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Smart Grids & Demand ResponseDevelopment in a European
Perspective
Pavla Mandatova, EURELECTRIC
iPower, Copenhagen, 4th November 2015
EURELECTRIC represents the EU electricityindustry –
all across the electricity value chain
ENERGY POLICY& GENERATION
ENVIRONMENT& SUSTAINABLEDEVELOPMENT
MARKETS RETAILCUSTOMERS
DISTRIBUTIONNETWORKS
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Outline
1. Flexibility needs. Flexibility providers2. Demand response: potential & challenges3. Smart grids & flexibility for DSOs: regulatory
& technical issues
Source: ENTSO-E, SOAF 2015
Variable RES will increase the need forflexibility
EU 2030, generation mix containing:• 50 % RES production• 30 % Wind and PV
Source: AGORA
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The value of flexibility will depend on marketcircumstances
Efficient access to flexibility goes with efficientenergy markets
Market participants should have maximum possibilities to balance demandand supply before the actual balancing period (Forward, DA, ID) as this willallow for most efficient results & limit the need for residual balancing byTSOs.
A liquid continuous (cross border) intraday market in all Member States iskey. In order to minimize residual imbalances it is essential that the gateclosure time is as close to real time as possible (i.e. 15 min).
The balancing energy market and the intraday market must not overlap:overlapping markets can result in capacity being prematurely committed tothe TSO, taking it away from market parties seeking to balance theirperimeter themselves.
Common balancing products & a common imbalance settlement period,subject to robust CBA, are important elements for creation a commonEuropean energy and balancing market as this is essential for a cross-borderexchange of balancing services.
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Variable RES displace traditional flexibilityresources
What is the role of thermal generation in thetransition?
In 2013, a total of 25,4 GW of RES power capacity was installed. An additional 740GW capacity has to be built by 2035 (IEA)
Fossil fuel fired capacity saw a net decrease (6,768 MW). Existing capacity is beingmothballed/closed down – influencing the available firm and flexible capacity.
Today’s price levels do not allow investing in most of the existing technologies .
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Flexible use of pump storage plants can help to mitigate the impact of increasing volatilityfrom variable RES even during extreme events
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Compensation of PV ramp rates by pumpstorage plants during solar eclipse in Germany
Source: EURELECTRIC report on Hydropower (2015)
Local flexibility needs
Instability in distribution system(Source: Mainova)
Italy: Energy Flows at TSO-DSO boundary(Source: ENEL)
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Customers use flexibility themselvesCustomers use flexibility themselves
DSO: localdemand
for flexibilityVoltage controlReactive power
Thermal capacity
DSO: localdemand
for flexibilityVoltage controlReactive power
Thermal capacity
TSO or market:global demand
for flexibilityBalancing power
Wholesale market
TSO or market:global demand
for flexibilityBalancing power
Wholesale market
Customers’ flexibility
Decentralised generationDemand response
Decentralised storage
Customers’ flexibility
Decentralised generationDemand response
Decentralised storage
What role will flexibility from distributed energyresources (DER) play?
Outline
1. Flexibility needs. Flexibility providers2. Demand response: potential & challenges3. Smart Grids & Flexibility for DSOs: regulatory
& technical issues
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Demand Response can be one of the powerfulsources of flexibility
A. Price-based (implicit) demand response, offered by suppliers Time-varying retail prices that reflect the cost of electricity in different time periods are
offered to consumers. Consumers can use less electricity at times of high prices and hence reduce their costs (e.g. time-
of-use, critical peak pricing, real time pricing).
B. Incentive-based (explicit) demand response, offered by aggregators(suppliers or third party) Customers are remunerated to reduce their consumption when requested (e.g. peak-time
rebates, direct load control). The result of these consumption changes can be aggregated andsold on organized electricity markets by consumers or an aggregator (supplier or 3rd party)
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Further empowerment of customers willdevelopment of implicit demand response
Price-based demand response, offered by suppliers
What is needed to develop it further?
1. Price-based demand response can be implemented withinthe current market organization. However, reinforcing theprice signal for end users is needed in order to reveal thetrue value of energy consumed
2. Regulated prices may stifle the development of value-addedservices such as dynamic pricing
3. Smart meters are needed to allow more advanced dynamicpricing
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Increasing taxes & levies hamper the developmentof products based on more dynamic pricing
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Explicit demand response: functioning and impacts
Day-Aheadmarket
Day-Aheadmarket
Balancing marketBalancing market
Intraday marketIntraday market
The BRP/supplier forecasts Customer Aconsumption and sources the adequateamount of electricity
The third party aggregator requests Customer A toreduce consumption while the BRP/suppliersupplies electricity as forecasted. As a result: The balance responsible party faces an
imbalance The supplier does not recover its supply costs
The third party aggregator “re-routes” this electricityblock and sells it on the electricity market. If the aggregator does not pay for this electricity,
he is selling something that he did not produce orbuy
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Customer Aforecasted consumption
Customer A consumption afterdemand response activation
With some exceptions, the “Balance ResponsibleParty” is the core of all European wholesalemarkets. Usually, the BRP of a customer is itssupplier. The notion of BRP has been introduced toencourage balance between demand and offer,unbalanced BRPs are penalised.
