As an important side event of the 9th Clean Energy Ministerial Conference (CEM9) and the 3rd Mission Innovation Ministerial (MI-3), the 3rd MI IC#1 Smart Grid Innovation deep-dive Workshop was held in Malmo, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark from May 20th to 22nd, 2018. This event was co-hosted by the Institute of Electrical Engineering, CAS(CN), the Swedish Energy Agency, the Danish Smart Grid Alliance, Ricerca Sistema Energetico (IT), and the Ministry of Science and Technology of India. Li Meng, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(CN), Harsh Vardhan, Minister of National Science, Technology and Earth Sciences of India(IN), Kristoffer Bottzauw, Deputy Minister of Energy and Climate of Denmark(DK), Frank Des Rosiers, Assistant Deputy Minister of Natural Resources of Canada(CA), Remy Kolessar, Director of Swedish Energy Agency(SE), Stefano Queirolo Palmas, Ambassador of Italy to Denmark, and other senior representatives attended the meeting and delivered speeches.
The Mission Innovation Smart Grid Innovation Challenge Working Group has released "Oresund Region Joint Statement and Recommendations" at the workshop, while six sub-tasks which are Storage Integration, Demand Response, Electricity highways, Flexibility options, New grid control architectures, and Power Electronic were launched. At the same time, the ministerial representative presented the first official publication of the working group, “Smart Grids Innovation Challenge Country Report 2017: STEP”, which was compiled by IEE,CAS. The publication includes smart grid and renewable energy markets, policies, technology development status and related science and technology programs in 14 countries.
Vice Minister Li Meng expressed the Chinese proposition, and deeply analyzed the opportunities and major challenges that the world is facing to in the period of global clean energy transformation. He emphasized the significance of the "energy revolution" concept put forward by President Xi Jinping, especially the all-round strengthening of international cooperation. He indicated that China has the world's largest smart grid market and a stable growth of renewable energy power generation market, and China are willing to promote international cooperation with the world in the field of smart grid technology. He also expressed his appreciation and support for the outstanding work of the Smart Grid Innovation Challenge Working Group over the past two years.
China's achievements in the field of smart grid and renewable energy power generation technology innovation have received attention and appreciation from all sides. Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Israel and other countries have proposed multilateral cooperation. Representatives from 11 countries including China, Australia, India, Italy, Britain and the United States, as well as international organizations such as the World Economic Forum, the International Energy Agency, the International Renewable Energy Agency and some internationally renowned research institutions and enterprises attended the event.
The Smart Grid Innovation Challenge Working Group is the first innovation challenge working group under the MI mechanism. Dr. Wang Yibo from IEE CAS, Dr. Luciano Martini from Ricerca Sistema Energetico and Dr. Sanjay Bajpai from the Ministry of Science and Technology of India jointly worked as the co-leads. The group includes 20 countries: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sweden, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and the United States. The mission of the working group is to promote smart grid technology innovation for high-ratio renewable energy and to promote the doubling of government and companies’ R&D investment.
Li Meng, Vice Minister of Science and Technology, delivered a speech and accepted the joint statement and recommendation from the working group
Speech by ministerial representatives from India, Denmark, Canada, Italy.
MI IC#1 Smart Grids working group
