Presented by John Parsons Project Coordinator European Smart Metering Alliance at the IEA DSM Programme workshop in Brugge, Belgium on 10 October 2007.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? The EU's energy efficiency policies scrutinise...Leonardo ENERGY
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) promotes accountability and transparency, and acts as the independent guardian of the financial interests of the EU citizens. ECA recently published two reports about EU energy efficiency policies (about appliances and buildings).
This webinar will present ECA’s role in the EU policy process, how it relates to evaluation, and the main conclusions from the two recent reports.
Applying behavioural insights to demand side energy policies and programmes: ...Leonardo ENERGY
1) The document discusses how behavioural insights can support energy policy by identifying behavioural barriers and designing policies to address them. It analyzes over 40 case studies applying behavioural insights across residential, transport, and business sectors.
2) Key examples include providing home energy use feedback to encourage conservation, goal-setting programs for demand response, and simplifying energy labels. Studies found feedback reduced energy use by 1.5-6%, while goals and challenges cut energy use up to 42% during events.
3) The analysis found most applications are pilots rather than full policies or programs. It also noted opportunities to better leverage tools like defaults, rewards, and social norms. Expanding successful household programs and prompting business investment
Regulatory Sandboxes in the Energy Sector | DSM UniversityLeonardo ENERGY
This presentation introduces the concept of regulatory sandboxes for the energy sector, compares a range of national approaches to the sandbox process and assesses what the benefits and shortcomings of sandboxes are in the heavily-regulated energy sector. Speaker: Alexandra Schneiders, University College London
Subject: Ex-post impact evaluations of energy efficiency policies in EuropeLeonardo ENERGY
While we enter a transition in the European framework for energy efficiency, ex-post impact evaluations can bring facts and figures about current achievements towards the 2020 targets, and useful feedback to improve policies in view of the 2030 targets.
The Horizon 2020 EPATEE project analysed evaluation practices in EU countries and developed resources to help enhancing them. After a brief overview of these resources, we will present the main lessons learnt from exchanging with evaluation customers and evaluators, with a focus on how to integrate evaluation into the policy cycle. We will also discuss the conclusions from the final EPATEE conference about the challenges and possible developments for evaluation in the coming years.
Presented by the Operating Agent of Task 19, Ms Linda Hull, EA Technology, United Kingdom, at the IEA DSM workshop in Stockholm, Sweden on 6 October 2010.
Flexible energy: the value of demand responseCGI Nederland
Het Koninklijk Instituut Van Ingenieurs (KIVI) organiseerde op 12 november het Jaarcongres Stad in de Delta. Daarbij stond de toekomst van steden aan de kust centraal: hoe zorgen we ervoor dat deze steden droog, leefbaar, duurzaam, veilig en bereikbaar blijven? Een complexe vraag, waarbij slimme ICT-oplossingen een grote spelen. Niet vreemd dus dat CGI bij dit congres een presentatie mocht houden. Joris Knigge ging tijdens deze presentatie op de vraag waarom we nu al moeten ‘voorsorteren’ op de komst van nieuwe slimmere energienetwerken. Een van de redenen hiervoor is dat het elektriciteitsgebruik de komende jaren gaat stijgen, onder meer als gevolg van het grotere aanbod aan elektrische vervoermiddelen. Dat levert naast uitdagingen ook kansen op. Want hoe beter de balans tussen vraag en aanbod, des te betaalbaarder wordt energie. Een overschot aan zonne-energie rond het middaguur zou bijvoorbeeld heel goed geabsorbeerd kunnen worden door elektrische auto’s.
Peer-to-Peer energy trading and community self-consumptionLeonardo ENERGY
Verena Tiefenbeck presented on a peer-to-peer energy trading project in Switzerland called Quartierstrom. The project involved 37 households and a retirement home trading solar energy locally using a blockchain-based system. Technical challenges were solved and the system almost doubled the community's self-consumption and self-sufficiency rates. Users engaged more actively than expected by setting price limits to buy and sell energy through a double auction mechanism run every 15 minutes. The project aims to evaluate the real-world feasibility of local peer-to-peer electricity markets.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? The EU's energy efficiency policies scrutinise...Leonardo ENERGY
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) promotes accountability and transparency, and acts as the independent guardian of the financial interests of the EU citizens. ECA recently published two reports about EU energy efficiency policies (about appliances and buildings).
This webinar will present ECA’s role in the EU policy process, how it relates to evaluation, and the main conclusions from the two recent reports.
Applying behavioural insights to demand side energy policies and programmes: ...Leonardo ENERGY
1) The document discusses how behavioural insights can support energy policy by identifying behavioural barriers and designing policies to address them. It analyzes over 40 case studies applying behavioural insights across residential, transport, and business sectors.
2) Key examples include providing home energy use feedback to encourage conservation, goal-setting programs for demand response, and simplifying energy labels. Studies found feedback reduced energy use by 1.5-6%, while goals and challenges cut energy use up to 42% during events.
