CIRED 2026 Brussels Workshop
on Implementing
Successful Innovation in Distribution Networks
9-10 June 2026
Brussels, Belgium
Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: Auditorium |
| Date: Tuesday, 09/June/2026 | |
| 9:45am - 10:00am |
Welcome Speech by Dag Eirik Nordgård, Workshop Chair Location: Auditorium Chair: Dag Eirik Nordgård, SINTEF, Norway |
| 10:00am - 10:20am |
Keynote 1 Location: Auditorium |
| 10:20am - 10:40am |
Keynote 2 Location: Auditorium |
| 11:10am - 12:10pm |
Round Table 1: Regulation for Innovation – at European / National Level Location: Auditorium Chair: Quentin Antoine, ENGIE Laborelec, Belgium Panelists
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| 1:25pm - 2:55pm |
Theme 1 Oral Session – New Methods for Planning Reliable, Resilient and Sustainable Networks Location: Auditorium Chair: Fabrizio Pilo, University of Cagliari, Italy Chair: Riccardo Lama, CEI - Comitato Elettrotecnico Italiano, Italy FULL PAPER - Theme 1: New Methods for Planning Reliable, Resilient and Sustainable Networks Planning LV Networks for Effective Voltage Control Under Partial Deployment of PQ-Controlled PV Inverters 1: ENGIE Laborelec, Belgium; 2: Fluvius SO, Belgium; 3: Ores SO, Belgium; 4: Sibelga SO, Belgium; 5: Resa SO, Belgium 1:40pm - 1:55pm FULL PAPER - Theme 1: New Methods for Planning Reliable, Resilient and Sustainable Networks Value And Pricing Of Flexibility In Distribution Network Operation 1: Helen Electricity Network Ltd., Finland; 2: Tampere University., Finland 1:55pm - 2:10pm FULL PAPER - Theme 1: New Methods for Planning Reliable, Resilient and Sustainable Networks Enhancing Load Profile Modeling through Coupling of Smart Meter and Public Register data – A Danish Case Study Green Power Denmark, Denmark 2:10pm - 2:25pm FULL PAPER - Theme 1: New Methods for Planning Reliable, Resilient and Sustainable Networks Large-Scale Cost-Benefit Analysis of Photovoltaic Flexibility in Distribution Grids: A Methodology based on Representative Feeders Mines Paris PSL, France 2:25pm - 2:40pm FULL PAPER - Theme 1: New Methods for Planning Reliable, Resilient and Sustainable Networks Prosumer Synchronisation Risk: Impacts of Time-Varying Tariffs on Distribution Network Expansion 1: Power Systems Laboratory, Institute for Power Systems & High Voltage Technology, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.; 2: Reliability and Risk Engineering Laboratory, Institute of Energy and Process Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.; 3: Urban Energy Systems Laboratory, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.; 4: Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China 2:40pm - 2:55pm FULL PAPER - Theme 1: New Methods for Planning Reliable, Resilient and Sustainable Networks The Role Of Digital Twins In Enabling New Grid Connections. A Swedish DSO Case Study 1: Universidad de Oviedo / Plexigrid, Spain; 2: Plexigrid; 3: Nordion Energi; 4: Universidad de Oviedo |
| 4:55pm - 5:15pm |
Keynote Speaker 3 - Inne MERTENS Location: Auditorium Inne Mertens is CEO of Brussels distribution network operator Sibelga. She holds a masters degree of the University of Leuven as an Electrical Engineer. She began her career at Electrabel in 1998. She accompanied the liberalization of the energy market in Wallonia in the early 2000s. Between 2009 and 2021, she was a member of the Executive Committee of ORES, the Walloon distribution network operator, where she was responsible for the Market & Customers department. She is also member of the board of Atrias and Synergrid and Chairman of the Board at the Royal Belgian Society for Energy. |
| Date: Wednesday, 10/June/2026 | |
| 8:30am - 8:50am |
Keynote 4 Location: Auditorium |
| 8:50am - 10:20am |
