Human-centred design is being used to make the NSW energy savings scheme more effective. We started with research that identified six key insights for improved scheme operation. It found that the scheme is complex and its fragmented tools and systems create unnecessary barriers to entry. We then used workshops to develop six corresponding opportunities for improved service delivery. To scale up we need streamlined manual processes, more collaboration and improved digital systems. This is especially relevant given recent announcements that the scheme is being extended to 2050.
This talk will present the research, and will place it in the context of changes announced as part of the NSW Energy Strategy. It will explore small, medium and long term changes to scheme delivery identified through the HCD process and our proposed next steps.
The NSW Energy Savings Scheme started in 2009. It has so far delivered projects that will save 27,000 gigawatt hours of energy and $5.6 billion in bill savings over their lifetimes.
Applying behavioural insights to demand side energy policies and programmes: ...Leonardo ENERGY
What behavioural factors act as barriers to energy saving behaviours, to the uptake of energy efficient, clean energy technologies and of sustainable mobility options? How can energy ministries, regulatory agencies and utilities leverage behavioural insights (BIs) to design and implement more effective energy policies and programmes?
In this webinar, Elisabetta Cornago from the International Energy Agency will present insights from the forthcoming Users TCP and IEA report on behavioural insights and demand side energy policy. Through the webinar, she will highlight behaviourally-informed policy interventions and programmes designed to encourage households and businesses to curb their energy consumption, to prompt investment in energy efficiency and in the uptake of renewable energy, and to encourage a shift to sustainable transport behaviours.
Many new business models and types of entrepreneurs are emerging to accelerate the energy transition. We will share first findings on how these new business models look like and the new type of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial capabilities needed to operate successfully in the complex, uncertain energy transition, and of course reflect briefly on what this means for policy.
Peer-to-Peer energy trading and community self-consumptionLeonardo ENERGY
Electricity markets are experiencing a shift to a more decentralized structure. While peer-to-peer (P2P) markets are a promising strategy to grant consumers and small-scale producers a more active role in energy markets, in reality they face multiple complex barriers. As one of the first local P2P energy markets worldwide actually deployed, the Quartierstrom project explores the feasibility and impact of a P2P energy market in the real world in a pilot with 37 households.
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
The need to model coupled energy networks to transition to a decarbonized futureLeonardo ENERGY
Webinar recording at https://youtu.be/2A-aVb6OHTE
The coordination between planners and operators of coupled energy systems will allow the further integration of renewable energy sources in the electricity network by storing energy in fuel form over long periods of time using power-to-gas, the recovery and more efficient use of heat, and the decarbonization of industrial processes and transportation modes that can’t be electrified. Energy networks, such as electricity grids and natural gas pipeline networks, have traditionally been planned and operated independently. In order to enhance the integration and coordination of different energy networks, they must be planned and operated in coupled ways. Different energy networks have historically been and are still modelled by different tools. In this presentation we will discuss the need model coupled energy systems in a single framework and we will introduce encoord’s Scenario Analysis Interface for Energy Systems (SAInt), a software application to model, plan, and operate coupled energy networks.
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/.
Smart, Energy-Saving Homes: What's Stopping Us?Leonardo ENERGY
Smart, energy-saving homes utilise network connectivity, big data and powerful data processing. They can manage and automate services such as lighting, heating/cooling and washing in order to reduce energy consumption and provide load flexibility to the grid. Despite recent gains in building envelope and appliance efficiency, further opportunities remain to improve whole-building system efficiency through smart homes. However, there are significant barriers:
• High costs and unclear benefits: smart devices cost more and suffer
from a lack of consumer confidence about their benefits.
• Privacy, trust and security: consumers are concerned about misuse of data in the cloud, and hacking of data and devices.
• Complexity and technology risk: smart homes involve new and complex technologies which many consumers fear may not work as intended and are difficult to operate. Problems of interoperability between new and legacy devices are common and this tends to increase consumer concerns.
This webinar will examine these barriers and suggest a number of policy solutions. It is presented by the EDNA Annex (Electronic Devices and Networks Annex - https://edna.iea-4e.org) of the IEA’s 4E Technology Collaboration Programme.
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.
Applying behavioural insights to demand side energy policies and programmes: ...Leonardo ENERGY
What behavioural factors act as barriers to energy saving behaviours, to the uptake of energy efficient, clean energy technologies and of sustainable mobility options? How can energy ministries, regulatory agencies and utilities leverage behavioural insights (BIs) to design and implement more effective energy policies and programmes?
In this webinar, Elisabetta Cornago from the International Energy Agency will present insights from the forthcoming Users TCP and IEA report on behavioural insights and demand side energy policy. Through the webinar, she will highlight behaviourally-informed policy interventions and programmes designed to encourage households and businesses to curb their energy consumption, to prompt investment in energy efficiency and in the uptake of renewable energy, and to encourage a shift to sustainable transport behaviours.
