Related projects (T1.4, T2.1)
Marek Skokan
2nd Plenary Meeting
Athens 17-18th January 2013
FENIX (1)
• Web: http://www.fenix-project.org/
• EU project (2005-2009
• Objective: to enable DER making the EU
electricity supply system cost efficient, secure
and sustainable through aggregation of DERs
into Large Scale Virtual Power Plant (LSVPP).
• Main concept: Virtual Power Plant (VPP)
– aggregation of capacities of many diverse DER
FENIX (2)
• Technical virtual power plant (TVPP) creates a
single operating profile from a composite of
the parameters characterizing each DER
• TVPP Services and functions enables:
– Local system management for Distribution System
Operator (DSO)
– Providing Transmission System Operator (TSO)
system balancing and ancillary services.
FENIX (3)
• Technical Virtual Power Plant (TVPP)
• TVPP functions (e.g.): generation schedules, dispatches
DERs
FENIX (4)
• A CVPP (commercial VPP)
– aggregated profile and output
– cost and operating characteristics for the DERs
FENIX (5)
Fenix (6) Northern scenario
FENIX (7)
FENIX (8)
• Demo in UK distribution network
• Addressed ancillary services:
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Active power / frequency control
Reactive power / voltage control
Congestion management
Reduction of power losses
Improvement of power quality
Black start / islanded operation (grid-forming)
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Wind turbine generator (WTG) systems,
Photovoltaic (PV) systems,
Hydroelectric power (Hydro) stations,
Combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) systems,
And Storage systems
Fenix (9) and Inertia
• Fenix BOX: The implementation of a VPP requires
monitoring and/ or control of DER.
• Fenix BOX - devices for metering, communications and
data management capable to provide information to the
aggregation
– Device storing data from smart meters installed on DER that
is capable of using GPRS or 3G for communication
– Embedded agents for automated, local operation by means
of WEB services
– Support for standard protocols to communicate with upper
levels (e.g. IEC 870-5-104) and with smart meters and DER
(e.g. IEC 870-5-102, MODBUS, SNMP).
– Multiple communication interfaces such as PLC, ETHERNET,
RS232 or fibber optic serial ports, allowing wireless
communications
FENIX (10) - Learning points
• Communication requirements must be specified and any
limitations in existing technology identified early.
• Establishing a VPN was not straightforward.
Telecommunication specialists were required e.g to provide
the necessary fixed IP addresses.
• Outages to connect the smart meters need to be carefully
planned with the DG owner.
• Installing a smart meter between the generator and point of
isolation could not be just cut and connected. The conductor
size of generator connections needs to be smaller than the
whole current meter terminals. Current and voltage
transformers could have been used as an alternative
metering solution.
• Smart meters need to be protected from the public access.
• R&D should be kept separate from operational tools and
systems until the new product meets normal commercial
levels of reliability and security.
Mirabel (1)
• Mirabel (Miracle) targets the energy trading
market on all levels of the electricity market
system (the whole energy trading process)
Mirabel (2)
Mirabel (3)
• System elements / system modules:
– FlexOffers
allow Prosumers to fully automatically indicate their energy
flexibility to their BRP.
– Aggregation
groups thousands of similar FlexOffers to manage the large
amount of data in a distributed hierachical Energy Data
Management System.
– Forecasting
is used to predict demand and supply of renewable energies for
the upcoming hours and days.
– Scheduling
computes to optimal plan to dispatch flexible energy demand
and supply to minimize costs for the BRP.
– Negotiation
finds the optimal price in real-time that maximizes the financial
benefit for the customer and the profit for the BRP.
Mirabel and Inertia
• Deliverables defines in details FlexOffers,
Aggregation, Forecasting, Scheduling,
Negotiation
– SotA + how they did it
• D2.3 defines Common Data Model using UML
Class diagrams, messages and processes (e.g.
flexOffer) that use the messages
– IEC CIM is reused for Data mode electrotechnical units
– The CDM can be reused for data model of Inertia CIM
• D2.2 is predecessor of D2.3
• D6.1 provide report about current system
• There is also Mirabel deliverable about ontologies
that this seems to be not public
Cassandra - Project Objectives
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Theoretical and software modeling of stakeholders in
terms of energy profiles and consumption patterns, as
well as their interactions
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Increase the market power of low level consumers
through Consumer coalitions (Consumer Social Networks
- CSNs)
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A modular, expandable Software platform to model and
benchmark scenarios and act as a Decision Support Tool
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A Key Performance Indicator (KPI) methodology, in order
to assess energy performance and CO2 emissions
reduction
Cassandra - Disaggregation of Loads
• Models require data for appliance usage
• Problem: Data available per installation
– Unrealistic to expect Cassandra users to have
access to measurements per appliance
• Solution:
Automated disaggregation of main loads
Oven switching
Measurements
A/C switching
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Cassandra and Inertia - Disaggregation
Methodology
• Many appliances that produce unique of active and
reactive power curves.