Theme 2 Oral Session – Lessons Learned from Implementing Innovations in Distribution Networks Location: Auditorium Chair: Jan Desmet, Ugent, Belgium Chair: Emmanuel De Jaeger, UC Louvain, Belgium Chair: David Hawkins, The IET, United Kingdom FULL PAPER - Theme 2: Lessons Learned from Implementing Innovations in Distribution Networks Piri: Using Smart Meters And AI To Determine The LV Grid Connectivity 1: Orion Grid Technologies; 2: Fluvius System Operator 9:05am - 9:20am FULL PAPER - Theme 2: Lessons Learned from Implementing Innovations in Distribution Networks Improving Grid Resiliency on Island-Based Microgrids for Reducing Blackouts in Unplanned Disconnection Events by Using Near-Real-Time Monitoring and Flexible Loads Management 1: Plexigrid SL, Spain; 2: Universidad de Oviedo, Spain; 3: Vattenfall Eldistribution AB, Sweden; 4: Plexigrid AB, Sweden 9:20am - 9:35am FULL PAPER - Theme 2: Lessons Learned from Implementing Innovations in Distribution Networks From Pilot to Real-World Operation: Implementing Remote Curtailment of LV-Connected PV for Regional Constraint Management — Lessons from Enedis Field Trial Enedis, France 9:35am - 9:50am FULL PAPER - Theme 2: Lessons Learned from Implementing Innovations in Distribution Networks A Unique Collaboration Model for Designing Retrofit Sensor Systems for Magnefix MD4 Switchgears: It’s All About People, Product, Process 1: Eaton; 2: Alliander 9:50am - 10:05am FULL PAPER - Theme 2: Lessons Learned from Implementing Innovations in Distribution Networks Building a Virtual Power Plant: Providing Ancillary Services and Local Congestion Management with a Large-scale Fleet of Public EV Chargers Engie Laborelec, Belgium 10:05am - 10:20am FULL PAPER - Theme 2: Lessons Learned from Implementing Innovations in Distribution Networks Prediction-Based Control of a Building-Integrated DC Microgrid with HESS Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany |
| 12:20pm - 1:20pm |
Round Table 2: How Congestion and Flexibility Meets the New EMD5 Directive Location: Auditorium Chair: Jan Desmet, Ugent, Belgium Chair: Dirk Van Hertem, KU Leuven, Belgium Panelists
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| 2:35pm - 4:05pm |
Theme 3 Oral Session – New Regulation and Practices to Spark Innovation and Minimize Business Risk Location: Auditorium Chair: Ingrid Schürrer, Salzburg Netz GmbH, Austria Chair: Peter Söderström, Vattenfall Distribution Sweden, Sweden FULL PAPER - Theme 3: New Regulation and Practices to Spark Innovation and Minimize Business Risk Learning from Europe’s Local Flexibility Markets: Design Options and Key Success Features VITO/EnergyVille, Belgium 2:50pm - 3:05pm FULL PAPER - Theme 3: New Regulation and Practices to Spark Innovation and Minimize Business Risk A Unified Grid-State Signal for Activating Household Flexibility Under Real German System Conditions 1: Reutlingen University, Germany; 2: TransnetBW GmbH, Germany 3:05pm - 3:20pm FULL PAPER - Theme 3: New Regulation and Practices to Spark Innovation and Minimize Business Risk End-to-End Generation Framework for Dynamic Energy and Grid Tariffs ewz, Switzerland 3:20pm - 3:35pm FULL PAPER - Theme 3: New Regulation and Practices to Spark Innovation and Minimize Business Risk Price Signals and Carbon Emissions: Why EV Charging is Cleaner Than Expected Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 3:35pm - 3:50pm FULL PAPER - Theme 3: New Regulation and Practices to Spark Innovation and Minimize Business Risk KYEC – Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Consumer Empowerment in Smart Metering Tata Power Company Limited, India 3:50pm - 4:05pm FULL PAPER - Theme 3: New Regulation and Practices to Spark Innovation and Minimize Business Risk GeoDescriber x GeoLLM: Let The Energy Data Speak 1: Enedis, France; 2: EDF R&D, France |
| 4:05pm - 4:15pm |
Closing Speech by Dag Eirik Nordgård, Workshop Chair Location: Auditorium Chair: Dag Eirik Nordgård, SINTEF, Norway |