CAMPUT
Moderator Scott MacKenzie is Chair of the Prince Edward Island Regulatory & Appeals Commission. Annegret Groebel is President of the Council of European Energy Regulators and Vice Chair of Icer. Mark Warren is Director — Business Innovation at FortisBC. Kiera Zitelman is Technical Manager, Center for Partnerships & Innovation at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.
Digitalization is disruptive and can have profound impacts on energy production and consumption. This panel at CAMPUT's 2022 Annual Conference examined how better use of data can modernize energy and regulation.
In this discussion, excerpted here, were Council of European Energy Regulators President and Icer Vice Chair Annegret Groebel, FortisBC Director — Business Innovation Mark Warren, NARUC Technical Manager at Center for Partnerships & Innovation Kiera Zitelman, and moderated by Prince Edward Island Regulatory & Appeals Commission Chair Scott MacKenzie.
President, Council of European Energy Regulators and Vice Chair, Icer, Annegret Groebel: Without further digitalization of the energy system, the energy transition will fail. We need an increased use of renewable energy, which we know are more volatile. In order for the grid to cope with it, we need to inject more flexibility into the system.
This is only possible with increased digitalization. In particular, on the distribution system level, not only on the transmission level where grids are already smart. The distribution level with all the distributed energy renewable sources needs to become more flexible to reap the benefits from renewables and adapt the system at the same time to remain stable.