3) The analysis found most applications are pilots rather than full policies or programs. It also noted opportunities to better leverage tools like defaults, rewards, and social norms. Expanding successful household programs and prompting business investment
Regulatory Sandboxes in the Energy Sector | DSM UniversityLeonardo ENERGY
This presentation introduces the concept of regulatory sandboxes for the energy sector, compares a range of national approaches to the sandbox process and assesses what the benefits and shortcomings of sandboxes are in the heavily-regulated energy sector. Speaker: Alexandra Schneiders, University College London
Subject: Ex-post impact evaluations of energy efficiency policies in EuropeLeonardo ENERGY
While we enter a transition in the European framework for energy efficiency, ex-post impact evaluations can bring facts and figures about current achievements towards the 2020 targets, and useful feedback to improve policies in view of the 2030 targets.
The Horizon 2020 EPATEE project analysed evaluation practices in EU countries and developed resources to help enhancing them. After a brief overview of these resources, we will present the main lessons learnt from exchanging with evaluation customers and evaluators, with a focus on how to integrate evaluation into the policy cycle. We will also discuss the conclusions from the final EPATEE conference about the challenges and possible developments for evaluation in the coming years.
Presented by the Operating Agent of Task 19, Ms Linda Hull, EA Technology, United Kingdom, at the IEA DSM workshop in Stockholm, Sweden on 6 October 2010.
Flexible energy: the value of demand responseCGI Nederland
Het Koninklijk Instituut Van Ingenieurs (KIVI) organiseerde op 12 november het Jaarcongres Stad in de Delta. Daarbij stond de toekomst van steden aan de kust centraal: hoe zorgen we ervoor dat deze steden droog, leefbaar, duurzaam, veilig en bereikbaar blijven? Een complexe vraag, waarbij slimme ICT-oplossingen een grote spelen. Niet vreemd dus dat CGI bij dit congres een presentatie mocht houden. Joris Knigge ging tijdens deze presentatie op de vraag waarom we nu al moeten ‘voorsorteren’ op de komst van nieuwe slimmere energienetwerken. Een van de redenen hiervoor is dat het elektriciteitsgebruik de komende jaren gaat stijgen, onder meer als gevolg van het grotere aanbod aan elektrische vervoermiddelen. Dat levert naast uitdagingen ook kansen op. Want hoe beter de balans tussen vraag en aanbod, des te betaalbaarder wordt energie. Een overschot aan zonne-energie rond het middaguur zou bijvoorbeeld heel goed geabsorbeerd kunnen worden door elektrische auto’s.
Peer-to-Peer energy trading and community self-consumptionLeonardo ENERGY
Verena Tiefenbeck presented on a peer-to-peer energy trading project in Switzerland called Quartierstrom. The project involved 37 households and a retirement home trading solar energy locally using a blockchain-based system. Technical challenges were solved and the system almost doubled the community's self-consumption and self-sufficiency rates. Users engaged more actively than expected by setting price limits to buy and sell energy through a double auction mechanism run every 15 minutes. The project aims to evaluate the real-world feasibility of local peer-to-peer electricity markets.
IEA smart energy systems roadmap introductory remarksRCREEE
The document discusses technology roadmaps produced by the IEA. It notes that roadmaps provide a consensus view on the future development of a given technology. They outline the current status, needed deployment levels to meet long-term goals, and priority near-term actions including addressing innovation gaps, barriers, and policy and market needs. The roadmaps aim to guide progress through setting milestones and metrics to track implementation.
What can entrepreneurs and their business models contribute to accelerating t...Leonardo ENERGY
Entrepreneurship can play a very important role in the energy transition. In the Users Technology Collaboration Programme’s Annex ‘ Service Supporting Energy Service Business Models and Systems’. We have investigated how more radical business models and entrepreneurial journeys are shaped by the institutional context within which they aim to scale up and how these entrepreneurs in turn also shape the system and contribute to system change with their business models.
The editors of CIGRE's Green Book on electricity supply systems of the future described their journey compiling collective knowledge from CIGRE study committees. This ongoing effort provides CIGRE's technical views on current and future electricity systems. It shows the value of global collaboration among industry and academic experts within CIGRE. CIGRE is the foremost authority on integrated power system expertise.
1) New Zealand has rolled out smart meters across the country, called advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), which provides more accurate and timely electricity usage data.
2) AMI has enabled new time-of-use pricing plans for customers, improved two-way communication networks, and opportunities to mine useful information from usage data.
3) The rollout of AMI is part of wider electricity market reforms in New Zealand including improved customer switching, integration of distributed generation, and regulated guidelines for metering providers.
This document summarizes the work of GIZ, the German development agency, in supporting renewable energy projects worldwide. It provides an overview of GIZ's energy projects, which number 137 globally, with the largest shares in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The document also outlines GIZ's objectives of supporting energy access, grid stability, and climate change mitigation through increased renewable energy capacity and integration. It discusses the challenges and opportunities for scaling up renewable energy in developing countries.
