Power market and energy
intensive industrial sectors
CSM 3 Marzo 2014
Egidio Zanin- Costanzo Pietrosanti
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CONTEXT: The discrepancy between power demand and offer is a matter of fact since
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many years. The fast increase of renewable power sources is envisaged to increase out of
phase situations in the future leading to increase the frequency of instability conditions in peak
conditions. The energy intensive industries are the most exposed in terms of service
interruptions and discontinuities and cause of social impact on the neighborhood communities
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THE STEEL INDUSTRY: The steel industry is a paradigmatic energy intensive sector. Steel
manufacturing is a semi-continuous production with a large impact on the demand distribution.
FIGURES IN ITALY: the total steel production is around 29 Mt with energy specific consumption of
0.2 TOE/kt (best in Europe) with the medium power price of 2.1 US$/MWh (worst in Europe, 100%
more that the European competitors)
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SMART GRID CONCEPT was introduced and a large effort in related technology development was
pushed and is currently running. Consumption monitoring and demand forecast are part of the
solution activated by the industry that became part of the Smart Grid Community with power
suppliers and regulation authorities.
On the market side appropriate tariff policy were and are pursued to encourage the global balance
of the grid, nevertheless a decisive improvement can be achieved transforming the above
mentioned industrial sectors from part of the problem into part of the solution through an active
role in the grid.
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R&D EFFORTS – RFCS RUNNING PROJECT EnergyDB: Application of a factory wide and product related
energy database for energy reduction
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R&D EFFORTS – RFCS PROJECT DynergySteel (starting July 2014): Integrated dynamic energy
management for steel production
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R&D EFFORTS – Horizon 2020 new proposal – FLEXPower: Flexible electric power cooperation
among energy intensive industries, power market operators, regulation authorities and social
communities in the innovative market model.
Energy
intensive
industry
services
Social
community
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Market
Operators
R&D EFFORTS – RFCS PROJECT DynergySteel (starting July 2014):
Integrated dynamic energy management for steel production
FLEXPOWER - Impact
Enhanced power continuity, efficiency and smoothing of the power demand
peaks.
Enhanced efficiency of the electric power engagement and consumption in
large consumer’s factories through advanced distributed forecasting
,monitoring and control of the production units and equipments.
Rationalization of the energy consumption in relationship with the productivity
needs
Increase of the social acceptance of large production facilities in the regional
context
Increased competitiveness of European manufacturing industry through the
decrease of the global electric energy costs along the day and the seasons
New policies for the energy market access and regional regulation through the
awareness of the power demand
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Other initiatives in the energy sector
- Membranes for O2 separation in Oxycombustion
- Innovative heat recovery systems from flue gases avoiding de
novo synthesis and dioxins formation
- Advanced modeling for molten salts corrosion in solar power
plants or energy storage
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THANK YOU
Egidio Zanin
Centro Sviluppo Materiali
Market Development Manager
[email protected]
065055830
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