Presenters at oral sessions
J A K Douglas
John Douglas is with PB Power (consulting engineers), specialising in advising on the regulation of electricity distribution and transmission networks including reviews of utility capital expenditure plans and restructuring, privatisation, performance and valuation studies. Nicola Roscoe is a principal power systems engineer with PB Power specialising in the analysis and design of primary distribution and subtransmission networks. Her recent work has included a study of future network architectures for the British Government's Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. Previously she was with United Utilities where her responsibilities included strategic development of and planning of connections to the distribution network. Stephen Andrews is with Lower Watts Consulting Ltd, specialising in electricity regulation and the assessment of business opportunities in the British electricity market in particular for independent distributed generators.
Rosa Mora
Rosa Mora is Telecommunications Engineer, Pre-doctoral degree in Universidad de Zaragoza, MBA in CESTE, and MBA Alcalá de Henares and Siemens Management Development Program. She is currently responsible for the Innovation Area in the Spanish Energy Sector, and also collaborates in the Zaragoza University as Associate Professor. She was previously Product Management Director and Marketing Director in the Siemens Elasa Worldwide Center of Competence for Public Telecommunications. She was also responsible for the Operations and Management of the Communications Head in Aragon (Endesa - Aragón de Cable). Rosa started her professional career in the Management Systems Department of Procter and Gamble, where she was responsible for the implementation and deployment of different logistic, financial and report tools at European level.
M Sebastian
Maria Sebastian. Research Engineer by EDF R&D in France. Specialist of automation and protection of distribution and transmission networks. She participates and coordinates European Projects like FENIX and ADDRESS.
S Uemura
I was received the engineering master by Tokyo Institute of Technology of Japan in 1994, and entered Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in 1997, and am engaged in research on a power distribution system and a distributed power supply.
B Roossien
Bart Roossien is employed at the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands where he works in the Intelligent Energy Grids program. His work is focused on the development of new technologies that help in the transition towards a sustainable and reliable energy supply in the future. This includes the integration of renewables, electricity storage and smart grids.
L F Ochoa
Luis F. Ochoa graduated from the National Engineering University (UNI) – Lima, Peru, in 2000. He obtained the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from UNESP – Ilha Solteira, Brazil, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He is currently a Research Fellow at the School of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh, U.K. His research interests include distribution system analysis and distributed generation.
J C F M Peters
Mr. Jan Peters is director of the Asset Management department of Essent Netwerk, one of the largest Distribution Network Operators of The Netherlands. In that function he is responsible for both the development and the implementation of strategies for design, replacement and maintenance of the company's electricity and gas networks.
K R W Bell
Dr Keith Bell is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Energy and Environment within the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He is an invited expert member of CIGRE Study Committee C1 on System Development and Economics, the convenor of CIGRE Working Group C1.17 on "Planning to Manage Power Interruption Events" and a member of the IET Power Academy Council. Keith's research interests, which have involved recent collaborations with National Grid, Scottish Power, SSE, RTE, Eirgrid, NIE, EDF Energy and TNEI Services Ltd., as well as with fellow academics, include power system planning and operation; power system economics, markets and regulation; grid integration of renewables; and power systems applications of statistical methods and intelligent systems.
B d'Albertanson
Bill d'Albertanson is Network Strategy and Performance Manager at EDF Energy. David Hawkins is a marketing manager at GE Energy.
N Silva
Nuno Silva graduated from the University of Porto in 2003. He is currently finishing the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at the Control and Power Group, Imperial College. His research interests include planning and operation of distribution networks, distributed generation, renewable energies, active networks and economics of distribution networks.
S P Chowdhury
Dr.S.P.Chowdhury received his BEE, MEE and PhD in 1987, 1989 and 1992 respectively. In 1993, he joined E.E.Dept. of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India as Lecturer. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer and then to Reader grades in 1998. He visited Brunel University, UK several times on collaborative research programme. At present he is a Senior Academic Visitor of The University of Manchester. He has published two books and over 100 papers mainly in power systems. He is a fellow of the IET (UK) with C.Eng., IE(I) and the IETE(I) and Member of IEEE(USA). He is a member of Membership and Regions Board (MRB), MRB Finance Committee, Council and the Regional Representative Committee of the IET(UK).