US Department of Energy's Uniform Methods ProjectLeonardo ENERGY
This webinar will provide an overview of the US Department of Energy’s Uniform Methods Project that develops protocols for determining energy savings from energy efficiency measures and programs. The webinar will discuss its motivations, the development process, measures, and how they are used.
Introducing the Global Observatory on Peer-to-Peer, Community Self-Consumpti...Leonardo ENERGY
Launched in September 2019, the Global Observatory is a three-year collaborative research project led by University College London (UCL) under the User-Centred Energy Systems Technical Collaboration Programme by the International Energy Agency (IEA). It represents a forum for international collaboration to understand the policy, regulatory, social and technological conditions necessary to support the wider deployment of peer-to-peer, community self-consumption and transactive energy models. It includes 130 participants from 10+ countries, representing a range of sectors (academia, industry, non-profits) and currently working on the researching and implementation of these new business models. To learn more, please visit: https://userstcp.org/annex/peer-to-peer-energy-trading/.
The document discusses smart grids and the integration of renewable energy sources and electric mobility into power systems. It covers advanced energy management tools, cost benefit analysis of smart grid projects, and life cycle assessment of smart grid projects. Specifically, it summarizes a study on an energy management system called IREMS that optimally manages generators, loads, and storage in microgrids. It also provides an overview of guidelines for conducting cost-benefit analysis of smart grid projects, and analyzes a case study of a project called REVE that aimed to use electric vehicles for energy storage to improve the electricity network's load factor.
Presentation the future of bioenergy in urban energy systemsLeonardo ENERGY
The future urban energy systems can move to directions in which bioenergy will play a key role, for example as fuel for space heating, for (back-up) electricity generation, and for mobility (biofuels). A competitive deployment of bioenergy requires sufficient availability of biomass and acceptable costs. As result of the uncertainty in the price developments of bioenergy, the view on the future is uncertain as well. Also in the recent study "Urban electrification - impact of electrification of urban infrastructure on costs and carbon footprint" results were strongly dependent on assumptions on the availability and costs for bioenergy.
In this interactive workshop, we sketched the landscape of bioenergy in relation to the urban energy system and develop a joint view on bioenergy availability and cost. The workshop covered the following aspects:
* Which types of bioenergy carriers are most suitable in the urban energy system?
* What could be the availability of those bioenergy carriers?
* What would be typical costs per type of resource and what are the drivers and uncertainties?
* What is the role of policy in the cost development of bioenergy and how can the cost gap be bridged?
The document discusses recent changes to the competitive metering framework in Australia's National Electricity Market. It provides an overview of the market governance arrangements and the rationale for introducing a retailer-led competitive metering model. Key issues that will need to be considered in implementing the new framework include roles and responsibilities of retailers, distributors and other parties; consumer protection measures; transition issues; and specification of advanced metering functionality. The document also notes how the competitive metering reforms relate to the broader Power of Choice agenda and changes to distribution network pricing. Implementation of the new competitive metering framework will follow a timeline of submissions, draft and final determinations by the Australian Energy Market Commission over 2015.
Presented by Vlasis Oikonomou, SOM Research Institute, Department of Economics, University of Groningen, Netherlands, at the IEA DSM Programme workshop in Maastricht, the Netherlands on 11 October 2006.
How to reach the hard-to-reach (energy users)?Leonardo ENERGY
Energy efficiency is sometimes called "the greatest market failure of all times" - it makes so much sense, is imperative to achieve the energy transition affordably, and yet it remains difficult to achieve the energy efficiency potential that technological and policy innovations promise to deliver. Is this because our technological and policy advances fail to reach all energy users in the same way? We believe that there is a significant percentage of the human population who can be regarded as “hard-to-reach (HTR) energy users”. These are the people policymakers, utility programme managers and research experts often struggle to engage with when designing and rolling out technological and behavioural interventions. Their barriers and needs are different to those "lower hanging fruit" energy users we understand well. This HTR audience segment becomes even larger once we expand from hard-to-reach individuals and groups in the residential, to those in the non-residential, particularly the commercial sector – especially if we look across all fuels and energy services, including mobility. This, potentially very large energy user segment is the focus of this new research collaboration and we present our first findings in this webinar.
Electric vehicle grid integration policies to benefit consumersLeonardo ENERGY
Electric vehicles can unlock extensive value for consumers, the grid and the environment — if we integrate them strategically into the power system. This webinar explores three key strategies for EV grid integration: smart pricing, smart technology and smart planning. Presenters: Dr. Julia Hildermeier and Christos Kolokathis, RAP
Training Module on Electricity Market Regulation - SESSION 1 Regulation gen...Leonardo ENERGY
This session explains the main tasks of regulation and addresses three main questions: what is regulated, where is it regulated, and how is it regulated.
In addition, we explain how the communication between regulators and regulated companies is organised, and how the regulatory performance is measured.
