Arjan Wargers

Arjan Wargers is Manager Research & Innovation at ElaadNL and as Innovator at Enexis. Arjan has been working for ElaadNL since 2010. Arjan is responsible for multiple initiatives to explore solutions to ‘unlock’ flexibility from (mainly) EV’s; smart charging. The smart charging possibilities which are experimented within ElaadNL range from direct control, indirect control, incentives and market place. Although the main focus is on experimentation with the technical level of the solutions also the functional and legislative level are in scope.

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Smart Charging & Energy Flexibility behind the meter protocols

Arnaud Devleeschauwer

Arnaud Devleeschauwer is Strategy Manager – Marketing and Sales, at ENGIE Electrabel

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Internet of Energy – FLEXITY

Benjamin Grunfeld

Benjamin Grunfeld is a partner in the global energy, sustainability, and infrastructure segment at Guidehouse and the European and Middle Eastern utility and energy company practice leader. He is a trusted advisor to senior leaders across the entire energy sector value chain. He has considerable consulting project experience in the areas of strategy and operations, mergers and acquisitions, project development and finance, energy efficiency and demand-side management programming, regulatory economics, electricity market design and operations, and energy policy. He is a recognized expert on the energy sector globally and has served as an expert witness in regulatory and civil matters. Benjamin has worked in vertically integrated and restructured energy markets, as well as a range of developed and emerging economies around the world. Benjamin has an M.Sc. in Management and Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom, and a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University in Canada.

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Making flexibility work

Bert den Ouden

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Closing the conference

Chris McNamee

Chris McNamee is the CEO of DAMCO Aluminium Delfzijl Coöperation U.A. (Aldel).

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Enabling new flexibility: The ALDEL/ENERGY POOL partnership

Daniele Andreoli

Daniele is a senior expert of the energy sector with a two decades experience. He worked in Enel on different topics and level of responsibility in the energy trading business, energy management, retail portfolio management and renewables. He joined, always within Enel, the eSolutions project aimed to develop new solutions and services for the customers as responsible for optimization and flexibility solutions as a global product line. He is now in charge of the Demand Response Global Business Line for Enel X, managing the P/L of the business with a portfolio of more than 6,3 GW of flexible assets spread in 15 different Countries worldwide.

He is an engineer with a Master in Business Administration completed in a German international university.

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Unlocking the potential of energy assets integration: enhance demand-side flexibility

Edouard Perroy

Edouard Perroy is Head of Innovation at Energy Pool. Edouard joined Energy Pool in 2011. He first developed the Energy Pool Automation System and associated team. He then acted as Head of Innovation. He specifically worked on large end-users to enable real-time flexibility in several countries.

Edouard is now Director of the Enablement Program aiming at developing a new collaborative model with industries: propose joint investment, provide Global Engineering and deal with Project Management, to source even more flexibility in the road toward energy transition.

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Enabling new flexibility: The ALDEL/ENERGY POOL partnership

Elies Lahmar

Elies Lahmar is Senior Market Designer at the European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT. Passionate about the energy transition and current challenges of the power sector, Elies holds a degree in mechanical engineering from MINES Paristech, where he also studied energy economics and power markets.

As part of his curriculum, Elies worked at ArcelorMittal as an energy analyst, more specifically on the sourcing optimization of the steelmaker’s European power and gas consumption portfolios. Furthermore he worked at Danske Commodities, active on short-term European power and gas markets, where as a quantitative analyst, he designed and implemented automated trading strategies.

Elies joined the Product Development team of EPEX SPOT in 2017 as a Market Design analyst. He is in charge of business development, exploring and assessing innovative ideas, products and concepts that will shape tomorrow’s power markets. Elies particularly focuses on the development of the local flexibility market initiatives in which EPEX SPOT is involved. In this regard, he was part of the design and implementation of the enera local flexibility market since 2017.

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The enera experience and future perspectives for flexibility markets

Emmanuel Cantegrel

Emmanuel CANTEGREL, Executive Vice President, Business & International, ENERGY POOL. Holding a master degree from a leading European Business School (ESCP EUROPE), Emmanuel used to manage and lead (with top management assignments), for the last 20 years, industrial and technical mid-size companies, on international scopes, in various sectors like smart buildings, smart cities and urban infrastructures equipment and Energy sector.

Taking part actively in decarbonization and sustainable development concerns, Emmanuel is deeply involved, for the last 3 years, in boosting the benefits of Flexibility towards industrial consumers and grids, all across the world, with Energy Pool solutions.