C Schwaegerl
Since 2006 Liang Tao is technical consultant at Siemens Power Technologies International providing network consulting service mainly in the fields of stochastic network planning as well as dispersed and renewable generation. Currently he is involved in European research project ‘More Microgrids’. Born in Xuzhou, China, Liang moved to Germany in 2004 after completion of his bachelor study at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in pursuit of a master degree at RWTH Aachen.
R J Best
Robert Best was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1980, and has recently commenced a research fellowship at Queen’s University Belfast. He is involved with the ‘asset management and performance of energy systems’, Supergen consortium. His research interests include power system islanding, diesel generator control and electrical machine transient analysis.
K Mäki
Kari Mäki received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tampere University of Technology in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He is currently a senior researcher at the Department of Electrical Energy Engineering of Tampere University of Technology. His research interests include grid integration of distributed generation, especially the protection issues and distribution planning for the requirements of distributed generation.
W F Friedl
Werner Friedl was born in 1979 in Linz, Austria. He received the Diploma Engineer degree at Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria in 2004. Since 2004 he is a Scientific Assistant at the Institute for Electrical Power Systems, Graz University of Technology. His research activities are network management and grid planning, decentralized power generation, EMF, EMC, protection of persons and power quality. +43 316 873 7552, werner.friedl@tugraz.at
Luís Vale Cunha
Working for EDP Distribuição since 1995, Luís Vale da Cunha was responsible for several projects implementations in different areas of activity, from Distribution Automation to Network Management and Metering. Since 2002 he has been focused on remote and smart metering activities, where he is actually responsible for processes, systems and technology definition. He is an active member of international community trough regular contribution and participation in Iberian and international events, meetings and projects. In EDP Group, Luís is the technical coordinator of the recently started InovGrid Project, an innovative initiative that aims to materialize the concept of an “intelligent grid” during the next few years, which is presented in the paper. Luís holds a degree in Electrotechnical Engineering and a Master of Information Management from Oporto and Aveiro universities, respectively.
Eric Lambert
Eric Lambert is project Manager at EDF R&D division. He is member of IEC TC57 committee which standardize "Energy Management Systems and information exchange" by defining CIM and 61850 standards. He is also member of UCA CIM User group executive committee.
P W Cox
Paul Cox has over twenty years' experience designing, developing and supporting electricity network management systems. He played key roles in the UK's first major wallboard replacement project at London Electricity and the first fully integrated 11kV Outage Management and Network Management System at Midlands Electricity. He currently leads a team supporting the Network Management Systems at E.On Central Networks. In his spare time he is studying for an M.Sc in Power Distribution.
Xavier Mamo
Xavier Mamo graduated in Electrical Engineering at the “Ecole Speciale des Travaux Publics” ( Paris, France) in 1997 and in Computer Science and Knowledge Engineering at the "Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité" ( Metz, France) in 1999. He joined the EDF company (R&D Division) in 1999, and worked as a research engineer on power quality expertise including measurement, analysis and simulation, distribution information system and data management. He managed the Power Quality group (16 research engineers) within the "Measurement and Information System of Electrical Networks" EDF R&D Department from 2003 to 2007. He is presently working with EDF International North America and is responsible for international research program coordination in the field of power delivery.
Magnus Pielke
Magnus Pielke studied Electrical Engineering with Business Administration (Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing.) at the Technical University of Braunschweig from 2000 to 2006. Since 2006 he is a research associate at the Institute for High-Voltage Technology and Electrical Power Systems at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. His special fields of interest includes distributed generation, especially combined heat and power micro units in residential buildings and the economy of electrical power grids. He is engaged in the Energy Research Alliance of Lower Saxony.
H Duo
Dr Duo graduated from Tsinghua university China in Electrical Engineering. He got his Ph.D from Hiroshima University, Japan in System Engineering. He has been working in the power system and energy management for about 16 years. He has international experience in China, Japan and Australia. Now Dr Duo is based in Sydney with Parsons Brinckerhoff. He is also a visiting fellow at the school of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering. He has been working on various Demand Management programs and projects with government and power companies. His interests include renewable energy, energy efficiency, Greenhouse Gas Emission management, sustainability and the power system.
