scholarly journals Smart Grid Development: Multinational Demo Project Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Oleinikova ◽  
A. Mutule ◽  
A. Obushevs ◽  
N. Antoskovs
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Smart Grid ◽  
Demand Response ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Business Models ◽  
System Level ◽  
System Service ◽  
Project Analysis ◽  
System Operator ◽  
The Baltic

Abstract This paper analyses demand side management (DSM) projects and stakeholders’ experience with the aim to develop, promote and adapt smart grid tehnologies in Latvia. The research aims at identifying possible system service posibilites, including demand response (DR) and determining the appropriate market design for such type of services to be implemented at the Baltic power system level, with the cooperation of distribution system operator (DSO) and transmission system operator (TSO). This paper is prepared as an extract from the global smart grid best practices, smart solutions and business models.

scholarly journals The Clean Energy Package and Demand Response: Setting Correct Incentives

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 5672
Author(s):  
Bert Willems ◽  
Juulia Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Demand Response ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Horizontal Merger ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Energy Package ◽  
Regulatory Challenges

We describe how recent EU regulation affects demand response (DR) and highlight some of the remaining regulatory challenges from a legal and economic viewpoint. With the Clean Energy Package (CEP), the EU has opted for a fully market-based, consumer-centered approach for DR. The development of business models and products is left to a large extent to market forces. However, to enable the efficient development of those DR markets, network regulation has to adapt. (1) Network tariffs have to become more cost-reflective to provide correct incentives to market participants. The capacity tariffs have to increase, net-metering should be abolished, and optional tariff components for providing flexibility may need to be considered. (2) The regulation for distribution system operators (DSOs) may need to be fine-tuned to reflect their new roles. We present three scenarios: (a) a horizontal merger of unbundled DSOs under incentive regulation, (b) a DSO as a subsidiary of an integrated utility under cost plus regulation, (c) a transfer of some activities from DSO to TSO.

scholarly journals Business Models to Exploit Possibilities of E-mobility: An Electricity Distribution System Operator Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
István Vokony ◽  
Bálint Hartmann ◽  
József Kiss ◽  
Péter Sőrés ◽  
Csaba Farkas
Keyword(s):  
Distribution System ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Electricity Distribution ◽  
Electric Cars ◽  
Target Individual ◽  
System Operator ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
Potential Customers

E-mobility is a fast-developing field of electrical industry not only in in Hungary but in Europe and worldwide as well. Besides their environmental, social and economic benefits, electric cars offer further significant possibilities for distribution system operators, for example through the exploitation of controlled charging. This is a hot research topic, but uniform and well-tried solutions are still not available. Actors in electromobility are still forming, thus it is still not known which customer groups might be partners in controlled charging.Present paper enlists solutions offering more than traditional optimization processes based on solely one objective function. The five business solutions proposed here aim at matching electric cars with the present and future operation of DSOs. Two methods (Vehicle2Home and Night Rider) target individual customers, while the other three proposals (E-pump, plug&WORK, ENTERPRISeFLEET) are for fleets. A common framework is used to describe these methods here, and both potential customers and the advantages for DSOs are given. Out of the five solutions above, a detailed business model was developed for three concepts, specifying costs and expected incomes. Avoided costs were identified separately, which include all expenses that might be qualitatively or quantitatively influenced by charging of electric cars or controlled charging.

scholarly journals A Novel Methodology for the Scalability Analysis of ICT Systems for Smart Grids Based on SGAM: The InteGrid Project Approach

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 3818
Author(s):  
Sergio Potenciano Menci ◽  
Julien Le Baut ◽  
Javier Matanza Domingo ◽  
Gregorio López López ◽  
Rafael Cossent Arín ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Smart Grids ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Traffic Light ◽  
Architecture Model ◽  
Indirect Transmission ◽  
Scalability Analysis ◽  
System Operator

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructures are at the heart of emerging Smart Grid scenarios with high penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER). The scalability of such ICT infrastructures is a key factor for the large scale deployment of the aforementioned Smart Grid solutions, which could not be ensured by small-scale pilot demonstrations. This paper presents a novel methodology that has been developed in the scope of the H2020 project InteGrid, which enables the scalability analysis of ICT infrastructures for Smart Grids. It is based on the Smart Grid Architecture Model (SGAM) framework, which enables a standardized and replicable approach. This approach consists of two consecutive steps: a qualitative analysis that aims at identifying potential bottlenecks in an ICT infrastructure; and a quantitative analysis of the identified critical links under stress conditions by means of simulations with the aim of evaluating their operational limits. In this work the proposed methodology is applied to a cluster of solutions demonstrated in the InteGrid Slovenian pilot. This pilot consists of a Large Customer Commercial Virtual Power Plant (VPP) that provides flexibility in medium voltage for tertiary reserve and a Traffic Light System (TLS) to validate such flexibility offers. This approach creates an indirect Transmission System Operator (TSO)—Distribution System Operator (DSO) coordination scheme.

The Italian Regulatory Framework for Developing Smart Distribution Grids

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Olivieri ◽  
Maurizio Delfanti ◽  
Luca Lo Schiavo
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Smart Grid ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Smart Grids ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
System Level

Abstract The integration of Dispersed Generation (DG) is by far the most important and challenging issue that modern power systems are facing nowadays, and is the only way of exploiting Renewable Energy Sources (RES) for electric production. This revolution is running particularly fast in Europe, where significant incentive schemes have been promoted by many Member States in order to match the targets decided by the European institutions. As a consequence of the important share of RES already connected (especially to low voltage and medium voltage networks), new technical challenges have to be faced both at a distribution network level and at a transmission system level. Some of these challenges are covered by Smart grids that represent a new framework for improved management of distribution and transmission networks with attention to interoperability, security, resilience problems, and quality of service (QoS). It is recognized that an intelligent use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), as enabling technology, is the only approach able to solve new problems arising on energy networks due to larger DG penetration, without hindering system security and QoS.The paper focuses on the Italian case and in particular on the Italian regulatory framework for developing Smart Grids, and describes the technical foundations of the regulatory innovations introduced by the Italian energy regulatory authority (Autorità per l’energia elettrica e il gas - AEEG). After a selection process based on cost/benefit assessment, some demonstration projects for Smart Grid proposed by Distribution System Operators have been awarded with special capital cost remuneration (extra WACC of 2% for 12 years, on top of the ordinary WACC equal to 7% for distribution investments). The smart grid demonstration projects founded by AEEG introduce and test a new advanced management of DG in order to avoid the problems coming from reverse power flowing and maintain the necessary level of security, availability and quality of service.

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