Delivering Energy Savings through Smart Metering
St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, 26-27 October 2009
A one and a half-day workshop to review and provide input into ESMA recommendations to the European Commission, develop a shared research agenda and to establish an energy savings network focussed on smart metering and behaviour change.
Presentations
Esma Recommendations
John Parsons, European Smart Metering Alliance
Implementing the ESD: Improved smart metering and consumer feedback
Alexandra Langenheld, European Commission
Drivers for Utilities and Demand Response in the EU - are we providing them?
Smart Meters and Smart Houses
John Cowburn - CEng FIET
Strategic Technology Manager at PRI Ltd
John has 20 years experience in the metering industry, concentrating on smart metering solutions for the last 5 years. He lead the team who developed the first Smart Metering devices to be ZigBee certified and working with standards bodies and other organisations to enable the technology to become a reality across Europe.
He is also Chairman of BEMCA’s Technical Committee, represent ESMIG on ETSI’s M2M group working on Smart Metering Communications Architecture standard and Chairman of the ZigBee Euro Special Interest Group on Smart Energy.
Alexandra Langenheld
National Expert, Unit D1 – Regulatory Policy & Promotion of Renewable Energy, DG Transport & Energy, European Commission
Alexandra is Scientific Officer at the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Institute for Energy, Renewable Energy Unit. She held this role since the beginning of 2009. Her work is mainly focused on energy efficiency.
Alexandra has been National Expert “Renewable energies and energy efficiency” to the European Commission, Directorate-General Energy and Transport, Unit “Regulatory policy & Promotion of renewable energies” mainly focused on biofuels since 2006 Previously, Ms. Langenheld worked in the “Climate Protection, Renewable Energies” Department at the Federal Environment Ministry for two years focusing mainly on renewable energies, esp. bioenergy in the context of European and international Cooperation. From 2002-2003 she was an Academic at the Technical University Berlin, Faculty Architecture, Environment, Society mainly focused on applied research and acquisition of research projects in the field of renewable energies and transport.
Zoe McLeod, Principal Policy Advocate, Consumer Focus
Zoe is Principal Policy Advocate at the statutory consumer watchdog, Consumer Focus, working on a range of energy issues and most recently smart metering and mobile communications.
Prior to this she was Campaigns and Policy Manager at the fuel poverty charity National Energy Action including providing secretariat for the Parliamentary Warm Homes Group. She has more than 8 years experience in campaigns, media and research including working for Amnesty International, Friends of the Earth, the Liberal Democrats and MPs.
Prior to becoming a campaigner she worked as a financial and health journalist. At Consumer Focus Zoe is involved in all aspects of policy and communications and has a key role pressing for change at a national government level. She is a local government Councillor in Richmond with special responsibilities in the area of environment and sustainability.
John Parsons, ESMA
John has worked in the energy industry for 22 years, involved in various aspects of embedded generation and metering. He has worked at GEC Research and British Gas Research and Technology, researching fuel cells, cogeneration and domestic CHP. In 2003 he joined BEAMA where he has been working on topics related to electricity metering included projects addressing power exports from small embedded generators and a trial of smart metering for SME’s. Currently, John is project coordinator for ESMA, an IEEA Project setting up a European Smart Metering Alliance. John is also Secretary of the Technical Committee of BEMCA, the UK trade association for utility electricity meter manufacturers. Since June he has been working as a member of the expert team on a CENELEC Smart Housing RoadMap project.
Jessica Stromback
Senior Partner at VaasaETT, Global Energy Think Tank.
Jessica specializes in smart metering, demand response and customer psychology.
She has participated in or led consultancy and research projects for: Nuon, EDF, Capgemini, RWE, Schneider Electric, Landis & Gyr, Duke Energy, and CREIPI of Japan, British Gas, Bord Gais, Union Fenosa, BC Hydro and E-control among others.
Currently she is the manager of “Respond 2009” a 23 country, multinational research project, reviewing the status of Smart Metering and carrying out best practice modeling for Demand Response Programmes. She is the director of the GETT DR Roundtable an international roundtable collecting and vetting the latest Demand Response research and pilot study results from around the world.
Judith Ward
Judith Ward is an energy policy specialist and Associate Fellow at Warwick Business School. She is a policy adviser to the UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy and board member of the Institute for European Environment Policy. She was Group Head of Public Affairs for National Grid until 2004, having joined them in 1990. Her early career was spent, inter alia, in policy roles with the House of Commons Environment Select Committee and the national Electricity Consumers’ Council. She has a master’s degree in Energy Resources Management. For the past five years, Judith has worked and published extensively on policies for household smart meters with the environment think-tank, Sustainability First. (
www.sustainabilityfirst.org.uk)
Göran Wilke
Head, Danish Electricity Saving Trust
Göran graduated MSc Engineering, specialising in engineering physics. Since 1980, Göran has worked on a wide range of projects dealing with instruments and analyses in relation to energy consumption and savings. One aspect of this work involved managing a number of development projects on energy and economic models, methodologies and GIS for use in local energy planning, as well as concepts for industrial cogeneration power plants, and freight transport by windship.
In 1997, the board of the Danish Electricity Saving Trust (Elsparefonden) appointed Göran Wilke as Head of Secretariat. Since then, he has been responsible for establishing the organisation and for the development and implementation of the Trust’s strategy for cost-effective electricity savings. Göran has been a driving force in the development of the Trust’s push-pull strategy, where the Trust actively tries to involve the supplier side in a market reorientation towards energy efficient equipment and concepts.
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