Presentation at: Local Renewables Freiburg 2012

25th October 2012

Presentation by: Marianne Bechstein

EcoGrid EU A Prototype for European Smart Grids

Content

The Challenges of Tomorrow

EcoGrid EU – background and objectives

Bornholm – a Unique Demonstration Site

The Real-time Market Approach

Added Value

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The Wind Power Challenge An illustrative case from Denmark

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Today (Nov-Dec 2011) Tomorrow (2020)

28 % wind power

50 % wind power

In the future wind power will exceed the entire demand of electricity in Denmark > 1,000 hours

EcoGrid EU meets the increasing need for balancing services

Wind power already covers the

entire demand of electricity in Denmark

in many hours

Content

The Challenges of Tomorrow

EcoGrid EU – background and objectives

Bornholm – a Unique Demonstration Site

The Real-time Market Approach

Added Value

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EcoGrid EU in Brief

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EU funded FP7-Energy project (total budget: 21 million €)

A large scale demonstration of a real-time marketplace for distributed energy resources (DER) starting in November 2012

ICT systems and innovative market solutions enable small consumers to offer TSOs additional and more efficient balancing services

A demonstration of a real power system with more than 50 % renewable energy

Preparation for a fast-track towards European real-time market operation of renewable energy sources and demand response

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EcoGrid EU Partners

* Third Party

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Organisation of EcoGrid EU

Concept and architecture

WP 1 Products and services for

Consumption, generation and grid management – WP 2

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WP 7

Dis

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WP 8

Price signals

Implementation market place ICT

WP 3

Implementation of DER response

WP 4

Installation and training – WP 5

Demonstration and evaluation – WP 6

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Content

The Challenges of Tomorrow

EcoGrid EU – background and objectives

Bornholm – a Unique Demonstration Site

The Real-time Market Approach

Added Value

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Bornholm – a Unique Test Site

Demonstration in a “real”

system with 50 % RES

Operated by the local

municipal owned

DSO, Østkraft

Interconnected with

the Nordic power Market

High variety of low

carbon energy sources

Several active

demand & stationary

storage options

Eligible RD&D

infrastructure & full

scale test laboratory

Strong political commitment

& public support

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What is demonstrated on Bornholm?

EcoGrid EU is a full

scale demonstration

of a real-time market

place including a

Very broad mix of

distributed energy resources

36 MW Wind Power

16 MW CHP (biomass)

2 MW Biogas

2 MW Photovoltaic (solar)

Power Generation Demand side/Storage

”Intelligent” control of

household appliances

Electric Vehicles

Heat Pumps with Smart

Grids applications

Micro CHP

Electricity storage in

District Heating

Synergies with other Bornholm activities, e.g. EV roll-out and infrastructure demonstration (EDISON), heat pump roll-out program,

PV roll-out, demonstration of 200 smart heating/coolers (frequency) controllers

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Content

The Challenges of Tomorrow

EcoGrid EU – background and objectives

Bornholm – a Unique Demonstration Site

The Real-time Market Approach

Added Value

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Widening the scope of the current power market systems with the EcoGrid RTM

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• Demand of flexible consumption/production

• Volatility

• Balancing cost

Future Balancing Challenges

• Small scale end-users

• prosumers

Market Integration

• Small scale end-users can attain economic benefits

• TSOs get access to alternative balancing resources

Increase competition

The integration of the EcoGrid RTM enables direct control options on a very short time scale

Time scale

Regulating power market

AGC/LFC/ Frequency-controlled

reserves Inertia

Quantity

Days Hours Minutes Seconds Now

Volatility

Direct control

Market-based operation

EcoGrid Real-time

Market

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An Additional Source of Regulation Capacity

The current system:

TSOs selecting/accepting bids for a certain quantity

Only large producers, large consumers and aggregated smaller units (min. 10 MW)

“Update” of loads every 15 minutes

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The new real-time market:

No restriction on the size of units (MW)

Price set by TSOs every 5 minutes

Certain quantity of fast(er) response from smaller units

Development of a New ICT platform

New ICT challenges include:

Development of architectures that supports the EcoGrid EU concept

Management of large scale demonstration/deployment

Management of a multiple mix of small demand response units/small scale production/storage capabilities

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Build on proven solutions where available:

Modern information technology (incl. commercial meters etc.)

End-user devices/appliances equipped with solutions demonstrated in other RD&D projects

Demonstration of other “real-time” market platforms outside Europe

FC

PV

EV

PV

Type I

Statistical

Reference Group

• 200 households

with smart meters

• No access to specific information or “smart” equipment

Type V

Smart

Businesses

• Up to 100

commercial with smart meters

• Include also small business and public customers

• Connected smart appliances responsive to control signals

Type II

Manual Control

• 400-500

households with smart meters

• Receiving simple market price information

• Must move their energy consumption by themselves

Type III

Automatic

Control

• 700

automated households with IBM Green Wave Reality equipment and smart meters

• All houses have heat pumps or electric heating - responding autonomously to price signals

Type IV

Automatic

Control

• 500 automated

households with Siemens equipment and smart meters

• All houses have heat pumps, or electric heating – all responding to aggregator control

2000 customers are participating in the Demonstration

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Content

The Challenges of Tomorrow

EcoGrid EU – background and objectives

Bornholm – a Unique Demonstration Site

The Real-time Market Approach

Added Value

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Impacts: What is in it for Europe?

EcoGrid EU will not start from scratch:

Obvious synergies with other national and international RD&D projects

The EcoGrid EU partners participates in other relevant EU RD&D projects

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EcoGrid EU partners bring in innovative and proven technology solutions and knowledge:

To be utilized in EcoGrid EU

To be shared with external stakeholders

Strong replication and dissemination efforts will ensure the development of an EcoGrid EU prototype real-time market that can be stepwise implemented in Europe:

Establishment of a Reference group with key stakeholders and experts from Europe

EcoGrid EU Replication road map

EcoGrid EU among 10 finalists for the Sustania Award

Sustainia identifies and honors 100 sustainable solutions annually.

One solution is awarded with the sustainia award.

EcoGrid EU was nominated for the best IT solution.

www.sustainia.me

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