1. Coping with variability
Integrating renewables into the electricity system
Session 1. Variable Renewables and the grid
10.30 a.m. Chair: Godfrey Boyle(OU)
10.35 Overview: Michael Loughton (Imperial/QMC)
10.55 David Milborrow (Consultant) Wind power on the grid
11.15 Graham Sinden (ECI) Putting it all together
11.35 Discussant: Goran Strbac (Manchester)
Brief questions
12.00 UKERC Intermittency review Robert Gross / Dennis Anderson (TPA/Imperial)
12.20 Computer Models of Integrated systems Mark Barrett (Consultant)
12.40 Discussion
1.00pm Lunch
Session 2: Flexible Hardware
Chair: Dave Elliott (OU)
2.00 Overview: Fred Starr (Institute of Energy, Netherlands) Flexibility Issues in Advanced Generating Plant
2.20 David Andrews (Wessex Water)
The role of gas and diesel engines as flexible generation
2.40 Dave Toke ( DESIRE project ) CHP and wind in Denmark.
3.00: Discussant: Bob Everett
3.15 Discussion
3.30 Tea
Session 3: Operational Innovations
Chair: Godfrey Boyle (OU)
Dave Toke Load Management and wind prediction
Bob Everett (EERU) Demand flexibility, Micro-CHP & the Informated Grid
Tim Foster (SmartestEnergy) Managing Variability Brian Hurley (Airtricity) Offshore wind grids
Discussant : Simon Watson (CREST)
Discussion
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2. Follow-up
* We will put copies of today’s Power Point presentations, subject to authors’ agreement, on our Web site,
* We also hope to produce a DVD version of this Conference; contact EERU for details
* There will be a short report on this conference in EERU’s journal Renew, Issue 160, March-April 2006
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