Organisers
IEEE
IEEE is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity with over 400,000 members in over 160 countries around the globe. IEEE pursues progress and innovation across the entire spectrum of different fields of technology. Continuing its long-standing tradition of excellence, IEEE and its members play critical leadership roles in driving education, facilitating new discoveries and breakthroughs, and establishing best practices and industry standards. IEEE inspires a global community through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.
As the world’s largest and most comprehensive professional association, the IEEE provides the diversity of expertise, information, resources, and vision needed to realize the Smart Grid’s full promise and potential. As a visible, trusted partner in the research, development, and deployment of Smart Grid technology and solutions, the IEEE leads a close collaboration of all stakeholders worldwide to define and promote the evolution of the Smart Grid ecosystem.
As Smart Grid quickly advances from the theoretical to the concrete, the IEEE will continue to act as a catalyst for change and innovation providing a dynamic, global framework that reflects the multiple existing views.
For more information about IEEE Smart Grid activities please visit smartgrid.ieee.org.
SmartGrids ETP
The SmartGrids European Technology Platform (ETP) is a European network bringing together researchers, industry and other relevant stakeholders in a particular technological field in order to foster European research and development in the concerned area.
The SmartGrids European Technology Platform for Electricity Networks of the Future began its work in 2005. Its aim was to formulate and promote a vision for the development of European electricity networks looking towards 2020 and beyond.
The role of the SmartGrids ETP is to:
- Advise and provide inputs to projects, initiatives, policy makers and other EU institutions (e.g. the SET-plan)
- Monitor and facilitate the deployment stage ensuring efficient use of resources both private and public (e.g. European Industrial Initiatives)
- Encourage timely attention to catalyst projects to ensure that potential technical, regulatory and commercial barriers are not over-looked
- Identify and promote opportunities for collaboration at all stages in the innovation chain including access to funding sources (for instance European Institute of Technology EIT, Knowledge Innovation Communities KICK, EERA, or SETIS)
- Involve customers and increase awareness of Smart Grid value to society
- To continue building-up on technical working groups and provide potential response in setting-up other working groups or core advising groups that can reply to the requests from stakeholders and the European Commission
2010 IEEE smart grid world local organiser
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - ESAT/ELECTA
Founded in 1425, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is one of Europe's oldest and most highly regarded universities.
The Electa research group is a division of the electrical engineering department of the K.U.Leuven. The research domain of the Electa division covers the broad spectrum of electrical energy systems and robust control of industrial systems. The development of the future Smart Grid is key.
As the largest research group on energy systems and fault tolerance in the Benelux, Electa's vision is to be widely recognized as centre-of-excellence on these topics, where fundamental research is coupled with immediately and prospectively applicable solutions for the industry.
Alongside this development of know-how, a pivotal importance is given to sharing gained knowledge with the academic community, students, industry and the society as a whole.
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