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The Third International Conference on Renewable and DER integration is to be held in Nice on 10, 11, 12th December 2008. It will address technical, market, and regulatory issues as a prerequisite to prepare massive DER integration into power grids, thus leaning on a continuous dialogue between all the involved players. The conference will gather scientists, utility operators, manufacturers, regulators, and policy makers.

Don’t miss it! So come and join the 250 already registered delegates: http://www.conference-on-integration.com/registration.php

Location
Don’t miss your chance to participate to this conference in Nice, on December 10, 11 and 12th, 2008. Located in southern Europe at the most south eastern point of France, Nice has a most privileged position at crossroads between the Alps, Provence, Corsica and Italy. The city occupies an exceptional natural site in the heart of the French Riviera.

Poster session
The two poster sessions will take place during day one and day two and will be linked to a “wine tasting event” sponsored by Technofi. The 88 posters selected among the 100+ submitted will be displayed around the following two themes:

DAY 1, December 10th: DER knowledge from the field
- Demand flexibility
- Generation & storage technologies
- DER economics
- Markets development (DER, energy, services)
- Network & market regulation, policies
- Large scale experiments

DAY 2, December 11th: DER in the distribution network
- Distribution network architecture & concepts
- Enabling technologies for DER integration
- Storage for network
- Active distribution network operation

Technology exhibition
You will see the latest advances in DER control, metering, simulation and integration, electricity storage, communication systems. For example, Siemens will run a demonstration with DEMS-System and a DER-Controller installed on a laptop.

Gala dinner
The Gala dinner of Thursday offered by GDF SUEZ will be in the Hôtel Méridien, 1 promenade des Anglais, at Nice. It is 2 minutes walking distance from the Hôtel Le Palais de la Méditerranée.

Accommodation
Don't forget to book your room before December 1st, 2008, in filling in the housing form enclosed. After this date, booking will be on request only & upon availability. For information, you will benefit of a special rate!

Sponsors
The Organizers are pleased to acknowledge the following sponsors:
> Gold sponsor: GDF SUEZ
> General sponsors: Technofi and Saft

Supporting Organisations
> EU-DEEP
> European Commission Research Directorate-General
> IRED
> GDF SUEZ
> ADEME
> ISET

For more information, please visit the dedicated website: www.conference-on-integration.com