Vera SilvaResearch program director « Electricity systems and markets)

EDF R&D

European system with an efficient coordinated use of flexibilities for the

integration of a large share of RES

EU-SysFlex overall objective

EU SysFlex objective is to contribute to developing a market design and regulation framework able to foster the

development of innovative flexibility approaches to address the technical shortfalls of a European system with high RES.

These innovative approaches cover both the technical capability for providing the right flexibilities and system services

and the ability of TSOs to integrate these into system and network operation.

EU-SysFlex will make a major contribution to a cost effective system transformation to meet EU world leading RES objectives

Technical shortfalls Economic shortfalls

System needs

Demonstrations/ Scalability and Replicability/ TSO operations simulation

Market driving innovation to respond to system needs

Services/ Products/Procurement/Remuneration

Market design enhancement &

regulation evolution

Scalability and replicatbility

System benefits

Implementation Roadmap

Exploitation of results business creation

Flexibility Roadmap – Implementation and exploitation

TSO driven Whole system driven

Three pillars of EUSysFlex approach

- Cost effective enhancement of flexibility and system services

capability

- new approaches and tools for transmission network operation

- new concepts and tools to support different coordination layers: cross-

border, cross sectoral, TSO/DSO, centralised/descentralised flexibilities

- Market design and regulatory options

- for innovative services, as well as new business models

- Support Pan-European market integration

- supporting the integration of regions such as the Baltics

- enabling a stronger sharing of experience from very high RES regions:

Ireland, Portugal, Germany

EU SysFlex will provide a significant improvement of EU innovation capacity by combining “top-down” and “bottom-up” approaches to flexibility enabled by a strong consortium

Consortium with: experienced and innovative utilities and

flexibility providers, leading-edge technology providers and world leading universities and research institutions Budget 26,5 millionEuros

EC contribution 20,3 millionEuros

A pan-European consortium with a multidisciplinary team with 34 partners from 14 counties

Advisory board: System operators: RTE, National Grid, Terna, Fingrid, Elia, TenneT, CEPS, Litgrid, Sadales Tikls, AEMO (Australia), ERCOT (U.S.) …

Associations: ENTSO-E, EDSO, Eurelectric, Wind Europe, USEF

TSOs

Eirgrid, Soni, AST, Elering, PSE

DSOse-Distribuzione, EDPD, Helen Net, Innogy,

Elektrilevi

Generation and Flexibility Providers

EDF, EDP, Helen, Upside

Research centers, universities

Energyville, Fraunhofer IWES, Imperial College,

Inesc Tec, UC Dublin, Univ. Tartu, VTT, RSE, NCNR,

ESADE, Univ Kassel

Solutions providersAkka Tech, Enercon, Siemens, Guardtime, Cyber,

Enoco

Technical Experts, consultants

Pöyry, Zabala, EurActiv

Defining the right amount of flexibility and system services to support the cost effective, secure and resilient transmission system operation using a threefold approach

Concept and approach

IDENTIFICATION OF

TECHNICAL NEEDS OF

HIGH RES SYSTEMS

Advanced pan -

European

simulations to

determine technical

shortfalls and system

benefits evaluation

of solutions

System Needs

DEMONSTRATION OF APPROACHES,

SERVICES AND TOOLS RESPONDING

TO SYSTEM NEEDS

MARKET & REGULATORY

IMPACTS

Role based modelling Business use cases (BUC)

MARKET MODELS &

SIMULATION

DATA/ICT requirements

Formalised services

in the form of BUC System services to the TSO from

resources connected to

distribution

Virtual power plant with a

portfolio of centralised and

decentralised flexibility sources

for multi-service provision

Virtual power plants with a portfolio of decentralised

flexibility sources for multi-service provision

Tools for TSO/DSO interaction

Data modelling and ICT as flexibility enabler

INTEGRATION OF SOLUTIONS & SERVICES INTO TSO OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES

Qualifier trials for new services and new resources, application of RTDS to

determine operational impacts and guidelines for dispatchers (TSO and DSO)

DATA/ICT requirements

FLEXIBILITY ROADMAP

Agent based

market simulation

SCALABILITY BUILIDNG

System and market needs and CBA Technical capability

Roadmap for large scale implementation

Advanced simulation combined with seven demonstrations covering flexibility and system services in a high RES world

IrelandTechno

qualification & Performance

control of new services and new

resources

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New services

SystemServices

Voltageregulation

Network Congestion

management

FreqReg BalancingMulti-service coordination

GermanyWind flexibility, TSO/DSO interface tools

France VPP : RES (wind

and PV) Battery, flex

loads

Eston

ia/Latvia/Po

land

ICT an

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ata exchan

ges for flexib

ility services

Cro

ss Bo

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-DSO

/TSO-

Market-D

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PortugalVPP : Wind Flex/PumpStorage

Flex Hub : Flex tech validation and TSO/DSO interaction

Italy Battery Storage/ DG (MV)TSO/DSO interface tools

FinlandAggregation: heat storage/EV/PV

Multiservice provision TSO/DSO coordination

EDF CONTINENTAL & PALADYN

Pan European Model and Eirgrid –

NI-IRE models enhanced for EU-

SysFlex

PSE Dispatcher training RTS

Based on the ARISTO DTS - enhanced

EU-SysFlex to simulate wider parts of

Europe and interactions with DSO

Market simulation

Advanced UC-ED models and new

agent based model - work by KU

Leuven, EDF, Imperial College, UC

Dublin

Demonstration

Simulation

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DEMONSTRATION OF A MULTI-SERVICE FRAMEWORK FOR COORDINATION OF CENTRALISED

