Ronnie belmans new approaches for smart grid requirements. I wish this initiative every success and expect to see the. List of participating institutions participant legal name cc organisation type contact person 1 k. A smart software tool for automated design of an offshore grid. Smart regulation for the smart grid leonardo meeus, florence school of regulation, marcelo saguan, microeconomix, jeanmichel glachant, florence school of regulation and ronnie belmans, k. Smart grid system aspect, technology and application mapping and modeling.
Ronnie belmans received his msc degree in electrical engineering in 1979 and a phd degree in 1984, both from ku leuven, belgium. We have to show the successes of those 500 projects, said ronnie belmans, executive director of the global smart grid federation. Pdf residential demand response applications using batch. By 2030, the european commission wants 40% less greenhouse gas emissions compared to 1990, 32% renewable energy in the total energy mix and an increased efficiency of 32,5%. The paper concludes with what appears to be a smart regulation for smart grids. Ronnie belmans, former chairman of the belgian distribution system operator elia and professor in the electrical engineering department at the university of leuven, has been appointed as the first executive director of the global smart grid federation. About 500 smart grid pilot projects are under way around the world but the technology is young. Driven by recent advances in batch reinforcement learning rl, this paper contributes to the application of batch rl to demand response. Montreal, 23 june 2006 ronnie belmans vision of smartgrids technology platform ronnie belmans and johan driesen. Technology platform ronnie belmans vice president ac smartgrids kuleuven. Mapping stateoftheart controllable equipment such as facts, hvdclcc, hvdcvsc, phase. What will more electrification bring ev, heat pumps. These issues are part of the interdisciplinary research cluster sustainable power supply, in which the chair of electrical power systems is significantly involved. Ronnie belmans heads global smart grid federation smart.
The global smart grid federation gained european management in september 2012, when professor ronnie belmans from ku leuven, former chairman of the belgian transmission system operator elia, was chosen as the executive director. Ronnie belmans gives a talk entitled smart grids european technology platform smart grids in europe. Will local interactions between consumers be enabled e. This smart software tool enables a grid designer to effortlessly design an offshore grid considering the multitude of appropriate design. Ieee transactions on smart grid special issue on planning and operation of transmission grid with applications to smart grid from concept to implementation this special issue will cover the challenges and opportunities for the development of a transmission. Technology platform ronnie belmans vice president ac. Marcello bondesan, sushil kumar, suneet manjavkar, keshav. He is a full professor at the katholieke universiteit ku leuven where he teaches electric power and energy systems, his research interests include technoeconomic aspects of power systems, power quality and. However, integration of smart grid technologies in the electric power system 5, for example though smart meters, creates opportunities to more efficiently balance supply and demand. The challenges stated here are just the beginning of a process of which we see only the tip of the iceberg. Grid internal benefits benefits grid external benefits tariffs public subsidies at member states level public subsidies at eu level ronnie belmans katholieke universiteit leuven, belgium ronnie. Ronnie belmans is deeply ingrained in the smart grid arena. Ict meets tweed global smart grids federation, ronnie belmans 1.
Dirk van hertem, ronnie belmans, multi level optimization for offshore grid planning, cigre symposium, bologna, italy, 2011. Grids stakeholders, including governments, are now fully aware that a their overall target of 34% rese by. Smart grids employ data analysis and intercommunication to maximise the efficiency of power supply and delivery. Established in 2010, the global smart grid federation links leading national and regional smart grid organizations from around the world, each representing a variety of private sector, academic, and other stakeholder interests. Ronnie belmans, gsgf executive director, returns for a second year as head of jury. For 2050 a total decarbonisation of the energy system, including transport, is foreseen. Currently, ronnie belmans is full professor at ku leuven, teaching technoeconomical aspects of power systems, electrical energy and. Reinhart appels, dimitris athanasiadis, vasiliki balafouti, frank behaegel, nathalie belmans, ronnie belmans, bart beusen, luc beyaert, bart boesmans, aline bogaerts, lut bollen, isabelle borremans, ralf bosch, bert. The global smart grid federation gsgf is a global stakeholder organization committed to creating smarter, cleaner electrical systems around the world. The years up to 2020 have been discussed in the previous smart. Leonardo meeus, marcelo saguan, jeanmi chel glachant and ronnie belmans 20.
Smart grids edited by nouredine hadjsaid, jeanclaude sabonnadiere. The defined framework consists of six characteristics which a smart grid should meet. In 1989 he added a special doctorate from the kuleuven and in 1993 a habilitierung, from the rwth, aachen, germany. Quantifying electricity storage arbitrage opportunities in shortterm electricity markets in the cwe region.
