Presented by Operating Agent Seppo Kärkkäinen, Electraflex Oy, Finland, and Expert Matthias Stifter, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology at the IEA DSM workshop in Espoo, Finland on 14 November 2012.
INTERPRETER – Local flexibility solutions leveraged by RD&I projects as syste...Leonardo ENERGY
Webinar recording at https://youtu.be/ueVkeVCbCCw
This presentation provides an introduction to flexibility solutions, focused on DSO and demand-side innovative service enabling solutions. This introduction will be followed by the presentation of ATTEST and INTERRFACE as examples of RD&I projects where these flexibility solutions are being developed at the European level.
New business models for distribution grid stakeholders under high penetration...Leonardo ENERGY
Webinar recording at https://youtu.be/F53mrwelvVI
The webinar mainly targets DSOs, and potential flexibility providers (VPPs, aggregators, flexible consumers), but it is also relevant to all other stakeholders with an interest in the topics of smart distribution grids, local flexibility services and aggregation. These includes, but is not limited to: regulators, academics and researchers on these topics, retailers, or software and data service providers.
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/.
Webinar recording at https://youtu.be/Ph9AW2PEgBg
This webinar addresses the key drivers of the PV market and industry in the coming years based on the Trends 2019. Gaëtan Masson, Operating Agent of IEA PVPS Task 1, will look at the past developments and future scenarios, from a global market development point of view to some key price evolution features. From social aspects of PV, collective and decentralised self-consumption policies to floating PV, this webinar will browse the global landscape of PV development. Izumi Kaizuka, deputy chair of the IEA PVPS Task 1, will present the trends of the PV Industry. The production of polysilicon, ingots, wafers, PV cells and modules have been growing with the growth of the PV market. The gap between manufacturing capacity of PV module and the demand contributed to the recent price reduction thus resulted in lower LCOE of PV power. Across the value chain, the PV upstream sector makes efforts to improve efficiency, output and reliability. Further progress of cost reduction is expected. In the downstream sector, players are also applying various methods to reduce LCOE.
CoordiNet- Large scale demonstrations for TSO-DSO CooperatioLeonardo ENERGY
Webinar recording at https://youtu.be/xgfUd6acBfk
The CoordiNet project aims at demonstrating how Distribution System Operators (DSO) and Transmission System Operators (TSO) shall act in a coordinated manner to procure and activate grid services in the most reliable and efficient way through the implementation of three large-scale demonstrations.
Flexibility needs at system level and how RD&I projects are leveraging these ...Leonardo ENERGY
Flexibility needs at system level and how RD&I projects are leveraging these solutions
The webinar discussed flexibility needs at the system level and how research, development, and innovation (RD&I) projects are leveraging flexibility solutions. It provided context on the changing power system with increasing renewable energy and distributed energy resources. There is a clear need for flexibility solutions and enablers at the system level as identified by organizations like ENTSO-E. Several RD&I projects, including FlexPlan and CoordiNET, are developing tools and demonstrations to provide flexibility solutions and enable greater coordination between transmission and distribution system operators. The webinar highlighted the work these projects are doing to address flexibility needs through planning tools
INTERPRETER – Local flexibility solutions leveraged by RD&I projects as syste...Leonardo ENERGY
Webinar recording at https://youtu.be/ueVkeVCbCCw
This presentation provides an introduction to flexibility solutions, focused on DSO and demand-side innovative service enabling solutions. This introduction will be followed by the presentation of ATTEST and INTERRFACE as examples of RD&I projects where these flexibility solutions are being developed at the European level.
New business models for distribution grid stakeholders under high penetration...Leonardo ENERGY
Webinar recording at https://youtu.be/F53mrwelvVI
The webinar mainly targets DSOs, and potential flexibility providers (VPPs, aggregators, flexible consumers), but it is also relevant to all other stakeholders with an interest in the topics of smart distribution grids, local flexibility services and aggregation. These includes, but is not limited to: regulators, academics and researchers on these topics, retailers, or software and data service providers.
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/.
Webinar recording at https://youtu.be/Ph9AW2PEgBg
This webinar addresses the key drivers of the PV market and industry in the coming years based on the Trends 2019. Gaëtan Masson, Operating Agent of IEA PVPS Task 1, will look at the past developments and future scenarios, from a global market development point of view to some key price evolution features. From social aspects of PV, collective and decentralised self-consumption policies to floating PV, this webinar will browse the global landscape of PV development. Izumi Kaizuka, deputy chair of the IEA PVPS Task 1, will present the trends of the PV Industry. The production of polysilicon, ingots, wafers, PV cells and modules have been growing with the growth of the PV market. The gap between manufacturing capacity of PV module and the demand contributed to the recent price reduction thus resulted in lower LCOE of PV power. Across the value chain, the PV upstream sector makes efforts to improve efficiency, output and reliability. Further progress of cost reduction is expected. In the downstream sector, players are also applying various methods to reduce LCOE.
CoordiNet- Large scale demonstrations for TSO-DSO CooperatioLeonardo ENERGY
Webinar recording at https://youtu.be/xgfUd6acBfk
The CoordiNet project aims at demonstrating how Distribution System Operators (DSO) and Transmission System Operators (TSO) shall act in a coordinated manner to procure and activate grid services in the most reliable and efficient way through the implementation of three large-scale demonstrations.
