General information

Important numbers

Philippe Jacquod, organizing committee Tel. +41 79 137 15 56

Philippe.jacquod@hevs.ch

Veronique Blatter-Robyr, administration veronique.blatter@hevs.ch

Partner Hotels

Hôtel Suisse, Rue du Village 55 Tel. +41 24 479 07 07

hotelsuisse@netplus.ch

Palladium, Route du centre sportif 1 Tel. +41 24 479 05 05

palladium@champery.ch

Hotel des Alpes, Rue du Village 9 Tel. +41 24 479 12 22

hoteldesalpes@bluewin.ch

Chalet Eden, 12, Route de la Dent de Bonavau Tel. +41 79 302 66 34

Conference center

Salle paroissiale de Champéry Tel. +41 24 479 05 07

Chemin Dents-Blanches 28

Wireless : ID : HEVS

password : hesso050217

Tourist Office (www.champery.ch)

Rue du Village 54 Tel. +41 24 479 05 50

Opening time : 8:30 to 12:00 & 13:30 to 18:30

During your stay

Conference banquet : Wednesday 8

Time 19:00

Place Café du Centre, rue du Village 58

Meal Valaisanne platter (cheese, local air dried beef, cured ham and dried sausages) with

mixed salad

Raclette (melted cheese)

Valaisan sorbet (apricot sorbet with apricot brandy) or fruit salad.

Please contact the organization by Tuesday morning for an alternative meal.

Ski, snowboard

Fees : from CHF 44.- (5 hours). See the brochure for all possibilities and details

Ski rental : 4 shops in Champery to hire your equipment

Other activities

Walking (possibility to take the cable-cars as a pedestrian), cross-country skiing, ski-touring, ice

climbing, snowshoeing, horseback riding, paragliding, exhibitions, wellness (hotel National Resort &

Spa)

Get all information about the activities you want to do at the Tourist office :

o Location : Rue du Village 54

o Opening time : 8:30 am to 12:00 & 13:30 to 18:30. Tel. +41 24 479 05 50

Programme

Sunday February 5

18:00 Welcome reception, hotel Suisse

Monday February 6

08:30 Welcome Address Philippe Jacquod, HES-SO, School of Engineering

08:45 Welcome Address Gaëtan Cherix, HES-SO, Head of the School of Engineering

09:00 Research Challenges of the Future Electric Power System Göran Andersson, ETHZ

09:35 Modelling frequency variations in power system models for transient stability analysis Federico Milano, University College Dublin

10:10 Coffee break

10:40 Transient Stability and Control for inverter-Heavy Microgrids Christoph Kammer, EPFL

11:00 Quantifying Stability in Power Grids Jürgen Kurths, PIK Potsdam

11:35 Stochastic OPF with Non-Gaussian Uncertainties Timm Faulwasser, KIT

11:55 Operating and planning integrated energy systems Mark O’Malley, University College Dublin

12:30 Lunch + afternoon break; ski or informal group discussions

16:00 Tea, coffee, snacks

16:15 Dispatching active distribution networks through electrochemical storage systems and demand side management Mario Paolone + Colin Jones, EPFL

17:00 Loop flows and the number of power flow solutions in meshed electric power grids Robin Delabays, HES-SO, School of Engineering

17:20 Creation of loop flows in high voltage AC power grids and their influence on grid stability and dissipation Philippe Jacquod, HES-SO, School of Engineering

17:55 Incremental energy functions for microgrid control Claudio de Persis, Groningen

18:30 End of afternoon session

19:00 Dinner

20:15 Poster session

Programme

Tuesday February 7

08:30 Optimal frequency control and congestion management in low-inertia systems Janusz Bialek, Skoltech

09:05 Analysis and control of power electronics in a grid context Bogdan Marinescu, Nantes

09:40 A model reduction based approach to control of low-inertia power systems Dominic Gross, ETHZ

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 (R)evolution of Power Systems : a cyber-physical system of systems perspective Patrick Panciatici, RTE

11:05 Wind generation in weak systems Luis Rouco, University P. Cornillas Madrid

11:40 Impact of dispatched-by-design distribution networks on the power system reserve requirements Fabrizio Sossan, EPFL

12:00 Control of Low-Inertia Power Systems: Naive & Foundational Approaches Florian Dörfler, ETHZ

12:35 Lunch + afternoon break; ski or informal group discussions

16:00 Tea, coffee, snacks

16:15 The Price of Non-Cooperation in a Highly Renewable European Electricity System David Schlachtberger, Frankfurt-FIAS

