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1 Finnish Smart Grids Smart meter roll outs almost complete, what s coming next? Jan Segerstam, Development Director, Empower IM Oy

2 Content Empower in brief Who we are, what we do Smart Grid and Market Development in Finland What happened? How is the Finnish Energy Market Structure governed? Historical development Smart meter enabled change Product examples available now on the market Finnish Smart Grid Development What s next? CLEEN The vehicle for SGEM what and who is it? SGEM key facts, consortium partners and Work Packages Highlights of development within SGEM

3 Empower in brief Multinational Empower provides construction and installation services, maintenance services, and operation and management services for industrial, energy and telecommunications companies. Turnover 2011 in M Personnel in 5 countries Owners AAC Capital Partners Holding BV and the company s management.

4 Empower service portfolio and geographical coverage Network Division Industry Division Information Management Division Transmission Project Division Finland Sweden Estonia Baltic Division Latvia Lithuania

5 Finnish Energy Market Control Structure Parliament General legislation Electricity Market Law Electricity Market Act Ministry of Employment and the Economy General Commercial Legislation En. Mkt. Measurement Act En. Mkt. Messaging Act Energy Market Authority (regulator) Interpretation of laws and acts Casewise decisions Consumer Protection Agency Interpretation of consumer law Information on handling of consumer information Information on consumer information protection Finnish Energy Industries Association Implementation guidelines on energy market processes Technical implementation guidelines Fingrid (System Authority / TSO) Balancing agreement Market Participant Register

6 Smart Grid & Market Development in Finland 1970s New Generation Need for load shifts to maximize plant usage 1980s Implementation of remote controllable loads CHP scaling for efficiency 1990s New energy market rules Usage of controllable loads to optimize energy market contract positions Remote disconnectors Retail Market Opening 2000s Implementation of intraday commodity trading on hourly basis, continued market development Legal unbundling of distribution 2010s Automated Network Control Automated meter infrastructure design Automated meter roll out Hourly balancing and settlement Hourly customer reporting Distribution Grid connected production (PV/Wind) Market based Demand Response Products

7 Smart Grid & Market Development New legislation (2008) Measurement Information Exchange After deadlines were set, implementation Roll out plans for every company Procurement of AMM solutions Delivery of AMM solutions Market process change Streamlining and certifying information exchange without major change Change of balance settlement Minimum requirements for installation Controllability 3 rd party information access Transfer of installed remote controllable load base Reporting requirements set for suppliers Base data to be provided by DSO Data access implementation by DSOs Completion of smart meter roll out and initial process changes by the end of 2013 Focus shift from technology to utilization and market model development

8 Smart Grid Development, products: Fortum User interface: Mobile device Hourly product Weather forecast Boiler & heat storage Connection to smart meter Messages Alarms Control unit Internet Local wireless

9 Smart Grid Development, products: Helen

10 Smart Grid Development: services, Empower IM Demand Response Load / Generation Control Service

11 Smart Grid Development, the future Market wide Demand Response Services Energy vs. technology (holistic energy optimisation) Efficient Information Exchange Self Healing Networks Dynamic Microgrids Smarter end use devices and Site Energy Management Resolve & Manage Conflicts of Interest between DSO and Market for implementation of dynamic load and production Develop regulation model to embrace new enablers

12 CLEEN - The vehicle for SGEM Strategic Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI) Co-operative and Industry Driven R&D&I company for Energy and Environment founded in Unique in it s way of serving 28 industry and 17 research shareholders by driving Renewal of industry Novel collaboration across industries Strategic focus Industry s Commitment and Guidance World class competence and resources Research volume (2012): 39,4 M in 6 different research programmes

13 Positioning of CLEEN Programmes Research Institutes Scientific Excellence Opportunities Companies Global Demand Relevance Public Sponsor National Interest Legal Compliance CLEEN Ltd Focus Practices Resourcing by Companies > 50% Shared IPR Access Rights Fundamental Research Universities Science Push Relevant new Knowledge Joint Apllied Research Products and Services R&D and Business Models Market Pull