Flexibility needs at system level and how RD&I projects are leveraging these ...Leonardo ENERGY
Flexibility needs at system level and how RD&I projects are leveraging these solutions
The webinar discussed flexibility needs at the system level and how research, development, and innovation (RD&I) projects are leveraging flexibility solutions. It provided context on the changing power system with increasing renewable energy and distributed energy resources. There is a clear need for flexibility solutions and enablers at the system level as identified by organizations like ENTSO-E. Several RD&I projects, including FlexPlan and CoordiNET, are developing tools and demonstrations to provide flexibility solutions and enable greater coordination between transmission and distribution system operators. The webinar highlighted the work these projects are doing to address flexibility needs through planning tools
September 2019 edition of the DecarbEurope primer on electric vehicles, reviewing some of the major issues to address in the coming years:
* low-emission zones
* right-to-plug
* 150 kW network
This master's thesis presentation summarizes research assessing the monetary value of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) energy arbitrage for electric vehicle users in the Netherlands. An agent-based model is used to simulate different EV charging strategies, including uncontrolled charging, cost-based charging, and V2G charging. The model analyzes the impact of these strategies on spot market electricity demand and prices. Results show V2G charging can provide monetary benefits to EV users compared to other strategies by shifting charging to times of lower prices. Benefits are expected to increase with declining battery prices and longer battery lifetimes. Future work could develop optimized profit-maximizing V2G algorithms and study effects of user acceptance on monetary outcomes.
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.
Time to step up performance-based energy efficiency measurement and verificat...Leonardo ENERGY
How can you know for sure the energy you’ve saved through your building renovation? The answer is that you can’t! But, by measuring energy consumption and taking account of other factors, such as the weather and building occupancy, you can make a much better estimate than by simply relying on installers’ claims of effectiveness. This is well understood in industry, where contracts for energy efficiency projects are routinely set up to reward energy service companies for the savings made, based on measurement and verification protocols such as IPMVP. This shifts much of the technical risk of underperformance onto the energy service contractor, aligning incentives and driving better performance. Policy makers in the US have begun to apply these principles to utility-delivered energy efficiency programmes in the buildings sector as part of efforts to drive up performance and provide better value for money for bill payers. The EU now has the opportunity to follow suit.
Smart charging puts the pedal to the metal on e-mobilityLeonardo ENERGY
Smart charging represents the intersection where decarbonising power and electrifying transport meet. It creates a crucial building block for a sustainable energy system to power electric cars through solar and wind energy. Encouraging consumers to shift electric vehicle charging to hours when the power system is not under stress generates benefits for the grid, the environment and all electricity customers.
Webinar: Electricity market designs for flexibility: from zonal to nodal arch...ISGAN Academy
Which are the most suitable market designs to capture the value of flexibility in power systems? The European project OSMOSE has developed different models from nodal to zonal market architectures to assess the economic value of different flexibility mixes (load, generation and power flows) in future power system scenarios. The webinar will introduce the zonal and nodal market designs modelled in OSMOSE, present the first simulation results, and discuss the preliminary findings of this ongoing work.
AURES II - Renewable energy Auction Database and overview of auction schemes ...Leonardo ENERGY
Recording at https://youtu.be/gF-XicTOi2M
The project AURES II (Auctions for Renewable Energy Support) investigates design options for renewable energy auctions and gives recommendations on their use.
AURES II has collected data comprising the design elements, as well as the awarded auction prices and realisation rates in a single database based on the renewable energy auctions implemented in the EU. Based on this, our project aims to gain new quantitative insights on how design elements influence auction performance.
This webinar will present the Auction Database and a first, holistic overview of the design elements used in the various countries of the EU.
Power to the people: shifting control over electricity to citizens and consumersLeonardo ENERGY
Efficient electricity prices are only the first step to unleashing the potential for consumers to help drive the energy transition. In this webinar, David Robinson from the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies will present on how consumers can help decarbonize the electricity system and how to engage the demand side through a combination of price and non-price incentives.
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.
CO2 emissions of vehicles: a broad and persistent problemLeonardo ENERGY
The transport sector has not seen the same decline in greenhouse gas emissions as many other sectors. CO2 emissions from passenger cars and trucks form a persistent problem and policymakers struggle to find effective solutions to meet the goals.
First, there is this ongoing race to the bottom among declared CO2 values with a growing gap with the emissions in real-world use. Second, manufacturers are only responsible for the performance of their cars under idealized circumstances, as measured during vehicle emission tests. Third, the economic and life-style aspects of owning and driving heavy and expensive cars are forces in the opposite direction. And last, the European Union has only limited systems in place for the monitoring and verification of the CO2 emissions of vehicles.
In this presentation, Norbert Ligterink (PhD), senior research scientist at TNO, guides you to understanding the complexity behind this broad and persistent problem.
Electric motors
Editorial - Policy solutions - Facts - Interview - Success stories - Improving market surveillance - Extended product approach - Motor maintenance and refurbishment - Accelerated replacement of less efficient motor stock - Developing powertrains for electric mobility free of critical raw materials - World landscape
The goal of DecarbEurope is to engage decision-makers in policy and industry with solutions that can, in a cost-effective manner, decarbonise Europe at the scale and speed that is needed to achieve our climate goals.
As an ecosystem of twenty sectors — and growing — the initiative connects technologies, policies, and markets. Partners of DecarbEurope commit themselves to common values of deep decarbonisation, cost-effectiveness, circularity, sector-coupling and consumer engagement.
Electric motors play a major role in all economic sectors (industrial, tertiary, residential, agricultural and in transportation), to deliver in a reliable and efficient way mechanical power to a huge variety of processes and services
Bushveld Energy's commentary on South Africa's Draft IRPBushveld Energy
Public presentation by Bushveld Energy to the South African Department of Energy on the draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) in Polokwane,Limpopo (25 January 2017)
Smart4RES - Data science for renewable energy predictionLeonardo ENERGY
Recording at https://youtu.be/kn8X6kIfo6I
The prediction of Renewable Energy Source (RES) production is a worldwide challenge for Smart Grids. In this webinar, you will learn next-generation solutions proposed by the European Project Smart4RES:
· Future power system applications based on RES forecasting,
· Innovative weather and RES forecasting products to increase performance by 10-20%.
