Location: Brussels (Belgium)
Date:  26-27 June 2017
Link of the event: http://innogrid2020.eu/ 
InnoGrid2020+ is THE EU event on innovation in electricity networks. The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) and the European Distribution System Operators for Smart Grids (EDSO) will focus this sixth edition on the arising network of networks, where power grids and transport, telecom and IT, digital and physical link up in an unprecedented manner. Special attention will be devoted to the rapidly evolving transmission-distribution interface.

Location: Manchester (UK)
Date:  18-22 June 2017
Link of the event: http://ieee-powertech.org 
PowerTech is the IEEE PES anchor conference in Europe and has been attended by hundreds of delegates from around the world. It will be an international forum with exciting programme for individuals working in industry and academia, to network, exchange ideas, and discuss the results of their research and development work. The conference will be the largest gathering of international researchers and practitioners working in the general area of electrical power engineering outside the USA in 2017 and possibly the largest such conference ever held in the UK and certainly the largest to be held in the UK for a generation.

Location: Porto (Portugal)
Date:  12-15 June 2017
Link of the event: https://web.fe.up.pt/~quis15/ 
“Since 1988, the QUIS symposium brings together the best interdisciplinary academic research and management practices in a forum to advance the study of service management, service dominant logic, service leadership, service quality, customer relationship management, technology and innovations in services.
In 2017, QUIS will head towards the edge of Europe and its Atlantic front, to the beautiful city of Porto, Portugal, for its 15th edition. Known mainly for its trade in Port wine, which travels along the east-west trending Douro river that starts in Spain, Porto has for its long history been known as a cosmopolitan trading center that blends perfectly its modern and historic aspects.”

Location: Glasgow (Scotland)
Date:  12-15 June 2017
Link of the event: http://www.cired-2017.org/ 
CIRED, the leading forum where the Electricity Distribution Community meets, holds the major International Electricity Conference & Exhibition every two years in different venues in Europe with a worldwide perspective and participation.
We are delighted to be hosting the 24th International Conference & Exhibition on Electricity Distribution in the amazing city of Glasgow at the prestigious Scottish Event Campus (SEC).

Location: Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Date:  6-8 June 2017
Link of the event: http://www.gridanalytics-europe.com/
This year’s programme draws together 120+ data analytics and domain experts for a review of recent implementations, and a discussion of the next steps in developing the function through increased board support, appropriate organisational structuring, cost-effective technology implementation, effective data management, analysis and visualisation, and use-case expansion.

The 3^rd project GA will be held in London hosted by Imperial College London on February 2, 2017. All project partners are invited to attend to learn about UPGRID’s progress since the last GA held in January 2016 in Lisbon and next steps.

 

Location: Fira Barcelona Gran Via, Barcelona, Spain Date: 15-17 November, 2016 Link of the event: http://www.european-utility-week.com/ UPGRID project will be presented in the Hub Session, “Intelligent Grid” – session 37 Optimization (November 15^th from 14:00 to 17:30). The speech to the conference will have the following title: UPGRID, proven solutions for operating present and future LV networks (speaker: Roberto González Sainz-Maza, UPGRID Coordinator, Iberdrola). After a brief explanation of the project, the presentation will cover what is being done to improve the operation and management of LV networks in UPGRID. The session will be finished with an interactive panel with all participants. Moreover, an UPGRID poster will be available in the Smart Grids Basque Country stand during the three days of the event. About the event: European Utility Week is the premier landmark event in Europe for the entire utility sector, accumulating over 12.000 international smart energy stakeholders and 600 exhibitors. It is a dynamic and energizing 3-day business, innovation and information platform facilitating greater networking and content sharing opportunities. The programme is developed to serve every level of the utility value chain in the form of a strategic and policy forming environment during the exclusive Summit and the more practical case studies presented during the Hub Sessions, free to attend for all visitors.

Location: Palais des Congrès Porte Maillot, Paris, France Date: 21 – 26 August 2016 Link of the event: http://www.cigre.org/Events/Session/Session-2016 On this event UPGRID project have prepare a paper based on the Spanish demo work titled: “Beyond Smart Meters: Management of the LV network” (paper C6-206).

