Flexible Futures – Agenda
27th - 28th April 2023
Octopus Energy Office - Munich East Station
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is driving commitments to renewable generation across Europe.
Meanwhile, growing uptake of low carbon tech is driving electricity demand and creating new peaks. New technologies offer enormous potential for load shifting.
But the window for effectively mobilising these devices is rapidly closing. If we want to support networks and avoid congestion or costly upgrades - and if we want low cost carbon-free balancing – we need to act now.
27th April
12:00 - 12:30 | Arrival & Lunch
12:30 - 13:00 | Entech and TSO perspective on the Energy Transition
Greg Jackson, CEO Octopus Energy
Chris Peeters, CEO Elia Group
13:00 - 14:30 | Turning the electricity system upside down
David Wildash, Head of Market Operations, National Grid ESO
Alida Jansen van Vuuren, Head of DSO Ausgrid
Alex Schoch, Head of Flexibility Octopus Energy
14:30 - 15:30 | The challenge - The need for speed: where flexibility is missing across the system
15:30 - 16:00 | Break with coffee, tea and delicious snacks
16:00 - 17:30 | Providing the signals: Where grids need flex
Framework - the options/theory
Adam Bain , Whole System Development Manager (DSO), Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks
The practice: short fire presentations
Sotiris Giorgiopolous, Director of Distribution System Operator UK Power Networks
Pedro Godinho Matos, Head of Business Development and Associate Director of Strategy and Regulation E-REDES
from 18:00 | Dinner @ Octopus Offices Munich
Hungry? Be enchanted by a delicious flying buffet with local and regional delicacies. Accompanied by a cool Bavarian beer or a good glass of wine? When the food tastes good, networking is twice as much fun!
28th April
9:30 - 11:00 | Flex in the control room
Dr. Jochen Bammert, Teamlead Transnet BW
Luca Marchisio, Head of System Strategy Terna SpA
Lars Nolting, Project Manager TenneT TSO
11:00 - 11:30 | Break with coffee, tea and delicious snacks
11:30 - 13:00 | System transformation