10:00 Registration & coffee

10:30 Chairman’s welcome & opening address

10:40Highlight: Future grid development and requirements for renewable energy

• What may a transmission system for the new era of electricity supply look like?
• What are the key considerations of the new transmission system?
• What technology issues may need to be dealt with within the immediate 10 years?
• What technology innovation may be required for the future 20-40 years?

Dr. Chuan Zhang
Programme Manager – Transmission and Technology
The Crown Estate, UK

11:20Case Study: The German journey to a high-capacity transmission grid

• What needs to be done in order to future proof Germany’s transmission grid?
• Specific plans and strategies to integrate large-scale renewable energies
• Challenges of grid extension / Quo vadis?

Peter Ahmels
Head of Department Renewable Energies
Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V., Germany

12:00 Refreshment break & networking

12:30Case Study: Facilitating new sources of finance in transmission

• Large capital expenditure required in transmission over coming decades
• Transmission Company revenues alone insufficient to finance
• Existing Transmission Company sources of finance may not provide further funding on attractive terms
• Mechanisms to introduce new sources of finance required
• Several models described with practical experience

Chris Veal
Managing Director
Transmission Capital Limited, UK

13:00 Networking luncheon

14:30Research insight: Offshore Wind Power Integration in TWENTIES and beyond

• Offshore wind power development scenarios
• Offshore grid development scenarios
• Secure TSO handling of storms with massive scale off shore wind power

Prof. Poul Sørensen
Professor Wind Energy
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

15:10Research insight: Strategy for a supergrid: The future of Europe’s energy transmission?

• How will the supergrid look like?
• What key challenges are we facing to date?
• Who should pay for the supergrid?

Ulrik Stridbæk
Head of Group Regulatory
Dong Energy / Friends of the Supergrid
Denmark

15:50 Refreshment break & networking

16:20Highlight: A feasibility study for the first phase of the European supergrid: Chapter 1

• European supergrid – Presents a proposal for Phase 1
• Describes the technology needed for Phase 1
• Presents a design concept based on renewable energy resources
• Estimates the cost and use of system charges to pay for it

Joe Corbett
Head of Technical Services
Mainstream Renewable Power, Ireland

17:00Highlight: The European transmission grid for the next 100 years

Peter Christensen
Senior Electrical Engineer
Vestas Technology A/S, Denmark

17:40 Closing remarks by the chairman

17:45 End of conference day one