14 Smart Grids and Energy Markets Consortium Research Partners 1. Aalto University 2. Lappeenranta Uni of Tech 3. MIKES, Centre for Metrology and Accreditation 4. Tampere Uni of Tech 5. Uni of Eastern Finland 6. Uni of Oulu 7. Uni of Vaasa 8. VTT, Technical Research Centre of Finland TSO, DSOs, Suppliers 1. Elenia Verkko 2. Fingrid 3. Fortum 4. Helen Sähköverkko 5. Helsingin Energia 6. Oulun Energia 7. Suur-Savon Sähkö 8. Vantaan Energia Coordinator 1. Cleen Ltd Energy Technology Industry 1. ABB 2. Aidon 3. Empower 4. Tekla 5. The Switch R&D Cooperation not commercial consortium Joint sharing of Full Access Rights to all results High level of publicity ICT Industry 1. Cybersoft 2. Elektrobit 3. Empower IM 4. Emtele 5. Inno-W 6. There Corporation 7. Tieto 8. Viola Systems

15 SGEM key imperatives & facts Key Imperatives Create Innovation foundation to enable the Smart Grids vision Build internationally applicable solutions Validate in real environment Ensure competence accumulation in research and business Utilize interactive international research environment Facts Focus on power distribution and interfaces The program consists of 7 interlinked work packages and spearhead demo projects. Industry make up 53% of the volume. 21 industry & 8 research partners. ICT companies contribute 25% 5 year program, 55 M budget. CLEEN CSTI (Centre for Strategic Science, Technology and Innovation) program with Tekes public funding.

16 SGEM Work Packages WP1: Vision of SGEM 1 task WP4: Active Customer 5 tasks Demand Response from system and market point of view Customer behavior and viewpoint Estimation of loads, DG and storage Technical solutions for DR, customer gateway and ICT systems Validation and Proof of Concept WP6: Intelligent management and operation, 8 tasks New ICT in network management, Enabling technologies Protection schemes, active network management, microgrids Disturbance and field force management, self-healing networks Network analysis and planning methods, proactive monitoring Drivers and visions WP2: MV+LV networks, 4 tasks Strategic planning Large scale cabling LVDC networks Smart Grids Intelligent management and operation of Smart Grids Active resources Future infrastructure of Power systems Energy market WP7: Energy markets 2 tasks Business impacts and models for different market players The future electricity markets and new sources of flexibility WP5: Active resources 3 tasks Distributed generation Electrical vehicles Energy storages WP3: HV networks, 2 tasks Utilizing increased controllability for balancing the power system Regional subtransmission networks

17 Vision: Power to the People Market players; TSO, DSO, supplier, aggregator Information systems Grid Active monitoring, optimisation and control of energy use and power flows Action signals based on optimization against different targets of system players Energy storage Actions at the customer gateway Loads; controllable, non-controllable Generation Solar, wind, fuel cell, biogas

18 Framework for Demand Response Collects together issues (i.e. concepts, demos, pilots, business models) of demand response from WP3, WP4, WP6, WP7 DSO and Service provider OR Energy retailer and Service provider can be the same but still in different roles TSO DSO 2) 3) Energy Supplier 1) Service provider equipment money HEMS provider equipment, installation, agreement Customer 1) Needs and benefits of energy market: * market based demand response * management of balancing power *... 3) Needs and benefits of DSO: 2) Needs and benefits of TSO: * use of DR for reserves *... 4) Needs and benefits of customer: - energy (money) saving - energy efficiency,... * management of network capacity and avoid of network investments * reducing peak loads and losses * management of disturbance situations - capacity of back-up connections - island operation in long disturbances and maintenance outages - island in MV, LV or customer level for supplying turvasähkö

