PILOT TEST

BeFlexible project and its concepts will be demonstrated and validated in several and diverse environments, in terms of types of consumers, geographical and climate areas and energy loads.

A heterogeneous group of 11 pilots will be deployed in 4 different countries (Italy, Sweden, Spain and France) that have been selected to cover a broad range of energy behaviours consumers and grid typologies and to test the solutions in distinct regulatory environments and in alignment with national plans for the energy transition in 2030.

The main goal of these pilots will be to assess the impact of the services, platforms and architectures, to validate the consumer engagement strategies to enabling a proper interaction among all energy actors and fostering the market uptake.

The different pilots are located in 3 different demos structured by climatic areas (South-Mid EU, North EUand South-West EU) covering EU’s different representative climates

DEMO 1 SOUTH-MID EU (IT)

Pilot 1.1 [ARETI] Rome (ITALY) – Cross-sectoral business involved (water, EVs, residential and industrial customers)

BeFlexible’s roman demo will upgrade the following platforms developed in the EU Platone Project: the DSO TP, a platform able to elaborate local flexibility requests and to assess the grid constraints; the Blockchain Access Layer, a solution able to certify the flexibility data for the settlement phase (the Blockchain Access Layer increases the trust in the market and avoids disputes between stakeholders); the flexibility register.

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Location: Rome, urban context with high population density (2.8 M inhabitants & 1,285 kms), peak load of 2 GW in 2020 will grow to 3 GW in 2030.

Climate: [MDN] temperate Mediterranean climate

Participants: TSO: TERNA, DSO: Areti;

Tech. & research: ENG, RSE, RWTH,

Engagement: SOUL;

ETHICS &LEGAL: TLX

Types of consumers: Residential consumers living in buildings; Prosumers with PV on the roof that live in independent houses; Company EV fleets; CPOs that manage public and private rechargers; Industrial facilities.

Type of load: EVs, Residential applications, storages, residential and commercial HVAC

Pilot 1.2 [EDI, ENEL] South Italy (Foggia and Benevento) and Pilot 1.3 North of Italy (Cuneo) (ITALY) – Flexibility from aggregated distributed resources

This pilot leverages on already developed DSO technical platform (DERMS to plan and operate local flexibility) and DSO Local Market platform for bilateral contracts. Local Flexibility services are scheduled depending on short term forecast of grid congestions and voltage control needs. Both TSO-DSO coordination and BSP communication will be improved through block-chain based layer. Test advanced solutions for remote control and grid automation allowing data exchange between the DERs and the DSO/TSO eventually via the BSP, also for observability issues, and the activation and provision of all the necessary services to be provided using PGUI.

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Location & Climate: South Italy (Foggia and Benevento), [MDN] temperate Mediterranean climate; North Italy (Cuneo), [ALS] Alpine South

Participants: TSO: TERNA, DSO: EDI

Tech. & research: GDS, RSE; Engagement: SOUL

ETHICS &LEGAL: TLX

Types of consumers: All, no technology constraints for Balance Service Providers (BSP). Customer engagement campaign for this demo is foreseen to recruit additional potential BSP al MV level, potentially involving all aggregators operating in Italy for LV customers involvement and aggregation test.

Type of load: Local DSO market design is neutral regarding ‘technology’ providers. This pilot involves loads and generators able to provide the flexibility service. Positive Technical qualification test enable the resources for DSO local market. All flexibility assets, notwithstanding technology, will be subject to respective qualification criteria in order to provide system and/or local services.

DEMO 2 NORTH EU (SE)

Pilot 2.1 E.ON pilot in Southern Sweden area (SWEDEN) – Flex markets for congestion management

The aim of this pilot is to increase the seller liquidity in Swedish congestion areas and the knowledge in the aggregation sphere. Moreover, an improvement on current business models for flex markets and the development of new where needed, together with an increased knowledge and internal capabilities in the DSO business to realize potential applications of flexibility are expected.

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Location: Southern Sweden

Climate: CON / NEM, humid continental climate

Participants: E.ON (DSO), EONEIS (aggregator), GECO (engagement support)

ETHICS & LEGAL: TLX

Types of consumers: Commercial buildings, CHP heat pumps (Cooling Heat & Power), aggregators, industries

Type of load: Electrical Space heating building level (heat pumps), large-scale batteries, residential/commercial demand response (heat pumps, charging infrastructure, appliances, lighting, etc.), industrial scale heat pumps in district heating

Pilot 2.2 EONEIS pilot in Southern Sweden area (SWEDEN) – Unlocking flex from buildings

In order to build aggregation capabilities EONEIS will carry out a pilot where loads in building will be unlocked for flexibility reasons, both for DSO and TSO markets. The goal of this pilot consists of easing market participation and increasing liquidity for grid flexibility as a flexibility enabler and aggregator, by developing and testing concepts/services based on local energy production, storage and control.

