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Registration
Preparation & Registration
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Opening Ceremony
Chairman’s Opening Remarks and Address
Constantinos Peonides
Executive Director
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Session
Digitalisation for a Renewable-Powered Future
We are witnessing increased disruption in the energy sector; this requires a combination of solutions (DLT working in tandem with IoT and A
Sean Ratka
Associate Programme Officer
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Session
Adapting During COVID-19: Residential Solar Digitisation
Remote selling and surveying approach Customer journey and experience impact Next steps: extending the onlin
Laura Hield-Ryder
Head of Operations and Delivery
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Session
Digital in Operational and Developing Phase
• Data connection for new PV plants• Direction of the data in modern PV plants• Data to be send into the PV Plant• DNO
Antonio Alcaro
Asset Manager
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Session
Developing Disruptive Business Models in Digital Age
A new paradigm: why do we need new business models? Digital collaboration enables new business models and efficiency
Constantinos Peonides
Executive Director
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Networking
One-to -One Meetings & Networking Break
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Session
Big Analytics in Solar Power: How do we get Value from Big Data?
Key sources of big data in the solar industry: plant information, forecasting and trading data, operations and maintenance, and metadata.
Massimiliano Pili
Head of Engineering & Construction
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Session
From Soiling to Plant Design - about the Economic Impact of Soiling Losses and How to Mitigate them
• Soiling economics - how soiling affects the profitability of large scale PV plants. • Soiling assessment and cleaning optimization
Thore Müller
Product Manager Cleaning Optimization
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Session
Investor’s Need for Digitalization
• Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) requirements • Realtime information for reporting financial position • Continuou
David Delaire
Managing Director
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Lunch
Lunch Time Break
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Break
One-to -One Meetings & Networking Break
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Session
Solar Yield Forecasting
•Applications and approaches for real-time, short-term and medium-term forecasting • The rationale for combining physical and statis
Amaury Salles
Renewable Energy Advisor
Sebastien McClay
Energy Data Scientist
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Session
Utilisation of Real-time Data Acquisition for Improved Trading of Solar Energy with a Virtual Power Plant
• Real-time data acquisition of the energy generation • Forecast generation for harmonising the demand and supply • Products
Aleksandra Radwanska
International Business Development Manager
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Session
Numerical Modelling Strategies and Instrumentation Challenges in Floating Solar PV
•Station-keeping for floating solar – a new and singular challenge • Numerical modelling strategies • Instrumentation objectives and
Félix Gorintin
Chief Operating Officer
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Networking
One-to -One Meetings & Networking Break
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Session
Digitalization in 2021: Driven by Regulation and Standards
• The digitalization of Distributed Energy has been a decade in the making and is driven by global technological innovation in smart invert
Tom Tansy
Chairman
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Session
Building a Resilient and Digitalized Supply Chain
•Market overview of solar supply chain and the active disruptions • Adapt to and successfully implement resilience indices •
Jeremy Erndt
Director, Power & Utilities
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Session
Quest for Truth: Constructing a System Architecture for Data Driven O&M
• Challenge: contradictory data and varying accuracy • Intelligent data collection on site • Integrating additional data sour
Aleksis Schäfer
Managing Director
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Roundtable
Interactive Discussion with Q&A
•Digital Twin for Solar Plants - Harnessing the Power of Data Intelligence in Solar PV O&M • Performance Optimization and Monitoring
Wolfgang Rosenberg
Vice-President O&M
Constantinos Peonides
Executive Director
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Closing Ceremony
End of Day 1 and Chairman Closing Remark
Constantinos Peonides
Executive Director
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| Fri, 11 Dec |
Opening Ceremony
Chairman’s Opening Remarks and Address
Ypatios Moysiadis
Group Business Development Director & UK Coun..
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| Fri, 11 Dec |
Session
Operating a Large Solar Fleet: A Focus on Performance Metrics (KPIs
•Strengths/weaknesses • Uses for assessing performance health • Difficulty to automate in monitoring systems
Nicola Waters
Managing Director
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Session
O&M Costs Cut in half - Actionable Information makes it possible
• Costs are crucial in PV; yet, most plants could produce much more – if the losses are known. A key cost factor are on-site maintenance an
Ingmar Kruse
CEO
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| Fri, 11 Dec |
Session
Gaining Efficiencies through Digitalization in Asset Management
• Throwback: PV Asset Management’s early days • Hurdles to digitalization or why has not everyone going digital • How to gain effici
Max Methe
Head of Finance BayWa r.e. Services
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| Fri, 11 Dec |
Session
Drones: A Driver for the Digital Transformation of Utility-scale Solar PV
• Drones at each stage of the asset lifecycle (Planning, design, construction, commissioning, and operations) • Thermographic inspec
Peregrine Fraser
Chief Commercial Officer
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Roundtable
Drones for Solar PV O&M –Using Drones as a Solar PV Tool
• Using drones to inspect solar panel and plant sites • State-of-the-art drones’ technology and economics around the use of drones
Constantinos Peonides
Executive Director
Ypatios Moysiadis
Group Business Development Director & UK Coun..
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Networking
One-to -One Meetings & Networking Break
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Session
From Data to Decisions
• Optimization >What is the best approach to optimise a solar asset • Tips to identify projects that needs optimizations • Da
Fernando Casas Garcia
Global Head of Technical
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Session
S2S - Automation from Data using Sensor-to-sensor Communications and Orchestration
• Data and systems aggregation is the new normal • Integrations and “sensors To sensors” it is the new normal. • Data structu
Rafael Narezzi
CIO
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Lunch
Lunch Time Break
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Break
One-to -One Meetings & Networking Break
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Session
Importance of CyberSecurity on your REN Assets
• Why Asset Owners should implement best practises and protect their data and assets
Ypatios Moysiadis
Group Business Development Director & UK Coun..
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Roundtable
Boosting Cyber Resilience: Safeguarding Solar Assets for the Digital Age
• Solar energy is growing rapidly and digital asset development is increasing the level of vulnerability for cyber-attacks • Underst
Tom Tansy
Chairman
Constantinos Peonides
Executive Director
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Session
Does Digitalization of Solar PV Lead to Increased Cybersecurity Demands?
• The real threat cyberattacks have on the energy sector • Suggestions on how to decrease a PV plant’s cyber risks • Spotligh
Emily Hwang
PVI Product Line Manager
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| Fri, 11 Dec |
Networking
One-to -One Meetings & Networking Break
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| Fri, 11 Dec |
Session
Advancing Solar Analytics with Applied Machine Learning
• How AI-based algorithms in Envision’s Ensight Solar SaaS solution help: o Quantify bifacial system gains o
Aron P. Dobos
Director, Solar Monitoring & Analytics
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| Fri, 11 Dec |
Session
How to Enable Data Driven Decisions
• There have been recent studies identifying US Solar plants have been underperforming anywhere between 3-6 percent • A deeper analy
Cegeon Chan
Director, Wind and Solar Energy Assessments
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Session
Data Science and Performance Optimization
• Data is among your most valuable assets • Data reliability: the key is in the quality! • Centralized data: Making effective
Pierre Metaut
Global Performance Manager
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Session
Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI): Solar Big Data Access and Analysis Tool
• Learn about the OEDI project and how it is providing access to big data for researchers and analysts • See why a data lake solutio
Debbie Brodt-Giles
Group Manager for DATA
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Closing Ceremony
End of Day 2 and Chairman Closing Remark
Ypatios Moysiadis
Group Business Development Director & UK Coun..
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