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Smart Grids and Smart Metering

Lecture

Dritan Kaleshi explains how the proposed UK Smart Metering system will support active energy management to help make the way we use energy become more efficient, and explore how the system might interact with a Smart Grid.

Speaker(s)

Dr. Dritan Kaleshi, University of Bristol

Date & Time

  • 06 February 2012

  • 18:30 - Refreshments
    19:00 - Presentation

    • Location

    • Room 1.11, Merchant Venturers' Building, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UB

    Organiser

    • Bristol Local Network, jointly with CIBSE.

    About this event

    Electricity Pylon. Some rights reserved by Ian Muttoo under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license. In an era of resource shortages, worsening energy supply security, climate-change and an aging infrastructure, the efficient use of energy is now crucial. Development programmes and legislative mandates around the world are addressing energy management on all fronts, closing the control loop between the generation and the consumption of energy. The UK's domestic consumer market is being addressed with both Smart Meters (to change consumer behaviour and ultimately to support active demand-side energy management) and the Smart Grid. The UK Smart Metering network, due in 2018 at a cost of £8–13billion, will form one of the world's largest distributed sensor/actuator systems with 45 million nodes.

    This lecture will give an overview of the UK Smart Metering system, its future role in supporting active energy management, and explore its potential relationship with a Smart Grid. It will conclude with discussing what is desirable, possible, and doable in active end-user energy demand management.

     


    About the speaker

    Dritan Kaleshi is a Senior Lecturer in Communication Networks at the University of Bristol. He has worked for the past 15 years in the area of distributed systems and algorithms with self-organising adaptive behaviour, including distributed control applications in the home, secure multimedia content distribution, advanced routing and cooperative relaying in wireless networks, and network modelling. Current interests lie in communication protocols and distributed systems for management of energy supply and usage (ICT for Energy).

    He was the technical lead of the CLEVER TSB-funded project (2011), which modelled and evaluated the performance of ICT solutions for UK Smart Metering architectures. His involvement with energy management systems goes back to 1999, when Bristol led a cross-disciplinary European team that specified probably the first pan-European interoperable domestic "smart" electric metering and energy management system, which adapted to different electricity suppliers across Europe and was successfully trialled in 700 homes in Italy, France, Denmark and the UK. Dritan is a BSI-recognised expert attached to the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC25 Home and Building Electronic Systems committee, and is active in various standardisation activities for Smart Homes and Smart Grids.

    Cost

    Free


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