* General tasks of regulators: Price, Quality, Market functioning
* Areas of regulation
* Scope of regulation
* Methods of regulation
* Institutional questions
* Consultation and communication
* Regulatory performance : External performance, Internal Performance
Demand Management is understood as one of the core functions of a smart grid. ISGAN is publishing a case book focusing on Demand Management projects, where member countries have volunteered cases for the purposes of increasing knowledge and collaboration between stakeholders on smart grid project planning, implementation and management. The cases included in the report represent a broad range of economic, political, geographical, structural, cultural and market contexts, intended to promote more sophisticated conversation about lessons learned and best practices across stakeholders.
The webinar will focus on one of the case studies discussed in the report, and in particular on the initiatives on customer engagement in Italy.
The document discusses challenges in adopting international models of consumer protection for large-scale rollout of smart energy meters in India. It summarizes the status of smart metering in European countries based on a survey. Key findings include: definitions of smart metering vary between countries and energies; main drivers for rollout are energy efficiency, frequent meter readings, and peak load management; cost-benefit analyses have been conducted in some countries but more work is needed on definitions, interoperability, and analysis methodology.
The enCOMPASS project aims to stimulate behavioural change for energy saving through an integrated socio-technical system. It collects energy usage and user activity data using IoT technologies and provides personalized energy saving suggestions through mobile and web apps. The system will be piloted in residential and public buildings in Germany, Switzerland and Greece to validate its effectiveness across different user demographics and climates. Evaluations will compare energy usage between intervention and control groups to measure energy savings achieved through behavioural change interventions.
The document discusses recent changes to the competitive metering framework in Australia's National Electricity Market. It provides an overview of the market governance arrangements and the rationale for introducing a retailer-led competitive metering model. Key issues that will need to be considered in implementing the new framework include roles and responsibilities of retailers, distribution businesses and energy service companies, consumer protection measures, and transition issues. The document also discusses how the competitive metering reforms relate to the broader Power of Choice reforms and the introduction of more cost-reflective network pricing arrangements.
IEA smart energy systems roadmap introductory remarksRCREEE
The document discusses technology roadmaps produced by the IEA. It notes that roadmaps provide a consensus view on the future development of a given technology. They outline the current status, needed deployment levels to meet long-term goals, and priority near-term actions including addressing innovation gaps, barriers, and policy and market needs. The roadmaps aim to guide progress through setting milestones and metrics to track implementation.
What can entrepreneurs and their business models contribute to accelerating t...Leonardo ENERGY
Entrepreneurship can play a very important role in the energy transition. In the Users Technology Collaboration Programme’s Annex ‘ Service Supporting Energy Service Business Models and Systems’. We have investigated how more radical business models and entrepreneurial journeys are shaped by the institutional context within which they aim to scale up and how these entrepreneurs in turn also shape the system and contribute to system change with their business models.
The editors of CIGRE's Green Book on electricity supply systems of the future described their journey compiling collective knowledge from CIGRE study committees. This ongoing effort provides CIGRE's technical views on current and future electricity systems. It shows the value of global collaboration among industry and academic experts within CIGRE. CIGRE is the foremost authority on integrated power system expertise.
1) New Zealand has rolled out smart meters across the country, called advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), which provides more accurate and timely electricity usage data.
2) AMI has enabled new time-of-use pricing plans for customers, improved two-way communication networks, and opportunities to mine useful information from usage data.
3) The rollout of AMI is part of wider electricity market reforms in New Zealand including improved customer switching, integration of distributed generation, and regulated guidelines for metering providers.
This document summarizes the work of GIZ, the German development agency, in supporting renewable energy projects worldwide. It provides an overview of GIZ's energy projects, which number 137 globally, with the largest shares in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The document also outlines GIZ's objectives of supporting energy access, grid stability, and climate change mitigation through increased renewable energy capacity and integration. It discusses the challenges and opportunities for scaling up renewable energy in developing countries.
US Department of Energy's Uniform Methods ProjectLeonardo ENERGY
This webinar will provide an overview of the US Department of Energy’s Uniform Methods Project that develops protocols for determining energy savings from energy efficiency measures and programs. The webinar will discuss its motivations, the development process, measures, and how they are used.
Introducing the Global Observatory on Peer-to-Peer, Community Self-Consumpti...Leonardo ENERGY
Launched in September 2019, the Global Observatory is a three-year collaborative research project led by University College London (UCL) under the User-Centred Energy Systems Technical Collaboration Programme by the International Energy Agency (IEA). It represents a forum for international collaboration to understand the policy, regulatory, social and technological conditions necessary to support the wider deployment of peer-to-peer, community self-consumption and transactive energy models. It includes 130 participants from 10+ countries, representing a range of sectors (academia, industry, non-profits) and currently working on the researching and implementation of these new business models. To learn more, please visit: https://userstcp.org/annex/peer-to-peer-energy-trading/.
