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Supply chain readiness to facilitate network transformation

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  • Session
  • Monday, 12 June 2017
  • 15:12 - 15:12
  • Duration: 16 mins
  • Publication date: 13 Jul 2017
  • Location: Clyde Auditorium, SEC, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • Part of event CIRED 2017

About the session

CIRED, the leading forum where the Electricity Distribution Community meets, holds the major International Electricity Conference & Exhibition every two years in different venues in Europe with a worldwide perspective and participation.

We are delighted to be hosting the 24th International Conference & Exhibition on Electricity Distribution in the amazing city of Glasgow at the prestigious Scottish Event Campus (SEC).

CIRED 2017 offers the opportunity to interact face-to-face with up to 1500 key decision leaders in the field of Electricity Distribution. This will be your chance to network with a wide range of delegates from utility, product, consultancy, service or business sectors of the distribution industry.

Keywords:
  • communication
  • decarbonisation
  • demand response
  • distribution equipment
  • electricity transmission
  • energy
  • energy policy
  • greenhouse gas emissions
  • grid technologies
  • innovation
  • power
  • power cable
  • power plant
  • renewable
  • renewable enrgies
  • services industry
  • smart grid
  • switchgear
  • voltage

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Electronics

Speaker

  • Gerhard  Seyrling

    Gerhard Seyrling

    Grid Solutions, GE, Grid Automation General Manager

    Gerhard Seyrling is the Grid Automation General Manager at Grid Solutions a GE and Alstom joint venture, in GE’s Energy Connections business. He joined GE’s Grid Solutions, when it was formed in 2015.Gerhard has acquired 28 years’ experience with Alstom Grid in the T&D Business. He began his career by holding various positions in the R&D of high voltage switchgear and power transformers, till leading high voltage switchgear factories in Switzerland and France.He then managed the Alstom Grid’s Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) Product Line, before joining the headquarters to manage the company’s Research and Development, Information Systems and Performance Improvement, as well as Alstom Grid’s Marketing and Strategy.In 2011, Gerhard was appointed as the Vice President Central & Eastern Europe, Russia, managing Alstom Grid’s business in Central & Eastern Europe, and Russia, based in Berlin. Since the Integration of Alstom & GE he became the General Manager for the same Region, now called CER (Central Europe Region).Gerhard graduated as an engineer in Electrical Energy from Austria’s Technical University of Vienna. Gerhard is member of the German National Committee of CIGRE and President of the T&D Europe Association.
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