ESI Europe

The acronym ‘ESI’ stands for electricity supply industry. ESI Europe is the leading provider of information relating to the European electricity transmission and distribution industry, delivering news to the continent and beyond.

Published quarterly in March, June, September and December, ESI Europe is distributed to over 5000 decision makers within the European T&D industry, providing information and updates on innovations and product developments.

ESI Europe
The magazine for the European power industry

The European power industry is facing momentous changes, challenges and increased competition.

ESI Europe provides expert information, comments and news on developments in the European power market. It will examine issues critical to Europe, such as liberalisation of power markets, distribution issues, cross border trading and co-operation between countries. The magazine aims to inform decision-makers on developments in the European power market and provide them with access to opportunities and services related to their industry.

The only magazine aimed solely at the European electricity market, ESI Europe will feature editorial on a variety of issues pertinent to the region. In addition to the provision and distribution of energy to end-users, the editorial will provide information on various aspects of energy use, such as demand side management (DSM), energy efficiency and policy issues that will affect the continent. Regional features and profiles on countries and utilities provide an overall view of the use of power in Europe and serve to encourage information sharing amongst utilities and countries.

The editorial panel of ESI Europe is made up of prominent members of the power industry, who offer advice and guidance on editorial policy and content, including:

• Prof. Diana Urge-Vorsatz - Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, Hungary
  
• Prof. Ronnie Belmans - President, International Union for Electricity Applications (UIE), France
  
• Andrew Warren - Director, Association for the Conservation of Energy, UK
  
• Dr. Paolo Bertoldi - European Commission, Italy
  
• Martin den Blanken - NUON Energysourcing / Monitoring & Forecasting, The Netherlands
  
• Carlos Solé Martin - Electric Energy Director, National Energy Commission, Spain

Editorial content aims to provide coverage of all sectors of the industry, while bearing in mind the unique characteristics of each regional industry in relation to the directives of the European Union.

ESI Europe provides regular updates and information to a dynamic and ever-changing industry.

ESI Europe editorial panel

Prof. Diana Urge-Vorsatz Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, Hungary Diana Ürge-Vorsatz is a Professor and PhD Programme Director at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy of the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. She presently holds an International Policy Fellowship at the Centre for Policy Studies. Prof. Ürge-Vorsatz has been focusing on the promotion of sustainable energy policy for the Central and Eastern European region for almost a decade. She has worked on and directed several international research projects for organisations such as the European Union, the European Parliament, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), United Nations’ Environment Program (UNEP), and the World Bank. She is acting as a co-ordinating lead author for the residential and commercial mitigation chapter of the Fourth Assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Prof. Ürge-Vorsatz has an M.Sc.in Physics from Eotvos University of Sciences, Budapest; a Ph.D. Environmental Science and Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles and Berkeley; and was a Fulbright Scholar, 1993-96 University of California, Berkeley. She has written over 60 publications, and has served on several international advisory and governing bodies, including the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE), Hungarian Energy Efficiency Co-financing Programme (HEECP), Collaborative Appliance Labelling and Standards Programme (CLASP), the IPCC, and the Sigma Xi Expert Committee on Climate Change for the United Nations.

Prof. Ronnie Belmans President, International Union for Electricity Applications (UIE), France Ronnie Belmans has an M.S. degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. degree, both from the K.U.Leuven, Belgium; a Special Doctorate and the Habilitierung, both from the RWTH, Aachen, Germany. He is currently a full professor with the K.U.Leuven, teaching electric power and energy systems. His research interests include techno-economic aspects of power systems, power quality and distributed generation. He is also guest professor at Imperial College of Science, Medicine and Technology, London, UK. Since June 2002 he has been chairman of the board of directors of ELIA, the Belgian transmission grid operator.

Andrew Warren Director, Association for the Conservation of Energy, UK Andrew Warren is Director of the Association for the Conservation of Energy. He was educated at the University of Exeter, and worked in advertising for Saatchi and Saatchi Garland-Compton Ltd. before becoming the Secretary to the Movement for London Campaign. When the United Kingdom Association for the Conservation of Energy was founded in 1981, he was appointed its first Director. In 1998 he was appointed as chief advisor to its sister organisation, EuroACE. Mr Warren has given oral evidence to various enquiries undertaken by committees of the European Parliament, and has spoken at a variety of hearings called by the European Commission. He has also spoken at conferences on energy and environment issues in every EU country. In 1995 he was appointed as a special industrial advisor to the European Economic and Social Committee. In 1998 he was appointed by Commissioner Papoutsis to be the energy efficiency representative on the EC’s Energy Policy Consultative Committee. He has chaired the EC task group on Sustainable Construction and Energy Efficiency, and is a member of the EU’s European Climate Change Programme formal working group on Energy Consumption.

Dr. Paolo Bertoldi European Commission, Italy Paolo Bertoldi has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy. He has been working with the European Commission since 1986. From 1986 to 1993 he worked in the EU nuclear fusion project, Joint Undertaking Torus (JET) in the UK. From 1993 until April 2001 he was Administrator with the European Commission, DG Energy and Transport (DG TREN, Brussels, Belgium), in charge of EU regulatory and voluntary programmes for the rational use of energy in end-use equipment, buildings and industry. He was also in charge of negotiated and long term agreements with industry and tertiary sectors and the GreenLight programme. In May 2001 he became Principal Administrator at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy), in charge of research activities for energy efficiency policy, the efficient use of electricity and innovative policy instruments (e.g. white certificates, financing mechanisms and emission trading). He continues to manage the GreenLight, Motor Challenge and Standby Initiative programmes on behalf of DG TREN.

Martin den Blanken NUON Energy Sourcing / Monitoring & Forecasting, The Netherlands Martin den Blanken is a member of NUON’s Energy Sourcing/Monitoring & Forecasting team in The Netherlands. He started his career as a marine engineer before moving to the electricity generation industry, and has worked on several large power plants of up to 460 MW output. He then joined an automation department as project leader for various initiatives, including collecting meter data from generation plants (electricity, heat, water, steam) and the coupling of these systems to the billing administration system. He has worked for an electricity trading company, where he was project leader overseeing the EDI interfaces with the grid operators and also assisted in the development of various trading and scheduling applications. He then managed this company’s metering department before joining NUON Energy Sourcing, involved with data collection and short term forecasting of daily customer usage. NUON has a strong market presence in Holland, Belgium and Germany, and is also represented in other European countries. Mr van Blanken holds a bachelor's degree in Process Technology.

Carlos Solé Electric Energy Director, National Energy Commission, Spain Carlos Solé has been Director for Electric Energy in the Spanish Energy Commission (CNE) since 2001. Prior to 1996 he worked in Red Eléctrica de España as an electrical engineer. He joined the Electricity Commission in 1996 as Head of the Transmission Department and in 1999 became Deputy Director for Transmission & System Operation. He has been involved in the entire liberalisation process in Spain, defining the regulation for the wholesale electricity market, the system operation rules and transmission activity secondary regulation.

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