Gunnar Bärwaldt
Gunnar Bärwaldt studied Electrical Engineering with Business Administration (Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing.) at the Technical University of Braunschweig from 1999 to 2005. Since 2005 he is a research associate at the Institute for High-Voltage Technology and Electrical Power Systems at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. His special fields of interest includes the fluctuating feed-in of photovoltaic systems and wind mills. Thus he studies the economical integration of energy storage systems as plant storages to smooth the feed-in.
Presenters at poster sessions
P C Taylor
Dr Philip Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the Energy Group in the School of Engineering at the University of Durham. He specialises in the integration and control of distributed generation in electrical distribution networks. He has significant industrial experience as an electrical engineer including a period working in the transmission and distribution projects team at GEC Alsthom. His most recent position was Research and Development Director at Econnect, a consultancy firm specialising in the grid integration of renewable energy.
Javier Rodríguez
Education: ======= * Industrial Engineering Degree - I.C.A.I. (Power Electronics), Universidad Pontificia de Comillas * Master in Business Administration - I.C.A.D.E. (MBA), Universidad Pontificia de Comillas Proffesional Experience: ================ * 2005 - 2008: Business Development Manager - Electric Business Unit - Telvent (www.telvent.com) * 2000 - 2005: Utilities Manager - Telvent (www.telvent.com) * 1999 - 2000: Ancillary Services Manager - Maintenance Department - Refinery of La Coruña - RepsolYPF, S.A. (www.repsolypf.com) * 1996 - 1999: Project Manager - Engineering Department - Refinery of La Coruña - RepsolYPF, S.A. (www.repsolypf.com)
P J Binduhewa
Prabath Binduhewa is a PhD Student of the University of Manchester. His research interests include MicroGrids and power electronics applications in renewable energy system.
C M Walton
Cliff is the Technical Director of Cre8 Energy and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. Cre8 Energy are providing strategic direction and programme management services to the UK's Supergen FlexNet research programme.
Salvador Acha
Salvador Acha obtained his bachelor degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering from Monterrey Tech ( Mexico) in 2003. After a period of working for the National Institute for Advanced Technology in combined projects with the Mexican Electrical Company he had the chance to deepen his knowledge on various aspects of power systems. Currently he is a 2nd year PhD student at Imperial College London in which his mainline of research is gas and electricity distribution network analysis. Other research interests include urban energy systems management, distributed generation, microgrids, and power system economics.
Eva Fosby Livgard
Eva Fosby Livgard, Associate Director of TNS Gallup, has worked with analyses of the energy industry for more than 12 years. She works closely with Norwegian market players, giving speeches on the industry at conferences and seminars. She submitted a paper and gave a speech at the CIRED conference in Vienna 2007.
Giuseppe Mauri
Giuseppe Mauri: expert in the dependability of communications in tele-control system applications for Electrical Transmission and Distribution grids. ICT-based solutions for the Automation of the Interaction between Networks and End-Users: demand-side initiatives, direct load control, energy management in distribution grids, standardization activity and protocols.
Pertti Järventausta
Pertti Järventausta was born in Urjala, Finland, in 1965. He received the Diploma Engineer and the Licenciate of Technology degrees in electrical engineering from Tampere University of Technology in 1990 and 1992, respectively, and the Doctor of Technology Degree in electrical engineering from Lappeenranta University of Technology in 1995. Since 1999 he has been a professor at the Department of Electrical Energy Engineering of Tampere University of Technology. His research activities focus on electricity distribution, especially distribution automation, electricity market and distributed generation.
