The rapid addition of distributed energy resources to the utility grid represents an integration challenge for DNOs. One-off integration of small scale resources is impractical, and so standards-based approaches offer significant cost and efficiency improvements. This presentation will include a case study on the integration of EV charging infrastructure, which has been the fastest growing category of the OpenADR information exchange model.
This talk will discuss how Local Energy Communities can become more green and self-sufficient by participating in a novel concept called Layered Energy System (LES). The talk will outline the core principles and benefits of LES not only for communities, but also for the energy grid as a whole. i.LECO has developed a prosumer portal that is the single interaction point of community residents with the LES concept – and that portal will be demonstrated in the talk. The LES concept has already been deployed to two local communities in the Netherlands and the talk will focus on a pilot in the Woerden district.
Investments for energy-infrastructure expansion are not easy to determine due to the deep uncertainties related to the energy transition and the growing need for system flexibility. These deep uncertainties call for a robust adaptive investment plan for an integrated energy-infrastructure. In the Gridmaster initiative a tool is developed to create such robust investment plans.
Gridmaster is a co-operation between Siemens, TenneT, Stedin, Port of Rotterdam, TU Delft, Gasunie and the province of South Holland.
“The grid edge is the place where the biggest part of the energy transition takes place”. A sentence you here a lot in the utility world. This statement was for Siemens and Alliander the motivation to dive deeper in the grid edge. Technologies such as PV, EV and heat pumps are becoming rapidly common practice in the low-voltage distribution grid. All of these technologies have one thing in common: they increase the load on the grid. The goal for the joint project was to develop a method to forecast the load on the low-voltage section of the grid, without the use of smart meter data. This in order to have a more accurate load-forecasting for residential areas. In addition it has also been a case in which Siemens and Alliander were able to test and develop new hardware together.
For this project, Alliander selected a residential area where existing houses have completely been overhauled to achieve zero-energy homes. This means that those overhauled homes are being equipped with the afore mentioned technologies. In order to have a better view on the load characteristics, Siemens installed additional measuring equipment in the low-voltages street cabinets and connected them to the higher level cloud system. Together with Omnetric, Siemens developed a cloud based system to have more accurate load forecasting in the low voltage section of the grid, without having the need of smart meter data.
This innovation project aims to pilot testing the possibilities and capabilities of delivering Frequency Containment Reserves (FCR) from parked electric vehicles (EVs).
A comparison between the use of unidirectional and bi-directional (V2G) charging poles is performed.
This is a collaborative effort between Elia Transmission Belgium, Enervalis, EVConsult, and NewMotion, with the backing of funding from the Flemish government.
More information: https://innovation.eliagroup.eu/projects/v2g/
FLEXITY is one of the leading Use Cases within the Internet of Energy (IO.Energy) initiative and is a collaboration of several well-known players in the energy market (ENGIE, Fluvius, CGI and Elia Transmission Belgium) strengthened with some promising start-ups that offer new groundbreaking digital services (Jedlix, TIKO, Voltalis, Verv energy) to the end-consumer. FLEXITY’s ambitions are twofold:
For more information, visit: https://www.ioenergy.eu/flexity/ and follow our progress on https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/28863407
NODES AS was founded in February 2018 by Agder Energi and Nord Pool and is led by Enno Böttcher, who was appointed CEO in January 2019. NODES believes in creating the marketplace for the future, which will support the drive to an emission-free society. An open, transparent, and independent marketplace will unlock the real value of flexibility. NODES market facilitates the trading of flexibility between grid operators and flexibility providers. NODES’ bottom-up, innovative, and integrated market design will make flexibility available to all levels of the grid. In his presentation, Hallstein Hagen will share the NODES’ journey with reference to flexibility projects.
Flexibility is a key enabler of extensive penetration of renewable power generation.
Ranging from various forms of demand response to fuel switching, a wide range of flexibility solutions are being developed and trialed by energy companies, aggregators, communities, and end-users globally.
Inspired by a recent Guidehouse study completed for TKI Urban Energy on the lessons learned from flexibility pilots in the Netherlands, Ben Grunfeld will reflect on flexibility programs in the Netherlands, the US, and the UK. He will also share insights on developing and operationalizing flexibility programs in a commercially viable way for various stakeholders across the flexibility value chain.
Arjan will explore (open) standards and protocols for unlocking energy flexibility for the in-home and building domain
The electricity system is slowly but surely coming under pressure due to the energy transition. The strong growth of sustainable and decentralized generation entails intermittent electricity production, fluctuating due to the weather. As a result, a balance is increasingly being sought between supply and demand. We strive for unlocking flexibility from the potential flexible devices in-home (amongst others) as a measure to cope with this challenge.
To be able to control a device to unlock flexibility, connectivity, a communication channel, is required between the device and the external party that asks for this flexibility. This connectivity is a precondition for energy flexibility. ElaadNL has performed a study which focuses on the technical (im)possibilities for unlocking the flexibility of various potentially flexible devices. This study has provided insight in the ways in which flexibility can be unlocked from different flexible devices. These insights are shared at Flexcon2020.
This talk will address the challenges and opportunities of innovative market-based solutions for system operators to engage all available stakeholders to contribute to the future system needs for secure and reliable system operation.
VITO/EnergyVille will present an electricity market simulator to support the realistic analysis of the impact and the opportunities for participation and bidding strategies (from a participant’s point of view). Additionally, the simulator also aims to support the analysis of product characteristics and market organization (from a system operator’s point of view) in future electricity service markets with high RES penetration. We show in an example case how the simulator can be used to study and to promote technology neutrality, allowing new technology concepts to create value at the different market products offered by TSOs.
The desire to move away from fossil fuels leads to augmented interest in Heatpumps and Hybrid Heatpumps. These offer challenges to our energy system, but also great opportunities. Enpuls and TNO will share both a strategical vision as concrete learnings about how actually to unlock the flex of Heatpumps and Hybrid Heatpumps.
We see an increasing need for standardized ways to unlock the Energy Flexibility from Heatpumps and EV ChargePoints.
We wanted to know what the current state of affairs is in the Energy Flexibility of residential HPs and EV charge points. How easy can they be integrated into flexibility services? How many are actually integrated in Smart Grids? What standards are predominant or promising? How willing are OEMs to give full access and control of their products to 3rd parties?
In this session, we will share the findings of the research FAN and Delta-ee performed in 2019.
Frauke and Bert will close the conference and summarize the highlights.
