Champéry Power Conference 2017

We are pleased to invite you to attend the international conference on
to be held in the beautiful ski resort of Champéry, Switzerland, February 5-9 2017. This conference is organized by the School of Engineering of Valais, in partnership with Swissgrid, the Swiss National Science Foundation and Energie Sion Région. World renowned experts in electric power systems will gather to identify and discuss current and future challenges, as well as opportunities facing electric power systems from production to consumption, via transmission and distribution of electricity, in the light of the energy transition.
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the organizing committee and the school of engineering at HES-SO Valais-Wallis we are pleased to invite you to participate in the international workshop and conference on
Future Electric Power Systems and the Energy Transition
to be held in the beautiful ski resort of Champéry, Switzerland in early February 2016. This event is organized by the School of Engineering of Valais, in partnership with Swissgrid and the Swiss National Science Foundation among others. The workshop gathers a panel of speakers and an audience of international experts in the field of electric power systems to identify current and future challenges, as well as opportunities facing electric power systems in the context of the energy transition.
Topics to be covered include
* power systems dynamics and control
* Electromagnetic transients
* power systems voltage control
* distributed, inertia-less power generation
* resilience to major disturbances, black-out dynamics
* distributed energy resources
* micro-/ smart grid
* electrical energy storage optimization and control
Sessions will consist of both invited and contributed talks. Regular participants will be given the opportunity to present their results in a poster session and/or in oral communications.
The conference will start with a welcome reception in the late afternoon of Feb 5. Sessions will begin on Monday morning, Feb 6 and end on Thursday, Feb 9, 2017. Champéry is a ski resort located in the Swiss alps. It is easily reachable from Geneva airport by car (ca. 2h) or by public transportation (train; ca. 2h 30 mins). More detailed informations on the conference are available on www.hevs.ch/epowersystems, where you are welcome to register for the conference until November 30. Participants will be asked to contribute a moderate conference admission fee of 300.- CHF. Limited funds may be available for younger researchers upon request, to cover part of their travel expenses.
You will receive a confirmation of admittance within few days of your registration, together with travel and other practical information. Upon confirmation of your registration, we advise you to contact one of the hotels listed on our web page and directly book your room as soon as possible. We have negociated preferred room rates, which are guaranteed only until end of November. Please make your reservation by email or phone, directly with the hotel - do not use online registration forms as the preferred rate will not apply.
We hope very much that you will accept this invitation. Should you decide to do so, we ask you to complete the registration form on www.hevs.ch/epowersystems.
Do not hesitate to contact us at info.isi[at]hevs.ch should you need further information.
(All speakers are confirmed)
The conference will start with a welcome reception in the evening of Feb 5. Sessions will begin on Monday morning,
Feb 6 and end on Thursday, Feb 9, 2017. Topics to be covered include:
08:30 | Sparse Principal Component Analysis of the Sensitivity Matrix in Power System State Estimation Henrik Sandberg, KTH, Stockholm |
09:05 | Latest Results for real-time decentralized Voltage Stability Monitoring and Protection against Voltage Collapse Costas Vournas, NTUA Athens |
09:40 | Challenges in managing the transmission grid capacity of Switzerland Maurice Dierick, Head of Grid, Swissgrid |
10:15 | Coffee break |
10:45 | Synchrophasor Applications Facilitating Interactions between Transmission and Distribution Operations Luigi Vanfretti, KTH Stockholm |
11:20 | Propagation of Disturbances in Power Grids Stefan Kettemann + Michael Conrath, Jacobs University Bremen |
12:00 | Concluding address |