R Belhomme
Dr. Regine Belhomme received the Electrical (Electronics) Engineering degree and the Ph.D. degree both from the University of Liège ( Belgium). From 1992 to 1997, she worked for IREQ, the Research Institute of Hydro-Quebec ( Canada), in the Power System Simulation Department. She performed studies on the integration of distributed generation into the Hydro-Quebec distribution networks. In 1998, she joined EDF R&D (France) where she is a project manager and a Senior Engineer in the "Energy Systems Economic and Technical Analysis" Department. Her main activities concern the integration of distributed generation and renewable energy sources into transmission and distribution power systems, demand response and flexibility vectors in power system load/generation optimisation. She a member of CIGRE Task Force C6-09 on Demand Side Response. She is the Technical Manager of the ADDRESS European project.
Andreas Lugmaier
Andreas Lugmaier was born in Haag am Hausruck, Austria in 1974 and achieved the Diploma Engineer degree of electrical engineering and information technology at University of Technology Graz in 2001. The focus of his studies was on Electrical Energy Management and Renewable Energy. He was working as a project manager and scientific assistant on the field of distributed generation and photovoltaics at the Austrian research center arsenal research from 2002 to 2007. He joined Siemens Austria in November 2007 as R&D cooperation manager within the Corporation & Funding team, based in the Corporate Innovation Center. He is responsible for supporting internal and external R&D cooperation of Siemens CEE departments, where the main focus lies on energy aspects, especially in the fields of Smart Grids and Energy Efficiency.
M Petit
Marc Petit received the Ph-D degree from the University of Orsay, France, in 2002. Currently, he is associate professor in the power systems group of the Department of Power and Energy Systems of SUPELEC. His areas of interest are power system protection and onboard power networks (mainly automotive networks).
D R Hirst
David is Inventor of the various RLtec technologies, and is Technical Director and Chief Technologist of RLtec. His career has centred on IT, Telecoms and Control, including Space, Oil & Gas, Electricity, Banking, and many other sectors. In the early 80’s he worked on the 1000 House trial for Mains born Telecontrol for multi-utility metering. For nearly 20 years he was with Ernst & Young as a Management Consultant in IT. It was during his work as Central Design Authority for the New Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA) that he formed the first concepts that became ResponsiveLoad, and these, with other developments have evolved into today’s company. David also campaigns on Climate Change issues, most particularly the virtues of Emissions reductions Trading, and is Sustainability Adviser to SEAaT, a consortium of shipping & oil companies campaigning for more efficient emissions regulations for shipping.
Inigo Berganza
Mr. Inigo Berganza is Senior Project Manager at Iberdrola. He has over 7 years' experience in the telecoms industry, and has been deeply involved in developing all PLC activities and initiatives with Iberdrola. As a technology expert, he participates in various regulatory and standards groups for the PLC industry, including IEEE, CISPR, ETSI and CENELEC. He holds an MSc in Telecoms Engineering from the University of the Basque Country.
R Currie
Robert Currie is a research fellow within the Institute for Energy and Environment.
S Scalari
Dr. Sandra Scalari, senior researcher, gained her professional experiences in project and development of automation and control systems. Since 1994 she has been involved on the fields of Dynamic modelling of generation system processes and she was project coordinator of plant dynamic simulation group. She participated, as Pisa development group co-ordinator, to the Puertollano IGCC Dynamic Simulator Project, an international project financed by Elcogas and by the European Community. At the moment she is research manager for Enel Smart Grid Project inside the Research Technical Area.
M Gilany
Dr. Mahmoud Gilany obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree from the Cairo University in 1987 and 1989 respectively. In 1993, he received the PhD. from Calgary University, Canada in the field of Microprocessor Based Relays. Since October 2006, he carried the rank of full Professor. Since Sept. 2003 he joined the College of Technological Studies in Kuwait. Dr. Mahmoud was a member in many technical committees with the Ministry of Electricity and Energy in Egypt. He also has supervised the implementation of many major electrical projects in Egypt. Dr. Mahmoud has more than 50 technical articles. Most of them in the field of power system protection. He supervised more than 17 M. Sc. And Ph.D. theses. He was the Winner of “Best technical paper” prize in Cigre-2004 in Kuwait.
M Gillie
Dr Mary Gillie is a consultant at EA Technology, she has worked on high profile projects for the UK distribution network operators, the EU and the International Energy Agency. Her main fields of expertise are active network management, small scale generation, demand side management, hydrogen and fuel cells. She enjoys getting innovative technologies adopted on the ground and extending the boundaries of normal working practice.
