Designing eTrading Solutions for Electricity Balancing and Redispatching in Europe

TOP EUROPEAN COMPANIES PROVIDING LATEST GENERATION OF

TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES

INNOVATIVE POWER INDUSTRY

BALANCING WITHOUT BORDERS

BREAKTHROUGH FOR HIGH VALUE

PROSUMER SERVICES

FROM SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

TO PROTOTYPEPLATFORMS

RES & CONSUMERS CONTRIBUTING TO

ELECTRICITY GRID STABILITY AS NEVER BEFORE!

The FutureFlow project is expanding its scope of operation of so-called secondary frequency control from purely conventional generation to Demand Response units and Distributed Generation, and will provide for the international performance of such activities.

With this goal in mind, the partners of the FutureFlow project are exploring new solutions for balancing the power system and managing flows in the European electricity network.

Consumers, equipped with state-of-the-art devices, are no longer just ordinary consumers, but can also produce electricity. Their potential is to become active players in power system security. Like guardians of the power system, contributing to the most challenging of all TSOs’ balancing services.

As a development project, FutureFlow will not remain solely on the level of scientific contributions. The results of its work will include prototype solutions which industry can apply in the real economy after the end of the project:

• Prototype platform for the aggregation of distributed generation and demand response: By means of a prototype aggregation solution and renewable generation forecasting techniques, flexibility providers – distributed generators (DG) and commercial and industrial (C&I) consumers providing demand response (DR) – will be able to provide products for balancing services. Retailers will act as flexibility aggregators and will pool resources in order to provide the products required by the TSO.

• Prototype of the regional balancing and redispatching platform: The main component of the prototype platform is the Common Activation Function (CAF), which is tailored to deal with congested borders and optimized for overcoming critical intra-regional barriers. The CAF is implemented as a cloud solution of a prototype Regional Balancing and Redispatching Platform, which makes research activities concerning cross-border integration flexible while linking with the aggregation solution.

About FutureFlow project

Solar Energy

Small Hydro

Microsystems

Storage

Industry

318 MW

GenerationConsumption

50 Hz

SCADA system

Regionalbalancing

marketplatform

Solar Energy

Small Hydro

Microsystems

Storage

Industry

BIDAggregator

FutureFlowCloud

Platform

Austria Hungary

RomaniaSlovenia

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energy

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Solar Energy

Storage

Small Hydro

Industry

Michael Hoffmann, the owner of a chemical company in Austria

»FutureFlow brings a new business model and opportunity for my company while being

environmentally friendly«

Liviu Dumitrescu, TSO operator in Romania

»The participation of Demand Side Management and Distributed Generators units shall enrich the competition in the ancillary services markets and prepare the ground for entrants on a wide scale«

Miha Novak, Slovenian NRA

»Developed solutions tested with various field use-cases provide adequate input for policy

makers«

Benefits for the stakeholders

Key facts about the project

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The consortium, that encompasses 12 partners from 8 EU member states, is led by ELES, Slovenian transmission system operator. The consortium has all key competences along the value chain of the balancing markets: ancillary services control, demand response, distributed generation, system and AGC modelling and real test process.

H2020-LCE-2015-3 Advanced architectures

and tools for pan-European markets for ancil-

lary services and balancing

Designing eTrading Solutions for Electricity

Balancing and Redispatching in Europe

FutureFlow

691777

4 years (1.1.2016 - 31.12.2019)

ELES d. o. o., Slovenia

12 partners from 8 countries

To design and pilot test for access of ad-

vanced consumers and distributed generators

to a Regional Platform for balancing and

redispatching services

12,9 mio EUR

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

under grant agreement n° 691777

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

under grant agreement n° 691777

Austrian Power Grid AG

CyberGRID GmbH

ELES Ltd.

Elektroinstitut Milan Vidmar

Elektro Energija

GEN-I d.o.o.

Electricity Coordinating Center (EKC) Ltd.

Transelectrica

Teletrans

MAVIR ZRt.

SAP

3E

GEMALTO SA

Austria

Slovenia

Serbia

Romania

Hungary

Germany

Belgium

France