The document discusses smart grids and the integration of renewable energy sources and electric mobility into power systems. It covers advanced energy management tools, cost benefit analysis of smart grid projects, and life cycle assessment of smart grid projects. Specifically, it summarizes a study on an energy management system called IREMS that optimally manages generators, loads, and storage in microgrids. It also provides an overview of guidelines for conducting cost-benefit analysis of smart grid projects, and analyzes a case study of a project called REVE that aimed to use electric vehicles for energy storage to improve the electricity network's load factor.
Presentation the future of bioenergy in urban energy systemsLeonardo ENERGY
The future urban energy systems can move to directions in which bioenergy will play a key role, for example as fuel for space heating, for (back-up) electricity generation, and for mobility (biofuels). A competitive deployment of bioenergy requires sufficient availability of biomass and acceptable costs. As result of the uncertainty in the price developments of bioenergy, the view on the future is uncertain as well. Also in the recent study "Urban electrification - impact of electrification of urban infrastructure on costs and carbon footprint" results were strongly dependent on assumptions on the availability and costs for bioenergy.
In this interactive workshop, we sketched the landscape of bioenergy in relation to the urban energy system and develop a joint view on bioenergy availability and cost. The workshop covered the following aspects:
* Which types of bioenergy carriers are most suitable in the urban energy system?
* What could be the availability of those bioenergy carriers?
* What would be typical costs per type of resource and what are the drivers and uncertainties?
* What is the role of policy in the cost development of bioenergy and how can the cost gap be bridged?
The document discusses recent changes to the competitive metering framework in Australia's National Electricity Market. It provides an overview of the market governance arrangements and the rationale for introducing a retailer-led competitive metering model. Key issues that will need to be considered in implementing the new framework include roles and responsibilities of retailers, distributors and other parties; consumer protection measures; transition issues; and specification of advanced metering functionality. The document also notes how the competitive metering reforms relate to the broader Power of Choice agenda and changes to distribution network pricing. Implementation of the new competitive metering framework will follow a timeline of submissions, draft and final determinations by the Australian Energy Market Commission over 2015.
Presented by Vlasis Oikonomou, SOM Research Institute, Department of Economics, University of Groningen, Netherlands, at the IEA DSM Programme workshop in Maastricht, the Netherlands on 11 October 2006.
How to reach the hard-to-reach (energy users)?Leonardo ENERGY
Energy efficiency is sometimes called "the greatest market failure of all times" - it makes so much sense, is imperative to achieve the energy transition affordably, and yet it remains difficult to achieve the energy efficiency potential that technological and policy innovations promise to deliver. Is this because our technological and policy advances fail to reach all energy users in the same way? We believe that there is a significant percentage of the human population who can be regarded as “hard-to-reach (HTR) energy users”. These are the people policymakers, utility programme managers and research experts often struggle to engage with when designing and rolling out technological and behavioural interventions. Their barriers and needs are different to those "lower hanging fruit" energy users we understand well. This HTR audience segment becomes even larger once we expand from hard-to-reach individuals and groups in the residential, to those in the non-residential, particularly the commercial sector – especially if we look across all fuels and energy services, including mobility. This, potentially very large energy user segment is the focus of this new research collaboration and we present our first findings in this webinar.
Electric vehicle grid integration policies to benefit consumersLeonardo ENERGY
Electric vehicles can unlock extensive value for consumers, the grid and the environment — if we integrate them strategically into the power system. This webinar explores three key strategies for EV grid integration: smart pricing, smart technology and smart planning. Presenters: Dr. Julia Hildermeier and Christos Kolokathis, RAP
Training Module on Electricity Market Regulation - SESSION 1 Regulation gen...Leonardo ENERGY
This session explains the main tasks of regulation and addresses three main questions: what is regulated, where is it regulated, and how is it regulated.
In addition, we explain how the communication between regulators and regulated companies is organised, and how the regulatory performance is measured.
* General tasks of regulators: Price, Quality, Market functioning
* Areas of regulation
* Scope of regulation
* Methods of regulation
* Institutional questions
* Consultation and communication
* Regulatory performance : External performance, Internal Performance
Demand Management is understood as one of the core functions of a smart grid. ISGAN is publishing a case book focusing on Demand Management projects, where member countries have volunteered cases for the purposes of increasing knowledge and collaboration between stakeholders on smart grid project planning, implementation and management. The cases included in the report represent a broad range of economic, political, geographical, structural, cultural and market contexts, intended to promote more sophisticated conversation about lessons learned and best practices across stakeholders.
The webinar will focus on one of the case studies discussed in the report, and in particular on the initiatives on customer engagement in Italy.
The document discusses challenges in adopting international models of consumer protection for large-scale rollout of smart energy meters in India. It summarizes the status of smart metering in European countries based on a survey. Key findings include: definitions of smart metering vary between countries and energies; main drivers for rollout are energy efficiency, frequent meter readings, and peak load management; cost-benefit analyses have been conducted in some countries but more work is needed on definitions, interoperability, and analysis methodology.