Only electricity blocks can be traded on wholesaleelectricity markets. An aggregator sells the result ofa demand response activation: an electricity block
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Scope of a balance responsible party
To keep its balance, theBRP supplies 100 MWh100
It is estimated that the BRPscustomer portfolio is 100 MWh
Consumption
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Injection
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DR aggregator removes10MWh of consumptionfrom the BRP’s portfoliowho sourced 100 to be
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10 These 10 MWh are sold on thewholesale market by the aggregator
The BRP faces an imbalance of 10 MWh
1. Fair allocation of the shifted electricity between balance responsible parties – all marketplayers should bear the same responsibilities (level playing field)
2. Financial adjustment mechanism ensuring that suppliers are compensated for theelectricity they source and inject
3. Adequate communication between aggregators and the balance responsibleparty/supplier. Supplier should not bear undue imbalances.
Designing fair market rules for explicit demandresponse is crucial
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Source: European Commission
“DSO as market facilitator model” by the EG 3, TFSmart Grids of the EC
Communication infrastructure,including smart metering
Develop measurement andverification requirements,including baselines
Data exchange:• Avoid duplication & splitting
of communication channels• Ensure data privacy and
security
Set up a secure, efficient and transparent frameworkfor measurement & verification and data exchange
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Source: CEER
The level of granularity at which smart meters record consumption in each country
Technical design of smart metering systems variesfrom one country to another
Outline
1. Flexibility needs. Flexibility providers2. Demand response: potential & challenges3. Smart Grids & Flexibility for DSOs:
regulatory & technical issues
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System operator
Active system managementwill be important for
maintaining the reliability &quality of service
Neutral market facilitator
DSOs will need tomanage increasing
amounts of data
”Building & Connecting”
“Connecting &Managing”
What roles should DSOs take up & what regulationis needed?
There is still a potentialfor better DSO innovation incentives
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SOURCE: EURELECTRIC
There is still a potentialfor better DSO innovation incentives (ctnd)
→ Improve cost-reflectiveness
→ Avoid cross-subsidization
Energy efficiency directive(2012/27/EU, art. 15.4):
‘Network tariffs shall contribute tooverall efficiency by providing
signals for power saving/optimalutilisation of energy infrastructure
assets, including demand sideparticipation’
EURELECTRIC 2013
50-70% of DSO revenue recoveredusing volumetric charges
Network tariffs for households and small businesses arealmost entirely based on energy volume (kWh)
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Basic system states should be defined to allow for this New complexity will further increase the need for information exchange between
system operators and market players
‘Traffic lightsapproach’
Flexibility for solving distribution grid constraints
Pooling of flexibility?
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To summarize…
EURELECTRIC believes that energy, flexibility and capacityare all needed in a future-proof wholesale market design
Energy Flexibility Capacity
Efficient dispatch Short term systemadequacy
Long term systemadequacy
Delivers energy in the mostcost-efficient way by havingthe market define thesystem’s merit order
Enables the system torespond to short-termvariations in thesupply/demand balance
Ensures long-term systemadequacy e.g., in the caseof extreme load peaks orbackup intermittentrenewable generation
Forward, day-ahead andintraday markets
Day ahead, intraday andbalancing markets,ancillary services
Market-based capacityremuneration mechanisms
Ongoing energy marketintegration with marketcoupling and cross borderintra-day markets(although taking too long)
Energy market integrationand cross-borderbalancing ongoing, gridrelated services to bedeveloped
Rather separate CRMnational initiatives, withan increasing discussionon cross-borderparticipation
Goal
What it does
Marketinstruments
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Where we aretoday
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Flexible and back-up generation
capacity
Integratedwholesalemarkets
Demand sidemanagement andDemand Response
Centralised anddecentralised storage
systems
Extensive newinfrastructure attransmission anddistribution level
Need for a level playing field with otherflexibility sources
A level playing field for all actors• Providers of aggregated demand response should be subject to the same market rules, the
same standards of service, and the same participation rules as other market players.• The costs created by the additional operational and contractual actions have to be clearly and
fairly allocated to the relevant market actors.
A market design suitable for all markets with full competition• When the same principles apply to all markets, flexibility providers can better optimize the
value of flexibility across timeframes. In this way, flexibility is made available for all electricitymarkets
• System Operators needs should be tendered in the market and accessible to all market parties(suppliers and third party aggregators) – market fragmentation should be avoided
Scalability for large-scale implementation• A good market design should be based on processes that can be automated, contracts that can
be standardised and allocations that can be objectified in order to allow for large-scaleimplementation.
EURELECTRIC supports general EC guidelines
Key principles to implement a good market designfor DR aggregation