Smart Energy Summit 2023 l Distributed Flexibility: Maximising Local Optimisation
On 19 April 2023, smartEn - Smart Energy Europe held its biennial European business conference
gathering more than 200 speakers and senior professionals from market players, system operators, financial institutions and public authorities to discuss the strategic importance of maximising the local optimisation of distributed energy resources, and introduce the concept of district self-balancing.
Our 1-day event was shaped around three main dimensions affecting the development of local energy optimisations:
- Financing: Access to finance options for businesses and consumers is crucial to set up and deploy cost-effective local self-optimisation schemes.
- - 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.
- - 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.
Have a look at the Press Release and the special report by Euractiv on Power grid flexibility.
For a more in-depth discussion on the topic of district self-balancing, check out the Energy Transition Podcast "Enabling flexibility with district self-balancing" where our Chair of the Active Buildings & Neighbourhoods Committee, Simon Anderson, explained its critical role in our future energy system.
In her Opening Keynote Speech, European Commissioner Kadri Simson addressed a room full of energy sector stakeholders and stated that flexible consumers are at the heart of the revision of the Electricity Market Design. Highlight of the day was the surprise gift she was presented with by our Executive Director Michael Villa on stage!
Throughout the day an impressive line-up of speakers took to the stage to offer their perspective on the main dimensions of the event. Check out the agenda for more details & download the insightful speaker presentations:
Financing
- "EIF in Climate and Environment" - Adelaide Cracco, Head of Climate and Environmental Impact at European Investment Fund
- "Regional energy optimization– an interesting investment case?" - Sandra Trittin, Advisory Board Member at Junction Growth
- "Financing the energy transition Innovations and trends in consumer involvement" - Jon Ferris, Head of Flexibility & Storage at LCP Delta
- "Securitization a path to scale" - Csaba de Csiky, Managing Partner at Enersave Capital
- "Financing the energy transition" - Andreea Laplace, Strategic Financing and Venture Business Development Director at Eaton
Innovation in Local Optimisation
- "Accelerating Energy Transition by local optimization" - Emiel Bodewes, Corporate Strategy Director at Alliander
- "Innovation in local optimisation" - Stephen Woodhouse, Director at AFRY
- "Innovation for Smart Cities" - Miguel Mósca, Global Private Sector Lead at BABLE SmartCities
- "Sustainable Plus Energy Neighbourhoods SPEN" - Victoria Taranu, Senior Researcher at BPIE
- "Igniting the energy transition where it matters most: locally" - Michael Pinto, CEO at Cleanwatts
Flexibility Markets Monetisation
- "Value of flexibility from DSO perspective" - Geir Magne Abusdal, System Manager at Glitre Nett
- "Mapping the markets – is enough being done?" - Lucinda Murley, Senior Analyst at LCP Delta
- "What do we know about distribution-level flexibility?" - Paul Troughton, Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs at Enel X
- "A paradigm shift: destructured scenario to distributed energy sources" - Johanna Izett, Senior Account Executive at Hive Power
- "Unleashing the Power of Electric Vehicles for a Renewable Future" - Nick Hubbers, CPO & Co-Founder at Jedlix
- "Residential Demand Side Flexibility for Redispatch in Germany" - Dr.Ing.- Moritz Lauster, Senior Product Manager Flexibility Management at Viessmann
- "Flexible Markets Monetisation" - Juan Perez, Director of Strategy at Epexspot
Towards the second half of the day, we welcomed on stage the CEOs of three progressive Transmission System Operators, Chris Peeters, CEO of Elia, Jukka Ruusunen, CEO of Fingrid and Taavi Veskimägi, CEO of Elering, who elaborated on how TSOs would also benefit from local optimisations and activation of flexibility from consumers.
Catch some of the highlights of our event, featuring 200 participants, 25 speakers, 11 moderators, 11 sponsors and 5 partners at the following video & photo gallery:
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