Many new business models and types of entrepreneurs are emerging to accelerate the energy transition. We will share first findings on how these new business models look like and the new type of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial capabilities needed to operate successfully in the complex, uncertain energy transition, and of course reflect briefly on what this means for policy.
Peer-to-Peer energy trading and community self-consumptionLeonardo ENERGY
Electricity markets are experiencing a shift to a more decentralized structure. While peer-to-peer (P2P) markets are a promising strategy to grant consumers and small-scale producers a more active role in energy markets, in reality they face multiple complex barriers. As one of the first local P2P energy markets worldwide actually deployed, the Quartierstrom project explores the feasibility and impact of a P2P energy market in the real world in a pilot with 37 households.
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
The need to model coupled energy networks to transition to a decarbonized futureLeonardo ENERGY
Webinar recording at https://youtu.be/2A-aVb6OHTE
The coordination between planners and operators of coupled energy systems will allow the further integration of renewable energy sources in the electricity network by storing energy in fuel form over long periods of time using power-to-gas, the recovery and more efficient use of heat, and the decarbonization of industrial processes and transportation modes that can’t be electrified. Energy networks, such as electricity grids and natural gas pipeline networks, have traditionally been planned and operated independently. In order to enhance the integration and coordination of different energy networks, they must be planned and operated in coupled ways. Different energy networks have historically been and are still modelled by different tools. In this presentation we will discuss the need model coupled energy systems in a single framework and we will introduce encoord’s Scenario Analysis Interface for Energy Systems (SAInt), a software application to model, plan, and operate coupled energy networks.
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/.
Smart, Energy-Saving Homes: What's Stopping Us?Leonardo ENERGY
Smart, energy-saving homes utilise network connectivity, big data and powerful data processing. They can manage and automate services such as lighting, heating/cooling and washing in order to reduce energy consumption and provide load flexibility to the grid. Despite recent gains in building envelope and appliance efficiency, further opportunities remain to improve whole-building system efficiency through smart homes. However, there are significant barriers:
• High costs and unclear benefits: smart devices cost more and suffer
from a lack of consumer confidence about their benefits.
• Privacy, trust and security: consumers are concerned about misuse of data in the cloud, and hacking of data and devices.
• Complexity and technology risk: smart homes involve new and complex technologies which many consumers fear may not work as intended and are difficult to operate. Problems of interoperability between new and legacy devices are common and this tends to increase consumer concerns.
This webinar will examine these barriers and suggest a number of policy solutions. It is presented by the EDNA Annex (Electronic Devices and Networks Annex - https://edna.iea-4e.org) of the IEA’s 4E Technology Collaboration Programme.
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.
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.
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%.
Overview of the FlexPlan project. Focus on EU regulatory analysis and TSO-DSO...Leonardo ENERGY
Webinar recording at https://youtu.be/4s2GGlu-ylc
The FlexPlan project (https://flexplan-project.eu/) aims at establishing a new grid planning methodology making use of storage and flexible loads as an alternative to the build-up of new grid elements. After introducing the project, the webinar will focus on pan-European grid planning regulation and present practices of TSOs and DSOs.
Flexibility needs at system level and how RD&I projects are leveraging these ...Leonardo ENERGY
Recording at https://youtu.be/cd5bRnSM0zI
The presentation provides an introduction to flexibility solutions, which can be used to increase efficiency in power systems. The solutions considered for the webinar are network level solutions. This introduction is followed by the presentation of FlexPlan and CoordiNet as examples of RD&I projects where flexibility solutions are being developed to change the power system landscape.
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.
Motivation, benefits, and challenges for new photovoltaic material & module d...Leonardo ENERGY
The main objective of the IEA-PVPS Task 13 Report on “Designing New Materials for Photovoltaics: Opportunities for Lowering Cost and Increasing Performance through Advanced Material Innovations” is to provide a global survey of technical efforts aimed at lowering cost and increasing performance and reliability of PV modules by employing new designs, materials and concepts. Furthermore, the report aims to (1) increase the exchange of information about promising materials and design concepts, (2) provide the means for increasing the value of PV modules, (3) provide recommendations on characterization methods for new technologies and (4) give input regarding new requirements for standardization. This paper focuses on describing the motivation, benefits, and challenges for new photovoltaic material and module developments.
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.
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?
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
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.
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
Webinar recording available at
Power system flexibility relates to the ability of the power system to manage changes.
