Consumer`s Role in Furthering Sustainability and Energy Transition

INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL ENERGETICS
Smart Grids related Research
Consumer’s Role in Furthering
Sustainability and Energy
Transition
Dr. sc.ing. Anna Mutule
7th Baltic Energy Summit
25-26 November, Vilnius, Lithuania
INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL ENERGETICS
Institute of Physical Energetics (IPE) was founded in 1946. Currently over 80
employees are working in IPE, including 40 doctors of sciences (Dr.)
working in 4 scientific directions
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Energy - environmental policy studies and energy efficiency assessment
Sustainable and secure planning and management of energy supply & smart grids
Renewable energy resources
Advanced materials for energy
Production, Distribution and Consumption
Electricity production, distribution and consumption value chain. TSO:
transmission system operator; DSO: distributed system operator.
Electricity production, distribution and consumption value chain with a prosumer.
DG: distributed generation; DER: distributed energy resources.
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Consumers Becoming Prosumers
… political and administrative issues
… knowledge
… access to capital
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Network Codes, Regulations ...
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Political and Administrative Issues
 The Energy Union concept
 Demand Connection Code (https://www.entsoe.eu/majorprojects/network-code-development/demandconnection/Pages/default.aspx)
 Prosumers – an integral part of the power system and the
market, A EURELECTRIC paper
 ENTSOE position paper
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Key Recommendations
• Necessity to incentivize/ provide personalized advice/”tool”
• Ensuring smart technologies & new services truly beneficial for
consumers - new technologies (such as SMs) must meet the necessary
functionalities & interoperability to enable consumers to participate
• Consumer participation and flexibility in their consumption need to be
properly rewarded
 Products and services should provide real added value for consumers
 Prosumers as partners in the energy markets
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Knowledge Application
Testing and verification of smart grid methods and technologies
Technologies
Methods
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ICT
Pilots
Tools
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Home Area Network Monitoring & Control
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Energy Management Strategy
EMS is based on the Load Management systems and allows switching on/off
appliances when particular circumstances occur, in order to maintain the net power
exchange with the LV network within a desired range. The list of appliances and their
priority list, their criticality levels and their maximum interruption time, load profiles of
different appliances and the possibility to change it in response to price and system
signals are presented.
Load profile could be changed by Load Management system according to three
functional conditions:
• Comfort: automatically avoiding e-meter disconnection when power exceeds a
contractual limit. The user specifies a priority for each appliance.
• Emergency: shedding of loads according to their priority as a result of an
emergency signal received from the distributor (CPP critical peak price, i.e. sharp
rise in price for a short period of time).
• Savings: customers may set Load Management system parameters for shedding
loads when energy price exceeds a fixed threshold. The customer may choose load
shedding priority.
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Energy Management Strategy
Load classification with possible interruption time
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Demand Side Management Platform Test
Power, W
DSM Platform launched in May 2015 undergoes the monitoring and control state.
Days
Different consumption type behavior for one week
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Demand Side Management Platform Test
 Proposed results and future monitoring allow as a next step analyzing
behavior of each appliance for possible load shifting by the implemented
technology.
 As future steps, implementation of distributed generation with storage
possibility could be mentioned.
 Lab will represent behavior of passive/active consumer/prosumer and
could provide wider results and experiments related to optimal DSM
strategies.
Maximum load
Electricity consumption, MW
Supply from V2G
Middle load
Total demand for
PHEV, EV and
V2G
0:00
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Minimum
load
8:00
12:00
16:00
20:00
24:00
Time period, h
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Distribution Grid Development
 Under new conditions, local distribution grids will be used more
dynamically resulting in more voltage issues.
 Prosumer participation at the demand side will be expected for
voltage and frequency control in the future.
 Today, there are already a number of R&D projects on the ways
through which consumers can contribute (directly or indirectly) to
grid stability:
 Frequency reserves
 Electricity markets
 Strategic reserves
 Local balancing solutions
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Conclusions
 Presented research is dedicated to demonstrate and simulate the potential of smart
meters and HAN implementation and their interoperability with EMS.
 One of the main challenges associated with smart grid operation is an optimal
energy management strategy of residential building with respect to multiple
objectives.
 With a new energy management solution, the wasteful use of energy for
householders and business owners will be decreased, and further utilization of RES
will be provided.
 By developed EMS, a two-way digital communication between DSO and common
household devices could enable smart energy system and advanced smart grid
component management, giving the prosumers a tool to improve their energy
efficiency and to actively participate in electricity market for lowering their costs of
energy consumption.
 The important outcomes of the present research are dedicated to a demonstration
of research facility - SmartHome Lab - and prosumer opportunities to actively
participate in the electricity market to achieve the rational use of energy.
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Thank You
forYou
attention!
Thank
for attention!
Anna Mutule:
amutule@edi.lv
Institute of Physical Energetics
Smart Grid Research Centre
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