August 2011
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The ADDRESS Workshop in
Italy
Marina Lombardi
Enel Distribuzione, Italy
The ADDRESS field test
sites
Jitske Burgers
KEMA, The Netherlands
The reasearch leading to these results
has received funding from the European
Community’s Seventh Framework
Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under
grant agreement n° 207643
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The ADDRESS Workshop in Italy
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Marina Lombardi, Enel Distribuzione, Italy
The ADDRESS Italian workshop was held
in Milano, Italy, on June 28th, 2011. It was
hosted by the yearly Italian national
Conference organized by AEIT (the Italian
federation of electricity and ICT), which
attracts a great number of people working
in the industry and the education sectors
related to electricity.
Project Coordinator
Paola Petroni
Enel Distribuzione SpA
via Ombrone 2
00198 Roma - Italy
[email protected]
tel. +39 06 8305 8087
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involvement and the forecasting
techniques has received great attention.
The new functionalities developed by
ADDRESS for the DSO’s control system
can ensure the correct operation of the
distribution system in presence of AD and
can allow the exploitation of AD services by
market players and the DSO itself. Also,
the availability of reliable techniques for
load and distributed generation forecasting
is a fundamental requirement for the
introduction of AD in distribution networks
and for Aggregators to work.
Smart appliances play a key role in the
implementation of Active Demand (AD) for
the flexibility they offer and the involvement
of consumers into load management; very
important is deemed the definition of the
information exchange between smart
appliances and the Energy Box, the energy
management device in the consumer’s
dwellings. Interoperability would allow a
massive participation of smart appliances
in AD for the residential sector, by easing
the involvement of the manufacturers and
the take-off of this market together with AD.
The solution defined in ADDRESS is seen
as a good reference for an interoperable
standardized integration between smart
appliances and energy management
devices. The profile of domestic consumers
is still felt somehow obscure, so the study
of users behaviour is deemed crucial for
the design of smart appliances.
Country specific issues were highlighted.
With AD in place, the typical Italian
limitation of household contracted power to
3kW could be possibly revised. In Italy
many retailers offer flat tariffs, allowing
people to consume how much and
whenever they want, paying a known fixed
amount, and this policy goes in the
opposite direction of AD programs; on the
other side, consumers staying with the
default regime have time-of-use tariffs, a
good mean to raise awareness. Smart
meters available almost everywhere in Italy
are considered a plus for the take-off of
AD. Regulation plays a key role in the
electricity industry; it is therefore positively
noted that the Italian regulator is member
of the Group of Users and Stakeholders of
a far looking project such as ADDRESS.
The role of the Aggregator acting as an
orchestra conductor for consumers' flexible
loads is considered a plus to make AD
programs possible. Concerning the
economical benefit the consumers could
achieve, from similar experiences all over
the world it is seen that incentives for
consumers are expected to be not so high,
and this is usually compensated by the
technological enhancement and new
opportunities offered to consumers taking
part to the programs. The Aggregators, as
whoever interested to make business with
AD, should provide the enabling
technology at home. It is also noted that
the awareness of consumers is steadily
increasing, and AD may be accepted more
as a measure to “become green” than for
the economical incentives it offers.
The ADDRESS approach to the DSO’s
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The ADDRESS field test sites
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Jitske Burgers, KEMA, The Netherlands
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of the DSO’s control sistem prototypes and
algorithms, the participation of consumers
to the AD market will not be taken into
account.
Within the ADDRESS project tests will be
performed to validate the solutions
developed in the project. The validation will
be partly done by means of simulations
and laboratory tests, and partly in three
field tests, which are a combination of
actual field-testing and developed
prototypes.
The test objectives are:
1. Is it possible to allow AD activations in
normal conditions while assuring
network security? In order to answer
this question a number of underlying
issues must be solved, such as:
The ADDRESS Consortium has selected
the test sites in three European countries
with different network topologies and
acceptance conditions which, taken
together, provide a validation of the entire
concept. Additionally, in Spain and France
different climate conditions (warm in Spain,
cold in France) will ensure different
equipment and usage patterns.
- Will the Load Areas be distributed into
a wide enough variety to be appealing
for market parties?
- Can the DSO consistently provide
enough flexibility on the grid to allow
for demand reshaping?
- Is the DSO (and the Transmission
System Operator) able to validate AD
bids in time and calculate usable
curtailment factors for the
Aggregators?
The Italian site
This field test will be carried out in
Carpinone, in the Molise Region, and
focuses on the Distribution System
Operator (DSO) control system. The test
will be performed under the responsibility
of ENEL Distribuzione.
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2. Can DSOs utilise AD options to solve
short-term network security issues?
3. Is the DSO able to purchase AD
products for its own benefits without
disturbing the market place?
The objectives of the Italian field test are to
test the prototypes and algorithms
developed for the DSO to enable and
exploit Active Demand (AD). Since the
Italian field test is focused on the validation
The Spanish site
The Spanish field test in Castellón, in the
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The ADDRESS
field test sites
Jitske Burgers,
KEMA,
The Netherlands
solution works from the start to the end by
means of:
Valencian Community, will focus on the low
voltage network with the participation of
300 consumers. Consumption and
consumers’ behavior will be taken into
account in order to manage loads through
the Energy Box (EB), according to the AD
signals sent by the Aggregator. The test
will be performed under the responsibility
of IBERDROLA.
1. Validation of market design (market
simulator) and the ability of players to
formulate AD needs and offers to the
market or to the Aggregator in case of
bilateral relationships:
- formulation of AD needs and bids by
players based on actual requests
from electricity system
functions/players or based on
requests resulting from simulations of
possible problems and players needs;
The test objectives are:
1. Validate social acceptance and
consumers' commitment. Different
questionnaires will be completed out
during the field test period
(pre/during/post trials).
- portfolio management by Aggregator;
- AD offer formulation by Aggregator;
- (simulated) interaction of different
entities with aggregation platform and
(simulated) market interaction.
2. Full validation of Aggregator
functionality and “core business model”
through the validation of the Aggregator
Toolbox functionality.
2. Validation of technical validation of AD
requests by DSO simulator.
3. Technically validate proposed solutions
and prototypes for the home system:
3. Validation of home system and
interoperability/communication.
- Validation of home system
communication;
- Validation of EB interaction with
equipment;
4. Verification of AD product provision to
AD buyer and of consumers' response.
- Validation of equipment operation;
5. Validation of consumer behavior.
- Validation of the EB user interface;
6. Test of combination of AD with
Renewable Energy Sources (RES):
requests taking RES production into
account for load/generation balance
and grid issues.
- Validation of EB algorithms;
- Validation of communication between
EB and metering equipment;
- Validation of communication between
EB and Aggregator;
All information on the test sites, the test
plan and the recruitment plan of
consumers can be found in the deliverable
D6.1, avalable on the ADDRESS website
www.addressfp7.org.
- Collection and processing of metering
information.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY EUROPE
The French site
Official Partner
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This test will validate the whole ADDRESS
chain: from AD buyers to controllable
appliances at the consumers' premises.
The test will be performed in the Houat and
Hoëdic small islands, in the Brittany
Region, under the responsibility of EDF.
The plan is the participation of 50 to 100
customers.
NEXT ISSUE
The ADDRESS newsletter n. 6 will be published
in November 2011.
The main test objective of the French field
test is to demonstrate that the ADDRESS
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