The enCOMPASS project aims to stimulate behavioural change for energy saving through an integrated socio-technical system. It collects energy usage and user activity data using IoT technologies and provides personalized energy saving suggestions through mobile and web apps. The system will be piloted in residential and public buildings in Germany, Switzerland and Greece to validate its effectiveness across different user demographics and climates. Evaluations will compare energy usage between intervention and control groups to measure energy savings achieved through behavioural change interventions.
The document discusses recent changes to the competitive metering framework in Australia's National Electricity Market. It provides an overview of the market governance arrangements and the rationale for introducing a retailer-led competitive metering model. Key issues that will need to be considered in implementing the new framework include roles and responsibilities of retailers, distribution businesses and energy service companies, consumer protection measures, and transition issues. The document also discusses how the competitive metering reforms relate to the broader Power of Choice reforms and the introduction of more cost-reflective network pricing arrangements.
The document discusses energy efficiency studies and challenges in maintaining assets in government buildings in Malaysia. It outlines the government's regulations requiring energy audits and designation of energy managers for large energy-consuming buildings. Energy audits are described as identifying energy savings potential through analyzing consumption data and measuring performance of electrical systems. Audits of government buildings found a lack of energy management practices and awareness. Integrating energy efficiency considerations into asset management practices, such as life cycle cost analysis, can help reduce energy use and costs over the lifetime of building systems.
Smart grids & smart meters allow for two-way communication between utilities and customers. They provide benefits like improved revenue management, reduced meter reading costs, and enhanced customer service. Smart metering is part of the evolution of advanced metering infrastructure and is key to enabling the functions of the smart grid, like demand response, outage management, and integrating renewable energy. However, consumers also have concerns about smart metering related to costs, benefits, privacy, and dynamic pricing that must be addressed.
Smart grids & smart meters allow for two-way communication between utilities and customers. They provide benefits like improved revenue management, reduced meter reading costs, and enhanced customer service. Smart metering is part of the evolution of advanced metering infrastructure and is a key component of enabling smart grid functionality, which includes demand response, outage management, and integrating distributed renewable energy resources and electric vehicles. However, smart grid development faces obstacles around costs, privacy concerns, and ensuring benefits are delivered to customers.
Watch the launch of the Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) from Ofgem and Innovate UK. The SIF is seeking ambitious, innovative projects to help accelerate the transition to Net Zero. Applications for this first phase must come though energy network operators but the SIF offers opportunities for other businesses with innovative solutions for the energy networks who are expected to play an important role as partners.
The energy model on which the majority of cities in developed countries are based upon is characterized by centralization and unsustainability. Barcelona, being a Mediterranean city, faces the challenge to increase its solar energy supply, moving towards a more sustainable energy model, while strengthening the network's business sector.
ASCAME is committed to this initiative, in the framework of the European project FOSTEr in MED gathering together in the auditorium of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of Barcelona, several experts in the field of renewable energy, as well as companies, public authorities, universities and organizations that will analyse the state of sector, its’ trends and the business development scenario emerged.
Oxxio is rolling out the largest smart metering project in the Netherlands to differentiate itself and enhance customer processes. Over 30,000 smart meters have been installed, allowing remote reading and providing customers insight into energy consumption. While installation has faced some difficulties, the technology is proven. Oxxio aims to leverage the smart meters to launch new energy saving services for customers, focusing on added value through reduced costs and sustainability. In 2007, Oxxio will continue launching personalized advice, monitoring, and contract products utilizing the smart meter data and system.
Regulatory Innovation Zones for Smart Energy NetworksLeonardo ENERGY
European RD&I Demonstration activities related to smart grids are key to test and validate the functionalities of new products and services in controlled but real environment. However, being the grid sector regulated the development and validation of innovative solutions is often slowed down.
Energy Transition needs innovation acceleration. Many of the changes needed are related to evolving relationship between the different energy stakeholders. Two main drivers foster innovation in the energy sector: demonstration and regulation. Demonstration enables to test new products and services in real environment, to fine-tune them and to measure their real impact; regulation defines the framework and the technical and economic relations between the different agents operating in the energy sector.
In this context, Regulatory Innovation Zones for Smart Energy Networks (or “Innovation Sandboxes”) are an opportunity to close that gap, speeding-up market uptake, while enabling European Regulatory Bodies to test various temporary schemes and mechanisms without modifying the regulatory framework.
Presentation given in the final meeting of the project "Energy Efficiency Policies: a Worldwide Panorama", which was conducted under the guidance of the Energy Efficiency Policies & Technologies Knowledge Network. Date: 27-28 May 2013 in cooperation with WEC, CFE & ADEME.
Case study on innovation smart billing for household consumers and its main findings
Presented by Paolo Bertoldi and Silvia Rezessy, European Commission, Directorate General JRC, Institute for Energy, at the IEA DSM Programme workshop in Milan, Italy on 22 October 2008.
This document discusses smart grids and sustainable development from a regulatory and operational perspective. It covers topics such as:
- The definition of sustainable development and how smart grids can enable a more sustainable power sector.