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Enabling new flexibility: The ALDEL/ENERGY POOL partnership

Frank Wiersma

Frank decided to focus on the transition to a carbon-neutral energy system in 2008. Over the years since, his work included front end development as well as operation and maintenance of major renewable energy projects, including offshore wind projects in several European countries. Since 2012 he is working on the essential building blocks for an integrated energy system in which wind and solar power play a dominant role. He has worked on many national as well as European studies on energy storage, demand-side response, decarbonizing heat, as well as the role of flexible conventional generation in the energy transition. Frank joined TenneT in 2017, and his current work focusses on the future demand for and the potential supply of flexibility resources in an integrated European electricity market.
Overall, he has over 20 years of experience. Earlier in his career, he has built an extensive international track record in water engineering and the oil and gas industry. Frank holds degrees in Civil Engineering and Economics.

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The marketvalue of Flexibility & GOPACS

Frauke Thies

Since September 2015, Frauke is Executive Director of smartEn, the European business association for digital and decentralised energy solutions focussing on the interaction of demand and supply in an integrated, decarbonised system.

She has been actively involved in European Energy Policy since 2004, and held different positions at the German Energy Ministry, Greenpeace EU and the European Photovoltaic Industry Association SolarPower Europe. She also worked on secondments in Washington D.C. and in New Delhi, India.

Frauke holds a Master degree in Environmental Sciences from Lüneburg University, Germany, and an Executive MBA from Vlerick Business School, Belgium.

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Closing the conference

Furui Shuji

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Automated demand response for air conditioning

Guillaume Chicco

Guillaume joined ENGIE in 2018 and works as a Business Developer within the team developing Product & Services for residential customers.

Lately, his focus lies on the innovations that are taking place at the residential level to enable customer to take an active role in the energy transition and empowered them to benefit of the electrification trends in a confidant way.

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Flexity – Internet of Energy

HALLSTEIN HAGEN

Hallstein Hagen is a Senior Consultant at NODES. He has, since 2016, been part of the Agder Energi Flexibility project that lead to the establishment of NODES with Nord Pool. Hallstein has long experience delivering Energy Trading and Risk Management software to the energy sector. He has international experience from the finance and commodity industry from his time at Reuters. Hallstein holds a Bachelor in Marketing from Norwegian School of Marketing and Business Studies (NMH) and Banking studies (Bankakademiet).

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NODES – Integrated flexibility market

Helena Gerard

Helena Gerard (1984) received her masters degree in Commercial Engineering, specialization finance, from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 2007. At the same university she received an advanced master in Financial Economics in 2008. From 2008 till 2014, she worked for the energy company GDF Suez. She occupied several positions in the field of sustainable energy, price product design and portfolio management. In 2014, she joined EnergyVille as senior researcher.

Helena is responsible for the development of the EnergyVille roadmap on energy market design. She is involved in both (inter)national research projects as well as commercial contract research in the field of market design and system operation. She participated amongst others in the European projects EvolvDSO (FP7) and Smartnet (H2020). She currently leads the work on market design in the European projects EU-Sysflex (H2020) and OneNet (H2020) and is also chairing the BRIDGE working group on Regulation.

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Unlocking Flex with innovative design of system services

James Matthys-Donnadieu

James Matthys-Donnadieu is currently head of the Market Development Department at Elia Transmission Belgium, that is responsible for the design and implementation of all interconnection capacity, energy, balancing and adequacy market mechanisms in Belgium and the integration thereof within the broader European context. He is also a supervisory board member of EPEX Spot SE and chairman of the supervisory board of HGRT.
Before joining Elia in its current role, he held positions as COO of the APX Group and CEO of its subsidiary Belpex and as a member of the Management Board of APX-Endex BV.
James holds a Master in Business Economics from the University of Antwerp and a Master in Business Administration from the Vlerick Management School.

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Introductory keynote speech

Jan Pellis

Jan Pellis is an innovation theme manager ‘Flexibility’ at grid operator Stedin. He is committed to starting innovation projects to develop the role of Stedin in the energy transition. ‘I am really happy if I can combine my knowledge of the energy system with new technologies, insights, and market developments to build the energy system of the future.’ This covers enabling and connecting new and existing parties in the energy market to test solutions for challenges the energy system faces. He also contributes to different nationwide working groups to understand and shape the energy transition. Recent projects Jan is involved in are: ‘The Layered Energy System,’ ‘An assessment framework for the application of flexibility in the Dutch power system.’

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Market insight on Energy Flexibility Heatpumps & EV ChargePoints

Jef Verbeeck

Jef Verbeeck (1968) received his masters degree in engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1993. At the same university he received a Phd degree on measurement and identification methods for synchronous machines in 2000.

