Who should attend

This event would be of interest to senior management, senior engineers and practitioners in the following sectors: Power System and Equipment Manufactures, utility asset managers, equipment, Maintenance engineers, substation contractors, system planners, regulators, investors in the energy markets, power system academics, suppliers of products and services in asset management area, electrical power consultants and power quality managers.

Benefits of attending

As well as the chance to learn from the expert presentations, this will be a real opportunity to exchange practical views with some of the people that have actually introduced new approaches, and helped develop distribution networks that genuinely are active.

• Delegates will gain an understanding of what the issues are and approaches being undertaken to overcome them
• Benefit of real case study examples
• Opportunity to discuss with experts and others with similar issues
• Appreciation for State of Art work worldwide within CIGRE and Supergen Flexnet.

About this event

Over the past 20 years the electricity utilities around the world have changed dramatically, generation and supply have become competitive with markets established to facilitate trading between buyer and seller. The networks connecting generation and supply have also changed but remain a monopoly activity with regulation activity as a surrogate for competition.

As these separate markets have matured with generators, suppliers and traders dealing in electricity as a commodity, the benefits of being able to trade into other markets has become apparent. The interconnection of networks to facilitate this desire for more global trading has become the next evolutionary step in the industry.

The interconnection of networks establishes large power systems which present both operational and technical challenges to support this extended trading opportunities whilst at the same time maintaining security of supply.