- India's current energy scenario including low per capita consumption, generation and transmission issues, and the need to reduce dependence on coal for sustainable development and energy security.
- How smart grid technologies like sensors, automation, and two-way communication can help address existing issues in generation, transmission, distribution and with consumers.
- The key drivers for smart grids in India from the perspective of utilities, customers and government/regulators. The objectives are to achieve cost recovery and customer value for utilities, and cost
Representatives from ComEd, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Center for Energy and Environment present their findings on state grid modernization during SEPA's 2018 Utility Conference.
Ensuring effective delivery of EU energy efficiency targets - monitoring and ...Leonardo ENERGY
The European Union’s so-called ‘Winter Package’ sets out an ambitious trajectory for energy efficiency for the period after 2020. Reaching the energy efficiency targets requires not only new policies but also a rigorous monitoring and verification regime at the national level. Otherwise there is a risk that many of the claimed energy savings exist only on paper. Two countries with a sophisticated monitoring and verification policy in place (Austria and Ireland) will share their experiences of how to set up effective systems to ensure that energy efficiency improvements are being delivered effectively.
The document discusses Ofgem's role in regulating the energy sector in the UK as the sector undergoes changes. It outlines Ofgem's objectives to protect consumers while ensuring security of energy supply and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It describes Ofgem's new RIIO regulatory framework which uses incentives, innovation funding, and output-based regulation to encourage investment in areas like smart grids. It also discusses some of Ofgem's initiatives to support low-carbon innovation and smart meter rollout.
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Presented by Prof. Dr. Carlos Àlvarez, Instituto de Ingenería Energética, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, at the IEA DSM Programme workshop in Madrid, Spain on 19 October 2005.
Presented by Arturo Rodríguez-Garcia, Director General, General Manager, Visual Tools, Spain, at the IEA DSM Programme workshop in Madrid, Spain on 19 October 2005.
Presented by Wolfgang Irrek, Research group "Energy Transport and Climate Policy" Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany at the IEA DSM Programme workshop in Copenhagen, Denmark on 19 April 2006.
The document summarizes the findings of the AID-EE project, which evaluated 20 energy efficiency policies across Europe. Key lessons learned include: objectives should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound to guide policy; the impact of individual policies is difficult to isolate as most use packages with interacting instruments; and monitoring and evaluation have been a low priority, despite being important to determine policy effects and efficiency. A policy theory approach that defines clear objectives, indicators and expected relationships can help design, monitor and evaluate policies.
Presented by Ulrich Bang Termansen, the Association of Danish Energy Companies, Denmark at the IEA DSM workshop in Copenhagen, Denmark on 19 April 2006.
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Psychological safety in teams is important; team members must feel safe and able to communicate and collaborate effectively to deliver value. It’s also necessary to build long-lasting teams since things will happen and relationships will be strained.
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2. Contents
• European Smart Metering Alliance
• ESMA definition of smart metering
• Developments across Europe
• Research experience
• Field Trials
• Needs
• Conclusions
3. Project Objective
• To maximise the energy
efficiency benefits of Article 13
of the ESD
• To reach consensus on the
energy efficiency benefits of
smart metering
• To develop and disseminate
best practice
• To provide a forum for
stakeholders to come together,
resolve issues and speak for all
stakeholders
5. ESMA Principles
• Aim is to link smart metering with energy
savings
• It is not a trade association
• It will represent the views of all stakeholders
• It is technology neutral
• It is evidence based
• Linked to other groups
– Demand response
– Renewables and distributed generation
– Smart homes
6. ESMA Progress
• Alliance web site: “www.esma-home.eu”
• Alliance > 60 members
• Draft reports
– Drivers and regulation
– Impacts
– Definition of smart metering
• Working on (amongst other things)
– Barriers
– Energy savings from previous trials
– New energy products
– Generic Cost Benefit Model
– Smart Metering Application Guide
7. ESMA Definition of Smart
Metering
• Smart metering has the following features:
– Automatic processing, transfer, management and
utilisation of metering data
– Automatic management of meters
– 2 way data communication with meters
– Provides meaningful and timely consumption
information to the relevant actors and their
systems, including the energy consumer
– Supports services that improve the energy
efficiency of the energy consumption and the
energy system (generation, transmission,
distribution and especially end use)
8. Smart Metering Drivers
• ESD, Energy Efficiency and market
liberalisation
• Demand Management and Response
– Where electric heating and cooling is significant
• Customer Service
– In UK 100,000 customers switching every week
• Service Offerings
– Expectation that RESCS will move to Energy
Service products
• Fraud
10. The Smart Meter Cost Benefit
Analysis
• A range of costs and benefits each accruing
to different participants
• Local conditions affect the balance of the
costs and benefits
• The more privatisation, the more complex the
balance
• Funding and support linked to environmental
