Townhall Session
Technology and Applications in Europe
Renata Rubesa
Assistant Director at HOPS Croatian Transmission System Operator
Croatia
Renata Rubeša received her B.Sc.E.E degree in 2005. in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing University of Zagreb in 2005, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Zagreb, Croatia in 2015. Since 2005. she has been with the Croatian transmission system Operator, where she started working as a relay protection engineer. She is currently head of department for the support to power system control in HOPS. She is Member of IEEE, member of CIGRE Croatia study committee C2 Power system operation and control and chair of Croatian CIGRE study committee B5 Protection and automation. Since 2017 she is technical lead for the integration and development of an automated Volt Var control system in Croatia, as part of the Sincro.Grid project co-funded by the European Commission in the field of smart grids. Her main topics of interest are transmission system protection, wide area monitoring and energy management systems.
Rannveig Loken
CIGRE Vice-President Technical
Norway
Rannveig Loken, CIGRE Vice-President Technical, is a highly experienced professional with more than 30 years in the power system sector, currently working for Statnett, the TSO of Norway, and holding a Master of Science in Electric Power Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Her extensive involvement with CIGRE began in 2006; she is the Chair of the Norwegian committee of CIGRE and was the Chair of the Organising Committee for the NRCC CIGRE Symposium in Trondheim 2025. Furthermore, she served as the Chair of CIGRE Study Committee B5 (Protection and Automation) between 2018 and 2024, and in 2024, she received the prestigious Honorary Award from CIGRE in recognition of her contributions.
Sylvie Perrin
Head of Voltage, Protection and Stability Department (R&D Directorate), RTE
France
Mrs. Sylvie Perrin is Head of the Voltage, Protection and Stability Department within the R&D Directorate of RTE. She also leads the transformation of RTE’s stability processes. She is Vice President of CIGRE Women In Energy France.
Until the end of June 2023, she was Deputy Head of the Power Systems and Energy Markets Department at EDF Lab R&D, working on energy transition, energy regulation, market design, and the integration and control of distributed energy resources and storage in electrical systems, including grid-forming technologies.
Over the past few years, she has also been involved in international standardization working groups within organizations such as the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission). Her recent projects have mainly focused on defining standards for electronic data interchange for utilities.