The Programme

Day One
Wednesday 22 April 2009

Alan Claxton
Director of Organisational Development
Energy Networks Association

Lorraine Hamid
Head
Future Networks
BERR

Connecting renewable generation to the grid - Meeting the UK’s 2020 energy goals

• The challenges of meeting the 2020 energy goals
• The critical path for grid infrastructure
• Delivering change – Transmission Access Review and Energy Act
• Offshore transmission regime, progress and next steps

Niall Stuart
Press and Government Affairs Manager
Scottish Council for Development and Industry

The future of electricity generation in Scotland and its impact on T&D requirements

• Can we meet Scottish Government’s targets to supply 50% of this demand from renewable sources by 2020?
• The mix of technologies that will be needed to meet the target
• The necessary base load to balance wind power
• The implications for supply and transmission in Scotland and to rest of UK and necessary investment

Denis Cagney
Director, Energy Networks
COMMISSION FOR ENERGY REGULATION

Wind generation and the Regulator–the Irish experience

• The role of the EU-likely impact of Climate Change and Third Package Proposals
• Irish experience of grid access – the phenomenal rise in connection applications
• Switch to group processing regime for connection applications and deciding criteria for priority access
• Ensuring the necessary back up conventional generation is available and associated cost issues

Lewis Dale
Regulatory Strategy Manager
NATIONAL GRID

Access arrangements and investment framework

• How network users can procure the services they want (the Transmission Access Review)
• How network companies can finance the investments needed (enhanced investment incentives)
• Efficiency and timeliness

Goran Strbac
Professor, Electrical Energy Systems
Imperial College London

Distributed generation and sustainable electricity networks: what are the next
challenges?

• Reviewing activities in the area of Distributed Generation and Sustainable Electricity Networks
• Drivers for network development
• Impact of policy, commercial and regulatory frameworks
• Identifying future network requirements

Jim Fitzgerald
Assistant Director,
Energy and Environmental Infrastructure Advisory – Renewables
ERNST & YOUNG

T&D - in a different class

• Characteristics of long term infrastructure assets
• Principles in the allocation of risks and returns
• Issues in financing interconnectors

Lunch

Mike Kay
Chief Engineer
ELECTRICITY NORTH WEST LTD.

Changes to technical requirements for embedded generators

• Applies to all generation connected to DNOs' networks
• New protection requirements
• Update of G59/1
• Inclusion of G75/1 into revised document

Frank Krummer
Senior Manager, Grid Affaires
ENBW RENEWABLES GMBH

Case study: Discussing the challenges of Baltic 1 and Kriegers Flak projects

• Long distance AC connection of OWP Baltic1 and Kriegers Flak
• Special requirements and special legal conditions of grid connection of offshore wind parks in Germany
• Preview of emergency power solution for OWP Baltic1

Matthew Knight
Business Development Manager Renewables
SIEMENS T&D LTD

Delivering offshore grid connections

• AC and DC technology for offshore grid connections
• Constructing, operating and servicing offshore wind farms
• Managing project risks
• Lessons learned so far
• Predictions for future developments

Connection to the grid – overcoming the challenges

• Speeding-up the process and examining the progress of connection to the grid
• Discussing how this process is managed
• Results and lessons learned from the process

Rodney Brook
Director
SOHN ASSOCIATES

Achieving the right balance in making trade-offs across the many social and environmental factors affecting sustainable development

• T&D companies’ facilitation of wind generation in the broader context of sustainable development
• Identification and consideration of trade-offs
• Incorporating sustainability issues into the decision-making process
• The consumer’s interest in wind generation – relevance and affordability

Panel discussion led by:
James Brown
Skills Director, Scotland
Energy & Utility Skills

Panel discussion: Ensuring the future UK power expertise

• Is there technically trained and competent staff available to operate the transmission systems in the UK?
• Can we outsource some or most of the work needed?
• Discussing opportunities and challenges in the rapidly growing industry

Day Two
Thursday 23 April 2009

Registration

Alan Claxton
Director of Organisational Development
Energy Networks Association

Goran Dandanell
Director, Head Business Development
VATTENFALL

Engineering and construction experience: Lessons learned

• Major projects for new transmission lines
• Modernisation of existing lines
• Overcoming resources constraints and organisational constraints

Robert Driver
Electrical Connections Engineer
RWE INNOGY

Case study : Optimisation of the offshore transmission system for a large offshore wind farm - Optimisation work undertaken for Gwynt-y-Môr Offshore Wind Farm (750MW)

• Challenges faced by developers in designing offshore transmission systems for transitional projects
• Choice of transmission technology & transmission voltage
• Number and location of offshore substations
• Onshore and offshore transformer ratings
• Provision of reactive power
• Practical issues impacting electrical optimisation

Graeme Bathurst
Technical Director
TNEI SERVICES LTD

Case Study: Analysis of networks with high wind penetration

• Challenges facing network planners under high wind
• Development of new stochastic analysis techniques
• Constraint estimation and analysis
• Network optimisation for 2020 scenario

Richard Cooke
Sales Director Wind and Solar Power Generation
AREVA T&D

AREVA T&D's experience of offshore substation delivery

• Reviewing the projects
• Developing cost-effective system
• Lessons learned

David Infield
Professor, Renewable Energy Technologies, Institute of Energy and Environment
UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE

Integration of high penetrations of wind power - the role of responsive demand

• Reviewing Government policy and discussing the implications in terms of wind power penetration
• Briefly reviewing the wind power system integration research
• Outlining the concept of responsive load and explain why it is timely
• Giving examples of responsive load
• Presenting some modelling results of high wind penetration with responsive load
• Suggestions for implementation and market development 

Helge Sigurd Næss-Schmidt
Senior Economist
COPENHAGEN ECONOMICS

Integrating the increasing amount of wind power - an economic perspective

• Outlining the challenges involved in increasing wind powers energy share
• What energy policies can do to ensure that all this wind power is put to good use