The Smart Energy Summit is a biennial European business gathering of around 200 senior professionals from market players, system operators, financial institutions and public authorities. In 2023 we aim to address the importance of maximising the local self-optimisation of distributed flexible resources. Thanks to a multitude of business models, local self optimisation would help solve congestion challenges and avoid costly grid reinforcements that might be caused by the deployment of new decentralised forms of electrical load and generation. This development would benefit both consumers and the whole energy system.
Our 1-day event will be shaped around three main dimensions affecting the development of local energy optimisations:
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Financing: Access to finance options for businesses and consumers is crucial to set up and deploy cost-effective local self-optimisation schemes.
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Innovation in Local Optimisation: A multitude of energy trading and sharing schemes self-managed at local level are in development, beyond local energy communities or local flexibility markets.
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Flexibility Markets Monetisation: Local optimisation is more than just district self-optimisation, it can provide whole system benefits and rewards in a system of interoperable systems.
Confirmed Speakers
Opening Keynote
Speech
Kadri Simson
Commissioner for Energy - European Commission
C-Executive
Panel Debate
Chris Peeters
CEO - Elia
Jukka Ruusunen
CEO - Fingrid
Taavi Veskimägi
CEO - Elering
Financing
Adelaide Cracco
Head of Climate and Environmental Impact - EIF
Jon Ferris
Head of Flexibility & Storage - LCP Delta
Csaba de Csiky
Managing Partner - Enersave Capital
Sandra Trittin
Advisory Board Member - Junction Growth Investors
Andreea Laplace
Strategic Financing and Venture Business Development Director - Eaton
Innovation in Local Optimisation
Emiel Bodewes
Corporate Strategy Director - Alliander
Miguel Mósca
Global Private Sector Lead - BABLE
Stephen Woodhouse
Director - AFRY
Ioannis Vlachos
Commercial Director EMEA - Energy Web
Michael Pinto
CEO - Cleanwatts
Victoria Taranu
Senior Researcher - BPIE
Flexible Markets Monetisation
Lucinda Murley
Flexibility Research Service manager - LCP Delta
Johanna Izett
Senior Account Executive - Hive Power
Nick Hubbers
Co-Founder and CPO - Jedlix
Juan Perez
Director Strategy - Epexspot
Geir Magne Abusdal
System Manager - Glitre Nett
Paul Troughton
Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs - Enel X
Dr.-Ing. Moritz Lauster
Senior Product Manager Flexibility Management - Viessmann
Closing Keynote
Speech
Peter Vermaat
Secretary General - EU DSO Entity
Moderators
Michael Villa
Executive Director - smartEn
Sarah Jane Jucker
Managing Partner - EPQ SRL
Laurent Schmitt
Head of Utilies & European Developments - dcbel
Sebastian Kotyla
Membership & Partnership Officer - smartEn
Megan Richards
Senior Advisor - Rud Pedersen Public Affairs
Areti Ntaradimou
Editor - Smart Energy International
Achille Hannoset
Policy Officer - European Commission
Mark Van Stiphout
Deputy Head of Unit - DG Energy, European Commission
Alberto Pototschnig
Deputy Director - Florence School of Regulation
Peter Hermans
Former CTO - Stedin
Jaume Loffredo
Energy Team Leader - BEUC
Our sponsors
PLATINUM
GOLD
SILVER
Our partners
Venue
The 2023 Summit will take place at the unique Les Ateliers des Tanneurs, located in the city centre of Brussels, between the Bruxelles Midi Central Station and the fancy Sablon neighborhood. Les Ateliers des Tanneurs is also environmentally conscious, favouring green energy and natural lighting in its rooms and taking care of waste management.
