STARGRID

As part of the Smart Grid stakeholder consultation process, STARGRID has released a questionnaire on the use of current Smart Grid standards, the awareness of ongoing standardization projects and the sector specific standardization requirements.

Smart Grid stakeholders working with Smart Grids and related technologies, such as manufacturers, DSOs and TSOs, electricity suppliers, aggregators and plant operators, and the ICT and telecommunications sector are invited to indicate which aspects in various Smart Grid standards are relevant in their daily work.

Based on all the answers, the STARGRID team will publish an overview on the actual usage of standards in different European countries and a prioritized list of requirements per industry sector on the STARGRID website in the beginning of 2014.

The questionnaire consists of the following sections  with the option to chose the one(s) of relevance to your organization:

– Background of the respondent* (5 min)

– Use of core Smart Grid standards: indicate the relevance of a set of IEC Smart Grid standards for your organization. (5-10 min)

– DER Integration & Grid Control: indicate your priority topics for standardization and awareness of current initiatives (10-15 min)

– Demand Response & Customer Energy Management: indicate your priority topics for standardization  and awareness of current initiatives (10-15 min)

– Smart Metering: indicate your priority topics for standardization and awareness of current initiatives (10-15 min)

You may complete only those sections that are relevant to your company. You do not have to answer all questions.

We look forward to replies from European technology companies and organizations of different sizes. However, international and multinational stakeholders are also warmly welcome to participate.

Please send the filled up Questionnaire by 6 January, 2014 per e-mail to
Christoph Nölle (christoph.noelle@iwes.fraunhofer.de) or
Ioulia Papaioannou (ioulia.papaioannou@der-lab.net)

Or answer the questionnaire online.

For any clarification or questions do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you in advance for your participation.

STARGRID team

QUESTIONNAIRE (online form, EN)

QUESTIONNAIRE (.xlsx, EN)

QUESTIONNAIRE (.xlsx, DE)

QUESTIONNAIRE (.xlsx, IT)

QUESTIONNAIRE (.xlsx, SP)

*The company’s specific information provided by you in this questionnaire will be treated as confidential and will be used only for the purposes of the STARGRID project. All personal details of participating individuals and/or companies remain confidential. Only processed results will be distributed among project partners and the public. Only processed data (i.e., not individual replies) will be used for publication.

By Ioulia Papaioannou
10 September, 2013

On 11 September, 2013, the first workshop in a series of four national workshops was launched in Bucharest, Romania, by ASRO.

The Romanian Workshop under the title “Smart Grid: Global Standards for Global Market” was hosted within the framework of the Congress of Energy and Electric Equipment (CEEER 2013), one of the most important Romanian events in the energy and electrical equipment field, dedicated to energy specialists and those involved in the newest technologies, permanent developments and new trends in the industry.
For details please visit http://www.dkevents.ro/p-9-ceeer.2013.html.

The workshop aims to evaluate the industry initiatives and standardization landscape focussing on the stability of power systems: the interconnection regulations, monitoring and grid control in relation to DER integration, as well as on the required capabilities for the Smart Grid including security and ICT applications. Representatives of selected industry sectors and Smart Grid stakeholders were invited to take part in this approximately five-hour workshop and the networking session.

For more information, please contact:
Adina Hategan – ASRO PR Officer
Email: adina.hategan@asro
Tel: 0040 21 316 99 74

Agenda:

13.00-13.45 – Registration
13.45-13.50 – Welcome – Eng. Gheorghe Tucu –ASRO President

13.50-15.35 – First Session – STARGRID PROJECT
Moderator: Eng. Gheorghe Tucu – ASRO President

• STARGRID – brief overview of the project – Dr. Eng. Christoph Noelle, Fraunhofer Institut für Windenergie und Energiesystemtechnik, Germany
• Stakeholders Requirements for Smart Grid compared with the current standards – Dr. Eng. Doina Dragomir – Technical Officer ASRO
• STARGRID Questionnaire – Dr. Eng. Ioulia Papaioannou –European Distributed Energy Resources Laboratories (DERlab) e.V.

Discussions

15.35-15.45 – Coffee Break

15.45-16.30 – Session 2 – Applications for energy market & ICT and Security for SMART GRID
Moderator: Dr. Eng. Călin Radu Vilt, CNR – CME

• Cyber security incidents that involved SCADA and Smart Grids – Dan Tofan, Head of the Technical Division, CERT-RO – Romanian National Computer Security Incident Response Team
• The energy use in the life cycle of buildings – Eng. Tudor Triţă – ROFMA President & CEO Archibus South East Europe, Anne Linek, Business Developer at ARCHIBUS Solution

Discussions

16.30-17.15 – Session 3 – DER Integration
Moderator: Dr. Eng. Georgio Franchioni, Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico – RSE S.p.A., Italy

• European Standardisation Landscape – Eng. Florin Neacşu, Technical Officer ASRO
• Opportunities for updating the power quality standards following the large scale availability of synchronized measurements – professor Dr. Eng. Mihaela Albu, lecturer Dr. Eng Ana Maria Dumitrescu – Politehnica University from Bucharest
• Smart Grid in transmission and distribution of electricity – Dr. Eng .Coteanu Mihail – Business Development Director – Institute for Studies and Power Engineering.

Discussions

17.15-17.45 – Final Conclusions
17.45-18.30 – Networking Cocktail

Sessions were held in Romanian and in English.
Simultaneous translation was provided.

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.

9 July, 2013 by Ioulia Papaioannou

Smart Grid Standardization Documentation Map is an inventory of existing standardisation documents produced by groups focusing on the standards promotion (coordinating, generating roadmaps or detecting gaps).

Smart Grid Industry Initiatives Documentation Map gives a comprehensive view of the standardization activities and industry initiatives currently in progress for smart grids.

This information will be analysed in the next phases of the project, with the focus on the smart grid “core standards”.
Latest versions of STARGRID publications can always be found on Publications.