The need for an updated European Motor Study - key findings from the 2021 US...Leonardo ENERGY
The document calls for an updated assessment of the electric motor system market in Europe, as the existing data is over 20 years old. It notes several changes in the market since then, including new efficient motor technologies, lower costs for power electronics, and increased digitization. The document highlights findings from a recent 2021 US motor study, which found motors to be older than previously estimated and significant improvements in load factors and variable speed drive penetration compared to past studies. It concludes that a new comprehensive assessment is needed to identify large potential electricity savings and inform policies to accelerate market transformation.
BACS requirements in the revised EPBD: How to check compliance?Leonardo ENERGY
To support EU Member States in implementing the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), eu.bac has created a compliance checklist for Building Automation and Control System requirements related to the mandatory capabilities listed in Art.14 and Art.15.
The checklist provides a necessary reference list and highly detailed tool for building owners and managers, compliance inspectors, building designers, installers and policymakers.
In this slide deck:
1. The revised EPBD and the need for a tool to verify BACS compliance (Simone ALESSANDRI)
2. The EPBD BACS Compliance Verification Package (Bonnie BROOK)
3. Compliant BACS: prerequisite to the digital transformation of EU’s built environment (Andrei LITIU)
Amperex Technology Limited (ATL) is one of the top 5 global lithium-ion battery suppliers based in Hong Kong with 15 locations in China, EU, and USA. It supplies pouch/polymer batteries to top consumer electronics companies and is developing products for electric vehicles and energy storage systems. ATL has over 100 PhD researchers and aims to be the safest and largest battery supplier globally by 2020 through continued investment in automation, safety, performance, and new markets like electric vehicles and energy storage.
Households are happy to join together and provide power flexibility for clima...Leonardo ENERGY
Residential and small commercial electricity consumers will provide most of the flexibility needed in the power system to achieve the energy transition at lower cost. This flexibility will allow the electricity grid to take on more renewables and need less grid reinforcements. Consumers are happy to participate (>75% opt-in rate) via an aggregator and be rewarded with energy savings reducing their electricity. Because it reduces the overall costs of running the energy system, it means that all consumers benefit from lower energy prices. The business case is now proven as more and more countries worldwide ensure demand side response can participate in wholesale markets as an alternative to generation and the EU has provided support through its recent Clean Energy Package. Pierre Bivas from Voltalis will share his experience of operating flexibility from more than 100,000 households in France, and now installing another 150,000, backed by the European Investment Bank, while also developing in other countries with local partners.
Electrification in the energy transition: towards net-zero emissions by 2050Leonardo ENERGY
The European Green Deal envisions a carbon neutral Europe by 2050. Electrification is a powerful tool that can help catapult Europe’s energy transition forward. Accelerated changes are needed in the power, buildings and transport sectors, but they will fail to emerge without robust policies closely aligned with the decarbonisation goal.
In this webinar, Wouter Nijs of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and David Farnsworth of RAP delve into the role that electrification plays in different scenarios for meeting Europe’s climate goals.
The e-harbours project investigated potential sources of flexibility from large industrial energy users in harbours. Case studies in Antwerp and Hamburg identified significant flexibility potential, such as a sludge processing plant that could save 15% on energy costs by shifting loads. Cold stores and a chemical plant also showed flexibility options. New industrial zones like in Malmö and Zaanstad aim to develop smart energy networks from the start that exploit flexibility to integrate renewables and reduce costs. Overall large harbour industries represent a major source of flexibility that could help integrate intermittent renewables if business cases and regulations support it.
The sEEnergies project aims to operationalize the energy efficiency first principle (EEFP) both qualitatively and quantitatively. It will develop a decision support tool combining sector-specific energy demand models to analyze EE potentials from an energy systems perspective. Bottom-up models of buildings, transport, industry and grids will provide cost curves and potentials for EE measures. Scenarios from the EU's "A Clean Planet for All" will be used as common references. Energy system modelling will assess EEFP impacts and enable scenarios assessing synergies. A spatial model will map supply and demand and efficiency potentials. Heat Roadmap Europe provides recommendations including prioritizing savings over supply, utilizing excess heat and renewable energy in district heating, and establishing
September 2019 edition of the DecarbEurope primer on electric vehicles, reviewing some of the major issues to address in the coming years:
* low-emission zones
* right-to-plug
* 150 kW network
This master's thesis presentation summarizes research assessing the monetary value of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) energy arbitrage for electric vehicle users in the Netherlands. An agent-based model is used to simulate different EV charging strategies, including uncontrolled charging, cost-based charging, and V2G charging. The model analyzes the impact of these strategies on spot market electricity demand and prices. Results show V2G charging can provide monetary benefits to EV users compared to other strategies by shifting charging to times of lower prices. Benefits are expected to increase with declining battery prices and longer battery lifetimes. Future work could develop optimized profit-maximizing V2G algorithms and study effects of user acceptance on monetary outcomes.
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.
Time to step up performance-based energy efficiency measurement and verificat...Leonardo ENERGY
How can you know for sure the energy you’ve saved through your building renovation? The answer is that you can’t! But, by measuring energy consumption and taking account of other factors, such as the weather and building occupancy, you can make a much better estimate than by simply relying on installers’ claims of effectiveness. This is well understood in industry, where contracts for energy efficiency projects are routinely set up to reward energy service companies for the savings made, based on measurement and verification protocols such as IPMVP. This shifts much of the technical risk of underperformance onto the energy service contractor, aligning incentives and driving better performance. Policy makers in the US have begun to apply these principles to utility-delivered energy efficiency programmes in the buildings sector as part of efforts to drive up performance and provide better value for money for bill payers. The EU now has the opportunity to follow suit.