16:35 The Role of Spatial Scale in Joint Optimisations of Generation and Transmission for Highly Renewable Scenarios Thomas Brown, Frankfurt-FIAS

17:05 Eurotranselec - integrating financial constraints in systemic studies of the energy transition with minimal assumptions Laurent Pagnier, HES-SO, School of Engineering

17:25 From Smart Grids to Smart Cities: new challenges in optimizing energy distribution grids Massimo La Scala, Politecnico di Bari

18:00 Inductivity of power networks Pooya Monshizadeh, Groningen

18:20 End of afternoon session

19:00 Dinner

20:15 Poster session

Programme

Wednesday February 8

08:30 Hydropower as flexibility provider: modeling approaches and numerical analysis Gabriela Hug-Glanzmann, ETHZ

09:05 Convex Relaxations for Optimization of Power Grids under Uncertainty Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, TU Denmark

09:40 Enabling ageing-Aware integration of energy storage Dimitri Torregrossa, Aurora's Grid

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 The GREDOR project. Redesigning the decision chain for managing distribution networks Damien Ernst, Liège

11:05 Communication-cognizant hybrid voltage control in power distribution systems Hao Zhu, U Illinois Urbana Champaign

11:25 DPG.sim - An Innovative SmartGrid Simulation Software for Distribution System Operators and SmartGrid Researchers Andreas Ulbig, ETHZ

11:45 Demand response with system populations: Equilibria and distributed algorithms John Lygeros, ETHZ

12:20 Lunch + afternoon break; ski or informal group discussions

16:15 Tea, coffee, snacks

16:30 Modelling and Analysis of Interconnected Critical Infrastructure Systems Jovica Milanovic, Manchester

17:05 The Influence of grid impedance on the stability of the distribution grid Michael Höckel, BFH

17:40 The Nant de Drance pumped storage plant Gérard Seingre, Nant de Drance

18:15 End of afternoon session

19:00 Conference banquet at Café du Centre, rue du village 58

Programme

Thursday February 9

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

Poster sessions

Monday 6 and Tuesday 7, at 20:15

Last/first name Institution Title

Aittahar Samy University of Liège Mixed-Integer Linear Programming techniques for optimizing revenues of connected microgrids

Bitlislioglu Altug EPFL A Feasible Decomposition Method for Distributed Control of Smart Grids

Bolognani Saverio ETHZ Online Optimization in Closed Loop on the Power Flow Manifold

Chin Jun Xing ETHZ Privacy-Protecting Home Energy Management Unit

Coletta Tommaso HES-SO, School of Engineering

Topologically protected loop flows in high voltage AC power grids

Colombino Marcello ETHZ Decentralized Synchronization for Power Inverters

Davydova Nadezhda ETHZ Traveling Wave Based Protection for Medium Voltage Grids with Distributed Generation

Ecike Dieudonné University of Liège Enhacing power reliability using microgrids in RD Congo

Fischer Celanovic Nikola Thyphoon HIL GmbH Real-time modeling of low inertia distribution grids

Fortenbacher Philipp ETHZ On the Integration of Distributed Battery Storage in Low Voltage Grids

Han Xuejiao ETH Z NEXUS Project - Aggregated Model for Distribution System Operator in Multi-market Environment

Jouini Taouba ETHZ Nonlinear Model Matching of Synchronous Generators by inverters in low inertia Power Grid

Karagiannopoulos Stavros ETHZ Planning and operation of active distribution grids

Kardakos Evangelos ETHZ Nexus - Integrated Energy Systems Modelling Platform

Machado Martinez Juan Eduardo

Université Paris sud On Existence of Equilibria of Multi-port Linear AC Networks with Constant-Power Loads

Markovic Uros ETHZ Comprehensive Emulation Control Strategies for Converters in Power Systems with Low Rotational Inertia

Megel Olivier ETH Distributed Frequency Control Algorithm Considering Storage Efficiency

Poster sessions

Monday 6 and Tuesday 7, at 20:15

Last/first name Institution Title

Mesanovic Amer Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg & Siemens AG

Optimal tuning of power system stabilizers for damping of interarea oscillations and validation in detailed models

Nahata Pulkit ETH Decentralized Active Power Control of PV Generators in Residential Microgrids

Nick Mostafa EPFL Augmented Relaxed OPF: an Exact Convex Formulation for Optimal Power Flow in Radial Power Grids

Nsengiyumva Albert University of Liège How microgrids can help Burundi and Africa to develop its economy

O Malley Conor ETHZ Importance of dynamic modeling of gas networks for energy system reliability