Solutions providing advances in flexibility are of utmost importance for the future power system. Development and deployment of innovative technologies, communication and monitoring possibilities, as well as increased interaction and information exchange, are enablers to provide holistic flexibility solutions. Furthermore, development of new methods for market design and analysis, as well as methods and procedures related to system planning and operation, will be required to utilise available flexibility to provide most value to society.
However, flexibility is not a unified term and is lacking a commonly accepted definition.
The flexibility term is used as an umbrella covering various needs and aspects in the power system. This situation makes it highly complex to discuss flexibility in the power system and craves for differentiation to enhance clarity. In this work, the solution has been to differentiate
the flexibility term on needs, and to categorise flexibility needs in four categories.
Here, flexibility needs are considered from over-all system perspectives (stability, frequency and energy supply) and from more local perspectives (transfer capacities, voltage and power quality). With flexibility support considered for both operation and planning of the power system, it is required in a timescale from fractions of a second (e.g. stability and frequency support) to minutes and hours (e.g. thermal loadings and generation dispatch) to months and years (e.g. planning for seasonal adequacy and planning of new investments).
Coloured Building Integrated Photovoltaics - Market, Research and DevelopmentLeonardo ENERGY
Recording at https://youtu.be/pmOxbaz7j_c
1) Introduction: overview of realized projects and trends in innovations and product developments of coloured Building Integrated Photovoltaics
2) Technological Part: state-of-the-art colour implementation technologies; Colouring of polymeric encapsulants, front or back covers; coatings and printings on solar cells, films and cover glass
3) Experimental Part: colour efficiency in experimental measurements; relationship between colour and efficiency / power generation
4) Outlook: latest development trends, ongoing activities of IEA PVPS Task15
Five actions fit for 55: streamlining energy savings calculationsLeonardo ENERGY
During the first year of the H2020 project streamSAVE, multiple activities were organized to support countries in developing savings estimations under Art.3 and Art.7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED).
A fascinating output of the project so far is the “Guidance on Standardized saving methodologies (energy, CO2 and costs)” for a first round of five so-called Priority Actions. This Guidance will assist EU member states in more accurately calculating savings for a set of new energy efficiency actions.
This webinar presents this Guidance and other project findings to the broader community, including industry and markets.
AGENDA
14:00 Introduction to streamSAVE
(Nele Renders, Project Coordinator)
14:10 Views from the EU Commission and the link with Fit-for-55 (Anne-Katherina Weidenbach, DG ENER)
14:20 The streamSAVE guidance and its platform illustrated (Elisabeth Böck, AEA)
14:55 A view from industry: What is the added value of streamSAVE (standardized) methods in frame of the EED (Conor Molloy, AEMS ECOfleet)
14:55 Country experiences: the added value of standardized methods (Elena Allegrini, ENEA, Italy)
The recordings of the webinar can be found on https://youtu.be/eUht10cUK1o
Peer-to-peer energy trading using blockchainsLeonardo ENERGY
Rapid penetration of distributed generation technologies, combined with grid constraints, and disillusionment with non-consumer centric business models, is leading many to explore radically different configurations of the energy system. One such model, ‘transactive energy’, focuses on peer-to-peer energy trading with the role of the energy company replaced with a trustless transaction layer based on distributed ledger (blockchain) technologies. The proponents of transactive energy argue that it provides social, environmental, economic, and energy systems benefits. This lecture will provide a broad introduction to the field, before discussing the opportunities and limitations of this approach within the energy transition.
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.
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.
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.
Webinar: Energy Data - The New Profit LeverUrjanet
Every day, there's more news about how big data will change the way our society functions, especially when it comes to energy. More businesses are looking to big data as a way to manage their energy consumption, and reduce carbon emissions...but where does good energy data come from? In Urjanet's webinar "Energy Data - The New Profit Lever" our panel of experts explores how timely, automated, Big Energy Data can give multi-facility organizations the insights needed for better energy management. Featuring subject matter experts from eSight Energy and Verdantix - a leading research analyst firm - the slides show how energy data can be used across multiple departments to lower costs, reduce energy consumption, and improve profitability. This presentation can be utilized by any professional whose work focuses on energy management, sustainability, accounting, procurement, energy engineering, commercial real estate, energy management for retailers, bill pay providers, energy management software providers, energy services providers, utilities, finance, or facilities management.
Gone are the days when accounting teams were the only ones hunting down utility bills in order to pay them.
Now, more than ever before, a growing list of departments within a single organization are asking for energy data for sustainability and CSR reporting, energy consumption benchmarking and forecasting, customer and investor transparency, among many other reasons.
This webinar includes slides featuring NetApp, Powerhouse Dynamics, Cox Enterprises, Verdantix, and Urjanet will discuss how the industry has seen the need for energy data span across multiple departments within the enterprise, and how these end users are applying the data to achieve their departmental and organizational goals.
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.
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%.
