s great challenges.
Current research and education areas include digital learning; nanotechnology; sustainable energy, the environment, climate adaptation, and global water and food security; Big Data, cybersecurity, robotics, and artificial intelligence; human health, including cancer, HIV, autism, Alzheimer’s, and dyslexia; biological engineering and CRISPR technology; poverty alleviation; advanced manufacturing; and innovation and entrepreneurship.
The Norwegian Smartgrid Centre is a national centre for competence within smart grids. The organization works with research and development, education, demonstration projects and commercialization.
The Norwegian Smartgrid Centre works on a broad front to ensure that society has access to the necessary expertise in connection with the establishment of, and adaptation to, a new, improved energy supply system. The goal is a safe, efficient and environmentally friendly system providing better utilization of the electricity supply grid and increased use of renewable energy sources.
For the time being, the Smartgrid Centre is organised as an association of members from various R&D communities and a number of operators from trade and industry. The Centre shall contribute to the provision of important expertise to energy suppliers and other operators, and towards making Norwegian industry more competitive in the global market.
The National Technical University (NTUA) is the oldest and most prestigious educational institution of Greece in the field of technology, and has contributed unceasingly to the country’s scientific, technical and economic development since its foundation in 1836.
NTUA is divided into nine academic Schools, eight being for the engineering sciences, including architecture, and one for the general sciences. The personnel of the nine Faculties include more than 700 people as academic staff, 140 scientific assistants and 260 administrative and technical staff. The total number of NTUA employees is about 1350. The total number of undergraduate students is about 8500 and the graduate students 1500.
The Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (OFGEM) is a non-ministerial government department and an independent National Regulatory Authority, recognised by EU Directives. Its principal objective is to protect the interests of existing and future electricity and gas consumers. They do this in a variety of ways including: promoting value for money; promoting security of supply and sustainability, for present and future generations of consumers, domestic and industrial users; the supervision and development of markets and competition; regulation and the delivery of government schemes. OFGEM works effectively with, but independent of, government, the energy industry and other stakeholders within a legal framework determined by the UK government and the European Union.
RTE keeps the balance between power consumption and generation and plays a key role in directing the flow of electricity and maximising power system efficiency for its customers and the community. The company conveys electricity throughout mainland France, from power generation facilities to industrial consumers who are connected to the transmission grid, and to the distribution grid which provide the link between RTE and end users. It operates France’s high and extra-high voltage transmission system, the biggest in Europe. RTE is the French transmission system operator, owner of the biggest transmission network in Europe.
R&D Nester comes from REN (Portuguese TSO) and SGCC (State Grid Corporation of China) with the goal of synergizing core competences and creating a R&D centre in order to promote and implement applied research, development, demonstration and testing in an international context, innovating for a smart energy system.
R&D Nester aims to create an international platform for knowledge, delivering innovative solutions, approaches and methods to be applied into energy systems. The company also provides new tools, strategies and processes, well-tuned to the new energy paradigm, and serving as a driving force towards more efficient and sustainable energy systems.
Its specialities are Research & Development, Innovation in the areas of electricity transmission and management systems, Consulting in Energy Network Analysis, Planning and Simulation, Project Management, Laboratorial Real-time simulation, Education and Training activities
T&D Europe, the first European Association of the Electricity Transmission and Distribution Equipment and Services Industry, aims to promote the common technical, industrial, economic and environmental points of view of the European electricity transmission and distribution manufacturing, and product derives solutions industry.
T&D Europe was created in March 2008 by the merger of two European committees: CAPIEL HV and COTREL. It represents all relevant European national associations. The companies represented by T&D Europe account for a production worth over € 25 billion, and employ over 200.000 people in Europe.
T&D Europe is a driver for advanced solutions and technologies in the field of electricity networks, encouraging an energy-and cost-efficient as well as an environmentally friendly infrastructure.
Telecom Italia is an Italian telecommunications company headquartered in Rome, which provides telephony services, mobile services, and DSL data services. It was founded in 1994 by the merger of several state-owned telecommunications companies, the most important of which was Società Italiana per l’Esercizio Telefonico p.A., (known as SIP, from the earlier Società Idroelettrica Piemontese), the former state monopoly telephone operator in Italy.
Terna is an independent grid operator and one of the key players in Europe in terms of kilometers of electricity lines managed. The service which Terna provides in Italy is crucial to the operation of the entire electricity system and for guaranteeing the supply of electricity to all, companies and private individuals alike. Terna has responsibility for supplying the entire country’s electricity needs, not directly but via those companies that distribute and sell electricity to end-consumers.
Founded in 1425, Université Catholique de Louvain, often abbreviated as UCL, is the oldest Catholic university in Europe. UCL is the biggest French-speaking university in Belgium, and was separated in 1968 into two institutions. In September 2011, UCL merged with two other catholic universities: the University of Namur and Saint-Louis University Brussels, to form what is known as Université Catholique de Louvain today.
With campuses spread across 6 locations in Belgium including Louvain-la-Neuve, Woluwe, Mons, Tournai, Brussels and Charleroi Saint-Gilles, Université Catholique de Louvain plays host to 15 schools and faculties focusing its degree programs and research in various subjects such as: theology, law and criminology, management, psychology and educational science, public health and architecture.
The University of Rostock is the oldest university in the Baltic Sea Region, founded in 1419. It consists of nine traditional faculties and one central interdisciplinary faculty in which scientists and students from all faculties collaborate to do research in four major fields: “Life, light and matter”, “Maritime systems”, “Ageing of individuals and society” and “Knowledge – Culture – Transformation”.
The the University of Rostock is a modern educational institution with an extraordinary broad range of subjects, excellent services for its students and a high quality of education and research. About 15,500 students make use of the diversity of study choices at nine faculties in total.
Within the framework of the European reform processes, the study courses were transferred into the phased system of bachelor and master degrees and accredited accordingly.
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