Programme
Provisional Schedule
| Sunday August 27 | Monday August 28 | Tuesday August 29 | Wednesday August 30 | Thursday August 31 | Friday September 1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Session S01 |
Session S05 | Session S08 | Session S12 | Session S16 | |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Session S02 |
Session S06 | Session S09 | Session S13 | Session S17 Closing Session |
|
| 12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch + Riverboat Excursion on the River Douro |
|
| 14:00 | Session S03 |
Session S07 |
Session S10 |
Session S14 |
||
| 15:00 | Registration | |||||
| 16:00 | Coffee break | Porto Sightseeing + Dinner |
Coffee break | Coffee break | ||
| 16:30 | Session S04 | Session S11 | Session S15 | |||
| 17:30 | Opening + Keynote |
|||||
| 18:30 | Welcome Reception |
|||||
| 19:00 |
||||||
| 20:00 | Dinner | Dinner | Gala Dinner |
Full Programme available here (pdf file)
Keynote Speaker
António Albino Marques
Head of System Operation Division at REN — Redes Energéticas Nacionais
António Albino Marques got his graduation in Electrotechnical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto in 1978 and then he got his Master in IT Systems from the same University in 1987. In 2002 he concluded the Advanced Program in Business Management by the AESE, Association for Advanced Enterprise Studies. From 1979 to 1984 he was with Equimetal, a Portuguese manufacturer of small cogeneration units and then joined EDP Group in 1984. From 1998 to 2001 he was head of the Network Operations Department, working in the area of remote supervision and substation control and from 2001 he is with REN, the Portuguese Transmission System Operator that was created following the unbundling of the EDP Group. Between 2001 and 2011 he managed the Operation and Maintenance Division. From 2011 to 2014 he was head of the Project and Construction Division of REN.
Since 2014 he is the head of the System Operation Division of REN, being responsible for the National Dispatch and Network Operation Control Rooms, for the SCADA/EMS control systems and also for the Market Operations related with the settlement of transmission tariffs and the balancing markets. Since 2014, he is also the representative of REN in the System Operation Committee (SOC) in the European Network of Transmission System Operators of Electricity (ENTSOE) in Brussels.
OPERATION OF A POWER SYSTEM WITH A LARGE SHARE OF RENEWABLE SOURCES
August 27, Sunday
The presentation will show the evolution of the Portuguese Electricity System in the last ten years focusing in the share of renewables in installed capacity and also in the final energy mix. It will present the major challenges and risk for System Operation illustrated with a few real cases. It will explain the new processes that have been adopted to deal with the new problems and the critical factor of success that contributed to the smooth renewables integration in the Portuguese System. Finally, it will be presented some of the future challenges coming from the new European market and system operation codes.
