Smart City Event 2012

Amsterdam, 28 June

Jan Schreuder – Zaanstade-harbours

e-harbours: quest for flexibility

2 Examples in EU

• Antwerp: searching for demand side flexibility (DSF)• Zaanstad: exploiting demand side flexibility (DSF)

traditional energy consumption

traditional energy production

What is Demand Side Flexibility?

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traditional energy production

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traditional energy consumption

traditional energy production

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flexible energy consumption

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traditional energy production

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Antwerp

• Searching Demand Side Flexibility

Antwerp objectives:

- Optimal use of flexibility in combination with turbines- Option for instant use of available windpower

Antwerp findings:

- Unxpected gem: Amoras - Sludge treatment- Flexibility: relatively easy to exploit- Modeling- Savings up to 20%

Antwerp

• May 2012

Zaanstad

• Exploiting Demand Side Flexibility• E-mobility: Electric Car Fleet• Modern Business Energy Contract

Electric Car Fleet

• Flexiblity available: to charge or not?• Business Case for PV-system: to sell or not?• So: predicting both consumption and production• Scenario’s: Money, CO2, ….• “private” smart grid -> lots of data

3 Adresses, different owners/ contracts: hampering

City Hall: Production

Bike Storage: production

Carpark: consumption

Modern Business Energy Contract

• Municipality as Producer / Consumer • Option for Trading• 100% Green Energy• Locally Produced• 6 / 15 / 17 / 19% reduction• Incentive for Provider

Results

• Making business with flexibility• Savings on €€• Savings on CO2• Savings on Energy• Profit from Selling• A good story to tell -> Awareness

Findings

• View on energy is changing • Energy is not just costs, but it can be income• Flexibility is your commodity• Sometimes flexibility is not at your own site

Suggestions:

• finding and exploiting flexibility is business • energy logistics can be a Unique Selling Point for/of

your location• take a look at the unexpected• involve ALL stakeholders of the logistic processes• be keen on your energy contracts

Final suggestion:

• Act smart from the start

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