The Summit

Market liberalization and new generation structures, particularly fluctuating renewable infeed, tend to increase the complexity of grid management. Investment and maintenance strategies need to be optimized with regard to these technical challenges and to changing business models. In this task, the ability to continuously adapt to upcoming future challenges in a flexible and agile way is crucial for the future. This presentation focuses on the substation as a central element of electricity grids and illustrates concrete potentials of digitalization in substation technology and design, as well as their benefits for utilities.

Does Smarter Homes empower Smarter Citizens? Stockholm Royal Seaport is a new district of Stockholm, but it is also a centre for development of the technology behind sustainable cities. It is here that Fortum, Ericsson, ABB, Ellevio and Electrolux, together with KTH and with the support of the Swedish Energy Agency, started the Smart Energy City research programme.

We will share the first, preliminary results from the data collection and user-behavior analysis from the 154 Smart Homes in SRS, and also discuss the business models that enables the growth of similar services in pre- and retro-fit scenarios.

Presenting Accenture’s 4th annual Digitally Enabled Grid (DEG) global research program as well as relevant global and European client examples to show how grid investment and operations strategies are changing.