CIMug Oslo 2014

Rafael Santodomingo joined the OFFIS Institute for Information Technology of Oldenburg, Germany, in April 2013. He received his Industrial Engineering and PhD degrees from Comillas Pontifical University of Madrid, Spain. His research interests include the semantic integration in Smart Grids and the Semantic Web. Dr Santodomingo is a member of working groups 10 and 19 within the IEC TC57.

Arshad Saleem is a researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm Sweden. He is leader of work package 1 in DISCERN and is also responsible of the task 5.1 DISCERN semantic model creation. Arshad Saleem holds a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Denmark. His research interests include application of Information and Communication Technology ICT, data engineering and information modelling in electric power systems. He is an active member of IEEE and is member of the work group 13 within the IEC TC57.

Gerben Dekker is working for DNV GL in the Energy Advisory service line. Before moving to Norway, he worked as a consultant at DNV KEMA’s headquarters in Arnhem, The Netherlands, in the Power System Planning and Operation team. Gerben holds a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering, majoring in control systems. This background enables him to analyze problems from a systems’ point of view, with a focus on the overall system behavior and its impact on the stakeholders involved. As such, he is often involved in projects where engineering aspects meet economic, legal, or regulatory issues. Frequency stability and balancing markets are a prime example of this type of projects. Recently, he has been working in a joint industry project with Statnett, exploring the future of power system planning, system operations, control engineering and power system balancing.

Jean-Baptiste Heyberger received the M.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002 and the electrical engineering degree from Supélec, Paris, France, in 2003. He is currently with RTE (the French TSO), Paris, working on the iTesla project.

José Antonio received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Comillas Pontifical University of Madrid, Spain. He is an assistant professor at the Department of Electronics and Control Engineering and researcher at the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) of the Comillas Pontifical University. Dr. Rodríguez-Mondéjar is a member of WG 10, 15 and 21 within IEC TC57. His research areas are communication, control and data modeling in electric power systems and railway systems. He has participated in several consultancy and research projects for several Spanish and foreign firms related with the electricity and railway industry. He was one of the pioneers of introducing the CIM model in the railway power system in 2004.

Miloš Bunda is a senior consultant for TenneT TSO BV. He has been working on network models for EMS/SCADA systems and off-line tools since 1991 and works in the energy sector since 1990. His expertise includes EMS/SCADA systems (State Estimation, Contingency Analysis and Power Flow), off-line tools and tools development. Since 2009 he is involved in the TSO Security Cooperation Initiative, responsible for the functional development of the Common Tool for Data Exchange and Security Assessment. Since 2012 he is convener of the ENTSO-E taskforce for operational data quality, monitoring the quality of the exchanged data models for the D-1 congestion forecast. Since 2013 he is convener of the taskforce Common Grid Model, setting up methodologies for the pan-European data exchange for operational planning processes. In 2014 he was assigned to run the PT CGM, which ensures the implementation of the CGM within ENTSO-E.

Nis Jespersen is an IT Architect within IBM’s Global Business Services unit, holding a Master of Science degree in Software Engineering. He has a decade of experience in the Energy & Utilities industry, consulting with transmission and distribution companies around the globe. He has held leading roles on major CIM-based projects, defining solution architectures and leading development teams. He was the lead architect of IBM’s ELVIS solution, which won Fingrid’s competitive solution request. He architected it based on modern, industry-specific architectural principles, leading software products, and with a strong emphasis on leveraging CIM. Today he leads the ELVIS integration teams, bringing the ELVIS solution to life.

Tahir Kapetanovic is Head of National Control Centre at Austrian Power Grid AG. He is also Convenor of ENTSO-E Operational Security Network Code, member of the Board of the ENTSO-E CGM Project and vice-chair of the TSC Steering Committee. From 2001 to 2011 he was Director Electricity at the Austrian Energy Regulatory Authority E-Control, where he also chaired a number of European regulators’ groups in charge of electricity network and market. From 2005 to 2011 he was a founding member and chair of the WG Network Operations in the EU TP Smart Grids and chair of WG3 of the EC TF for Smart Grids. From 1992 to 2001 he was on different assignments in the private sector, including development and implementation of CIM-based applications in infocom sector from 1992 to 1996. Before 1992 he spent four years in academia and lectured in power systems control and operations. He has over 25 years of experience in power system modelling and real-time operation. He holds Dipl.-Ing., MSc and PhD in Electric Power Systems from University of Zagreb and Vienna University of Technology and Executive MBA from the Vienna School of Economics and University of Minnesota.

Thor Gunnar Steinsli has a MSc.Tech. degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and has a background from ICT and data handling in the health research sector. Today he is working as a system architect at the ICT department of NTE Holding AS, a Norwegian utility company serving approximately 80.000 customers in the Nord-Trøndelag county. The main responsibility in his daily work is planning, maintaining and developing the ICT architecture of Demo Steinkjer. Doing that, he has been heavily involved in the project of developing the Demo Steinkjer time series database solution and the including API, utilizing the CIM standard.

Dean has 17+ years of IT experience and spent the last 14+ years with Exelon. Currently Dean is the IT Manager implementing system and communication technologies for ComEd’s Smart Grid Initiatives on the grid side. During his time, Dean has implemented and been a part of the maintenance and integration of systems such as, an Interruption Reporting System, Geographic Information System (GIS), Mobile Dispatch System, and Outage Management System.

Nejc Petrovič received a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in the field of power engineering at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2012. After graduation he started working as an engineer at a power distribution company Elektro Gorenjska, Slovenia. He now works as an adviser to the Chief Information Officer in Elektro Gorenjska. His work focuses on researching Smart grid technologies and solutions with the main focus on emerging technologies in the energy sector. He is also a member of IEC TC57 WG13 and WG14.

Svein Harald Olsen works as Enterprise Information Architect at Statnett SF, the Norwegian TSO. He has a Master of Computer System Engineering from University of Bristol, United Kingdom. He has over 20 years’ experience in developing IT solution for the power electricity value chain from power generation and trading to end-user customers. This involves application like Customer Information Systems (CIS) through Power System Transient Stability Software.

Svein Olsen is Norwegian member of IEC TC57 WG13 and WG14. He is member of ENTSO-E CGMES expert group and been active participant in developing the CGMES for you in the Common Grid Model (CGM) program that is implementing the EU Network Code.

Andrej Souvent has been with Milan Vidmar Electric Power Research Institute since 2007. He is head of the Electric Power System Control and Operation department. Andrej has over 20 years of experience in IT and OT, primarily in the area of power system applications. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ljubljana. His research is focused on smart grids technologies and solutions, especially on related operational technologies and systems integration. He is a member of IEEE, CIGRE and IEC TC57.