Smart charging puts the pedal to the metal on e-mobilityLeonardo ENERGY
Smart charging represents the intersection where decarbonising power and electrifying transport meet. It creates a crucial building block for a sustainable energy system to power electric cars through solar and wind energy. Encouraging consumers to shift electric vehicle charging to hours when the power system is not under stress generates benefits for the grid, the environment and all electricity customers.
Webinar: Electricity market designs for flexibility: from zonal to nodal arch...ISGAN Academy
Which are the most suitable market designs to capture the value of flexibility in power systems? The European project OSMOSE has developed different models from nodal to zonal market architectures to assess the economic value of different flexibility mixes (load, generation and power flows) in future power system scenarios. The webinar will introduce the zonal and nodal market designs modelled in OSMOSE, present the first simulation results, and discuss the preliminary findings of this ongoing work.
AURES II - Renewable energy Auction Database and overview of auction schemes ...Leonardo ENERGY
Recording at https://youtu.be/gF-XicTOi2M
The project AURES II (Auctions for Renewable Energy Support) investigates design options for renewable energy auctions and gives recommendations on their use.
AURES II has collected data comprising the design elements, as well as the awarded auction prices and realisation rates in a single database based on the renewable energy auctions implemented in the EU. Based on this, our project aims to gain new quantitative insights on how design elements influence auction performance.
This webinar will present the Auction Database and a first, holistic overview of the design elements used in the various countries of the EU.
Power to the people: shifting control over electricity to citizens and consumersLeonardo ENERGY
Efficient electricity prices are only the first step to unleashing the potential for consumers to help drive the energy transition. In this webinar, David Robinson from the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies will present on how consumers can help decarbonize the electricity system and how to engage the demand side through a combination of price and non-price incentives.
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.
CO2 emissions of vehicles: a broad and persistent problemLeonardo ENERGY
The transport sector has not seen the same decline in greenhouse gas emissions as many other sectors. CO2 emissions from passenger cars and trucks form a persistent problem and policymakers struggle to find effective solutions to meet the goals.
First, there is this ongoing race to the bottom among declared CO2 values with a growing gap with the emissions in real-world use. Second, manufacturers are only responsible for the performance of their cars under idealized circumstances, as measured during vehicle emission tests. Third, the economic and life-style aspects of owning and driving heavy and expensive cars are forces in the opposite direction. And last, the European Union has only limited systems in place for the monitoring and verification of the CO2 emissions of vehicles.
In this presentation, Norbert Ligterink (PhD), senior research scientist at TNO, guides you to understanding the complexity behind this broad and persistent problem.
Electric motors
Editorial - Policy solutions - Facts - Interview - Success stories - Improving market surveillance - Extended product approach - Motor maintenance and refurbishment - Accelerated replacement of less efficient motor stock - Developing powertrains for electric mobility free of critical raw materials - World landscape
The goal of DecarbEurope is to engage decision-makers in policy and industry with solutions that can, in a cost-effective manner, decarbonise Europe at the scale and speed that is needed to achieve our climate goals.
As an ecosystem of twenty sectors — and growing — the initiative connects technologies, policies, and markets. Partners of DecarbEurope commit themselves to common values of deep decarbonisation, cost-effectiveness, circularity, sector-coupling and consumer engagement.
Electric motors play a major role in all economic sectors (industrial, tertiary, residential, agricultural and in transportation), to deliver in a reliable and efficient way mechanical power to a huge variety of processes and services
Bushveld Energy's commentary on South Africa's Draft IRPBushveld Energy
Public presentation by Bushveld Energy to the South African Department of Energy on the draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) in Polokwane,Limpopo (25 January 2017)
Smart4RES - Data science for renewable energy predictionLeonardo ENERGY
Recording at https://youtu.be/kn8X6kIfo6I
The prediction of Renewable Energy Source (RES) production is a worldwide challenge for Smart Grids. In this webinar, you will learn next-generation solutions proposed by the European Project Smart4RES:
· Future power system applications based on RES forecasting,
· Innovative weather and RES forecasting products to increase performance by 10-20%.
The need for an updated European Motor Study - key findings from the 2021 US...Leonardo ENERGY
The document calls for an updated assessment of the electric motor system market in Europe, as the existing data is over 20 years old. It notes several changes in the market since then, including new efficient motor technologies, lower costs for power electronics, and increased digitization. The document highlights findings from a recent 2021 US motor study, which found motors to be older than previously estimated and significant improvements in load factors and variable speed drive penetration compared to past studies. It concludes that a new comprehensive assessment is needed to identify large potential electricity savings and inform policies to accelerate market transformation.
BACS requirements in the revised EPBD: How to check compliance?Leonardo ENERGY
To support EU Member States in implementing the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), eu.bac has created a compliance checklist for Building Automation and Control System requirements related to the mandatory capabilities listed in Art.14 and Art.15.
The checklist provides a necessary reference list and highly detailed tool for building owners and managers, compliance inspectors, building designers, installers and policymakers.
In this slide deck:
1. The revised EPBD and the need for a tool to verify BACS compliance (Simone ALESSANDRI)
2. The EPBD BACS Compliance Verification Package (Bonnie BROOK)
3. Compliant BACS: prerequisite to the digital transformation of EU’s built environment (Andrei LITIU)
Amperex Technology Limited (ATL) is one of the top 5 global lithium-ion battery suppliers based in Hong Kong with 15 locations in China, EU, and USA. It supplies pouch/polymer batteries to top consumer electronics companies and is developing products for electric vehicles and energy storage systems. ATL has over 100 PhD researchers and aims to be the safest and largest battery supplier globally by 2020 through continued investment in automation, safety, performance, and new markets like electric vehicles and energy storage.