Overview of the FlexPlan project. Focus on EU regulatory analysis and TSO-DSO...Leonardo ENERGY
Webinar recording at https://youtu.be/4s2GGlu-ylc
The FlexPlan project (https://flexplan-project.eu/) aims at establishing a new grid planning methodology making use of storage and flexible loads as an alternative to the build-up of new grid elements. After introducing the project, the webinar will focus on pan-European grid planning regulation and present practices of TSOs and DSOs.
Flexibility needs at system level and how RD&I projects are leveraging these ...Leonardo ENERGY
Recording at https://youtu.be/cd5bRnSM0zI
The presentation provides an introduction to flexibility solutions, which can be used to increase efficiency in power systems. The solutions considered for the webinar are network level solutions. This introduction is followed by the presentation of FlexPlan and CoordiNet as examples of RD&I projects where flexibility solutions are being developed to change the power system landscape.
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.
Motivation, benefits, and challenges for new photovoltaic material & module d...Leonardo ENERGY
The main objective of the IEA-PVPS Task 13 Report on “Designing New Materials for Photovoltaics: Opportunities for Lowering Cost and Increasing Performance through Advanced Material Innovations” is to provide a global survey of technical efforts aimed at lowering cost and increasing performance and reliability of PV modules by employing new designs, materials and concepts. Furthermore, the report aims to (1) increase the exchange of information about promising materials and design concepts, (2) provide the means for increasing the value of PV modules, (3) provide recommendations on characterization methods for new technologies and (4) give input regarding new requirements for standardization. This paper focuses on describing the motivation, benefits, and challenges for new photovoltaic material and module developments.
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.
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?
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
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.
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
Webinar recording available at
Power system flexibility relates to the ability of the power system to manage changes.
Solutions providing advances in flexibility are of utmost importance for the future power system. Development and deployment of innovative technologies, communication and monitoring possibilities, as well as increased interaction and information exchange, are enablers to provide holistic flexibility solutions. Furthermore, development of new methods for market design and analysis, as well as methods and procedures related to system planning and operation, will be required to utilise available flexibility to provide most value to society.
However, flexibility is not a unified term and is lacking a commonly accepted definition.
The flexibility term is used as an umbrella covering various needs and aspects in the power system. This situation makes it highly complex to discuss flexibility in the power system and craves for differentiation to enhance clarity. In this work, the solution has been to differentiate
the flexibility term on needs, and to categorise flexibility needs in four categories.
Here, flexibility needs are considered from over-all system perspectives (stability, frequency and energy supply) and from more local perspectives (transfer capacities, voltage and power quality). With flexibility support considered for both operation and planning of the power system, it is required in a timescale from fractions of a second (e.g. stability and frequency support) to minutes and hours (e.g. thermal loadings and generation dispatch) to months and years (e.g. planning for seasonal adequacy and planning of new investments).
Coloured Building Integrated Photovoltaics - Market, Research and DevelopmentLeonardo ENERGY
Recording at https://youtu.be/pmOxbaz7j_c
1) Introduction: overview of realized projects and trends in innovations and product developments of coloured Building Integrated Photovoltaics
2) Technological Part: state-of-the-art colour implementation technologies; Colouring of polymeric encapsulants, front or back covers; coatings and printings on solar cells, films and cover glass
3) Experimental Part: colour efficiency in experimental measurements; relationship between colour and efficiency / power generation
4) Outlook: latest development trends, ongoing activities of IEA PVPS Task15
Five actions fit for 55: streamlining energy savings calculationsLeonardo ENERGY
During the first year of the H2020 project streamSAVE, multiple activities were organized to support countries in developing savings estimations under Art.3 and Art.7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED).
A fascinating output of the project so far is the “Guidance on Standardized saving methodologies (energy, CO2 and costs)” for a first round of five so-called Priority Actions. This Guidance will assist EU member states in more accurately calculating savings for a set of new energy efficiency actions.
This webinar presents this Guidance and other project findings to the broader community, including industry and markets.
AGENDA
14:00 Introduction to streamSAVE
(Nele Renders, Project Coordinator)
14:10 Views from the EU Commission and the link with Fit-for-55 (Anne-Katherina Weidenbach, DG ENER)
14:20 The streamSAVE guidance and its platform illustrated (Elisabeth Böck, AEA)
14:55 A view from industry: What is the added value of streamSAVE (standardized) methods in frame of the EED (Conor Molloy, AEMS ECOfleet)
14:55 Country experiences: the added value of standardized methods (Elena Allegrini, ENEA, Italy)
The recordings of the webinar can be found on https://youtu.be/eUht10cUK1o
Peer-to-peer energy trading using blockchainsLeonardo ENERGY
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Using human-centred design to improve energy efficiency programs
1. 12 March 2020
Using human-centred design to improve energy
efficiency programs
2. • David Pryor, Senior Team Leader in the Energy Markets
team, NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment
(DPIE).
