Members of the Advisory Board

Mr. Florian Gonzalez	Florian Gonzalez has been responsible for projects within E.DSO’s Secretariat since September 2016. He has held the position of Communications and Projects Officer from 2016 to 2018 before being appointed Senior Projects Officer in 2018. He holds two Master’s Degrees in European studies, from the University of Strasbourg and Bruges’ College of Europe. Since 2012, he has been working in the energy sector through professional experience in various organisations: France’s Ministry of Defence on EU security of energy supply, in consultancy firm CEIS, at the European Commission’s DG Energy and for France’s largest DSO Enedis within their Brussels Office.
Dr. Ralf Levacher	Profile of Dr. Ralf Levacher Date of birth: 10/09/1960 Matrital status: married Child: 1 daughter Training data 1989 at the end oft he study material science University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken Diploma in Engineering 1996 doctorate Professional Experience 1989 – 1997 Saarstahl/ Saarschmiede 1997 – today Technical CEO of Stadtwerke Saarlouis GmbH
Prof Christiane Schwaegerl	Dr.-Ing. Christine Schwaegerl received her Diploma in Electrical Engineering at University of Erlangen, Germany, in 1996, and her PhD from Dresden Technical University, Germany, in 2000. In 2000 she joined Siemens AG as a consultant with Siemens Power Technologies International, being responsible for the several national and European research and development activities on power transmission and distribution networks. Currently she works as full time professor at Augsburg University of applied science. Christine acts as chair of CIGRE SC C6 ‘dispersed generation and distribution systems’.’
Dr. Milos Subasic	Dr. Milos Subasic received his PhD degree from Polytechnic University of Milan in Electrical Engineering with the special focus on Smart Grid solutions. Throughout his career, he has undertaken various roles in Transmission & Distribution domains - in Schneider Electric DMS on developing DMS solutions; with Siemens on strategizing and developing new approaches for Distribution Grid control; Cesi consulting on WAMS development; and finally Terna, Italian national TSO where he was working on national/pan-European adequacy, capacity market and EU Clean Energy Package. Milos is currently working in ABB Corporate Research Center on control in distribution grid and distributed intelligence topics.

_{2nd SOGNO Advisory Board Meeting}

The second advisory board meeting was held as a video conference.

Main points presented in the review:

• Refresh the mind about the project work and then have 3 sessions on the 3 topics below

• The Open Source platform and strategy for exploiting it with EDSOand follow on projects PLATONE, EdgeFLEX and Eddie

• Policy recommendations and new business models

• The 5G roll out and how to accelerate/promote it and its role in relation to energy services

Meeting Agenda

10.30 Opening and introductions – Fiona Williams, EDD

10.45 SOGNO overview and results – Prof. Monti, RWTH

11.20 SOGNO Field trials and live demonstrations – Marco Pau. RWTH

12.00 Coffee Break

12.15 SOGNO Regulatory proposals and impact, Mihai Mladin, CRE

12.30 SOGNO Impact – Anna Maass, B.A.U.M.

13.00 SOGNO Exploitation – Marco Pau, RWTH

13.20 Feedback from Advisory Board and discussion

14.00 Close of meeting

^1st SOGNO Advisory Board Meeting

Objective of the first advisory board meeting was to present and discuss the project work, enabling the SOGNO advisory board to:

provide us with feedback on the focus and progress of our work to date and to
propose potential changes which would enhance the project results and impact in the second half of the project

The members of the advisory board taking place in the meeting were

Prof. Christine Schwägerl, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences
Dr. Ralf Levacher, Stadtwerke Saarluis GmbH
Mr Florian Gonzalez, E.DSO - European Distribution Systems Operator

Meeting Agenda

10.00 – 11.00 Overview session

Opening of the meeting – Prof. Monti, RWTH

Introduction of participants - all

Overview of the project – Prof. Monti, RWTH

Operations status overview – Fiona Williams, Ericsson

Scenarios defined in the project - Prof. Peretto, Uni. of Bologna

11.00 – 11.20 Coffee break

11.20 – 13.00 SOGNO services and trials

SOGNO Services and use cases – Marco Pau, RWTH

SOGNO Platform architecture and implementation – Mariano Jofre, Ericsson

SOGNO Field trials – Paul Hayes, ESB

SOGNO 5G perspective - Steffen Bretzke, Ericsson

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 14.40 SOGNO creating impact

SOGNO business models and standards – Mihai Mladin, CRE

Creating Impact with SOGNO – Anna Maass, B.A.U.M.

14.40 – 15.15 Feedback from Advisory Board and discussion

15.15 Close of meeting

Members of the Advisory Board

Mr. Florian Gonzalez	Florian Gonzalez has been responsible for projects within E.DSO’s Secretariat since September 2016. He has held the position of Communications and Projects Officer from 2016 to 2018 before being appointed Senior Projects Officer in 2018. He holds two Master’s Degrees in European studies, from the University of Strasbourg and Bruges’ College of Europe. Since 2012, he has been working in the energy sector through professional experience in various organisations: France’s Ministry of Defence on EU security of energy supply, in consultancy firm CEIS, at the European Commission’s DG Energy and for France’s largest DSO Enedis within their Brussels Office.
Dr. Ralf Levacher	Profile of Dr. Ralf Levacher Date of birth: 10/09/1960 Matrital status: married Child: 1 daughter Training data 1989 at the end oft he study material science University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken Diploma in Engineering 1996 doctorate Professional Experience 1989 – 1997 Saarstahl/ Saarschmiede 1997 – today Technical CEO of Stadtwerke Saarlouis GmbH
Prof Christiane Schwaegerl	Dr.-Ing. Christine Schwaegerl received her Diploma in Electrical Engineering at University of Erlangen, Germany, in 1996, and her PhD from Dresden Technical University, Germany, in 2000. In 2000 she joined Siemens AG as a consultant with Siemens Power Technologies International, being responsible for the several national and European research and development activities on power transmission and distribution networks. Currently she works as full time professor at Augsburg University of applied science. Christine acts as chair of CIGRE SC C6 ‘dispersed generation and distribution systems’.’
Dr. Milos Subasic	Dr. Milos Subasic received his PhD degree from Polytechnic University of Milan in Electrical Engineering with the special focus on Smart Grid solutions. Throughout his career, he has undertaken various roles in Transmission & Distribution domains - in Schneider Electric DMS on developing DMS solutions; with Siemens on strategizing and developing new approaches for Distribution Grid control; Cesi consulting on WAMS development; and finally Terna, Italian national TSO where he was working on national/pan-European adequacy, capacity market and EU Clean Energy Package. Milos is currently working in ABB Corporate Research Center on control in distribution grid and distributed intelligence topics.