he 35th International Telecommunication Energy Conference, INTELEC®2013, which was held at the Congress Center Hamburg (CCH), Germany from 13 - 17 October 2013, was deemed a very great success by all measures. This year’s theme was “Smart Power and Efficiency.” INTELEC® is the annual world-class technical forum which presents the latest developments in communications energy systems and related power-processing devices and circuits. INTELEC®2013 was organized by the Information Technical Society of the VDE/ITG in cooperation with the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and IEEE PELS (Power Electronics Society).

There were 756 attendees from 56 different countries to this year’s conference and exhibition and 12 guest attendees who enjoyed the partner program. There were 80 exhibitors, from companies located all over the world, who provided interesting new displays and devices at the technical exhibition. There were 31 attendees to the 2 tutorials sessions presented.

The INTELEC®2013 conference program was opened by the Vice-Chair Prof. Dr.–Ing. Norbert Graß, Nuremberg Institute of Technology Georg-Simon-Ohm, and featured General-Chair Dr. Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, Director of Technology Telekom Deutschland GmbH, with a keynote speech titled “Correlations between Telecommunications and Energy”. “Future of Business Solutions: Cloud Computing” was the keynote topic of Dietmar Meding, Vice President of SAP.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Peter Beck, Technical University (TU), Clausthal-Zellerfeld, and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Schwarz, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, provided a comprehensive overview of the “Energiewende” in Germany and discussed the problems of disproportional energy production (Wind, Photovoltaic) and the need for energy storage to provide solid electrical powering to the customer. Prof. Dr. Rik de Doncker, RWTH Aachen, favored the DC-Grid as the future Energy Network to customers´ homes.

There were 144 papers presented in several sessions on important topics like Power Supply, New Technologies, DC Grid, Energy Storage-Batteries (Lead-Acid, Lithium) and Fuel Cells, current worldwide activities in the standardization and safety specifications for critical infrastructure for “smart” solutions like Smart Grid and Smart Metering, Green Energy, Techno-Economics, Maintenance of Equipment and Service Concepts, Thermal Management, Disaster Recovery, and Power Quality. And 28 posters showed current research activities and projects in universities and laboratories worldwide.

Two workshops about “Energy Storage Systems and HVDC” dealt with the latest developments in the field of energy efficient powering of central offices, the equipment of the Next Generation Network (NGN), and the datacenter with the possibility for back reflections.

Every conference day had a slogan and began with a plenary session in the morning. The “GREEN DAY” was opened by a plenary themed “SMARTer 2020 – ICT Driving a Sustainable Future” by Luis Neves, Vice President, Group Transformational Change & CR (GCCR) of Deutsche Telekom AG, and was followed by Friedrich Wolf, Head of Business Development, EON Connecting Energies GmbH, who presented his paper “Energy, IT and Telecommunications: Interface, overlap, convergence, merger?”

The social program included a Hamburg Harbor Tour, a visit of the Hamburg Container Harbor as well as a visit to the Airbus-Company, and a banquet with excellent music from the Beatles.

The 36th INTELEC, themed: “Resilient Communications Energy for our Connected World”, will take place September 28th through October 2nd 2014 in Vancouver, Canada. For more information on INTELEC please see www.intelec.org.

Provided by Wilfried Schulz,
INTELEC®2013 – Member of the Program Committee

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