• 14 years experience in development and delivery of energy
savings programs in NSW.
• Leading a small team responsible for:
• developing rules for the Energy Savings Scheme (ESS)
• linking the ESS to other NSW programs to help remove
barriers to take-up, and
• investigating opportunities to modernise and scale
scheme delivery to meet future targets.
• Formerly at the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal
(IPART) working on administration and compliance of the
Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme (GGAS) and the ESS.
• I mostly talk about cycling, surfing, space opera and kids
Introduction
• Introductions
• The Energy Security Safeguard
• The problem we are trying to solve
• ‘Digital Landscape’ research and
its outcomes
• What we learned
Agenda
3. The Energy Savings Scheme (ESS) is a statutory scheme working
towards building a sustainable energy-efficiency market.
The scheme is coordinated by the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and
Environment (DPIE) and is administered by the Independent Pricing and
Regulatory Tribunal (IPART). It provides incentives to encourage investment in
energy efficiency to reduce energy use and lower costs within households,
businesses and industry.
How it works:
• Energy users work with an accredited provider on energy saving projects.
• The provider claims Energy Savings Certificates for energy savings.
• Certificates are sold to energy retailers and others to help them meet
legislated energy savings targets of 8.5% of NSW electricity sales.
Energy Savings Scheme
Impact: Over 14,000 GWh has been saved between 2009 and
2018. 17,000 GWh of savings have been locked in for the ten
years from 2019 to 2028. In 2018 (calendar year), nearly
2,700 GWh electricity is estimated to have been saved.
5. The Energy Security Safeguard
Detailed NSW Electricity Strategy (p.28)
https://energy.nsw.gov.au/government-and-regulation/electricity-strategy
1. The first component of the Safeguard will involve
• expanding the existing Energy Savings Scheme to 2050,
• with targets increasing gradually up to 13 per cent by 2030, and
• expanded set of activities which reduce demand on electricity and gas
networks, including substituting gas for biomass.
2. The second component of the Safeguard will involve
• establishing a new certificate scheme for the deployment of peak
demand reduction technologies,
• such as batteries, smart pool pumps and electric vehicle chargers
• that enable electricity demand to be shifted away from peak periods.
7. ESS Rule Change Consultation Forum – August 2019
What are the three words you would use to
describe the ESS as it is right now?
Where do you see the ESS five years
from now?
9. Context
The following work has been
co-created in collaboration with DPIE,
IPART, certificate creators and
Auditors working within the ESS.
It is reseach that does not represent the NSW Government's view
13. Project Context – Brief
Over 4 weeks, Mentally Friendly conducted
research to understand the ESS, and identify
opportunities to improve its operation.
To do this we explored;
Research with scheme
participants
The role of each stakeholder,
how they currently operate and
their current perspectives on the
scheme.
Current state tools
& processes
The range state of tools and
processes used by stakeholders,
where they fall down and how we
can improve them.
Impact of rule
change process
The impact that rule changes
have on stakeholders and how
we can better prepare
stakeholders for this.
14. Research Approach
72 hours of deep dive
interviews & workshops
with scheme participants
Great care has been taken to involve a diverse range of:
• Roles including auditors, registry managers,
directors and frontline staff.
• Digital-readiness including paper-based to fully
automated/digital certificate providers.
• Business models used by certificate providers
including aggregators, end-to-end and whole-of-
cycle.
• Locations including NSW, VIC and
QLD (with considerable experience in the ESS)
16. Research Approach
Roles in the scheme
Administrators
IPART
Legislators
DPIE
Certificate Providers
ACPs
• Rules are fit for purpose
• Scheme works as a whole
•
•
Commercial success and
confidence in the scheme
Constructive improvements to
the scheme
• Regulate through building an
effective compliance culture
• Ensure a level playing field
Quality Assurance
Documentation
Installer
Auditors
18. Tools and
systems are
fragmented
02.
Six key
insights:
01.
Significant time is
spent on manual tasks
04.
Rule changes are
missing consistent and
effective feedback loops
Expansion of the
scheme is prevented by
siloed data
05.
03.
Certificate providers
aren’t equipped to
interpret rule changes
Complexity prevents
end users from
engaging
06.
19. Opportunity 01
Streamline manual data
processes
Opportunity 04
A more transparent and
collaborative rule
change process
Opportunity 02
A single source of truth
platform to view and maintain
verified energy savings
Opportunity 05
More effective measurement
and verification of
energy savings
Opportunity 03
Smart legislation that is human
readable and can be modelled
with stakeholders
Opportunity 06
Bring energy savings closer to
the end user
Six Opportunity
Areas:
20. “Interaction with the online portals is time-
consuming; it’s incredibly manual.”