E Manitsas
Mr Efthymios Manitsas was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1979. He received the Dipl.-Eng. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR) and the MSc degree in Sustainable Electricity Systems from UMIST (UK), in 2003 and 2004, respectively. He is currently pursuing the PhD degree at Imperial College London (UK). His research interests are active distribution networks and distribution system state estimation. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, CIGRE, IET and IEEE.
Francisco Lobo
Francisco Lobo studied Telecommunication's Engineering at University of Malaga, Spain. He is working in a music detection project to obtain the degree. From 2005 to 2007 he worked in Vitelcom Mobile Technology as Tester Engineer of 3G handsets. Since 2007, he is with "CITIC Foundation", where he has participated in two projects. He was working as computer engineer developing an interactive DVB-T set top box. Since September, he is working with Ericsson on a national project developing a network system for electrical control on demand.
G J Eastwood
Gary Eastwood works as a Senior Consultant within EA Technology specialising in network asset management. He is the EA Technology Project Manager for the LVSure automation project. Mike Lees is the Director of Technology at EA Technology and is responsible for development of the SignalSure and LVSure automation technologies. Dave Roberts is the Technology & Innovation Manager for ScottishPower EnergyNetworks and is responsible for managing the company's Innovation Funding Initiative (IFI) programme of projects.
Yves Chollot
Yves Chollot is the Marketing Manager for the Control and monitoring in the Medium voltage business unit of Schneider electric. He has a degree of electrical engineer and was the project manager of RTUs and SCADA for Schneider Electric.
L Tao
Liang Tao is a technical consultant from the energy sector of Siemens AG ( Germany) who provides network consulting service mainly in the fields of stochastic load flow as well as dispersed and renewable generation. Currently he is involved in European Commission FP6 research project ‘More Microgrids’. Born in Xuzhou, China, Liang moved to Germany in 2004 after completion of his bachelor study at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in pursuit of a master degree at RWTH Aachen. He started a series of student jobs in Siemens AG since 2006 and eventually joined the company after graduation from RWTH Aachen.
P Taylor
Philip Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Durham University. He specialises in the area of integration and control of distributed generation in electrical networks. Prior to joining Durham University he was Research and Development Director at the UK consultancy firm Econnect.
J E Rodriguez
J. Emilio Rodríguez-Seco received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1990 and the M.Sc. degree in Radiocommunications in 1993, both from the School of Engineering of the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain. Since 1992, he is with the Energy Unit of LABEIN-Tecnalia, Derio, Spain, as a Project Manager involved in projects dealing with equipment certification, development of new EMC standards and measurement methods, assessment of power quality and EMC problems in electrical installations and networks, DER network modelling/simulation, and demand side management. He has been a Visiting Researcher at the EMC Advanced Projects Department of ERA Technologies, Ltd ( Leatherhead, UK) in 1995, and at SP, Swedish National Testing and Research Institute (Borås, Sweden) in 1997. He is also a Lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering (ESIDE) of the University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain.
J Deuse
Jacques Deuse is electrical & mechanical engineer from the University of Liège, Belgium (1972) and Ph. D. in electrical engineering of the same University (1976). He began working in the Belgian electric supply industry in 1977 for developing software programmes and methodologies for special studies. He is expert in dynamic behaviour of electrical power systems; he participated to the development of EUROSTAG® software. Since 1989 he is working with Tractebel Engineering – Suez as power system expert in the “Power System Consulting” Service of the “Energy & Industrial Solutions” Department. He participated to a large number of studies: large international interconnection projects, defence plans, analysis of blackouts, restoration plans, etc. He is presently Technical Director of the European project EU-DEEP about decentralised generation. EU-DEEP is an Integrated Project of the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, funded by European Commission under grant SES6-CT-2003-503516.
