1. Joseph Negreira Pentalateral Energy Forum & European Commission
Workshop in Benelux Secretariat, 20 November 2017 

2. Flexibility in EMPOWER and INVADE projects

3. Purpose of the project:
Develop a new market design for local trading and involvement of the consumer/prosumer.
Develop prosumer oriented business models relevant for the market design developed.
Develop an ICT based monitoring and management system accommodated in a Smart Energy Service Provider (SESP).
Develop full bidirectional and secure communication between the market and business.

5. Purpose of the project:
Provide a cloud-based flexibility management system integrated with electric vehicles (EVs) and batteries, empowering energy storage at mobile, distributed and centralized levels
Increase the share of renewables in the smart distribution grid.
Smart control of domestic appliances to aid in load-balancing over the course of a day.
Combine physical batteries with state-of-the-art data technology to open new marketplaces to trade energy and energy services, which in turn will provide the end-users with better services.

6. Use cases:
Mobile energy storage using EVs for V2G, V2B and V2H operations
Centralized energy storage using an array of batteries at the sub-station or street level
Distributed energy storage using individual batteries at the household level
Hybrid level energy storage solutions addressing a combination of use cases 2 and 3

7. Need for scarcity prices:
Do you test scarcity pricing in your project to solve TSO and/or DSO congestion with regional and/or locational price (scarcity) components?
Not in EMPOWER.
In INVADE, incentive is offered to users to shift load using the INVADE flexibility services.
Please explain how this is tested?
Not penalizing people for the consumption in peak periods, but incentivising the shift of the consumption out of these periods.

8. Prosumers/consumers to react to prices through implicit Demand Side Response:
How does locational scarcity pricing interact with wholesale or balancing markets?
Not doing that in the projects
How is the interaction between the TSO and DSO organised, in particular in relation to the interaction between the wholesale market, balancing and congestion management?
No interaction between the TSO and DSO. In the proposal SESP-Whole sale market was present, but not executed.

9. Market framework for explicit DSR:
What kind of flexibility is tested in your project (to what grid management needs does it correspond, e.g. frequency control, congestion management)?
Flexibility planning, scheduling and operating flexibility assets, through contracts SESP-DSO and SESP-Users, SESP balance-response, thus responding to DSO management of congestion and active-reactive power.
How is the flexibility product/service procured and activated?
Through 2 contracts (SESP-user and SESP-DSO), with 2 types of agreement (availability and activation).
Smart plug – router – local gateways/optical reader to the meter – SESP cloud.

10. Market framework for explicit DSR:
How is the 'delivery' of flexibility measured?
Measured at predicted consumption, at the connected’ devices level.
How is the settlement and payment for the delivery of the flexibility organised?
Agreement on Availability (cents per hour, by device) and Activation prices (kW/hour, by device), in the contracts.

11. Non-discriminatory access to all markets:
Any end-user can access to the platform, sign-in, install all required equipment (smart plugs, optical reader and gateways), and benefit from the platform.
The platform is designed to fully customise the different offers, services and products: devices, end-users, DSOs, countries/regulations…

12. Thank you! Smart Innovation Norway AS a Norwegian Center of Expertise