Households are happy to join together and provide power flexibility for clima...Leonardo ENERGY
Residential and small commercial electricity consumers will provide most of the flexibility needed in the power system to achieve the energy transition at lower cost. This flexibility will allow the electricity grid to take on more renewables and need less grid reinforcements. Consumers are happy to participate (>75% opt-in rate) via an aggregator and be rewarded with energy savings reducing their electricity. Because it reduces the overall costs of running the energy system, it means that all consumers benefit from lower energy prices. The business case is now proven as more and more countries worldwide ensure demand side response can participate in wholesale markets as an alternative to generation and the EU has provided support through its recent Clean Energy Package. Pierre Bivas from Voltalis will share his experience of operating flexibility from more than 100,000 households in France, and now installing another 150,000, backed by the European Investment Bank, while also developing in other countries with local partners.
Electrification in the energy transition: towards net-zero emissions by 2050Leonardo ENERGY
The European Green Deal envisions a carbon neutral Europe by 2050. Electrification is a powerful tool that can help catapult Europe’s energy transition forward. Accelerated changes are needed in the power, buildings and transport sectors, but they will fail to emerge without robust policies closely aligned with the decarbonisation goal.
In this webinar, Wouter Nijs of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and David Farnsworth of RAP delve into the role that electrification plays in different scenarios for meeting Europe’s climate goals.
The e-harbours project investigated potential sources of flexibility from large industrial energy users in harbours. Case studies in Antwerp and Hamburg identified significant flexibility potential, such as a sludge processing plant that could save 15% on energy costs by shifting loads. Cold stores and a chemical plant also showed flexibility options. New industrial zones like in Malmö and Zaanstad aim to develop smart energy networks from the start that exploit flexibility to integrate renewables and reduce costs. Overall large harbour industries represent a major source of flexibility that could help integrate intermittent renewables if business cases and regulations support it.
The sEEnergies project aims to operationalize the energy efficiency first principle (EEFP) both qualitatively and quantitatively. It will develop a decision support tool combining sector-specific energy demand models to analyze EE potentials from an energy systems perspective. Bottom-up models of buildings, transport, industry and grids will provide cost curves and potentials for EE measures. Scenarios from the EU's "A Clean Planet for All" will be used as common references. Energy system modelling will assess EEFP impacts and enable scenarios assessing synergies. A spatial model will map supply and demand and efficiency potentials. Heat Roadmap Europe provides recommendations including prioritizing savings over supply, utilizing excess heat and renewable energy in district heating, and establishing
Ensuring European Energy Transition: key research and innovation actions need...Leonardo ENERGY
Konstantin Staschus and Sophie Dourlens will present the new ETIP SNET Implementation Plan (IP) 2017-2020 which is to be released on 5 October 2017
The Implementation Plan aims at listing the short-term priorities for R&I in ETIP SNET’s scope and as defined by the action 4 of the EU’s Strategic Energy Technology Plan: Increase the resilience, security and smartness of the energy system. It is based upon the ETIP-SNET R&I roadmap 2017-2026 which specifies the long-term R&I activities for the evolution of the European energy system and published in January 2017.
The Implementation Plan is the result of a long and comprehensive stakeholders consultation process which makes it widely recognised by all the European energy transition stakeholders.
How demand for flexibility will develop in the German power systemLeonardo ENERGY
The Webinar presents the results of a research project on flexibility in the German power sector. It analyses the flexibility demand with a rising share of RES-E and compares different flexibility options.
The project consists of a model-based scenario analysis for 2020, 2030 and 2050 and applies the electricity system model PowerFlex together with a European network model to analyze import and export as a flexibility option.
Flexibility becomes an issue only in the scenario 2030 with 60 % RES-E. In 2020 additional flexibility can increase efficiency, but is not essential to run the system or to integrate RES-E.
http://www.leonardo-energy.org/webinar/how-demand-flexibility-will-develop-german-power-system
Workshop : business cases for Energy Communities - 30/03/21Cluster TWEED
Last training session of 6 online training sessions for energy communities.
This 6 pack series is organised by TWEED and Flux50, energy clusters in Belgium.
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The municipality of Marburg in Germany invested in a new highly efficient cooling system for their server room to reduce energy costs. The new system uses combined heat and power (CHP) and cooling to provide electricity and cooling for the servers. This integrated energy solution saves over 70% of the server room's total energy usage, reducing energy costs by up to €15,000 per year. The procurement criteria focused on reliability, energy efficiency, and cost effectiveness to find the optimal ecological and economic solution.