D H Healey
David Healey David has played a founding role in the BPL industry worldwide. In 1994, David led the team which developed the world’s first BPL technology at the UK utility NORWEB. David was subsequently founder and Chairman of the PLC Forum for two years. Appointed as Special Advisor on Telecommunications to the European Commission and inaugural Chairman of the ETSI BPL Committee, David is acknowledged as an authority within the industry. David had also previously been involved in developing some of the worlds first Utility owned competitive telecoms businesses. David played a central role in the formation of Energis in the UK and subsequently worked on similar developments with utilities in Australia, Germany, Brazil, USA and Scandinavia. Today David is working with BPL Global and supporting their leading role in the development and application of “Smart Grid” systems with utilities from around the world.
J A Sanchez
Technical Manager of Ormazabal Protection & Automation MSc System Control & Information Technology BSc Industrial Engineering
P Järventausta
Sami Repo (Dr.Tech.) has been working with active distribution network issues since 2002. The research group which he co-ordinates has been studying distribution network management, planning and influences of distributed generation (protection, voltage control and reliability). The main focus of research has been in the development of Network Information Systems and Distribution Management Systems. Recently a EU FP6 funded ADINE-project has started together with Lund University and several companies. ADINE-project will demonstrate technical solutions for active distribution network and Active Network Management method.
G W Ault
Robert MacDonald received his BEng degree from the University of Strathclyde in 2007. He is currently working towards his PhD at the University of Strathclyde as a member of the Advanced Electrical Systems Research Group. His current research activities lie in the areas of active networks and power system planning and design.
F Garrone
Giovanna Dondossola belongs to CESI RICERCA where she manages European Projects and National activities on dependability and security issues of power control systems. She is the Project Manager of the CRUTIAL European Project. She is responsible of the Power Control Systems – Resilience Testing Laboratory in CESI RICERCA. Among the activities she is currently leading there are interoperability issues in power station automation software, fault tolerant distributed architectures for real time industrial automation, cyber security for the electric control systems, Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, methodologies for threat analysis and resilient architectures in relation to threat evolution. These activities are developed in line with requirements and recommendations provided by technical reports of standard committees (IEC, Cigré, NERC, ISA). She is an active member of the Cigré Working Group D2.22 Treatment of Information Security for the Electric Power Utilities (EPUs). She is author of about 40 papers published in international conferences proceedings.
Elena E Boskov
Elena Boskov (1979) has received her power engineering education at the Faculty of technical sciences, University of Novi Sad. Presently she is engaged in researching and developing application software for distribution management systems in the company DMS Group from Novi Sad. She has also been the project manager on the projects in the field of renewable energy sources, distributed generation and distribution management systems.
Sadegh Jamali
Sadegh Jamali, was born in 1956 in Tehran, Iran. He received his BSc from Sharif university of Technology in Tehran in 1979, MSc from UMIST, Manchester, UK in 1986 and PhD from City University, London, UK in 1990, all in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Jamali is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology in Tehran. Dr. Jamali is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and the IEE Council Representative in Iran. His field of interest includes Power System Protection and Distribution Systems.
Carsten Böse
Carsten Boese is working for Siemens Energy Sector in the department of Technology & Innovation. He is specialist for advanced supply system architecture. August Sensing is senior consultant in the network planning department if Siemens Energy Sector with more than 25 years of experience. Fritz Wittig is head of network operation department of Stadtwerke Brühl GmbH. He is responsible for network planning and operation. Stadtwerke Brühl and Siemens network planning department are working close together in all kind of strategic planning.
C F Ten
Chui Fen Ten received the BEng degree from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia, in 2005 and the MSc degree from University of Manchester (formerly UMIST), Manchester, UK, in 2006. Currently, she is working towards her PhD degree in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Manchester (formerly UMIST), Manchester, UK.
S Kwon
Seongchul Kwon received his M.S. degree in electronic and electrical engineering from Pohang Unviersity of Science and Technology(POSTECH) in 1997. His a senior researcher in Korea Electric Power Research Institute(KEPRI) of Korea Electric Power Corporation(KEPCO) since 1997. His research field is distribution automation and distributed generation.
