On 4 December, CEIA Special Committee on Energy Digitisation, in conjunction with CSEE (Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering) Power Informatisation Committee and CECACIER (Central American and Caribbean Regional Energy Commission), held a seminar on Smart Grid Construction and Development in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica. More than 20 representatives from Costa Rica National Electricity Company, CNFL (Capital Electricity Company), JASEC and EPR (Regional Electricity Company), ARESEP (Costa Rican Public Service Administration) and other units attended the meeting.
Picture: The seminar poster
Picture: Prof. Liu's speech in the seminar
Liu Jianming, Executive Deputy Director of the Energy Digitisation Specialised Committee and Fellow of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering, and Mr Qian Jinjin, Communications Expert for the Power Industry from Huawei, a member of the Energy Digitisation Specialised Committee, shared their experiences of building smart grids in China at the conference. The conference focused on charging piles, AMI, photovoltaic, distribution networks, wireless communications and other areas of the symposium, in-depth discussion on how to develop smart grids in Costa Rica. The seminar played a positive role on how to build smart grids in Costa Rica in the future and do a good job of digitisation of electricity. It was decided that in the future, both sides will continue to maintain communication, exchange and learning to promote the development of smart grid in Costa Rica.
Picture: Group photo of some participants
CECACIER
CECACIER is a member of the Committee for the Integration of Regional Energy (CIER).CECACIER is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation founded in San Jose, Costa Rica, on 6 July 2009, which brings together companies and organisations working in the energy sector in Central America and the Caribbean.Currently CECACIER's member states include: Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, etc. CECACIER's mission is to promote regional energy integration and transfer best practices and knowledge to its members.
CSEE
CSEE (Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering) Power Informatisation Committee (established in 1997), mainly guides electric power enterprises to carry out the construction of information systems for production control, enterprise asset management, enterprise resource planning and network information security, and develops and promotes the exchange of electric power information and communication disciplines, the dissemination of advanced technologies, the formulation of technical standards, the popularisation of scientific knowledge, and the integration of industrial ecology. The committee will give full play to its role as a platform and linkage of industry expertise under the leadership of the China Association for Science and Technology, promote the digital transformation of energy and power enterprises under the dual-carbon goal, and collaborate to build a new ecological system of source, network, load, storage and carbon.
