AlpEnergy project and I2P Competition will be presented to all students, PhD, researchers, during an event that will take place on Friday, 20 May 2011 at the Politecnico di Milano, Room L01 – Via La Masa 34, Building 12 “Enrico Forlanini” – Campus Milano-Bovisa.
The event will be also available in live streaming at: www.snjmediastudio.com/polimilive


Idea to Product Competition 2011: presentation of the AlpEnergy project
Friday, 20 May 2011 – H. 16.00
Politecnico di Milano, Room L01
Via La Masa 34, Building 12 "Enrico Forlanini" – Milano
Campus Bovisa-La Masa

AGENDA

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Gianluca Pappalardo, Acceleratore d’Impresa del Politecnico di Milano

Speeches
Enrico Cagno, Politecnico di Milano – Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale
Francesco Castelli Dezza, Politecnico di Milano – Dipartimento di Meccanica
Maurizio Delfanti, Politecnico di Milano – Dipartimento di Energia
Marco Merlo, Politecnico di Milano – Dipartimento di Energia


I2P Competition is open to:
students (including Master and MBA students), PhD students, post-Doc, graduates (after the 1st September 2010) and who have a formal connection with the Politecnico di Milano. The participants can create a team of maximum 5 persons. The best projects can win prizes and the support for drafting the business plan.

For more information: www.ideatoproduct.it

International Conference in Lombardy Region

FROM ALPENERGY PROJECT TO THE NEW “CONTO ENERGIA 2011”. NEW PV TARIFF AND VIRTUAL POWER SYSTEMS
Mantova, 11 november 2010
Auditorium MPS, via Luzio 5/c – Mantova

The opportunity to develop a model of local management that would support the spread of renewable energy plants, but at the same time help integrate them with the local energy needs, the requirement of the electricity grid and energy planning of Local Bodies, was the reason that prompted the Province of Mantua to join the International Partnership of European AlpEnergy Project. It involves different actors belonging to the transnational reality of the Alpine space, engaged in the search for a general system model and the best application solutions in each territory. The main objective of the AlpEnergy project is the analysis and the development of a Virtual Power System: a technological system compound of plants for local electricity power generation using renewable sources (Virtual Power Plants) and their potential users such as households, companies, public organizations (Virtual Power Loads). All parts of a VPS are connected through communication and control systems (ICT) overlapping the traditional grid. The goal is to get the system with technical and economical advantages for both producers and users, but also for the same electric grid that should be better protected against fluctuating not easily foreseeable loads, which are typical of distributed generation in particular from solar and wind power plants.

The international experience of AlpEnergy has recently found an excellent contact point with the national planning in the new “Conto Energia”(PV tariff law), which will promote the production of electricity from solar sources for the period 2011-2013: the Law DLGS 06.08.2010 in fact specifies the new PV tariffs and conditions of access, introducing a new "bonus incentive" for plants managed as predictable load profile systems. Such foreseeable Systems have features which are very similar to those described in the Virtual Power System of the AlpEnergy Project.

The international conference of Mantua will be an opportunity to learn more about AlpEnergy studies and results from its local developers, from electric cars as storage systems for energy produced by domestic PV plant, to the remote control of public lighting and the new possibilities related with the use of smart meters. It will give information about the new Italian PV tariff for 2011, just over a month ahead of the application of new rates and new scenarios for an electrical system which helps to turn the user from a passive to an active role.

AGENDA
09:30 – Registration

10:00 – Welcome, Introductory Speech
Maurizio Fontanili - President of the Province of Mantova
Alberto Ghidorzi - President of AGIRE Energy Agency
Ivan Ongari - Town Councillor for Innovation and Sustainable Development of the Municipality of Suzzara
Luigi Piazza - North Est Area Manager MPS Bank

10:30 – 1st PART: Presentation of AlpEnergy Project
Renewable Energies and Virtual Power System (VPS)
Ludwig Karg - Managing Director BAUM Consult, Germany

10:50 – Presentation of the Local Virtual Power Systems (VPS)
Regional Virtual Power System and the electrical car
Stefan Mayer - AUEW Allgäuer Überlandwerk GmbH, Germany

Smart Meters and their possible application
Bogomir Filipic - Regionalna razvojna agencija Gorenjske, Slovenia

Virtual Power System in scattered mountain villages: technological framework and customer involvement
Marcello Chiaberghe - Politecnico di Torino, Valle D’Aosta Region

Virtual Power Systems in public structures: buildings, facilities, lighting
Giovanni Da Deppo - BIM Piave Consortium, Belluno

Controllable loads for local services to the distribution network
Emmanuel Jeanjean - Rhonalpenergie-Environnement, France

Virtual Power System Modelization
Umberto Bondi - ALaRI Università Svizzera Italiana di Lugano, Switzerland

VPS as a foreseeable load profile system
Nicola Galli - AGIRE Energy Agency, Province of Mantova

12:30 – Questions time

13:00 – Buffet Lunch

14:15 – 2nd PART: Conto Energia and electrical system
New National incentives (Conto Energia) for Photovoltaic power plants from 1st January 2011
GSE - National Energy Services Manager

Integrated PV Power Plants with innovative features and the new National incentives (Conto Energia): Producers point of view
CentroStudi APER - National Association of Renewable Energy Producers

Systems and algorithms for the forecast and the monitoring of the renewable energy production
Kenergia

Systems based on foreseeable exchange profile: opportunities and development
Politecnico di Milano

16:15 – Moderated discussion

17:00 – End of works

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For more information:
Nicola Galli
Phone: +39 0376 204 245 
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h. 9.15
Technical issues of VPS implementation by Prof. Kulic

h. 9.45
Open discussion with the expert

h. 10.45
Coffee break

h. 11.00
Communicational issues of VPS implementation Prof. Capone

h. 11.30
Open discussion with the expert

h. 12.30
Lunch

h. 14.00
Distributed computing for VPS by Prof. Mattern

h. 14.30
Open discussion with the expert

h. 15.30
Coffee break

h. 15.45
Commercial issues of VPS implementation by Prof. Larsen

h. 16.15
Open discussion with the expert

h. 17.15
Wrap-up

h. 18.00
Closure

For more information please contact:
ALaRI - University of Lugano
Via G. Buffi 13 - CH-6904 Lugano, Switzerland
Website: http://www.alari.ch/
Umberto Bondi
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phone: +41 58 666 4706
Slobodan Lukovic
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phone : +41 58 666 4217

International Conference on smart grids
March 18^th 2010 – Grenoble, France

In the future, smart grids will help integrating renewable energies and provide solutions for the management of power demand. They are thus part of the solutions as regards energetic and climatic issues. The compounding elements of these smart systems are enhanced distribution networks, smart meters, storage means, new services for consumers, producers groups. The International Conference in Grenoble will offer the opportunity to discuss about these important issues, with French, German and Italian representatives involved in various research and demonstration programs, as the framework of the European project AlpEnergy (Alpine Space Programme 2007-2013, a part of the "European Territorial Cooperation", together with 13 other programmes it strives for transnational cooperation in and between the European regions).

The Conference is addressed to consumers, producers, distributors, conceding authorities, power suppliers, enterprises of the energy control market. The aim is to have a better understanding of the announced evolution of electric networks.

The International meeting is organized by Rhônalpénergie Environnement and Grenoble Institute of Technology (French partners of the Alpine Space project AlpEnergy), in partnership with Tenerdis, and with the support of Alpine Space Programme and  Rhône-Alpes region.


More information on the Conference is available from the internet website: www.raee.org

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Invitation flyer