D Roberts
Dave Roberts is the Technology Manager for SP Energy Networks, responsible for managing and delivering the Innovation Funding Incentive (IFI) Research & Development (R&D) programme for the wires business of ScottishPower. He earned his Masters degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Cardiff University in 2001, after leaving school at 16 for an apprenticeship in the chemical industry. Since 2001 he has worked for ScottishPower, transitioning from their graduate programme, to an operational position on the 132kV network, before moving into his current role in March 2005. Outside work Dave is a keen surfer, mountain biker and snowboarder. He lives with his wife and young son in North Wales.
Phinit Srithorn
Phinit Srithorn School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Nottingham UK
M Sebastian
Maria Sebastian. Research Engineer by EDF R&D in France. Specialist of automation and protection of distribution and transmission networks. Participation and coordination of European Projects like FENIX and ADRESS.
M Barnes
Mike Barnes graduated from the University of Warwick with BEng and PhD degrees in 1993 and 1998 respectively. Since 1997 he has been an academic at the University of Manchester (formerly UMIST). He is presently a Senior Lecturer and specializes in power electronic enable systems.
P C Taylor
Dr. Philip Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the Energy Group in the School of Engineering at the University of Durham. His research focuses on the integration and control of distributed generation in electrical distribution networks. The research is conducted with industrial partners such as EON, ABB, EDF and Scottish Power. Dr Taylor has significant industrial experience and his most recent industrial position was Research and Development Director at Econnect, a UK consultancy firm specialising in the grid integration of renewable energy.
Andreas Berg
Andreas Berg received his Diploma Degree in Electrical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University in 2004. Since then he has been working at the Institute of Power Systems and Power Economics (IAEW) at RWTH Aachen University. He is currently member of the research group Asset Management and Regulation and pursuing the Ph.D. Degree.
P Vinter
Mr. Peter Vinter is responsible for defining DONG Energy's strategies on distribution automation and monitoring systems. Over the past 5 years he has worked with the development of new sensor concepts, implementation plans for automation and the inclusion of on-line measurements into short and long term distribution network planning. Prior to that, he worked with planning, operation, and fault analysis of distribution networks - partly at DONG Energy, partly at the Institute for Research and Development for the Danish Electric Utilities.
R Grünbaum
Rolf Grünbaum received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is currently working for ABB AB within its Power Systems - FACTS Division, where he is Regional Marketing Manager of FACTS and Reactive Power Compensation Systems. Mr. Grünbaum has been active in ABB and previously in Asea for a number of years. Before that, he was employed by DISA Elektronik in Skovlunde, Denmark, where he was involved in marketing of scientific equipment for fluid flow research. He also has held positions as Scientific Counsellor in the Swedish Foreign Service.
Peter Johansen
Peter Johansen is the founder of the company Jomitek. Jomitek is a specialist in measuring electrical and magnetic fields. Peter Johansen has a number of patents in the area of lightning measures and protection and in substation control.
H Hatta
He was born in Japan, 1976. He received Ph.D degree from the University of Tokyo and joined the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo, Japan, in 2003. His research interests are in the area of power system control and distributed generations.
Hannu Laaksonen
Hannu Laaksonen was born in Vaasa, Finland, on November 22, 1977. He received his Master's degree (2004) in Electrical Power Engineering from Tampere University of Technology. His employment experience includes working as a research scientist in VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in Vaasa and before that in Institute of Power Engineering department at Tampere University of Technology. Currently he works as a research scientist and PhD student with Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation at University of Vaasa. His field of interests are planning + integration of DG in distribution networks, power electronics in distribution networks and future network concepts (e.g. microgrids).
T Funabashi
Toshihisa Funabashi was born in Aichi, Japan, on March 25,1951. He graduated in March 1975 from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan. He received, in March 2000, a Doctor degree from Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. He joined Meidensha Corporation in April 1975 and has engaged in research and development on power system simulations and integration of distributed generation. Currently, he is a Senior Fellow of the Power Systems Solutions Sales and Engineering Division. Dr. Funabashi is a chartered engineer in UK, a member of IET, a senior member of IEEE and a member of the IEE of Japan.
