21.9.2007 - konferencija
Coordination of the European transmission network research activities

The European interconnected Electricity Transmission Network (ETN) is the backbone of the Internal Electricity Market. This network should be openly accessible to all market participants and should provide enough reliable transmission capacity to give consumers access to a mix of primary energy sources with sustainable energy sources.
Since the Directive of 1996, the progressive energy market liberalisation in Europe has increased energy exchanges between the EU Member States and beyond. The massive integration of wind generation will amplify such cross-border trading.
New knowledge and solutions are therefore required to cope with these major changes, avoid major continental power disruptions and secure the ETN reliability, robustness and flexibility at an acceptable cost.
The Coordination Action RELIANCE is part of the Sixth Research and Technological Development Framework Programme of the European Commission. It includes a group of eight European Transmission System Operators, a Power Producer, a Distribution System Operator and several Research Centres that shares a common understanding of the needs to amplify joint research and development (R&D) tasks on power system issues.
Since late 2005, the RELIANCE consortium has designed a R&D roadmap to meet these new knowledge challenges. It has also shown that the current level of R&D in Europe is insufficient to address properly these issues. The national electricity transmission systems that were optimized separately are no longer optimal at a European level. Similarly, integrated Europe wide R&D investments are required to handle the increasingly trans-national issues caused by the intensifying cross-border trading and interdependencies.
The conclusions of the RELIANCE consortium will be presented to all stakeholders through this one day conference which takes place in Ljubljana , Slovenia on 21 September 2007. The proposed detailed R&D agenda, a viable funding mechanism, and a flexible and transparent structure to manage this research programme through the proposed European Centre for Electrical Networks will be detailed together with the European public authorities and stakeholders perspectives.
Sufficient time will be allocated during the day:
• To interact with senior representatives from European Commission, energy regulators, transmission system operators and other sector organisations regarding their views about this research Organisation challenges and benefits
• To present the first 5-year Activity Plan of this structure
• To gather information concerning the future research and development initiatives, being the basis for the ECEN launch
Further information is available on our RELIANCE website
http://www.ca-reliance.org
• Conference Brochure http://www.ca-reliance.org/download
• Conference Registration Form (PDF - to be sent by fax) http://www.ca-reliance.org/news/registration.html
• Venue and accommodation http://www.ca-reliance.org/news/organization.html
________________________________________ Contact Information:
RELIANCE Project Coordination
Event Coordinator: Karim KAROUI
Avenue Ariane, 7
BE - 1200 Brussels
Tel: + 32 2 773 7248
Fax: + 32 2 773 8890
Email:events@ca-reliance.org
www.ca-reliance.org