Opening Address

Mr. Gregory Tosen, Chair of IERE, South Africa

Welcome Address

Mr. Raymond Lings, CEO of Powertech labs Inc.

Overview of BC Hydro

Mr. Greg Reimer, Executive Vice President, BC Hydro, Canada

Report of IERE Technology foresight 2020

Dr. John Wing Mao Cheng, Senior Manager, CLPRI, Hong Kong

Mr. Mark Lauby, Senior Vice President and Chief Reliability Officer, NERC, USA

Integrated Energy Network - Bottom-Up Resource Integration Platforms

Dr. Sunil Chhaya, Technical Executive, EPRI, USA

The role and challenges of the 21st century power system

Mr. Vicente J. Gonzalez-Lopez, Head of Department, R&D and EU Projects Department, REE, Spain

Renewable Energy Integration - Challenges and Practices

Dr. Luan Wenpeng, Professor/Chief expert, Distribution Automation Department, CEPRI

Energy Storage to Mitigate the Impacts of Intermittent Renewables

Prof. Toshiya Nanahara, Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute ofTechnology, Japan

Large Hydro and the Growth of Renewable Energy in Western North America

Mr. Brian Moghadam, Business Development, Powerex Corp., Canada

Mr. Greg Stanway, BC Hydro, Canada

Dr. Vidya Vankayala, Powertech Labs Inc., Canada

Energy Storage Technologies & Applications in Power Systems - Challenges and Experiences

Dr. Yao Liangzhong, Vice president, CEPRI, China

Battery Storage Advantages for Fast Charging Stations

Dr. Matthieu Loos, Engineer, Power Systems, Powertech Labs Inc., Canada

Stability FACTS + ESS for fast energy response in case of contingency

Mr. Vicente J. Gonzalez-Lopez, Head of Department, R&D and EU Projects Department, REE, Spain

Application of Cost-Effective Grid-Scale Battery Storage as an Enabler of Network Integration of Renewable Energy

Prof. Innocent Davidson, Professor, Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Durban University, South Africa

Study of Using Energy Storage to Mitigate the Impact of High Renewable Energy Penetration to the Grid

Mr. Che-I Lin, Electrical Engineer, Taiwan Power Research Institute, Taiwan

"The innogy Green Fuel Project" - linking the electricity and mobility sectors by power to methanol technology

Mr. Thorsten Miltkau, Senior Manager Technologies, Corporate Technology, innogy SE, Germany

A Flow Battery for Long Duration Applications

Mr. John McLeod, Vice President Engineering, ZincNyx Energy Solutions Inc., Canada

Energy storage for grid scale applications combined with conventional power plants - Innovative concepts for sustainable energy conversion and use

Prof. Emmanouil Kakaras, Vice President, R&D, Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe GmbH Duisburg, Germany

R&D strategy and its related activities on advanced Li-ion batteries for electrical energy storage system

Dr. Sang-Min Lee, Principal Researcher, Battery Research Center, KERI, Korea

Recent status of the battery energy storage technologies in Japan and issues related with performance evaluation

Mr. Yuichi Mita, Senior research Scientist, CRIEPI, Japan

Research and Application of Fiber Bragg Grating Temperature Sensor for Energy Storage Battery In-situ Detection

Mr. Xu Chong, Engineer, Energy Storage and Electrotechnics Department, CEPRI, China