Poolla Bala Kameshwar ETHZ Virtual Inertia Placement in Power Grids

Shchetinin Dimitry ETHZ Conservative Linear Line Flow Constraints for AC Optimal Power Flow

Sossan Fabrizio EPFL Battery Storage System Optimal Exploitation Through Physics-Based Model Predictive Control

Spudic Vedrana ABB CRC Optimal control of wind farm active power

Tucci Michele Università degli Studi Pavia

Control of microgrids: a scalable design approach

Tyloo Melvyn HES-SO, School of Engineering

Numerical method to determine different power flow solutions

Weber Juliane Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

Statistical Features of Wind Determining the Storage Need in a Fully Renewable Energy System

Wohland Jan Research Center Jülich Impacts of Strong Climate Change on Electricity Balancing Potentials between European States

Zelazo Daniel Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Combined Heat and Power Economic Dispatch of a Micro-Gas Turbine Unit

Zanni Lorenzo EPFL The Adaptive Kalman Filter for Step-Varying Processes: Application to Smart-Grid State Estimation

Zufferey Thierry ETHZ Forecasting of Smart Meter Time Series Based on Neural Networks

List of participants

Last/first name E-mail Institution

Abgottspon Hubert hubert.abgottspon@hevs.ch HES-SO, School of Management and Tourism

Aittahar Samy saittahar@ulg.ac.be University of Liège

Amblard Frédéric frederic.amblard@hevs.ch HES-SO, School of Engineering

Andersson Göran andersson@eeh.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

Appino Riccardo Remo riccardo.appino@kit.edu Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Arghir Catalin carghir@control.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

Basiri Farnaz f.basiri@fz-juelich.de Forschungszentrum Jülich

Berger Mathias mathias.berger@ulg.ac.be University of Liège

Bétrisey Yvan yvan.betrisey@eEnergyCenter.ch eEnergyCenter - Icare

Bialek Janusz j.bialek@skoltech.ru Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

Bianchi Christophe cristophe.bianchi@hevs.ch HES-SO, School of Engineering, head of the Institute of Systems Engineering

Bitlislioglu Altug altug.bitlislioglu@epfl.ch EPFL

Björk Joakim joakbj@kth.se KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Bolognani Saverio bsaverio@ethz.ch ETHZ

Bongulielmi Fabio Fabio.Bongulielmi@swissgrid.ch Swissgrid SA

Böttcher Philipp verwaltung@next-energy.de EWE-Forschungszentrum für Energietechnologie e. V. NEXT ENERGY

Boukas Ioannis ioannis.boukas@ulg.ac.be University of Liège

Brown Thomas brown@fias.uni-frankfurt.de Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS)

Carpita Mauro Mauro.carpita@heig-vd.ch HEIG-VD

Chatzivasileiadis Spyros spchatz@elektro.dtu.dk Technical University of Denmark

Cherix Gaëtan gaetan.cherix@hevs.ch HES-SO, head of the School of Engineering

Cherix Nicolas nicolas.cherix@imperix.ch imperix SA, Switzerland

Chin Jun Xing chin@eeh.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

Coletta Tommaso tommaso.coletta@hevs.ch HES-SO, School of Engineering

Colombino Marcello mcolombi@control.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

List of participants

Last/first name E-mail Institution

Conrath Michael m.conrath@jacobs-university.de Jacobs University Bremen

Cornélusse Bertrand bertrand.cornelusse@ulg.ac.be University of Liège

Davydova Nadezhda davydovn@eeh.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

Delabays Robin robin.delabays@hevs.ch HES-SO, School of Engineering

Dierick Maurice Maurice.Dierick@swissgrid.ch Swissgrid SA

Dörfler Florian dorfler@ethz.ch ETHZ

Ecike Dieudonné Dieudonne.EcikeEwanga@doct.ulg.ac.be

University of Liège

Ernst Damien dernst@ulg.ac.be University of Liège

Faulwasser Timm timm.faulwasser@kit.edu Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Ferrari Trecate Giancarlo giancarlo.ferraritrecate@epfl.ch EPFL

Fischer Celanovic Nikola nfc@typhoon-hil.com Thyphoon HIL GmbH

Forclaz Didier didier.forclaz@hevs.ch HES-SO, School of Engineering

Fortenbacher Philipp fortenbacher@eeh.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

Gross Dominic gross@control.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

Han Xuejiao xuhan@eeh.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

Höckel Michael michael.hoeckel@bfh.ch Berner Fachhochschule

Hug-Glanzmann Gabriela ghug@eeh.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

