How to build a smart-grid future
With millions of smart electricity meters on their way to being deployed across Europe, the stage is being set for an even more intelligent energy network in the future … one in which home appliances, utility companies and devices on every part of the grid can “talk” to one another to ensure maximum efficiency and power management.
How will we get from here to there? That’s what some of the top leaders in the fast-developing smart-grid plan to discuss during the Greenbang Smart Grid European Conference 2010, scheduled to be held in London from 9 am to 5 pm Thursday, 21 October.
The day-long gathering at the Kyocera Technology Suite, which will present Greenbang’s recent market research into this sector, will feature the following speakers:
- Dan Ilett, Managing Director & Founder, Greenbang
- Steve Cunningham, CEO, Landis+Gyr
- Michael Anderson, Senior Vice President, NES Sales & Market Development, Echelon Corporation
- Joel Hagan, CEO, Onzo
- Andrew Jones, Managing Director, S&C Electric Europe
- Dr Mark England, Chief Executive Officer, Sentec
- James Pace, Senior Director Business, Silver Spring Networks
Mandates are now in place for the rollout of 145 million connected smart meters across Europe by 2020 with a total market value of $25 billion. The challenge of managing this rate of growth for power utilities, smart grid and meter companies as well as their supply chains is staggering.
In addition to covering Greenbang’s smart-grid market research, the conference will address the key issues that the industry needs to tackle in order to achieve a successful rollout of this scale including: strategic partnerships, regulatory mandates, interoperability and, of course, funding.
On the agenda for the Greenbang Smart Grid European Conference 2010:
- An Overview of the European Smart Grid Opportunity: What’s driving change? Definitions, standards and market projections
- The Comms Layer: What role will telcos play? How will consumer security concerns be addressed?
- Integrating Centralised Renewables & Local Renewables: Solutions and storage
- Control & Automation: How will transmission & distribution assets be controlled and automated?
- Smart Meter Case Studies & Lessons Learnt
- Future Opportunities: How far will smart grid allow utilities into the home? The Home Area Network “beachhead”
- Why are business customers different?
This conference will bring together the most influential organisations involved in the rollout of European smart grid – these include power companies, smart meter and smart grid deployment companies, technology providers, financiers and regulators.
Registration for the conference is open now.