Abdoul Amir Yaghooti
A. A. yaghoti is a PhD student in E.E. department of engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
J Morren
Johan Morren received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in electrical power engineering from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. In 2006 he finished his Ph.D.-research on 'Grid support by power electronic converters of Distributed Generation units. Since 2006 he is as power system protection specialist with Essent Netwerk, one of the largest distribution system operators in the Netherlands
Andrea Schröder
Andrea Schröder studied Electrical Engineering at the Institute of Technology in Mannheim, Germany. After finishing her studies she started work with FGH in 1995. Within her duties were the development and maintenance of the database incorporated in the network calculation tool INTEGRAL, training INTEGRAL users and giving presentations to potential customers. Besides, she was involved in updating the DVG data model and realizing it in INTEGRAL. From 2001 to 2003 she was responsible for the EU funded project ScadaOnWeb and is now active in its successor project S-TEN (Self-describing Intelligent Technical and Environmental Networks).
Fabrizio Pilo
Fabrizio Pilo was born in Sassari, Italy, in 1966. He graduated in Electrical Engineering at the University of Cagliari in 1992 and earned the Ph.D. from the University of Pisa in 1998. He became Associate Professor of Electrical Power Systems in 2001. His research activity is focused on electrical power systems, network planning and optimisation, and neural networks. He is author of more than 90 papers published in international journals or presented in national and international conferences. He is IEEE and AEI member, CIGRE SC6 invited observer and member of the CIRED TC.
Jukka Lassila
Jukka Lassila was born in Ilomantsi, Finland, February 1975. He received his M.Sc. degree from Lappeenranta University of Technology in 2000. Since then he has been a research engineer at Lappeenranta University of Technology. His main areas of interest are electricity distribution systems, long-term planning, renovation and reliability issues.
J Björnstedt
Johan Björnstedt is a Ph.D. student at the department of Industrial Electrical Engineering and Automation (IEA), at Lund University, where his research interest is island operation of distribution systems.
Arup Sinha
Arup Sinha., received BEE and MBA in 1991 and 1999 respectively. Presently working as Associate Consultant in Energy & Utilities Practice of TataConsultancy Services Ltd, Kolkata. I am over twelve years industrial experience in Power Generation & process plant. In addition to above he has good experience in Energy Auditing & Accounting and he is a Certified Energy Manager & Auditor by Ministry of Power, Government of India.
Bruno Francois
Bruno Francois received the Ph. D. degree from the University of Lille, France in 1996. He is Associate Professor at the department of Electrical Engineering of: Ecole Centrale de Lille. He is a member of Laboratory of Electrical Engineering (L2EP), Lille. He is currently working on the development of next-generation power systems.
K Visscher
Klaas Visscher studied electrical engineering at a technical college before he went to university in 1982. He received his Master's degree in 1988 and his Doctor's degree in 1993, both in Applied Physics at Twente University in The Netherlands. Next he worked several years on automation projects in his own consultancy. In 1999 he joined the Energy Research Centre of The Netherlands. At ECN he worked five years on heat storage and thermal processes for renewable energy applications. The last four years he worked on intelligent electrical grids and distributed power generation. The main topics of his current research are control and stability of distributed electricity generation systems.
T Kaipia
Tero Kaipia was born in Lappeenranta, Finland, December 1979. He received his M.Sc. degree from Lappeenranta University of Technology in 2004 and started postgraduate studies in January 2005. Since then he has been a research engineer at Lappeenranta University of Technology. His main areas of interest are network planning methods and new technical solutions for electricity distribution systems. Tero Kaipia is also a board member and development engineer at Asset Vision Ltd.
S P Chowdhury
Dr.S.P.Chowdhury received his BEE, MEE and PhD in 1987, 1989 and 1992 respectively. In 1993, he joined E.E.Dept. of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India as Lecturer. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer and then to Reader grades in 1998. He visited Brunel University, UK several times on collaborative research programme. At present he is a Senior Academic Visitor of The University of Manchester. He has published two books and over 100 papers mainly in power systems. He is a fellow of the IET (UK) with C.Eng., IE(I) and the IETE(I) and Member of IEEE(USA). He is a member of Membership and Regions Board (MRB), MRB Finance Committee, Council and the Regional Representative Committee of the IET(UK).
R Currie
Robert Currie is a Research fellow within the Institute for Energy and Environment, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
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