– ACP
“It’s up to the ACP to fill in the [evidence
pack] sheet correctly.”
– ACP
Key insight: 1 of 6
Significant time is spent
on manual tasks
Manual tasks compromise the accuracy of data, as
many steps make room for error.
Excessive time spent on manual tasks takes away
focus from actually delivering energy efficiency.
Evidence of energy savings is required for the
creation of certificates and the requires
significant manual effort (and transcription).
21. “We rely entirely on these [Registry] emails,
they’re really the only way we know that
certificates have been registered.”
So what you’ll find is [the Portal] status here
is slow to change, and is currently saying
that these certificates aren’t registered — but
we've got the email confirmation showing
proving that they are.
– ACP
“Now we have to get a whole bunch of
systems all syncing together. And that's what
makes using the registry as a source of truth,
such a high stakes thing for us because we
want to just make sure everything matches
up.”
– ACP
Key insight: 2 of 6
Tools and systems
are fragmented
There’s no unified view that connects to a job site
to an energy savings certificate, making it difficult
to track the entire lifecycle of a project.
There’s confusion and ambiguity among on the role
of the different administrative systems
[ESS Portal and Registry].
Certificate providers want a single source of truth.
22. Key Benefits:
Opportunity Area 01
Streamline manual data
processes
Reduce the overall effort for multiple stakeholders to
assess and verify data by digitising and automating
manual processes.
Supporting Evidence:
“Double handling of data inputs creates
inefficiencies”
– ACP
“A document might travel from an installer, to
an ACP then used in an audit - but data is
degraded”
– IPART
“We have to consider how much less energy
savings occur in a paper-based system”
– DPIE
•
•
Legislator - Improve the
accuracy and overall quality of
data
Administrator - Automation of
data verification reduces
manual overhead of ACPs to
verify
• Implementer - Improve the
consistency of reporting on
implementation data
Key Risks:
• Standardised process doesn’t
meet the needs of everyone
• Increased manual verification
of automated data processes
• New processes doesn’t
deliver better quality
outcomes - value /effort
23. Key Benefits:
Opportunity Area 02
A single source of truth platform
to view and maintain verified
energy savings
Create a unified platform for energy savings, to support
future expansion of the scheme.
Supporting Evidence:
“There is no single source of truth”
– ACP
“[We could use the ESS Portal to] validate a
lot more things before they actually become
a problem.
– IPART
“We use 13 or 14 different systems just to
manage commercial lighting certificates”
– ACP
•
•
Enables the ability to target
new markets for ESS to
expand Drives efficiencies -
reduces manual data
processes and systems to
maintain
• Faster & more easily
verified energy savings
Key Risks:
• If functionality is
expanded, there is a risk
of not meeting everyone's
need
• Cost of developing a
solution outweighs the
return
• New system makes ACP
technology redundant
24. 2. Single source of verified energy savings
• Develop a user-centred prototype platform to view
and maintain verified energy savings.
1. Streamline manual data processes
• Work with IPART to develop an upgraded
portal and registry, designed to support the
new Safeguard and increased certificate
creation.
Opportunities
Testing these proto-type opportunities will
inform the business case for future platforms
to support certificate creation!
What happens next?
25. “Complexity of scheme prohibits obvious
interpretation, (this means) it’s difficult to
interpret rule changes and the impact on
business
– ACP
“Without going into plain English there
may be more meaningful ways of
explaining legislation … Perhaps giving
an example [of how this affects ESCs].”
– Auditor
Key insight: 3 of 6
Certificate providers aren’t
equipped to interpret rule
changes
Rule changes are difficult to interpret for people
with a technical rather than a legal background.
People may not fully understandng the impact of
rule changes, but commercial reality means they
must proceed with their best guess.
26. “Trying to get feedback in one day is not
adequate given the complexity”
– ACP
“I wouldn’t want any more updates to the
rule, it’s difficult enough as it is to
keep across.”
– ACP
“More frequent updates to the rule create
more admin work for everyone… there can
be delays due to other agencies or data not
being available.”
– DPIE
Key insight: 4 of 6
Rule changes are missing
consistent and effective
feedback loops
It is time-consuming and often difficult to determine
how rule changes will impact those on the ground.
Low involvement from end-users and tradespeople
makes assessment of frontline impacts difficulte.
The frequency of minor rule changes increases
administrative effort.
27. Key Benefits:
Opportunity Area 03
Smart legislation that is human
readable and can be modelled
with stakeholders
Develop legislation that is clear to understand and model
the impact of rule changes on the scheme
Supporting Evidence:
“If they make that up in isolation without
stakeholders, you’re like — are you kidding?
