Asia’s Roadmap Towards a Smarter Grid??

Panel Discussion: Pursuing a Smarter Grid to meet the demands of tomorrow in Asia:
• Prospects and Challenges Ahead Discussing key drivers for smart grid deployment in Asia ?
• China, Japan and Korea’s initiatives for smart grids before 2020
• Key technology challenges ahead for SG implimentation
• Development of Smart Grid technology standardization: Where Asia stands?

Restructuring Russia’s nation-wide electrical network to meet end users’ demand of tomorrow ?
• Restructuring Rusia’s electricity networks in response to deregulated Russian energy market
• Russia's extra-high voltage power system
• Russia’s initiatives on Smart Grid: Challenges ahead

Putting a Secure Smart Grid into Reality in India:
• What needs to be addressed first? ?
• Why India needs a Smarter Grid
• Recent grid developments in India
• Upgrading India’s distribution network to meet growing demand
• Making India’s Smart Grid plan financially secure

Policy & Key Drivers for Smart Grid Development in China
• Overview of China’s Smart Grid plan
• Current distribution of power and infrastructure requirements
• Framework for Smart Grid operations, control and interaction
• Achieving renewable energy targets and the benefits Smart Grid technology can bring
• Current update on the 4 demo sites: Beijing, Hangzhou, Xiamen, Yinchuan

Policy Drivers & Regulatory Framework To Roll Out The Smart Grid Deployment – Lessons From The EU

The Evolving Smart-Grid Policies and its impact on smart-grid development in US
• Recent Federal Law and Regulation and Trends in Smart-Grid Regulation
• The Economics and Politics of the Smart Grid
• Customer Response in Pilot Programs
• Identifying Potentially Active Markets

Sponsor session

Features and developments of microgrids and Integration of Distributed Renewables sources in Japan

Pilot project: Stockholm Royal Seaport: Building up a flexible and low-emission power network with Distributed Energy Systems

Advanced transmission solutions for secure, sustainable, and efficient power supply

Communication Solution

The Communications Platform: The critical foundation for Smart Grid

Creating a Smart Grid Ecosystem to facilitate the adoption of Internet Protocol (IP)-based communications standards

Australia’s National Energy Efficiency Initiative to develop a smart-grid energy network
• Australia’s vision for a smart energy nation
• Proactive steps towards smart grid infrastructure
• Understanding the opportunity presented by the implementation of a National Broadband Network ?
• What have learned from pilot programmes?

Delivering a nationwide smart metering communications platform
• Development and planning for Smart Grid in Taiwan
• Delivering an interoperable and future-proof smart metering network
• Securing smart meters
• Technological and operational requirements

Application of Smart Metering system to enhance communication and relationship between customer and supplier

Luncheon

Future Distribution System Development at TEPCO

Tracking Smart Grid Vision – Perspective of TNB Distribution”

Pilot Project:大陆首个智能电网综合示范工程 Tianjin Eco-City - China’s 1st Smart Grid Pilot Project

Coffee Break

Smart Grid Development in CLP Power Hong Kong
• Smart Grid development path in CLP Power Hong Kong
• Current update on smart metering and advanced metering infrastructure
• Communication strategies enabling the Smart Grid
• The way forward for Smart Grid development in CLP Power Hong Kong

Innovative Technology towards a smarter energy value chain ?????

Development Plan and Technology trends of Smart Grid in EU and US

Korea’s Roadmap for Smart Grid Technology Standardization

Panel discussion: Exploring the landscape of technologies development for smart grid implimention in Asia and beyond ?
• What are most important technologies for successful smart grid implementations? ?
• Are information technologies available today sufficient to address future challenges? ?
• Smart grid will be more reliable and efficient, however, more complex and interoperable at the same time, how security concerns would be addressed? ?
• What is the major challenge, financial concerns or regulatory factors? ?
• Outlook of smart grid development roadmap ahead

Alternative energy storage and integration

Wind & Solar Resource Integration into the Grid in China ?
• Wind and solar resources, rural electrification and distribution in China ?
• Preventing wind and solar power loss through efficiently integrating power with the smart grid ?
• Challenges with delivering renewable energy sources to load centres in China ?
• Developments in compressed air storage to capture and use off-peak energy and avoid the need to build new power plants to serve peak demand ?
• Current update on the solar power project in Qing Hai province

Connecting renewable energy to the grid: EDF’s effort on Norfolk special dynamic energy storage system trial project

Case study: Find out how Australia successfully access different off-grid energy through smart grid infrastructures and technologies ?
• Insight into the strategies behind the integration of renewable energy ?
• Addressing the reliability and security issues of renewable energy ?
• Uncovering a smooth integration of the various alternative energy generation systems into the energy grid

Luncheon

Enhancing billing systems and revenue assurance ?
• Solutions to revenue meter tampering ?
• Role of IT and how it prevents and reduces electricity theft ?
• Data analytics tool

SMI as a tool to improve energy consumption and enhance energy efficiency

The potential of new technologies such as large scale integration of electric vehicles.?
• What is SMART actually, other than IT & smart meters? ?
• How to leverage the real-time info about energy flow? ?
• Smart grid empowers consumers, but how to empower utilities and retailers? ?
• New emerging usages & new utilizing facilities

Measures, Technology standard frameworks and roadmap towards Smart Grid Security

Best practices of addressing information security challenges of the emerging smart grid technologies

An Intelligent Defense Framework to Reduce electricity blackout and the restoration process in China ?
• What are the potential causes for power system blackouts? ?
• What preventive measures can be taken to avoid blackouts? ?
• UHV, advanced control centres, synchrophasor & PMU initiatives to improve power system reliability
• Framework for achieving a strong grid, smart distribution and efficient utilization in China

Panel discussion: A complex electricity network with real interoperability: How to manage security risks to realize a secure smart grid? ?
• What are major threats to current power grid, and to future grid? ?
• Are information technologies available today sufficient to address security challenges? ?
• What measures have to be taken to enhance grid security capacities? ?
• Technology trends towards secure smart grid