European Ancillary SERVICES and Balancing Electricity Forum 23rd 24th Nove...Julia Kushnir
European Ancillary SERVICES and Balancing Electricity Forum 23rd 24th November 2017 Berlin, Germany
http://www.electricity-ancillary.oil-professional-events.com
Annual european electricity ancillary and balancing forum 23rd 24th november...Lenka Larson
Annual european electricity ancillary and balancing forum 23rd 24th november 2017 Berlin, Germany
http://www.electricity-ancillary.oil-professional-events.com/
Edition European Electricity Ancillary & Balancing Forum 23rd 24th november 2...Barbara Larson
Edition European Electricity Ancillary & Balancing Forum 23rd 24th november 2017 Berlin, Germany
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European Edition ELECTRICITY ANCILLARY SERVICES AND BALANCING 23rd 24th nove...PAUL CarBony
European Edition ELECTRICITY ANCILLARY SERVICES AND BALANCING 23rd 24th november 2017 Berlin, Germany
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Topics to be addressed:
Flow-based market coupling and bidding zone delimitation
Early implementation of the electricity balancing regulation
German balancing market updates & Imbalance Settlement Period Study
Current development & challenges in the Nordic/Danish ancillary services markets
Getting more out of Interconnection – realizing flexibility and energy security benefits
Storage current & future role in the electricity system
Forecasting models for ancillary services markets
Photovoltaic integration – forecasting, scheduling and effects on ancillary services
Ancillary services by Demand Side Response (DSR)
Increasing demand response in reserve markets - case Finland
Target Market and Audience:
Transmission System Operators (TSOs)
Electricity Producers
Power Trading Companies
Power Exchanges
Regulators
Consultancies, Solution Providers and Power Cable Companies
Who Should Attend
VPs, Directors, Heads, Managers, Coordinators of:
Ancillary Services
Energy Management
Transmission
Grid/ Power Operations
Market Affairs/ Design/ Management/ Development
Cross-Border Trade
Balancing
Planning and Operations
Network
Market and Process Development
Systems Operations Development
Models and Market Forecast
Energy storage
Data Management
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The Role of Emerging End-Use and Microgeneration Technologies in Smart Grids - some findings from Task 17
1. The role of emerging end-use and
microgeneration technologies in smart grids –
some findings from Task XVII
IEA DSM Workshop
Espoo, 14 November 2012
Seppo Kärkkäinen
Elektraflex
Operating Agent of Task XVII
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Presentation is mainly based on the work done
inside the Task XVII of IEA DSM
Content of the presentation
Overview of Task XVII
Output of the Phase 1 (scope study)
Phase 2. Emerging technologies at customers’
premises: PE/PHEV, Heat pumps, photovoltaic,
µCHP, energy storages, smart metering and ICT
Examples from the emerging technologies
Phase 3: proposal
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IEA DSM Task 17: Integration of Demand Side
Management, Distributed Generation, Renewable
Energy Sources and Energy Storages
Phase one of Task XVII completed
Inside the IEA DSM Agreement a scope study was carried out in Task
XVII in cooperation with seven countries: Austria, Finland, Italy, Korea,
the Netherlands, Spain and USA.
The study was based on the information collected from the participating
countries as well as from other countries concerning the state-of the art
of market, DG/RES/storage technologies and their penetration as well
as pilot case studies, research projects, etc.
Phase two will be completed officially tomorrow
Participant: Austria, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Spain
Phase three under discussions
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Objectives of the Task XVII of IEA DSM
The main objective of the Task is to study how to achieve the optimal
integration of flexible demand with Distributed Generation, energy
storages and Smart Grids, and thus increase the value of Demand
Response, Demand Side Management and Distributed Generation and
decrease problems caused by variable output generation (mainly based
on RES) both
in the physical electricity systems and
at the electricity market
The Task deals with distributed energy resources both
at local (distribution network) level and
at transmission system level where large wind farms are
connected.
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Problems caused by variable output generation
In electrical networks
In some places, an increase in the network stresses are observed and
needs for upgrades to provide greater capacity and flexibility to integrate
the variable generation.
It also increases the need for flexible, dispatchable, fast-ramping
generation for balancing variations in load, generation and contingencies
such as the loss of transmission or generation assets.
At market:
national and local balances between supply and demand are more
complicated to manage with high levels of variable‑output generation,
which can increase total financial electricity costs.
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Possible solutions
One solution to decrease the problems caused by the variable output
of some DG is to add energy storages into the systems (centralised or
distributed energy storages DS).
Another way is to use flexibility in electricity consumption (demand
response DR).
Smart grids
In this sense distributed generation (DG), distributed energy storages
(DS) and demand response (DR) can be seen as an integrated
distributed energy resource (DER). Combining the different
characteristics of these resources is essential in increasing the value of
variable output generation in the energy market.
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FUTURE ACTIVE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM: Smart Grid
Characteristics:
Decentralized power production
in different part of network
Energy storages
Electricity flows in different
directions
new operators (producer,
producer/consumer)
Producer and consumers
participate actively in markets
functional markets
smart grids
smart DER
managenment
smart consumer
• Measurement
• Communication
• Automation
• Energy
management
Local CHP
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Outputs from Phase 1
Task XVII - Integration of Demand Side Management, Distributed
Generation, Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Storages - Final
Synthesis Report vol 1. December 2008
Task XVII - Integration of Demand Side Management, Distributed
Generation, Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Storages - Final
Synthesis Report vol 2.
Vol l. includes the main report and Vol 2. is the annex report with detailed
country descriptions, analysis tools etc. These reports are available at the
IEADSM-website (http://www.ieadsm.org/)
Two public workshops were also arranged in Petten and in Seoul. The
presentations can be found from web-site
In spite of these public reports the secure web-site includes the answers to
questionnaires of the experts and descriptions of about 50 case studies.
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Concluding remarks from the Phase 1
As a conclusion of the analysis it can be said that the increased
penetration of DG as well as the technology and market developments
result in
new roles of the different stakeholders meaning new business
environment and possibilities; on the other hand new tools are also
needed in this new business area,
metering and ICT technologies are essential and developing rapidly,
the above development will result in new products, services and pricing
policies which can activate the more deep participation of final consumers
in the market
Successful integration means that different technologies in supply and
demand side as well as in ICT are developed to the level where their
integration is feasible both technically and economically and that
regulation, policy and market give the successful framework for the
integration.
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DER business opportunities: market access via aggregators
One obstacle in the promotion of Demand Side Integration is that small
and medium size customers usually don’t have direct access to different
types of market either due to the market rules or due to the high
transaction costs in market entry. To decrease this kind of barriers a new
type of service company, an aggregator, who acts as intermediator
between distributed energy resources and energy markets, can emerge
Three main types of aggregators can be defined:
Demand aggregators collecting demand response (DR) from different
types of flexible customers and offering the aggregated DR to different
market actors
Generation aggregators collecting and using a group of dispersed
generators in aggregation and offering that into market. This kind of
aggregated generation is often called “Virtual power Plant (VPP)”.
