Workshop Chair: Marianne Haug, Director, IEA Office of Energy Efficiency, Technology and R&D

Session I: Setting the Scene
Key Issue: Factors currently affecting the performance of electricity grids in the OECD region.

Chair: Marianne Haug, Director, IEA Office of Energy Efficiency, Technology and R&D

Clark Gellings, Vice-President, Power Delivery & Markets, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), United States
Presentation:	R&D Needs in Electric Transmission and Distribution Abstract
Background Papers:	Electricity Technology Roadmap Intelligrid Intelligrid Press Release

Session II: Getting more power out of the existing grid
Key Issue: Technologies for using existing transmission systems more efficiently and integrating more power into a given space.

Chair: Lars Guldbrand, Division for Energy and Primary Industries, Ministry of Industry, Employment and Communications, Sweden

Dietmar Retzmann, Director, Development of Power Transmission Solutions, High Voltage, Power Transmission and Distribution, Siemens AG, Germany
Presentation:	Perspectives of Developments in T & D: Getting more Power out of the existing Grid Abstract
Background Papers:	Future Developments in Power Industry Role of HVDC and FACTS in future Power Systems Solutions for large Power System Interconnections

Bo Normark, Business Area Power Systems, ABB Power Technologies Management, Switzerland
Presentation:	Getting more power out of the existing grid Abstract

Claus Neumann, RWE Transportnetz Strom GmbH, Germany
Presentation:	Fault Current Limiter in Medium and High Voltage Grids Abstract
Background Papers:	Three-phase resistive fault current limiter CURL 10 Development System Technology and Test of CURL 10

Session III: Delivering reliability and high power quality
Key Issue: The “edge” of safe grid operation

Chair: David Irving, Head, International and Renewable Energy Policy, U.K. Department of Trade and Industry

Hervé Laffaye, Director, RTE National Control Centre, France
Presentation:	Operational lessons learnt from blackouts and other incidents : which technology answers/needs, if any? Abstract
Background Paper::	RTE Annual Report 2003

Shinobu Matsumoto, Manager (Transmission and Distribution), Tokyo Electric Power Company, Japan
Presentation:	Ensuring Stable Supply and and Approaches to the Cost Reduction Approaches to the Cost Reduction of Electric Power Supply Abstract

Session IV: Expanding wide area control
Key Issue: Challenges confronting the trend toward large, long-distance transfers of electric power.

Chair: Douglas Cooke, Head of Division (acting), Energy Diversification, IEA

Klaus Kleinekorte, Group Convenor of the UCTE Working Group Operations & Security, RWE, Germany
Presentation:	System Enlargement - The effect of inter area oscillations

Paul-Frederik Bach, Deputy Director, System Department, Eltra
Presentation:	Wide Area Control and Long Distance Transfer of Electric Power Abstract
Background Paper:	Wide Area Control and Long Distance Transfer of Electric Power

Session V: Integrating distributed and intermittent sources
Key Issues: Challenges confronting a future in which distributed and intermittent generating technologies meet a significant fraction of electricity demand.

Chair: Philip Baker, Deputy Director, Electrical Technology, U.K. Department of Trade and Industry

Mr. Goran Strbac, Director of DTI Centre for Distributed Generation and Sustainable Electrical Energy (UK)
Presentation:	Benefits of integrating DER in system operation
Background Paper:	Benefits of integrating DER in system operation

Mr. Angelo Invernizzi, Responsible for Technical and Scientific Promotion, CESI (Italy)
Presentation:	Technologies to innovate distribution network with DG Abstract

Mr. Marc Stubbe, Tractebel Engineering
Presentation:	EU-DEEP

Session VI: Panel Discussion
Key Issues: Issues arising from connections between technology and policy

• Priority RD&D agenda and gaps
• Carrying out the agenda: who, what, when?
• What can the IEA do to help?

Chair: Graham Campbell, Director General, Office of Energy Research and Development, Natural Resources Canada; Chair, IEA Committee on Energy Research and Development

Panel: Clark Gellings, Klaus Kleinekorte, Dietmar Retzmann, Goran Strbac and Bo Normark.

Clark Gellings: Closing Presentation

Paper: Outline Proposal for an IEA Implementing Agreement on Electricity Networks R&D