AND DECENTRALISED FLEXIBILITIES LED BY EDP (1/2)

▪ Demonstration of solutions in a real environment in Portugal led by EDP CNET

▪ A total of 10 partners (incl. 5 third-parties) working on WP7 from Industry (EDP,

Siemens, EDF), R&D (EDP CNET) and Academia (INESCTEC)

▪ Focus is on the coordination of flexibility from centralised and decentralised sources

towards the provision of services to the transmission system;

▪ Portuguese Utility EDP participates with 5 different business units:

• - EDP CNET: R&D Center

• - EDP Distribuição: Portuguese DSO

• - EDP Renewables: Renewable energy operator and developer

• - EDP Produção: “Conventional” energy (excl. wind) operator and developer

• - EDP SA – UNGE: Energy trading unit

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▪ Demonstrate in a real-environment the coordination of centralised and decentralised flexibility for the

provision of services to the transmission system, through the development of two concepts:

▪ - Virtual Power Plant: Flexibility provided by combined large-scale generation, large-scale storage and RES

power plants via the optimized operation of a variable speed pumped storage power plant

▪ - Flexibility Hub: Flexibility provided by the DSO, through control of DSO-owned resources

▪ Develop solutions that enhance grid-friendly RES, explore large-scale storage, making RES more predictable

and dispatchable whilst also contributing to improve the information exchange and control actions between

distribution and transmission systems;

▪ Demonstration will take place in Portugal, in the

area of the Venda Nova III Hydro Plant (756MW) +

6 nearby wind farms + 7 other (smaller) pumped

storage hydro plants + other “flexibility assets”

(capacitor banks, On-load Tap Changers, etc.

DEMONSTRATION OF A MULTI-SERVICE FRAMEWORK FOR COORDINATION OF CENTRALISED

AND DECENTRALISED FLEXIBILITIES LED BY EDP (2/2)

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DEMONSTRATION OF MULTI-SERVICES PROVISION BY MULTI-RESOURCES : FRANCE – FRANCE

LES BY EDF R&D

▪ Testing facilities installed on EDF

Concept Grid:

EDF Concept Grid: a real network

spanning from the primary substation

up to the meter and end-customer,

equipped with the latest communication

technologies and a set of loads and

sources.

EDF Concept Grid’s real time simulator:

Opal RT simulator in a Matlab-Simulink

environment.

“Smart Container” of Enercon: a full

storage system comprising a Li-Ion

battery container (1MW/1MWh or

2MW/1MWh) with pre-installed local

control functions. 4

Control Centre

Low voltage

Residential area

Motor Generator

Amplifiers for real time simulation

‘hardware in the loop’

Overhead lines

‘RLC’ cells

120km

network

Battery

Testing

area

▪ Remote testing facilities:

Existing wind farm of Enercon: 6 ENERCON E82 2MW wind turbines connected to

the French distribution grid.– GeneSys systems based on IEC standard 61850: interoperability between smart grids’ Intelligent

Electronic Devices (IED), system management functions, intelligent algorithms for smart grids, and

cyber-security functionalities.

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▪ First proposition of the architecture:

Local real-time controller

EVs,etc…

Pref1 Qref1Pref3 Qref3Pref2 Qref2 Pref4 Qref4

Day-ahead or intraday scheduler and integration of forecast tools

Local m

easurem

ent

Grid

con

straints, etc.

P0_1

Q0_1

Wind and PV forecast, SoC storage, grid constraints, system needs, market prices, etc.

Data exch

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Transmission power system

Multi-resources Aggregator

P = ∑Prefi Q = ∑Qrefi

System Services: FFR, FCR, FRR, new services Flexibility needs: curtailment, smoothing, etc.

Storage

Local real-time controller

Local real-time controller

Local real-time controller

PFCR_1

PFRR_1

Etc.

P0_2

Q0_2PFCR_2

PFRR_2

Etc.

P0_3

Q0_3PFCR_3

PFRR_3

Etc.

P0_4

Q0_4PFCR_4

PFRR_4

Etc.

DEMONSTRATION OF MULTI-SERVICES PROVISION BY MULTI-RESOURCES : FRANCE – FRANCE

LES BY EDF R&D

Enhancing flexibility with improved coordination of technical layers and the right market design and regulation

Flexibility Roadmap - an end-to-end vision with a focus on informing the EC on the solutions and use demonstrations to support these with technical evidence

Drivers for new approaches for enhancing system flexibility

A cost effective enhancement of flexibility requires a coordination of flexible resources as well as system and market and regulation layers

Pan EuropeanInterconnected system

Sub system Tranmission level

Distribution levelMV

Distribution level LV

Cen

tral

ized

gen

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ion

Dis

trib

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d g

ener

atio

n

Domesticstorage

Bulk Storage

EV, heating, PV

Heat/cooling

DG

Storage

Affordability of electricity for

consumers

System security

European markets integration

New technologies

Decarbonation with variable RES

Ageing infrastructures

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Wind farms

▪ Consortium kick-off meeting in Dublin – 8, 9 of Novembre

▪ Présentation to RIDC at the ENTSO-E – 13 of November

▪ Présentation of the projet at the SET PLAN Conference, 1 Decembre in Bratislava

And 4 years of cooperation ahead of us !

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