Combination of these.
Internationally, aggregators are most common in the USA market. Also in
Australia and Europe some aggregators exist
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Task XVII extension: Phase 2 (1)
The emerging DER technologies to be discussed include
plug-in electric and hybrid electric vehicles (PEV/PHEV)
different types of heatpumps for heating and cooling
photovoltaic at customer premises
micro-CHP at customer premises
energy storages (thermal/electricity) in the connection of
previous technologies
smart metering and ICT
Assessment the effects of the penetration of emerging DER
technologies to different stakeholders and to the whole
electricity system
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The main Subtasks in the Task extension are
Assessment of technologies and their penetration
in participating countries
Stakeholders involved in the penetration and
qualitative effects on the stakeholders
Assessment of the quantitative effects on the
power systems and stakeholders
Case studies and pilots
Conclusions and recommendations
Time schedule: March 2010 – August 2012
Task XVII extension: Phase 2 (2)
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Examples from the integration of emerging
technologies
PEV/PHEV
Heating and cooling – heat pumps
Micro-chp
Photovoltaic at customer’s premises
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Electric vehicles (PEV/PHEV) (1)
Sales of different vehicle types in the BLUE Map scenario (IEA 2009).
Penetration scenarios vary, but anyway
The share will be considerable in 15 – 25 years
The battery costs are gradually decreasing
Many countries have incentives for EVs
Smart charging is essential from the electricity system point of view
EVs can in the future provide ancillary and balancing services (V2G)
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Electric vehicles (PEV/PHEV) (2)
number of EV per 1000 people
2020 2025 2020 2025
Finland 79,000 15
France 2,000,000 4,500,000 31 69
Spain 1,000,000 22
NL 200,000 1,000,000 12 59
Some penetration estimates for participating countries:
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Electric vehicles (PEV/PHEV) (3)
Incentives for EV vary and can change rapidly. Some
examples from the participating countries:
In Finland currently there are tax reductions for the registration
tax and annual vehicle taxes.
In France the government provides a direct 5,000 euro
subsidy for the purchase of the electric vehicle (max 20 % of
the purchase price).
In Austria EV’s are exempt from the registration tax, and there
are direct subsidies (up to 5000 euro) in three of the nine
provinces.
In Spain some regional governments grant direct subsidies for
the purchase of EV.
In the Netherlands incentives include total exemption of the
registration fee and road taxes, which result in savings of
approximately 5,300 € for private car owners over four years
(ACEA 2010). There are also parking spaces dedicated to EV.
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System level impacts: France, Spain (4)
The simulations in several countries like France (above), Spain
and Finland indicate the effects of smart charging in system level:
in the worst case peak load increase 6000 – 7000 MW
but with smart charging 6.5 million PEV can be connected
without additional investmenst
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Example: effect of the charging method on the
local network: Finland (5)
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Heating and cooling – heat pumps (1)
Heating and cooling loads are very suitable for DSM services
They can utilise both natural storing capacity of buildings and
artificial heat and cool storages
The share of different types of heat pumps is increasing in buildings
Heat pumps for heating and cooling buildings can be divided into four main
categories:
Heating-only heat pumps, providing space heating and/or water heating.
Heating and cooling heat pumps, providing both space heating and cooling.
The most common type is the reversible air-to-air heat pump, which either
operates in heating or cooling mode. Large heat pumps in commercial/institutional
buildings use water loops for heat and cold distribution, so they can provide
heating and cooling simultaneously.
Integrated heat pump systems, providing space heating, cooling, water
heating and
sometimes exhaust air heat recovery.
Heat pump water heaters, fully dedicated to water heating.
They often use air from the immediate surroundings as heat source, but can also
be exhaust-air heat pumps, or desuperheaters on air-to-air and water-to-air heat
pumps.
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Heating and cooling – heat pumps (2)
2010 2020 2030
number total electric
power (MW)
number total electric
power (MW)
number total electric
power (MW)
Austria 175 000 350 250000 508 343000 696
Finland 390 000 > 2000 1 000 000
France 950 000 2 000 000
Netherlands ? 1 500 000
Spain 6.3 % of
houses in
2008
share of
summer
peak 2.24 %
9 300 000
Some estimates for the penetration of heat pumps in
participating countries:
The penetration of heat pumps are partly related to the energy
policies, regulations and incentives related to heat pumps: in many
countries heat pumps are seen as a way to increase energy
efficiency and to reduce CO2-releases and different types of
incentives are applied
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Heating and cooling – heat pumps and DR (3)
In principle heat pumps are suitable for demand response for several
reasons:
the penetration rates of different types of heat pumps for heating and
cooling are high and increasing in most countries
in the control strategy demand response needs during the system peaks
fits often well with the high use of heat pumps either for cooling in summer
peak or heating in winter peak situations; on the other hand, in low
temperatures the COPs of heat pumps are low and in very low
temperatures (typically below - 20 to - 25 Co) they have to be stopped
and additional heating systems are in use (electricity or gas)
from the customer’s comfort point of view heat pumps can be controlled
similar way as electric heating and other air-conditioning systems: the
heating/hot water production and cooling can be switched off for certain
time periods
from the technical point of view the total switching-off the heat pumps or
the thermostat set-point adjustments are possible in short term because
heat pumps usually have remote control capabilities
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Heating and cooling – heat pumps and DR (4)
However, some obstacles exist for the use of heat pumps for
demand response like
because technical requirements and solutions such as open
interoperable interfaces and functionalities are still missing,
there are not much experience from the use of heat pumps for
demand response; therefore it may take long time before mature
technical solutions are available
after the control period of heat pumps their load will be high and
this “pay-back” has to be taken into account in the control
strategy
starting current of heat pumps after switch-off or blackouts can
be high and problematic to the networks; this has to be taken
into account
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Heat pumps and energy storages in the Netherlands.