Location: Centrum Kongresów i Rekreacji “Orle Gniazdo” (Szczyrku – Poland) Date: 27 – 29 June 2016 Link of the event: http://konferencje.nowa-energia.com.pl/gre/2016/ The main objective of the conference is to exchange experiences of industry and science, to present the achievements and developments of energy, promotion of the opportunities for learning, life with special regard to progress in technology, construction and operation of energy systems and the presentation of the achievements of scientific research and implementation obtained in four research tasks carried out in the framework of the Strategic Programme for Research and Development Works Fri. “Advanced technologies for energy generation”. On this forum Energa will present the UPGRID’s Polish demonstrator project located in the city of Gdynia (Pomeranian Region). The demonstrator area is characterised by 55 MV/LV SSs, 38 km of power MV, 102 km of LV lines which supply near 14.700 customers.

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Location: Centre for fine Arts, Brussels – Belgium Date: 27 – 28 June 2016 Link of the event: http://innogrid2020.eu/ InnoGrid2020+ has become the not-to-be-missed EU event on innovation in electricity networks. The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) and the European Distribution System Operators for Smart Grids (EDSO) will focus the 2016 edition on “Digital Energy”. This year’s conference will address the innovation paradigm behind the distribution and transmission interface. It also will take stock of on-going R&D projects. Finally, it will address the question of how regulation could facilitate innovation in the new power system. Beyond engaging presentations, panel sessions and debates, InnoGrid2020+ will run a poster and exhibition session, enabling participants to interact and share knowledge and best practices. We invite you to attend the InnoGrid2020+ event where you can have more information about the UPGRID project. On the Project Session II “Taking Stock of On-going Projects: Knowledge Sharing for progress” Mr Roberto González Sainz-Maza (Iberdrola) will present the UPGRID project; and during the poster session two posters will be available.

Location: Hotel NH Collection Amsterdam Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky – Amsterdam, Netherlands Date: 1-3 June, 2016 Link of the event: http://meetings.cimug.org/2016/amsterdam/ The legend of the event is “Using CIM to Create and Support the Data-Driven Utility”. As the event states, utilities are now collecting and storing vast amounts of data regarding their operational systems with the goal of using that data to improve reliability, service metrics, customer satisfaction and asset utilization. Many existing legacy systems are isolated and fragmented lacking a unified approach to data management and resulting in barriers to interoperability and integration. Many utilities are adapting a data-driven architecture for enterprise integration based on the IEC CIM standards as the means by they can turn this data into information that can be more easily used improve the utility enterprise’s performance. The conformance of the CIM framework is one of the pillars that UPGRID is committed with in order to ensure the interoperability, scalability and replicability of the innovative technological solutions that are being developed and integrated in the Demonstrators deployed in the project. That is the reason CIM was chosen to ensure standardized data exchange between software modules that are being developed within those four country Demonstrators. CIM will be used within the following areas:

• MV and LV state estimation
• Events/alarms supervision and DER management in LV network
• Load and generation forecasting
• Fault location tools
• Enhanced outage management and support for maintenance crews
• Design of service for Demand Side Management
• Smart analytics of individual load curves for distribution and retail business
• Design of a neutral market access platform

Special attention will be given to smart metering data utilization, as AMI is deployed in all participating distribution system operators. Different data models have been used in AMI implementations (COSEM for PRIME PLC and ANSI C.12 for OSGP) and IEC 61968-9 is a common denominator that allows specialised software modules to acquire and process smart metering data, regardless of the AMI physical data model. Examples of COSEM – ANSI C.12 – IEC 61968-9 translations will be shown. Jose Antonio Rodriguez Mondéjar (Comillas, Spain) and Aleksander Babs (Institute of Power Engineering, Poland) will be presenting the UPGRID activity on the CIM domain taking part in the session “Distribution – AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) and DER (Distributed Energy Resources)”, under the title of “CIM as the reference data model for the UPGRID project”

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Location: Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid Date: 19 May 2016 Link of event: http://www.cigre.es/ The IV Technical Workshop on R&D has included presentations and discussions about “Monitoring systems and assets management”, “New materials and its application on electric networks”, “HVDC systems (equipment, networks…) and FACTS”, and “Integration of DER (Smart Grids)”. Mr Roberto González (Iberdrola) has presented the UPGRID proyect in this last section.