View ronnie belmans profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. This paper extends fitted qiteration, a standard batch rl technique, to the. Nuclear energy as part of the electricity generation. Electricity grids, and hence their regulatory frameworks, have a key role to play in facilitating this. Research into sustainable energy and smart energy systems. Europe is ahead of the worlds other highly industrialized areas in planning for the smart grid. Smart grid interoperability grid user interactions and interfaces grid connectivity of distributed generation power grid electric energy storage. Innoenergy project proposal for the topic intelligent.
Smart regulation for smart grids eui working papers rscas 201045 robert schuman centre for advanced studies. Reengaging customer demand iain mcgill and stephan healy, university of new south wales. Ronnie belmans s 86 research works with 983 citations and 4,317 reads, including. Ronnie belmans is professor at kuleuven, ceo of energyville, and executive director of the global smart grid federation. It, will hopefully bring together all parties involved in smart grids to develop a strategic research agenda. His research interests include smart grids, security of energy supply and the technoeconomic aspects of the liberalization of the electricity market. Ronnie belmans, energyville, ku leuven, belgium, ronnie. Integrating renewables in the grid one element of the flexibility sources needed in asustainable electricity system prof. Smart grid infrastructure lab thermo technical lab medium voltage lab pv metrology lab dc lab power electronics lab. In this video, ronnie belmans talks about the transition from a carbon based community to a renewable carbonfree society. He is a full professor at the katholieke universiteit ku leuven where he teaches. Smartgrids sra 2035 strategic research agenda update of the. He is the former executive director of the global smartgrids federation. The problem is approached from the perspective of a.
We have our mind set on the european goals for 2030 and 2050. Pier paolo maggiora gives a presentation during the ieee smart grid world forum on integrating smart grid infrastructure, on a project based in italy. Energyville ronnie belmans, ceo at energyville ieee fellow, dr. A smart grid handbook for regulators and policy makers and ami rollout plan for. Engie and energyville collaborate on future smart energy. The centerpoint energy smart grid shows the tremendous value offered by smart grid systems that efficiently integrate advanced meters, intelligent switches, information and communications technologies, data analytics, grid management systems, and more to improve the flexibility, reliability and resilience of electricity service. Ict meets tweed global smart grids federation, ronnie belmans. Global smart grid federation announces new executive director. Last but not least, he is the chairman of the board of the vreg, the flemish regulator for electricity and gas. The board of directors of the global smart grid federation is pleased that ronnie belmans is joining gsgf as its first executive director, said paddy turnbull, acting chairman of gsgf. A focus lies on the integration of energy converters and the resulting topics grid identification and future grid operation with decentralized power generation. Integrating shortterm demand response into longterm. His research interests include smart grids, security of energy supply and the technoeconomic aspects. Ronnie belmans ku leuven, energyville, global smart grid federation tom brijs ku leuven, energyville.
Ronnie belmans global smart grid federation european. District heating and cooling as a key element of a smart power grid pdf, 582. Research topics that are currently being covered with the energyville research partners are smart inverter testing for solar panels, the health monitoring of batteries, coating tests for photovoltaics and new technology bricks for the grid integration of renewable energy sources. Bert claessens and ronnie belmans, fellow, ieee abstractthis paper proposes a. Executive director of global smart grid federation. The interactive grid suppliers appliances, equipment grid operator user present and forecast.
Council of the technology platform smartgrids proposes that europe should move forward in different. It is in this context that smart grids are being discussed. A study on design and funtionalities of smart grid. Since september 2012, executive director of gsgf global smart grid. Ceo of energyville professor at university of leuven. He also holds board positions with companies active in domotics and demand control as well as in smart grid applications. Leuven chairman of the european smartgrids platform. Pdf measuring the smartness of the electricity grid researchgate. Smartgrids sra 2035 strategic research agenda update of. Largescale integration of renewable energy sources largescale integration of distributed energy resources evolution towards smart grids. We look at three empirical cases to see which regulatory tools have already been applied and find that smart grids need a coherent regulatory framework addressing grid services, grid technology innovation and grid user participation to the ongoing grid innovation. As affiliated professor at vlerick business school, he is member of the advisory board of the vlerick energy centre. Ronnie belmans ceo, energyville executive director, global smart grid honorary chairman, board of directors, elia ronnie belmans received his msc degree in electrical engineering in 1979 and a phd degree in 1984, both from ku leuven, belgium.
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