Example: aquifers as a seasonal heat storage (5)
In the Netherlands, there is a large installed
base of heat pumps, based on aquifer
storage of heat, especially in large buildings.
The opportunities of these types of heat
storage depend on the absence of long
term local subsurface flows of water in
geological strata at a certain suitable depth.
In the Netherlands, generally, the possibilities
at most locations are good.
The challenges in operating these devices is maintaining the heat/cold balance during a year
to guarantee operation at the optimal COP and to comply to municipality license conditions
and in configuring in relation to the other heat/cold generating devices and the realized user
comfort. Aquifers allow comfort control by delivering cooling capacity in summer and heating
capacity in winter.
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Example on the integration: residential load
shifting in the Netherlands in the future (6)
Electric appliances with a large future potential
for load shifting:
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
Electric heat pumps
Air conditioning
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Contribution of PHEV and heat pumps to flatten day-night patterns (7)
Table 9. Share of plug-in vehicle and heat pump electricity demand as percentage of final electricity
demand in SE scenario, and their contribution to filling the ‘night trough’
2020 2040
Final electricity demand in SE scenario (TWh/a) 137 161
Electricity demand heat pumps + EV (TWh/a) 5.8 24.3
Heat pumps and EV as percentage of SE: (%) 4.2 15.1
Annual electricity demand to create a flat load curve (at
load factor of 0.8) (TWh/a)
27 32
Heat pump and EV contribution to a flat load curve (%) 21 76
Conclusion: if heat pumps and
electric vehicles become popular,
residential load shifting can almost
completely flatten the total
electricity load in the Netherlands
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Conclusions from the integration possibilities
in the Netherlands (8)
1.5 million heat pumps (2040) can provide the equivalent
of 250 MW regulating power and 1.5 GWh storage
6.5 million PHEV can provide 26 GWh of storage
Together this is sufficient to compensate most of the
short term differences between predicted versus realized
output of 10 GW wind farms
Residential load shifting (with plug-in hybrid electric
vehicles and heat pumps) can contribute substantially to
integration of intermittent renewables
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Micro-CHP - some conclusions
Several technologies have been developed like internal cumbustion
machines, micro gas turbines, stirling engines and fuel cells; different
types of fuels can be utilized
However, the prices of the technologies have not gone as expected
and no actual breakthrough has happened
Horticultural sector is quite important in the Netherlands with regard to
µ-CHP and some units were already installed in the 1990’s. Currently
there are about 1500 µ-CHP units installed in NL. The total market, if
prices could be lowered, is several million units
DR is often easily implemented with µ-CHP because thermal storages
are becoming more commonplace
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Photovoltaic at customer premises - some
conclusions
2009 2010 2011
Austria 49 99 187
France 306 1025 2831
Netherlands 62.5 91.9 130
Spain 3418 3787 4260
The following table shows the recent cumulative development of the grid-
connected PV penetration in participating countries (in MWp) (In Finland nil):
The rapid increase of PV capacity in most of the countries is related to the two
main factors:
PV technology and manufacturing capacity have been increased rapidly
which has resulted in the decrease of PV prices. In 2011 prices decreased
even up to more than 50 % in some countries. 35–50 % price reduction can
be expected by 2020
Energy policies with incentives and feed-in tariffs have supported the PV
development
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Task extension, Phase 3:
Proposal for the future work (1)
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Proposal for the future work (2)
Very preliminarily this phase includes four new subtasks:
Subtask 10 – Role and potentials of flexible consumers (households and
buildings)
Objectives
Assessing the concepts and implementations of customer energy management systems
(CEMS) in different (participating) countries:
Comparing specific requirements in households vs. functional (office) buildings
Energy balancing possibilities and potentials
Role of Smart Meters (SM) and (CEMS) – in the terms of technical concepts
Technologies
In order to enable DSM, existing functionality and requirements of SM and CEMS
according to the specifications (M/441, country specific) will be analyzed as following:
Local balancing / local markets of the generated power/energy with the consumption
Controlled charging and discharging of EV
Integrating electrical storages
Support aggregation to participate in markets and grid operation.
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Proposal for the future work (3)
Subtask 11 – Changes and Impacts on the grid and market operation
Objectives:
Quantification of impact on grid and market operation based on technology
penetration scenarios developed in subtask 5.
Improvement on grid operation
Customer benefits
Optimization potentials
Methodology to estimate potential and to cost effective activation.
Regulation issues for grid and (local) market operations
Interaction:
How do CEMS interact with flexibility operators (like aggregators)?
Impact on the grid operation (technical flexibility)
Impact on the market (market flexibility)
Technical feasible but optimization necessary:
Requirements for establishing this grid operating and market mechanisms? -
regulatory and legislative
Installation and operation costs vs. delayed network investments
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Proposal for the future work (4)
Subtask 12 – Sharing experiences and finding best practices
Objectives:
Based on the collected pilots and case studies from the previous subtasks the
results and findings of the finished projects in term of successful
implementations, barriers and effectiveness will be analyzed.
Lessons learned from existing pilots: Workshops (E-Energy, EcoGridEU, …)
Comparisons and analysis of country specific differences in the
implementation
Assessment and development of a methodology to apply different DSM
mechanism to individual countries.
Extrapolation of the results from previous collected projects on applicability.
Knowledge sharing (Country experts and operating agent):
Successful DSM projects in International context and EU context.
Knowledge and exchange of experience – best practices
Subtask 13 – Conclusions and Recommendations