Jacquod Philippe philippe.jacquod@hevs.ch HES-SO, School of Engineering

Jones Colin colin.jones@epfl.ch EPFL

Jordan Nicolas nicolas.jordan@hevs.ch HES-SO, School of Engineering

Jouini Taouba tjouini@student.ethz.ch ETHZ

Jovicic Aleksandar jovicic@eeh.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

Kammer Christoph christoph.kammer@epfl.ch EPFL

Karagiannopoulos Stavros karagiannopoulos@eeh.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

Kardakos Evangelos ekardako@eeh.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

List of participants

Last/first name E-mail Institution

Kettemann Stefan s.kettemann@jacobs-university.de Jacobs University Bremen

Kurths Jürgen kurths@pik-potsdam.de Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Institute of Physics

Lygeros John lygeros@control.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ, Automatic Control Laboratory

Machado Martinez Juan Eduardo

juan.machado@l2s.centralesupelec.fr Université Paris sud

O Malley Conor omalleyc@eeh.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

O'Malley Mark mark.omalley@ucd.ie University College Dublin

Marinescu Bogdan Bogdan.Marinescu@irccyn.ec-nantes.fr Ecole Centrale Nantes - IRCCyN-ECN

Markovic Uros markovic@eeh.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

Megel Olivier Megel@eeh.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

Mesanovic Amer mesanovic.amer@gmail.com Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg & Siemens AG

Meyer Gilles g.meyer@ulg.ac.be University of Liège

Meyer-Ortmanns Hildegard h.ortmanns@jacobs-university.de Jacobs University Bremen

Milano Federico federico.milano@ucd.ie University College Dublin

Milanovic Jovica milanovic@manchester.ac.uk University of Manchester

Monshizadeh Pooya p.monshizadeh@rug.nl University of Groningen

Mühlethaler Jonas jonas.muehlethaler@swissgrid.ch Swissgrid SA

Nahata Pulkit pulkitnahata92@gmail.com ETHZ

Nick Mostafa mostafa.nick@epfl.ch EPFL

Nsengiyumva Albert Albert.Nsengiyumva@doct.ulg.ac.be University of Liège

Oliviers Frédéric frederic.olivier@ulg.ac.be University of Liège

Pagnier Laurent laurent.pagnier@hevs.ch HES-SO, School of Engineering

Panciatici Patrick patrick.panciatici@rte-france.com RTE

Paolone Mario mario.paolone@epfl.ch EPFL

De Persis Claudio c.de.persis@rug.nl University of Groningen

Poolla Bala Kameshwar bpoolla@control.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

List of participants

Last/first name E-mail Institution

Rouco Luis Luis.Rouco@iit.comillas.edu Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Sandberg Henrik hsan@kth.se KTH School of Electrical Engineering

La Scala Massimo massimo.lascala@poliba.it Politecnico di Bari

Schlachtberger David schlachtberger@fias.uni-frankfurt.de Frankfurt - FIAS

Seingre Gérard gerard.seingre@ndd-sa.ch Nant de Drance

Shchetinin Dimitry shchetinin@eeh.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

Sossan Fabrizio fabrizio.sossan@epfl.ch EPFL

Spudic Vedrana vedrana.spudic@ch.abb.com ABB CRC

Stathopoulos Georgios georgios.stathopoulos@epfl.ch EPFL

Thams Florian fthams@eeh.ee.ethz.ch Technical University of Denmark

Torregrossa Dimitri dimitri.torregrossa@gmail.com Aurora's Grid

Tucci Michele michele.tucci02@universitadipavia.it Università degli Studi Pavia

Tyloo Melvyn melvyn.tyloo@hevs.ch HES-SO, School of Engineering

Ulbig Andreas ulbig@eeh.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

Vanfretti Luigi luigiv@kth.se KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Manuel de Villena Millán Migel mvillena@ulg.ac.be University of Liège

Vournas Costas vournas@power.ece.ntua.gr National Technical University of Athens

Weber Juliane ju.weber@fz-juelich.de Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

Wohland Jan j.wohland@fz-juelich.de Research Center Jülich

Zanni Lorenzo lorenzo.zanni@epfl.ch EPFL

Zelazo Daniel dzelazo@technion.ac.il Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Zhu Hao haozhu@illinois.edu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Zufferey Thierry thierryz@eeh.ee.ethz.ch ETHZ

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Map of Champéry

1. Conference room : salle paroissiale

2. Hotel Suisse (welcome party)

3. Café du Centre (Conference buffet)

4. Hotel des Alpes

5. Hotel Palladium

6. Chalet Eden

7. Art.Boutique Hotel Beau-Séjour

8. Cable-cars station

9. Railway station AOMC

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