1. New Opportunities in Local Energy
CES: Scotland’s Community Energy Development Charity
New Opportunities in Local Energy
Gillian Wilson, CES Head of Development
Scottish Charity Number: SC039673

2. CES Mission: To strengthen and empower local communities by
helping them to own, control and benefit from their local renewable energy resources,
control and reduce their energy costs,
regenerate their communities and
play their part in the low carbon transition.
Scottish Charity, voluntary board, community group membership (about 400)

3. Two programmes being run by CES supporting communities to capture
local energy systems benefits

4. 1. Capacity building programme:
supporting communities to learn about the coming changes and to identify opportunities to capture local energy systems benefits

5. CES programme:
Community Energy Futures

6. Communities retaining local energy systems value:
Identifying opportunities for community generation business model through local supply
Shared access to affordable local renewable energy
EV charging income
Cheap electricity through storage: using energy when it’s cheaper
Income from flexibility payments for consumers
Income from flexibility payments for community groups and income from involvement in aggregation role

7. (Energy Community Aggregation Service)
2. Flexible Power
(Energy Community Aggregation Service)
Testing the community aggregation model with South Seeds and consumers in Glasgow

8. Demand does not always match Supply:
Look first at the green energy demand line – how much energy is used at different times of the day – with two peaks – a smaller one in the morning when everyone is getting up and having breakfast, and then a larger peak when everyone is arriving home in the evening. In the traditional grid management system the there was a relatively consistent baseload of energy supply all day and then enough power stations to meet this large peak of demand in the evening. However now we are moving to renewables this has to change. The Blue line shows an example for a wind turbine with more wind at night and the yellow one with for solar, producing energy only during daylight hours (which will obviously change over the year in Scotland). The peak of wind turbine and solar production of energy does not match the peaks of energy demand shown by the green line.

9. Flexibility - moving time of energy demand and supply
storage
storage
demand
demand
This graph represents this mis-match in energy generation and energy demand when sometimes there is too much energy generation (green surplus area) and sometimes there is not enough energy generation (red deficit area). To manage the matching of energy supply and demand locally then you need to shift demand from deficit periods of the day into times of day when energy is more available. Also, use surplus energy and store it for use when there is a deficit period. This requires some flexibility in the time of use of energy. i.e. ‘Flexibility’

10. Aggregation of flexibility
Flexibility offered by a single home, business, solar PV system, storage battery or EV - not of interest on it own, to the grid
Need to ‘add up’ or ‘aggregate’ many energy users or suppliers to provide a large ‘lump’ of flexibility

11. Flexible Power (linked to ECAS)
Testing the mechanisms and approach to a Community or Consumer Group helping to act in flexibility aggregation role:
How much do consumers need to know before they will engage
How much income would they need to be interested
How can householders be recruited to offer flexibility
Case for Community Organisation Leadership
Recruitment: Strong local networks, suited to recruitment in small geographic areas
Build Trust: Learn from smart meter roll-out
Social Justice: Retains more of the flexibility income with consumers and within the community – not extracted

12. Opportunities for community energy groups and community organisations:
enabling a collective approach
for those not able to engage individually, due to:
Cost barrier
Living in tenements/shared properties
Not aware of opportunities
Don’t know how to engage/not tech savy

13. Gillian Wilson Head of Development Community Energy Scotland Codesk, Techcube, Summerhall Edinburgh EH9 1PL
Scottish Charity Number: SC039673