That means my guy has to be up on a
ladder, in the ceiling, then he has to let go to
take a picture…”
– ACP
“Installers are a long way away from the
space regulated by IPART. Certificate
creation is not their job, but they are often
responsible for collecting and passing on all
required information.”
– DPIE
• Modelling the impact of a
rule change on stakeholders
before it’s rolled out
• Reduced ambiguity &
interpretation issues leads
to lower effort & cost to
manage
• Better fit of rules to real
world problems
Key Risks:
• Is it possible for legislation to
be human readable?
• Resources required to
establish & maintain this
system
• Still requires human
intervention to review code &
data
• May require greater
responsiveness & resources
28. “Changes are made to policy that we can’t
anticipate how this will impact ACPs”
– DPIE
“I don’t feel like our voice is heard”
– ACP
“There is minimal interaction with front-line
staff - Installers”
– DPIE
“There isn’t guidance material available on
the day of the rule change… so it's up to us
to interpret the rule.”
– ACP
Key Benefits:
Opportunity Area 04
Transparent and collaborative
rule change process
Create consistent feedback loops throughout the rule change
process, so that all scheme participants understand their
impact
Supporting Evidence:
• Shorter timeframe between
development of policy intent
& implementation
• Deeper understanding of
the problems & how they
can be solved
• Create feedback loops with
stakeholders so that they
feel heard & better
understand their impact
Key Risks:
• We aren’t considering all
perspectives feedbacks - its
not possible to involve
everyone
• Require more time &
resources from stakeholders
to contribute
• Key learnings aren’t scaled
the network - other ACPs are
aware
29. 4. A more transparent and collaborative rule
change process
• Investigate the Better Rules framework (New
Zealand) – could it work here?
• Improve the process of consulting and drafting rules
so they’re more human and machine readable.
3. Smart legislation that is human
readable
• Work with the NSW Department of Customer
Service on Rules as Code.
• Our first step is to develop a digital version of
small parts of the ESS rules (the NABERS
method) and test it with users. What happens next?
We are building in more opportunity for
collaboration as we prepare the next rule
changes. We are also extending our ambition to
code the whole rule and make APIs available
Opportunities
30. “We just don’t have access to that data, it
doesn’t exist. We can’t link the number of
ESCs with a particular site.”
– DPIE
“[Lighting] Energy savings will hit a ceiling,
and we need to be able to transfer that
process.”
– DPIE
Key insight: 5 of 6
Expansion of the scheme is
prevented by siloed data
Lack of data is a barrier to identifying new sectors
Information captured today isn’t ‘clean’ — it can be
missing key information, preventing meaningful insights
from being extracted.
Without a way to analyse existing and emerging
scheme activities, it is harder impacts.
31. “We’ve come up against an issue where
a customer, on their own, sought
reimbursement from their landlord; and
had no clue that would contravene that
reimbursement clause. And that has
resulted in a significant number of
certificates being up for forfeit.”
– ACP
“Calculations have become so complex,
it’s tricky to give a customer an answer
on the spot.”
– ACP
“Complexity in the scheme prevent small
businesses from understanding and
participating”
– DPIE
Key insight: 6 of 6
Complexity prevents end
users from engaging
The scheme is complex to explain and understand
Reduces the ability for end users to understand
their role and what’s required of them.
The requirements of certificate providers are also
complex, and are difficult to convey to an end user.
32. “Better data allows us to test policy in real
world scenarios”
- DPIE
“We can directly measure our year on year
savings and compare this to our initial
estimates”
- ACP
Key Benefits:
Opportunity Area 05
More effective measurement &
verification of energy savings
Remove redundant and unnecessarily complex
requirements to verify energy savings, while ensuring
that the scheme remains fair and effective.
Supporting Evidence:
• Testing policy & method
changes with real data could
allow for better
implementation
• Further savings for the end-
user leveraging data from
metered products
• Builds a case for funding &
expansion of the scheme
Key Risks:
• Increasing accuracy often
means increasing complexity;
more room for error
• More rules and requirements
mean greater responsibility &
risk of non compliance
• Depending on design, simply
more M&V may be more
prohibitive
33. “The objective of the scheme is to help
people save energy”
- ACP
“We need greater education & awareness
of the scheme”
- ACP
Key Benefits:
Opportunity Area 06
Bring energy savings closer
to the end user
Lower the barrier to entry for end users and reduce
the unnecessary complexity, to encourage more
participants and drive behaviour change.