benefits is becoming increasingly important
11. Countries Committed to Smart
Metering
• Italy
• Sweden
• Spain
• Netherlands
• UK
• France
• Finland
• Germany
• Norway
• Denmark
• Ireland
12. National Energy Efficiency
Action Plans (NEEAP)
• Member States must:
–Develop a plan to reduce national
energy consumption by 9% over 9
years (2018)
–Identify strategic plan and bottom up
measures to achieve these savings
–Web site lists responses
• (http://ec.europa.eu/energy/demand/legislation/end_use_en.ht
m#efficiency)
13. NEEAP
• Finland
– Residential Sector – 10% saving targeted
• Netherlands
– Smart meters and feedback – 2% savings
expected
• Lithuania
– some mention, nothing firm
• Norway
– Not a Member State so not on list, has committed
to smart metering
14. Denmark
• “Already had a plan and has recently increased its targets In a typical household,
appliances on standby consume 10% of the total amount of electricity consumed. This
is equivalent to 400-500 kWh or between DKK 600-800 annually”
• Heat key target
• “Promote transparency of energy consumption. It must be easy to monitor individual
consumption and to compare it with the consumption of others, for instance by using
advanced meters”
• “Promote transparency, including by means of self-checking functions, meters with
continuously show energy consumption for current and previous periods, etc”
• “Support research, development and demonstration projects in energy-efficient appliances
and technologies that can help to promote price-sensitive electricity consumption,
including the promotion of advanced meters and intelligent appliances”
• “The National Agency for Enterprise and Construction is responsible for a number of official,
energy-related tasks in the construction sector. These duties include the energy provisions
of the Building Regulations, regulations on individual metering of electricity, gas, water and
heat, and regulations on efficiency in heat-producing systems”
• “In general, the energy efficiency activities must be market-oriented, and there must be
focus on realising the energy savings identified. There must be focus on development of
well-functioning markets for energy-efficient products and solutions. It must be easy for
consumers to implement the savings identified, and the players must help with this
implementation. At the same time, efforts must be organised so that they promote
market-based solutions, including the sale of energy services”
15. Germany
Goal: Brisk spreading of new technologies in the liberalized current
measurement for real-time consumption measurement as a condition
for current savings.
Measures: The Federal Government will create the conditions for the fact
that these technologies are increased used in particular in the trade:
– Complete opening of this range for the competition by an addition of the
power industry law (power industry law and statutory order) as fast as
possible. (At present the reading is still bound to the network user.)
– Creation of the necessary bases in the power industry law for the fact that
intelligent electronic counters can be introduced also in favour of a variety of
read-variable tariffs, first at trade and industrial customers, temporally
transferred also at household customers, as far as they are economically
meaningfully applicable. For the conversion a transition period is planned of
six years, which is accompanied by a monitoring process over the results of
the liberalisation.
16. United Kingdom
• “…implement a package of measures to
improve metering and billing and get
smart meters or visual display units into
the domestic sector within the next
decade.”
• OFGEM is working on an energy saving
assumption of 1%
17. Clip-On Displays
• Electrisave & CurrentCost
• Pro’s
– Cheap
– Simple to install
– Doesn’t depend on anyone
else
• Cons
– Less accurate than utility
meter
– Not simple to install
– Less information
– Less functionality
– Single utility
18. Metering Trials
• Previous or on-going trials identified
– Denmark
– Finland
– Norway
– Latvia
– Netherlands
– Poland
– Northern Ireland
– UK
– Italy
– Portugal
19. Smart Metering Trials
• Italy
– Customer display, expecting 10% saving
– 1000 house trial starting late 2007
• Portugal
– 2300 house trial starting soon
• UK
– 41,000 house trial (when announced and including clip on
displays)
– Starting late 2007
– Focus is only on energy savings – how much, how long, best
methods
• France
– 300,000 meters to be installed in 2 years
20. In Home Unit Displays
Default Display
Messaging from Agents or Suppliers
Calibrated Load Indication by Coloured Lights
21. Smart Homes
Based on well established heating controls designs
The home monitor can show electricity, gas, water and Heat information
22. Current European Experience
• Some trials believed to have happened but not
published
• Savings highly dependent on individual scheme and
hard to compare – few major trials
• Different feedback mechanisms, different customer
propositions
• Figures vary from 14% with high support down to
1.5%
• Reported that customers show little interest after
initial enthusiasm
23. Needs
• High quality data from smart metering trials
– Need good data about the trial set up
– Need access to detailed data
– ESMA producing guidelines for setting up smart metering
trials
• Need research into obtaining customer reaction
– What channel?
– What works / what doesn’t work?
• Need to engage with energy agencies and others to explore
potential for energy reduction based on smart metering
– Using feedback as a means of increasing the effect of other
measures
• Links to demand response groups
– what do you need? How many registers, what products??
24. Conclusions
• Smart metering is happening
• Energy efficiency is important for sharing
costs at the moment
• Demand response is a key driver
• Important to meet the needs of demand
response in smart metering implementations
• Need research into making the most of the
energy potential for smart metering