Invited Speaker:
Frederic Vassort
Board Member, Ampacimon
Title: Get More out of the Grid, with Enhanced Grid Technologies
Abstract:
Grids are confronted with profound changes, unseen since probably over a century. Climate change and the resulting emissions reductions targets are already forcing significant technological, regulatory and market shifts on electrical systems, and grids in particular. These last 10 years have seen most countries around the world (Asia leading the change) adopt significant shares of renewal production, which bring their own challenges to electrical grids: intermittency, lack of inertia, and geographic distribution mean that the old grids built decades ago need to be re-configured to enable these large shared of distributed renewable generation. In addition, the expected very large increased in electricity consumption (driven by fossil fuel substitutions in heating and transportation, and large data centers) will only accelerated those needed changes. Responding to these, a number of new players have developed alternative technologies to boost grids capacity, resilience and flexibility, which can be deployed quickly and often at a fraction of the cost of the new lines and substations. Dynamic Line Rating, High Temperature Low Sag conductors, Power Flow valves and digital twins AI based solutions to name but a few are now being deployed at scale by many utilities around the world. This talk will present how these innovative grid technologies are re-shaping the way utilities address the mounting challenges of emissions reductions and growing electricity usage.
Speaker’s Biography:
Mr. Frederic Vassort have more than 30 years of experience in the power industry at General Management Level. From 1994-2000, he was with SCHLUMBERGER Industries (now ITRON), Global provider of smart energy and water metering systems as Technology Transfer Engineer, Industrialization Manager and Product Marketing Manager Asia. From 2001-2005 he was with ENGIE (formerly Tractebel) as Business Development Manager and Managing Director Elyo Asia (energy services branch of Engie). He was VP-General Manager, Sensors & Controls Solutions at Danaher.Corporation from 2005-2012. Since 2012 he is CEO, board member and shareholder of Ampacimon. Ampacimon is an innovation-driven SME delivering Smart Grid Solutions for the T&D industry. It designs and markets solutions increasing the transmission capacity of high voltage electricity grids.