Location: Hilton Palace · Sorrento, Italy Date: 18 – 21 April 2016 Link of the event: http://gegridsolutionssummit.com/ The GE International Software Summit Series has been running every year in 3 different locations worldwide with the idea of sharing knowledge, experiences, innovations and success stories with colleagues from around the world, and includes attendees, speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors from companies that are at the forefront of innovation in the industry, being a great opportunity to network with the industry leaders. UPGRID has submitted an abstract untitled “Real smart grid: advanced operation and exploitation of LV networks” to this International SUMMIT describing how distribution companies are now able to go one step beyond towards an advanced real time representation and management of the LV network. This paper will show how the managing of monitored events coming from the Smart Meters will improve the LV Network Operations. Some of the improvements to be expected are grid failure and service restoration, outage prediction, asset management, network planning optimization, unbalance detection, fraud spot localization or structural problem identification. The main deliverables are: A LV network management system; The system will receive the information coming from the Smart Meters which will be utilised by the system to manage outages and planned interventions in the network; Interaction between different systems will be required. One of the main challenges will be the efficient real time management of all these data flows. UPGRID project is based on a real field deployment in the metropolitan Bilbao area, This will allow measuring the quality, consistency and relevance of different data evaluating the impact on the global quality of the grid, together with the most suitable operation strategies.

Location: Novotel Amsterdam City, The Netherlands Date: 5 – 6 April 2016 Link of the event: http://www.gridanalytics-europe.com/ As smart meter and smart grid deployments continue to gain momentum, demand for big data analytics capability to better manage grid operations and plan network investment is at an all-time high. But securing adequate internal investment, building an analytics organisation that transcend established silos, selecting and implementing the right analytics platform, and effectively managing the large volumes of complex and unstructured data flooding the network to provide real-time, predictive and highly actionable intelligence to the wider organisation, is not without its challenges! Grid Analytics Europe 2016 draws together 120+ Data Science and Domain experts for a review of the most innovative analytics implementations within the European smart utility environment. Over 2 intensive days you will hear from 12+ utility front runners, gain important insights into their lessons learnt, and sneak previews of their management approved roadmaps.

Location: Reinaissance Brussels Hotel, Rue du Parnasse 19, 1050 Brussels Date: Thursday, 28th January 2016 Speaker: Irene Aguado (ITE) Link of the event: http://discern.eu/events/workshopIV.html

Summary

The workshop was divided into three main sessions. During the first session “How KPIs are used in existing projects and lessons learnt” representatives from DISCERN, DREAM, IDE4L, UPGRID and evolvDSO projects presented their KPIs experience. Most of the projects are (like UPGRID) in the initial stages of the KPIs work, specifically the KPIs definition. Only the DISCERN project has completed the final stage of KPI calculation. They share their experience and they were really open to answer other projects’ questions. The second session was focused in the “application of KPIs by different elements of the industry”. Representatives from the Italian Regulatory Authority, Siemens AG and Enel explained their point of view about the KPIs application. The last session was the workshop session. During this last session all the participants worked in groups to discuss how the KPIs definition should be and what useful information a KPI calculation guide should have to help new Smart Grid projects, based on a preliminary work prepared by DISCERN team. This last session was really interesting to share points of view regarding the main areas of KPIs definition (cost, technical, societal, etc.), the KPIs attributes (formula, contextualization, units, etc.) and the kind of information it may be useful to find in a KPI calculation guide.

Available Materials

• Download the presentation “How KPIs are used in existing projects and lessons learnt: UPGRID”
• The meeting report and more workshop materials are available in http://discern.eu/events/workshopIV.html

3rd IGREENGrid-SiNGULAR-SuSTAINABLE Global Joint Conference in Caparica, Portugal, on 26-27 November 2015

InnoGrid2020+ 4th Annual Conference provides a unique opportunity to take stock of the content and direction of R&D with European added-value, as well as to address some of the main challenges still being faced.

Available Material

Poster describing the UPGRID project. Available for download here

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Poster describing the demos in the project. Available for download here

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