Conference summary
2010 ERESS Customer Forum
The European Railway Energy Settlement System (ERESS) and Banedanmark would like to thank all delegates, speakers and sponsors of the ERESS Customer Forum 2010 for their participation and contribution.
The 2010 ERESS Customer Forum on “on-board measuring and managing of traction energy” was held on June 1st, 2010, in Copenhagen. The conference brought together 95 participants including representatives from infrastructure managers, railway undertakings, authorities and manufacturers of vehicle, sensor, energy metering and energy management solutions in Europe.
The main objectives of the conference were to: keep actors in the railway sector up to date with the present European standardization work on energy management and energy efficiency; learn about the latest developments of ERESS; learn from experiences of railway undertakings and infrastructure managers that have implemented an energy management system; share best practices in the energy measurement system on board trains; discover the different energy metering and management systems available on the market.
Kåre Stig Nielsen, Representative of the Danish National Railway Agency at ERESS management board opened the conference with emphasizing on the importance of the railway as a mean to reduce CO2 emissions in the transport industry and the need of correct measurement as a tool to reduce energy consumption, emission and cost.
The conference consisted of 3 main sessions.
A first session where presentations were given regarding the technical harmonization of the European Railways by Tom Elnar Thøgersen - Banedanmark, overview status from ongoing European standardisation work by Bart Van der Spiegel - Infrabel, project results of UIC Railway Energy Billing by Henning Schwarz - UIC and the status and latest developments of ERESS by Dyre Martin Gulbrandsen, director of ERESS, Jernbaneverket. ERESS partnership has developed a new module called European Railway Exchange Module (EREM) that provides accurate and reliable validation, splitting and distribution of measured energy data from traction units running between all European countries. It functions in compliance with the business processes and protocols for data transfer and data distribution between infrastructure managers as defined in UIC leaflet 930.
This first session was followed by a question and answer session to allow the participants to request further clarifications or to add comments in regard to the previous presentations. A few issues emerged from the discussion between the audience members and the panelists such as the obvious lack of harmonization in the metrological certification of energy measuring system on a European level, the need of standardised recertification of metrological aspects, the need of official publication of TSI’s standards, the question of incorporating or not EMS in Measurement Instrument Directive, the need to find a preferred solution for a digital communication from sensors to energy meter and from energy meter to data handler inside EN 50463-4. One thing all the audience agrees on is that most of those issues require a necessary cooperation between all member states for better railway interoperability.
The second part was devoted to manufacturers, sponsors of the event, where they had the opportunity to present briefly their solutions. Over the last few years manufacturers have shown great interest in providing solutions to the railways. As result various and flexible solutions in compliance with the accuracy described in the EN 50463 were presented by the manufacturers.
This session was followed by a walking lunch combined with a poster session. During the poster session participants had the possibility to expand their international network and to request detailed information from the manufacturers.
The 3rd and last session started with a presentation of Bart Van der Spiegel, Infrabel concerning the free choice of energy supplier in the railways. The following directives and decision of a justice court have been presented as foundations underling of the third-party access right for railway undertakings: the railway directive 2001/14, decision of the justice court in regard to “Citiworks” case C-439/06, Electricity Directive 2003/54 and the electricity directive 2009/72 introducing the concept of “Closed Distribution Systems.”
In addition, presentation by Marianne Eriksen from Norenergi explained the benefits and cost effectiveness for railway undertakings from purchasing traction energy on Power Exchanges.
Dominique Vastel, Director of energy saving programs in SNCF presented the 3-year programme of SNCF’s related to the on-Board Energy Metering Equipment.
Christian Laurencin, Traction system unit manger - SNCF, presented SNCF’s experience feedback on EMS and on the data exchange between data collection (GAIA) and settlement system (ERESS) and between settlement systems. He pointed out the high level investment and operational costs incurred from the installation and maintenance of EMS on board of trains.
The last session ended with a presentation by Jan Vetle Moen - NSB on the results of NSB’s energy efficiency programs. NSB has realized 18% energy efficiency improvement between 2004 and 2009 by adopting different energy saving projects.
Terje Stømer, Chairman of ERESS Management Board, Jernbaneverket concluded the conference by asking “all parties to do their best to lay the ground for the further development of the interoperability within the railway” and added that “the most important work for all involved parties, is to contribute in the success of RUs in their effort to increase their market share! If the RU succeeds, we all succeed.”
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