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Past Events21 March 2011
Brussels
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EUTC 2010
26-29 October 2010
London
EUTC Exhibition at the European Parliament
24 February 2010 On February 24th, EUTC held a highly successful event at the European Parliament hosted by MEP Salvador Garriga Polledo around ICT for Energy Efficiency. The 100 participants to the cocktail, members of the Parliament, members of the European Commission, representatives of the states and regions, and other stakeholders in energy and ICT policies, were taken through an exhibition on how ICT is able to help energy efficiency.
The focus was put on 3 parts of the home: the garage, the kitchen, and the rooftop. In the garage, participants could see how ICTs were able to turn the electric car, a consumer of energy, into a mobile storage unit of power, able to deliver some energy within the house network at peak consumption times. In the kitchen, we explained the concepts of smart appliances and smart metering, the financial advantage for the customer and the benefits for the environment. On the rooftop were installed photovoltaic panels and visitors were introduced to distributed generation and the implementation of micro grids and community networks.
To link all this, a fourth display explained the communication challenges and technologies behind the implementation of smart networks.
EUTC would like to thank the 3 companies that supported the event, representing the different players: Iberdrola, for energy, Verizon for telecommunication, and Samares for distributed generation. All were able to address the audience with some key messages.
Alejo Vidal Quadras, the Vice President of the European Parliament, offered some words of support to EUTC calling "for energy regulators to create the conditions to encourage network operators to make the investment in communications services which will be the catalyst for the smartgrid whilst not being exposed to a high business risk".
The presentations were followed by a dinner at the European Parliament, in presence of several MEPs, allowing members of EUTC to further discuss the scope of our association's objectives.
On 1 April 2008 Mr. Salvador Garriga, Member of the European Parliament, invited the European Utilities Telecom Council (EUTC) to stage an exhibition at the European Parliament in Brussels to help take Smart Metering from concept to reality for members of the European Parliament. The event met great success with many Parliamentarians and EU stakeholders present to exchange with EUTC board members, and listen to opening notes from Magdena Kuneva, European Commissioner for Consumers, and Alejo Vidal Quadras, Vice-President of the European Parliament. The exhibition’s sponsors, Alcatel and Landis and Gyr, leading Smart Metering solutions providers in Europe, showed actual demonstrations of each company’s Smart Metering application. Iberdrola, a Spanish energy company and EUTC member, presented on the importance of the use of open standards in the provision of telecommunication services and their interface to the energy and water meters in order to successfully drive implementation of large scale multi-meter solutions. These companies’ representatives, Christine Diamente, European Affairs Director, Alcatel Lucent, Stefan Weber, Executive Vice President Europe, Landis and Gyr, and Javier Vallalba, CEO of Iberdrola Networks, addressed the audience on the crucial role Smart Metering will play in enabling the vision of Smartgrids, the upgrading the overall electrical grid – a major goal of the European Union.
EUSEW 2008 - 31 January 2008
Miguel Angel Sánchez Fornié, EUTC Chairman
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