From 2000 till 2011, his main occupation was in mechatronic design and architecture, modeling and simulation for several companies. In 2011, he joined the Energy Technology Unit of VITO (Flemish Institute for Technological Research) as a researcher on algorithms, modelling and optimization.

His main focus is on the application of demand response and its economic value in industrial applications and buildings. In this context he is/was involved in several (inter)national research projects on demand response a.o. SymbiOptima (EU H2020), IndustRE (EU H2020), Rennovates (EU H2020), Antwerp Circular South (EU Urban Innovative Actions) and AmBIENCe (EU H2020).

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Making the value of demand response tangible for ESCO’s

Jelle Meersmans

Jelle builds on seven years of experience in the energy sector across different roles in the consultancy, energy retail, and technology space.

His passion lies in new business models linked to consumer-centric demand-side response that will allow us to decarbonize our energy system.

In his current role as Product Manager at Enervalis, he is responsible for product management linked to smart homes, smart EV charging, and the VPP aggregation layer.

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Vehicle-to-grid (V2G)

Maarten Sloot

As portfolio manager Digital Grid at Siemens, Maarten Sloot is responsible for the development of new products and services on the subject of digitalization of asset management and maintenance and grid-optimization. With his young mind he is able to look beyond borders in order to create new solutions for problems related to the energy transition. One of his focus points is the collaboration between IT and OT in the DSO market. In his believe, we should be aware of the value of data we have or could have at the grid edges. “This is in the end the place where most of the impact of the energy transition will be created”, he states.

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The grid edge

Nilufar Neyestani

Nilufar has a M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and received the PhD degree in Industrial Engineering and Management with a thesis on Sustainable distribution network planning considering multi-energy systems and plug-in electric vehicles parking lots.

Currently, Nilufar is a Senior Researcher in in the Centre for Power and Energy Systems of INESC TEC. She has been involved in several national and international projects including H2020 projects.

Her research interests include demand response, electric vehicles, smart grids, energy system planning and optimization, and multi-vector energy systems. In AmBIENCe project, she is the responsible for work package developing an active building energy performance contract concept and business model.

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Business models in Buildings & Active building Energy Performance Contracting

Pieter Arts

CFO easyEnergy & Nieuwestroom

EasyEnergy & Nieuwestroom want, each in their segment, to be a pioneer in new market models for the energy market. Selling electricity and gas for market prices instead of fixed prices is a start. This encourages customers to consume energy when there is sufficient/surplus. Dynamic pricing is a key concept to move energy consumption in time and therefore enable large-scale introduction of (uncontrollable) renewable generation: the start of smart grids!
At the moment we are transforming the processes and ICT system to become highly automated and ready to implement more processes and products to support the energy transition while keeping prices competitive for our customers.

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Commercial & Industrial Flex

Philip Gladek

Philip Gladek is a self-taught engineer with a background in business strategy. Originally from New York City, Philip came to the Netherlands in 2012 to help his sister start Metabolic, a globally active sustainability consultancy and venture building company. In 2015, Philip founded Spectral (as a spin-off of Metabolic) to focus on accelerating the energy transition through the development of smart energy technologies.

As CEO / CTO of Spectral, Philip is responsible for leading the development of Spectral’s technology platforms focused on a number of key application areas, including: smart buildings, smart microgrids, energy trading, and hybrid renewable power plants.

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Hybrid renewable power plants - a cornerstone of the energy transition

Philippa Hardy

Philippa leads the development of Delta-ee’s demand-side flexibility research, which;

Analyses how the dynamic markets are developing
Evaluates customers, business models and technology innovations
Identifies opportunities
Investigates the competitive landscape and USPs required for success
Assesses the flexibility ‘prize‘

She also manages and works on a wide range of bespoke consultancy projects for a variety of clients on; demand-side flexibility, smart buildings, and low carbon heating, providing clients with tailored strategic advice, market, and technology insight, and primary customer research.

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The changing landscape of aggregators and Commercial / Industrial demand side flexibility

Pieter Vanbaelen

Pieter joined Elia in 2015 and works as a Product Manager within the team of Future Market Development.

He is specialized in demand response, decentralized flexibility, and works passionately on the integration of renewable energy resources in the Belgian grid.

Lately, his focus lies on the innovations that are taking place at the residential level, such as the Internet of Things and Blockchain, and he investigates via pilot projects how these technologies disrupt our current way of working and create value for end-consumers and society as a whole.

