Webinar organized by Think Smartgrids and its Scientific Council, in partnership with the French Committee of CIRED and the SEE association.

Flexibility is a key issue to meet the challenge of the energy transition and to integrate a growing share of Intermittent Renewable Energies into the power grid.

The speakers will review the different levers of flexibility for power systems and networks, providing details on technical, economic and pricing aspects, with the short and long term perspectives. They will take stock of their implementation (theory vs. practice) and the stage of industrialization of the different solutions.

PROGRAM AND SPEAKERS :

• Introduction: Valérie-Anne Lencznar (Think Smartgrids), François Gerin (SEE) and Pierre Mallet (Enedis, French National Committee of CIRED)
• Alain Malot, portfolio strategy manager for Schneider Electric, professor at INP Grenoble - state of the art of flexibility and presentation of the different flexibility levers.
• Charles Verhaeghe, Head of the Electricity Transmission Department of the French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) : market design, capacity mechanism and related calls for tender, flexibility services for the distribution network.
• Hubert Dupin, head of the flexibility department at Enedis: Enedis' roadmap to embed flexibility in the main French DSO’s processes
• Emmanuel Cantegrel, Senior VP Business & International Development, Energy Pool (aggregator): flexibility for industrial and tertiary customers, use cases in Japan with TEPCO and in Northern Europe.
• Régis Leblanc, Engie, as a flexible producer operating wind farms connected to the distribution grid.
• Conclusion: RTE (French TSO, speaker to be confirmed)