Nexant to speak at Distribution Automation Europe conference

LONDON - July 17, 2013 - PRLog -- SMi's 3rd annual Distribution Automation Europe conference will bring you the latest developments in Europe with a focus on communications system architecture and the issue of the impact of distributed generation on DA. With a completely new speaker line up, more project case studies and senior line up of international speakers SMi is delighted to announce the participation of Mr Kemal Celik, Vice-President, Smart Grid Technologies & Grid Management at Nexant as speaker on day two.

Mr Kemal Celik will be speaking on The New Demand Side Management (DSM) Paradigm

-Addressing objectives to utilise local and sustainable energy sources while significantly reducing energy consumption through demand side management
-Achieving sustainable energy sourcing with local distributed energy production while reducing energy consumption through installation of smart energy management systems (SEMS) at  customer sites
-Benchmarking energy consumption at individual customer level and generating personalised advice to reduce real-time demand
-Balancing of energy demand and response and calculating CO2 to allow participants to act on price and emission levels

Key topics of this conference:

-How to improve communication system architecture to make it fit for purpose for distribution automation
-How supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are evolving to support the demands of distribution automation
-Enhancing the visibility of distributed (renewable) generation to determine total network energy
-How to use strategic fault level management to improve system protection design
-Reducing maintenance costs and extending equipment life with condition-based monitoring
-Combining network automation and interruptible service to increase capacity
-Using data analytics to identify network problems and signal veracity from real-time information

Expert speakers include:

-Kemal Celik, Vice-President, Smart Grid Technologies & Grid Management, Nexant
-Prof. Goran Strbac, Chair, Electrical Energy Systems, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London
-Prof. Furong Li, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath
-Dr. Gavin Shaddick, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath
-Uwe Fisher, Head of Asset Information Systems, E.ON Climate & Renewables
-Johan Söderbom, Head of Department, R&D for Distribution and Sales , Vattenfall
-Jean Baptiste Galland, Head of Strategy and Smart Grid, ERDF
-Stefan Rebner, Head of Development, Network Operations, Fortum Distribution
-Robin Hagemans, Manager Grid Information & Control, Alliander
-Dr. Iliana Portugues, Operations Director, Power Network Demonstration Centre, University of Strathclyde
-Prof. Andrew Starr, Head of Through-life Engineering Services (TES) Institute, Cranfield University
-Andrew Thomas, Divisional Director, ICT, Mott MacDonald

Plus attend a half-day post-conference workshop:
Business Choices – Communications Systems for Advanced Distribution Control, 16th October 2013 8.30am – 12.00pm, hosted by: Andrew Thomas, Divisional Director, ICT, Moot MacDonald

For the full conference programme and further information please visit: http://www.smi-online.co.uk/2013distribution-automation38... (http://www.smi-online.co.uk/2013distribution-automation43...)

Alternatively contact:  Aaron Jackson on +44 20 7827 6064 or email ajackson@smi-online.co.uk

For Sponsorship opportunities please contact: Alia Malick on +44 (0)20 7827 6168 or email amalick@smi-online.co.uk