Supporting Evidence:
• Increased awareness &
involvement from the end-
user will drive more energy
savings
• Real-time savings drive
behavior change if it is linked
to ongoing incentives
• More awareness and
education of the ESS could
increase uptake
Key Risks:
• No incentive for energy
providers to identify
opportunities for energy
savings
• End-user is just not interested
in ESS and only wants the
saving
• New system designed to
support customers introduces
new problems
34. 6. Bring energy savings closer to the end user
• Investigate Pay 4 Performance (P4P) programs
in collaboration with other Australian and
International EEO schemes.
5. Better measurement and verification
(M&V) of energy savings
• Test advanced M&V2.0 methods, and
demonstrate use of hourly energy profiles.
• Use human centred design to explore M&V
and simplified methods for calculating
energy savings and ensuring compliance.
Opportunities
For M&V2.0 and P4P to succeed, we need;
more (sub)metered data, the right mix of
energy savings and demand savings, data
privacy, easy finance, and simple
compliance!
What happens next?
36. Three Horizon Roadmap
The Three Horizons plan breaks down our vision
for the Energy Savings Scheme into executable
phases of work:
Pilot: 2019-20
Pilot a modern
energy
savings
platform
Horizon 1: 2022
Accelerate and
modernise
energy savings
Horizon 2: 2025
Transparent and
accessible
energy savings
Horizon 3: 2030
Energy
savings are
BAU
37. - Validated prototype with scheme participants
- Evidence-based recommendations for technology
decisions (eg. smart legislation and platform)
- Investigation into data security and privacy
- Streamlined manual data processes
Pilot: 2019 – 2020
Pilot a modern energy
savings platform
Prototype and validate a unified platform to
streamline energy savings and provide
greater clarity on rule changes.
Outcome
What Success Looks Like
•
•
Stakeholders are aligned on and
support improvements to the scheme
Streamlining removes inefficiencies
leading to acceleration in savings
• Reduction in non-compliance
• Evidence from working prototypes
builds confidence in the scheme’s
expansion
38. What Success Looks Like
• Rate of non-compliance continues to fall
•
•
ESS increases share of NSW annual
energy savings targets (above 20%)
— and can better measure our impact
100% utilisation of ESS portal data to
registry data
Horizon 1: 2020 – 2022
Accelerate and
modernise energy
savings
Develop a modern, unified platform to
view, maintain and verify energy savings
Outcome
- Unified platform is fully functioning (MVP features)
- Smart legislation expansion
- Improved rule change process
- M&V 2.0
39. What Success Looks Like
• 10% of NSW residences and businesses
are engaged with the Energy Savings
Scheme
•
•
Energy Savings Scheme approaches
$20 billion of energy savings
80% of businesses and households
have accessed the ESS platform
Horizon 2: 2022 – 2025
Transparent and
accessible energy
savings
Leverage energy efficiency data to
expand energy savings into new sectors.
Outcome
- End-to end energy savings platform
- API integration
- Prototype public access (energy bill / dashboard)
- Data simplification & analysis
40. What Success Looks Like
• Energy savings scheme drives continuous
improvement in energy efficiency
• M&V is applied to new sectors and schemes
• NSW hits 0 emissions by 2050
Horizon 3: 2025 – 2030
Energy savings
are business as usual
Drive behaviour change through a digitally
integrated state/federal energy efficiency
scheme.
Outcome
- Nationally & internationally connected ESS
- Integrated smart energy system
- Sophisticated energy efficiency modelling to inform
behaviour change
41. Horizon 1: 2022
Accelerate and
modernise
energy savings
Horizon 2: 2025
Transparent and
accessible
energy savings
Horizon 3: 2030
Energy savings
are BAU
Develop a modern, unified
platform to view, maintain
and verify energy savings.
Leverage energy efficiency
data to expand energy
savings into new sectors.
Drive behaviour change
through a digitally
integrated state or federal
energy efficiency scheme.
Outcome:
MVP of unified platform, smart
legislation, M&V 2.0
Three Horizon Roadmap
Pilot: 2019-20
Pilot a modern
energy savings
platform
Prototype and validate a
unified platform to
streamline energy savings
and provide greater clarity
on rule changes.
Outcome:
Validated prototype with scheme
participants, investigation into
data security and privacy,
streamlined manual
data processes
Outcome:
End to end energy savings
platform, data simplification &
analysis, API integrations
Outcome:
Nationally & internationally
connected ESS, integrated smart
energy system, sophisticated
energy efficiency modelling to
inform behaviour change
43. We need empathy and to focus on all users
1. Ensure we solve the core, root issues, not just the problem presented
often the problem presented is a symptom, not the cause
2. Focus on people
3. Take a systems point of view
most complications result from the interdependencies of the multiple parts
4. Continually test and refine our proposals
ensure they truly meet the needs of the people for whom they are intended
Don Norman “The Four Principles of Human-Centered Design”
https://jnd.org/the-four-fundamental-principles-ofhuman-centered-design/