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Internet of Energy – FLEXITY

Remko ten Barge

Founder of NieuweStroom, a Dutch energy company changing the energy market with dynamic prices, allowing companies to make them energy conscious.

NieuweStroom links theis customers to the daily purchasing at the spot market exchange EPEX Spot (formerly: APX), a purchasing platform for electricity suppliers. By using the smart meter, the customer charges exactly what he uses every hour at the correct hourly rate on the APX.

Next to that, In 2015, an gas product was launched on the market in addition to the existing unique electricity product.

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Industrial & commercial flex

Rianne ’t Hoen

Rianne studied physics at the University of Utrecht. After her studies, she worked at Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (FOM-DIFFER) on her PhD thesis about hydrogen retention in tungsten materials. Since February 2015 she works at DNV GL.

Within DNV GL she focuses on the knowledge field of renewable energy, energy storage, battery safety, storage business case calculations and workshop & trainings. Rianne ’t Hoen contributes through project realisation, market studies, technology assessments, independent project evaluations and technical research in the role of technical consultant and project manager.

Rianne is chairman of the Dutch normalisation committee NEC 21/35 cells and batteries.

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Battery Management : teamwork between storage and energy management

Rolf Bienert

Rolf Bienert is the Managing & Technical Director of the OpenADR Alliance. In this capacity, Rolf oversees all aspects of the non-profit organization, the technical developments, and the certification program. Before going independent, Rolf was the Technical Manager for Telecom and the Global Competence Center for emerging communication protocols at a global testing firm. In this role, Rolf was involved in many international standardization efforts and guided the company’s efforts in these areas.

Rolf has been an active member of the NIST SGTCC, USNAP Alliance, ZigBee Alliance, and other organizations driving the development of new technologies with a specific focus on standardization, certification and interoperability. Rolf holds a Master’s Degree in electrical engineering.

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DER Control Strategies and EV Charging

Stefan Lodeweyckx

Stefan Lodeweyckx is co-founder of i.LECO and former CEO and founder of ENERVALIS. He has 20 years broad international industrial experience on both technical as managerial level and has worked at different sized companies amongst which are Philips (Natlab), 2 startups, Option (telco devices) and Sony. This experience is complemented by his MSc and MBA degrees and 1 granted patent and 6 more patent applications.

He founded Enervalis in February 2013 and has since then successfully acquired different projects and customers. His expertise is in advanced energy services, business modelling, commercialisation and management.

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Local Energy Communities in practice: the Woerden pilot

Mihail Mihaylov

Dr. Mihail Mihaylov is a blockchain architect at i.LECO working in the domains of smart grids, renewable energy and blockchain technology. He is the product owner of i.LECO’s local energy community dashboard tool. In addition, he is currently managing several teams at i.LECO on various funded projects.

Previously he was senior research engineer at Enervalis and before that – a post-doctoral researcher consecutively in three institutions: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Sensing & Control Systems, Spain and University of Leuven, Belgium. In 2012 he obtained his Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence with highest distinction from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium with his doctoral thesis “Decentralized Coordination in Multi-agent Systems”. He obtained his M.Sc. degree in artificial intelligence with distinction from Maastricht University, The Netherlands and his B.Sc. degree in computer engineering from University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

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Local Energy Communities in practice: the Woerden pilot

Thijs Vral

Thijs is part of the Innovation team of Elia Group, the transmission system operator in Belgium and a part of Germany. In this team, he is responsible for the innovation portfolio related to system operations. He also takes a leading role in projects related to electromobility.

Before taking this position, Thijs has worked in the Power System Operations and Security department of Elia, and as a project manager for electromobility related activities. He also worked abroad for seven months, in engineering, operations, maintenance of microgrids.

Thijs holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Ghent University, and a Master’s degree in Sustainable Energy Technologies from Delft University of Technology.

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Vehicle-to-grid (V2G)

Ton Wurth

Ton Wurth is a strategic energy transition consultant at Siemens Smart Infrastructure. He has experience in investment planning within the chemical industry and the energy-infrastructure business. The last years he is involved in the development of an approach to develop robust energy-infrastructure plans within the context of a deep uncertain future.

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Creating robust adaptive investment plans for an adaptive energy-infrastructure in the Netherlands

Winifred Roggekamp

Winifred has been working for Technolution for twenty years, the last years as a domain architect within the business unit Energy & IoT.

His main task is translating customer and market demands into the functional requirements of products (electronics and technical software) and consulting on energy issues such as security, flexibility, etc.

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Battery management: the teamwork between storage and energy management