David Hirst was Central Design Authority for the IT systems for the UK’s New Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA), and has been deeply involved in electricity ever since. He founded RLtec, and invented the technology for fridges to deliver ideal frequency response. He has since left the company and pursues concepts for a sustainable Electricity Supply Industry.
Some of his ideas are visible at www.davidhirst.com/electricity.
Preben Nyeng is smart grid developer at Energinet.dk. His main tasks are concept development, implementation, and R&D projects with smart grid technologies to reach the Danish smart grid visions. This includes technical as well as market concepts, interacting to utilise distributed energy resources and flexible electricity demand in system balancing and control. His background includes professional experience from the IT business as well as research experience in power systems, and smart grids in particular. His research interests are in the field of smart grid and smart markets, and the related information and communication technology requirements and implementations. He holds an MSc and a PhD degree, both from the Technical University of Denmark.
Ivan K. Pedersen has been working in the IT industry for almost 25 years before joining DONG Energy. He is currently a programme manager in the Products & Pricing International in DONG Energy Sales & Distribution. He holds an executive MBA in Innovation and Technology Management from Aalborg University in Denmark. Before joining DONG Energy he spent 10 years implementing and operating complex IT systems at the customer side and 15 years in software companies in various roles as sales manager, product manager, innovation manager and member of executive management. His specialities are customer driven innovation, technology management and marketing, programme management and organisational change. When joining DONG Energy, Ivan K. Pedersen assumed the role of project manager for DONG Energy’s VPP project, called Power Hub, which is an integral part of the largest EU funded energy research and demonstration project, Twenties.
Lauge Rasmussen is a Special Advisor at the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority and holds a MSc in Economics from Copenhagen University.His work primarily focuses on strengthening competition in the Danish electricity and telecommunication sector. He is project manager for the Danish Competition and Consumer Authorities’ analysis of the Danish retail market for electricity. One aim of this the analysis is to develop Smart Grid related initiatives which can increase competition in the Danish retail sector for electricity. Before joying the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority, he worked for the Danish Energy Regulatory Authority with economic regulation of the Danish distribution system operators.
Ivan Bjerre Damgård is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University.
Jakob Pagter is Head of Research and Innovation at the Alexandra Institute.
