Join us for the OSMOSE Final Conference on the 24th of March 2022

The event will take place on 24th March 2022 online and at RTE headquarters in:

LA DÉFENSE, 7 C PLACE DU DÔME, IMMEUBLE WINDOW, PUTEAUX, France

Any physical participation to the event will be subject to the French rules regarding COVID19 (public gauge, sanitary pass), which might evolve in the coming weeks (entry conditions in France detailed here). Note that  the French Government announced the end of the vaccine pass for the 14th of March. In case you plan to attend onsite, updates on the participatory conditions will be sent to you by email as early as possible.

CONFERENCE Agenda:

9:30 – 10:00 Registration & coffee

10:00 – 10:30 Introductory speeches
By Mark Van Stiphout, Deputy Head of Unit, EC DG Energy, Gabriel Bareux, RTE R&D Director, and Nathalie Grisey, OSMOSE Coordinator

10:30 – 11:30 Session 1: Modeling and quantifying the future of flexibility
  • Optimal mix of flexibility in long-term scenarios (Jens Weibezahn, TUB)
  • Market design modeling and analysis for flexibility (Thomas Heggarty, RTE; Benjamin Böcker, Christoph Weber, DUE)

11:30 – 12:40 Session 2: Demonstrating BESS & inverters’ flexibility
  • Demonstration of grid forming control by energy storage systems (Carmen Cardozo, RTE; Mario Polone, EPFL)
  • Demonstration of an innovative hybrid storage device providing multi-services (Alberto Escalera Blasco, REE; Faisal Bouchotrouch, CENER; Joaquin Álvarez Agudo, GPTech)
  • Methods for battery energy storage system design, control and performance analysis (Yves-Marie Bourien, CEA)

 12:40 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:15 Session 3: Demonstrating RES, industrial loads and grid flexibility
  • Demonstration of RES, industrial loads and grid flexibility in Southern Italy (Leonardo Petrocchi, TERNA)
  • Demonstration of close to real-time cross-border flexibility at the Italian-Slovenian border (Gorazd Ažman, ELES)
  • TSO/DSO optimisation of voltage control (Rui Pestana, REN; Ricardo Pastor, R&D Nester)
  • IEC 61850 engineering process (Sterckx Thomas, ELIA; Christoph Brunner, it4power)

15:15 – 15:50 Roundtable with invited panelists

With Mark Van Stiphout, Deputy Head of Unit, EC DG Energy; Zoran Vujasinovic, ACER; Norela Constantinescu, Head of Section Innovation at ENTSO-E and Vice-Chair of ETIP SNET; and Gerardo Rebollar Trejo, Marketing Strategy Director of Saft ESS division. Moderated by Uros Salobir, Director of the Strategic Innovation Department, ELES


 15:50 – 16:00  Conclusions
By Sébastien Henry, RTE Executive Director

   16:00  Networking session

N.B: This page will be updated regularly with the speakers’ and venue details.
To download the detailed agenda and venue information, click here.
The link to connect to the conference is here for our online participants.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement n°773406