19 DR and DER on regional HV Networks The effects of DR and DER on regional HV networks Capacity of DR in mitigating the reserve requirements Scenarios of local generation and its impact on HV grids Availability of DR & DER and analysis of risks for HV grids (Aalto, Helen, VES, Tekla, cooperation with WP 4,5,6)

20 LVAC Island grid with distributed energy source Island grid generation using power electronics: battery storage with DC/ DC-chopper for power balancing, solar cells and PM wind generator with drive Solar Wind National grid DC-link Island converter Island Grid DC/DC chopper Diesel Battery (ABB, TUT)

21 Active LVDC distribution system Analysis of operation and technical structures of active LVDC distribution system in actual network environment Both laboratory environment and practical pilot built with a Finnish utility Developing recreational dwelling and detached house area, approximately 2 km of underground cabled network in first phase 4 customers, fed by 3 inverters Items and aspects Customer-end inverter Control strategies Load balancing Energy Storages AC/DC (LUT, TUT, Suur-Savon Sähkö) 820 m Inv. #3 Inv. #1 400 m 320 m 200 m Inv. #2

22 Self-Healing of rural OHL network Proof of Concept demo with Fortum in Kirkkonummi SCADA/DMS Centralized fault distance calculation during 2011 Fault package generation in substation level instead of system level Fault distance calculation in substation level, also to earth faults Reclosing location in DMS Network automation communication via substation COM600 RTU560 REF615 GACR Recloser - OVR3 M2M gateway Control Center 3G/GPRS Disconnector station (UG) Automatic power restoration possibly during Fault forecasting Automatic fault isolation and power restoration (ABB, Fortum) REF615 Substation A GACR GACR = Recloser Grid Automation Control Cabinet for Recloser - OVR3 Disconnector station (OH) (O-1061) Disconnector station (OH) (O-1088)

23 Microgrid management in Hailuoto Utilizing local production for automatically creating an island in case of faults in the national grid Diesel Aggregate Wind Power Configurable island size Automatic island reconstruction and synchronizing to national grid Specific protection scheme which is used during islanding operation Two protection schemes: one for normal operation and one for islanding operation (ABB, Elenia Network)

24 Sustainable Urban Living an integrated low or net zero energy urban building concept Sustainable development in collaboration with Fortum, ABB, TUT, Skanska, Kone and others Reduced carbon footprint with help of Smart Grid Electric vehicle for shared use of residents Solar PV solution to be installed on the roof Accurate and easy energy consumption monitoring, in real time Home automation to support energy efficiency Customer feedback for further research and development Added value and performance of new services As. Oy. Espoon Adjutantti 8 floors, 42 apartments, 52,5 121 m 2 Complete Q2/2012, in Mäkkylä, Espoo

25 Second generation Smart Metering Finland was in the forefront in deploying smart meters to households Extensive knowhow available for best practices Automatic meter reading itself is enough for a positive business case, but more benefits exits Accurate knowhow on customer load profiles and network losses à cost savings in network planning Automatic fault location in LV networks and outage communication à reduced outage costs

26 Home Energy Management System Pilot started in June 2011, ongoing distributed pilots Consumer needs and profits Technical requirements Large-scale demand response possibilities with the system Business opportunities (Elenia, ThereCorporation, Empower IM) Operation on regulation market Balance management Production following Etc. Temperature forecasts Spot prices Laboratory demonstration for frequency dependent load shedding connection point peak load reduction network overload management DG management and production following electric vehicle charging (TUT, There Corporation) Electricity market Electricity network Monitoring of reserves Monitoring of network Congestion management Network reliability enhancement DR Service Aggregator Information aggregation Supervision of ICT Optimal operation of DERs End customer user interface Home energy management Frequency dependent load shedding Electric vehicle charging Connection point peak load reduction Etc. AMI T Electric vehicle DG Loads

27 Conflicts of Interests in Electricity Markets Generation Interactive Customer Conflicts of interests DSO/TSO New Network Tariffs Aggregator / Supplier Threats Opportunities

28 Jan Segerstam

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