• Inertia can try to reuse this approach to build energy
profiles of Building and houses and use them for
prediction of Loads
Current systems – MeRegio (1)
• MeRegio project - Minimum Emission Region
www.e-energy.de
• Obj: develop power supply systems that are
optimized with respect to their greenhouse gas
emissions
• “E-Energy: ICT-based energy system of the
future”
– integrative ICT system concepts that optimizes the
efficiency, supply security, and environmental
compatibility of the entire electricity system along the
supply chain
– developed and tested in real-time in regional E-Energy
model projects
– “real” pilot region with 1.000 participants (B2B, B2C)
Current systems – MeRegio (2)
• Main parts in the project:
• E-Energy marketplaces, which bring together all energy
market roles (e.g. utilities, owners of distributed
generation, end customers, and intermediaries) for an
efficient allocation of energy and system services;
• Innovative technical energy infrastructure (smart grid),
which provides the foundation for future proliferation of
distributed generation and the development of pervasive
demand side management;
• Powerful information and communication infrastructure
that links the physical infrastructure to the marketplaces,
which allows to operate the infrastructure according to the
specific market situation at hand
Current systems – MeRegio (3)
• Key criteria for Smart Grid initiative:
– Integration of multiple distributed resource types
– Incorporation of dynamic rates or other approaches to link
wholesale conditions to customersIntegration into system
planning and operations
– Integration into system planning and operations
• Power grid simulation tools will be used to analyze the influence of
new network control strategies and to identify how additional
decentralized capacities can be linked at a grid node.
– Application of critical integration technologies and
standards
• technologies for DER integration, communication platforms for
smart metering
– Compatibility with initiative goals and approach
(certification)
– Leverage of additional funding sources
Current systems – CRES (1)
• CRES laboratory
• Experimental microgrid
– It integrates a number of devices – standalone or
interconnected, single or three phase operation
– It utilizes many innovative systems with abilities
towards the smart grids context
– The power level of the micro grid is high enough to
give realistic experimental results
– It provides easy access to the operation of all of its
components through a user friendly graphical
environment locally and through remote computers
– It provides a wide range of data measurements which
cover a large number of applications
Current systems – CRES (2)
• Regarding configuration the system consists
three layers
– The power components layer which includes all
generators, consumers and the electrical
installation parts of the micro grid (cables, relays
etc.),
– Communication and control layer consisting of
data acquisition and control units, and
– The interface console used for the supervision and
control of the system.
Current systems – CRES (3)
• Communication and control layer is system Interbus
based on the serial RS-485 protocol
• Each power units transfers data to the interface
console and control signals to all controllable devices
over the BUS.
• Graphical interface and supervision console capabilities
– Easy access to all the devices. All the controls are fully
automated
– Data acquisition monitoring and storage to files for further
processing.
– Ability of operation remotely through web publishing tool.
– The modular construction of the interface
EU DEEP
• Web: http://www.eu-deep.com/
• Goal: design, develop and validate an
innovative methodology, based on future
energy market requirements, and able to
produce innovative business solutions for
enhanced DER deployment in Europe by 2010
• activities and studies were focused on
Demand Side Management and Load
Aggregation
AEOLUS
• web: http://ict-aeolus.eu/
• Distributed Control of Large-Scale Offshore
Wind Farms
• AEOLUS allows shifting from a level of the
single turbine control to the level of farm
control
• It allows decentralized control of wind power
• Simulation software is built to support their
models.
MORE MICROGRIDS
• Web: http://www.microgrids.eu/
• Advanced Architectures and Control Concepts for
More Micro grids
• designs, development of new tools for multimicro grids management operation (involving
Distribution Management System architectures
and new software adaptation
• development of strategies and algorithms for
obtaining balance between demand and supply
focuses on a concrete part of the distribution
grid, located at the same region
ADDRESS
• Web: http://www.addressfp7.org/
• ADDRESS tries to balance the power generation and
demand in real-time with aim to allow the involved
operators, consumers, retailers, and stakeholders to
benefit from the increased flexibility of the entire
system.
• Develops scalable, open, real-time communication
architecture
• Aside from technical aspects, ADDRESS also tries to
identify and to overcome regulatory, economic, social
and cultural barriers of active demand.
• small commercial customers are taken into account.