6 November, 2013 by Ioulia Papaioannou
30 October, 2013. In Milan, Italy, RSE organised a national workshop on Smart Grids and related technical regulations under the patronage of the Italian standardization body in the electrotechnical field CEI, Comitato Elettrotecnico Italiano.
Within STARGRID initiatives related to the Work Package 4 “Analysis of Industry opinion”, a national Workshop on the topic “Smart Grid and Technical Standards” was held in Milan, Italy.
The transformation of the energy system into the Smart Grid paradigm is posing crucial problems to the concerned industry and urging technical regulations, which request both development of new standards and adaptations and revision of the already existing ones. The objective of the Workshop was to foster the discussion around this process and to gather the point of view of the industry representatives on the impact, requirements and gaps of the standards evolution.
Nearly 60 people registered to the event, covering the whole Smart Grid value chain: grid operators and utilities; manufacturers and operators of renewable, distributed energy resources and power electronics; automation system and components developers and producers; telecommunication engineers and operators; consumers associations; research developers and, of course, regulatory and standardization bodies representatives.
Here you can find the workshop agenda and the presentations:
- Introduction – Objectives and methods of STARGRID – Giorgio Franchioni (RSE – Head of RSE STARGRID)
Session A : Issues of the Workshop
- Overview of the European and national Standards for Smart Grid– Cristina Timò (CEI- Technical Director of the CEI)
- Specific Issues of Security – Massimiliano Mandolini (Selex ES – Finmeccanica – Product Manager)
- Specific problems of connecting distributed generation – Emanuele Forte (SMA – Italy-Product Manager Italy)
- The point of view of the Italian Electric Authority – Massimo Gallanti (RSE)
Session B: Points on specific issues
- The point of view of BTicino – Ernesto Santini (Bticino – Director of Development and Technology of Residential systems)
- The point of view of Cisco – Tullio Zannoni (Cisco Systems Italy -Network consulting engineer)
- The point of view of ENEL – Riccardo Lama (ENEL Distribution)
Session C: Free discussion on the topics of the Workshop chaired by:
Paolo Mora (RSE) – CEI-CT 57Secretary
Carlo Tornelli (RSE) – Member of the Smart Grid Coordination Group ( WP: Methodology)
Session D: Horizon 2020
- Information on opportunities for the industry from Horizon 2020 – Gloria Peasso (APRE – H2020 National Contact Point)
Session E: Scheduled interviews with industry participants
On the occasion of the Workshop, the STARGRID Questionnaire was distributed to the participants for an out-of-line analysis of the industry viewpoint.
