Solarplaza Summit Sweden | Solar & Storage

Anna Werner has a PhD in Physics and has a degree from the Stockholm School of Economics. She has worked for five years with energy policy issues on the Swedish Home Owners Association and is since October 1st 2019 CEO of the Swedish Solar Energy Association.

Nicholas Etherden works at CheckWatt as a strategy manager for development of flexibility services. He has a PhD in electrical engineering and also holds a position as a senior adjunct lecturer at the electric engineering group of Luleå University of Technology. He is a specialist in solar power integration, smart grids, power utility automation and virtual power plants. Nicholas has 20 years of experience in research and development within electric power engineering as a developer at ABB, consultant at Swedish Transmission Research Institute (now part of Hitachi Energy) and R&D senior engineer (at Vattenfall). At CheckWatt, Sweden's largest independent aggregator, he works with aggregation of residential and utility-scale batteries and development of new services towards DSO, TSO, balance responsible parties and electric retailers.

Viktoria Neimane is Senior Vice President at Svenska kraftnät heading the department of Power system development. The areas of responsibility include power system stability, requirements according to the network codes and design and dimensioning of ancillary services. Viktoria has a Ph.D in Electrical Power Systems from the Royal Institute of Technology and more than 25 years of experience in different fields of electricity business including Smart grids, Asset management, substation automation and network planning.