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Location: Southern Sweden

Climate: CON and NEM, humid continental climate

Participants: EONEIS (aggregator), GECO (engagement support), TLX (ETHICS &LEGAL)

Types of consumers: Residential, commercial buildings and industries

Type of load: Aggregated and non-aggregated buildings with assets that are steerable in power outtake over time, e.g. heat pumps, charging infrastructure and stationary battery

DEMO 3 SOUTH-WEST EU (ES & FR)

Pilot 3.1 [i-DE] Iberdrola Pilot in Madrid (SPAIN) – Congestion management through demand response

Different optimization algorithms will be tested in EV chargers, and also the blockchain in the aggregation platform for energy trading On the other side, Energy consumption or cost optimization and flexibility identification will be tested in Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) of residential customers.

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Location: Madrid, Spain

Climate: MDM Temperate, dry-hot summer

Participants: DSOs: i-DE; Aggregators: IBCLIES; FSPs: Iberdrola, other possible FSPs; Engagement: SOUL; ETHICS &LEGAL: TLX

Types of consumers: Commercial/services (Iberdrola premises); Residential.

Type of load: Electrical Space heating/cooling at building level (20 residential customers to be retrofitted), Commercial & Industrial (C&I) size batteries (250kW), 59 EV Charging Points (CP) of 7.4kW, residential/commercial demand response (appliances, lighting, etc.), self-consumption management

Pilot 3.2 [i-DE] Iberdrola Pilot Benidorm (SPAIN) – Congestion Management Through Demand Response

Data-driven algorithms will be tested in a grid area in order to identify efficient aggregations to offer flexibility and maximize benefits, and Energy consumption or cost optimization and flexibility identification will be tested in Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) of residential customers.

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Location: Benidorm (Alicante), Spain

Climate: MDS Arid, steppe-cold

Participants: DSOs: i-DE

Aggregators: IBCLIES; FSPs: TV, other possible FSPs

Engagement: SOUL

ETHICS &LEGAL: TLX

Types of consumers: Residential consumers from holiday homes in touristic area (middleclass), possible public sector buildings.

Type of load: Electrical Space heating/cooling at building level, 20 residential customers to be retrofitted), residential/commercial demand response (appliances, lighting, etc.), self-consumption management

Pilot 3.3 [i-DE] Iberdrola Pilot Bilbao – Congestion Management Through Demand Response

Battery management will be tested to schedule the provision of different services to the DSO and TSO, apart from arbitrage. Integration of different protocol-based charging points with the CP management platform, to increase interoperability will be tested, and Data-driven algorithms will be tested in a grid area in order to identify efficient aggregations to offer flexibility and maximize benefits.

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Location: Bilbao, Spain

Climate: LUS Temperate, no dry season, warm summer

Participants: DSOs: i-DE

Aggregators: Iberdrola Clientes España

FSPs: Iberdrola Renewables, other possible FSPs

Engagement: SOUL

ETHICS &LEGAL: TLX

Types of consumers: Commercial/services (Iberdrola premises), possible public services buildings – sport facilities, office buildings

Type of load: Electrical Space heating/cooling at building level, 25 CPs of 7.4kW and 1 CP of 22kW, demand response in buildings (appliances, lighting, etc.), self-consumption management.

➢Location: Mougins (Pilot 3.5) and Caen (Pilot 3.6), France ➢Climate: Pilot 3.5 [MDN] temperate Mediterranean climate, Pilot 3.6 [ATC] Temperate, no dry season, warm summer ➢Participants: SAP, STEMY, TV, INESC, SOUL ➢Types of consumers: SAP employees are typically middle/upper class, Technology literate, international & gender mix and their families ➢Type of load: On the 2 company sites: 1000+ MW charging capacity over 70 on site including slow AC up to Ultra-fast DC from 30+ brands; 150 kWh Storage; 100 kWc PV; Smart building. At employee premise: supervised home charging points with eventually smarthome with local small scale solar panels (80+ employees equipped), domestic electric water heaters or other high consumption devices. Overall, more than 300 battery electric vehicles from multiple brands

Pilot 3.4 [EDE] Pilot Zaragoza

Aggregation for TSO and DSO grid services: Simulation of the violation of the physical limitations of the network because of and outage or forecasted congestion. For services activation, the aggregator (TV) will send commands to the following possible aggregated DERs: Thermal loads in households which will previously be retrofitted and aggregated by TV. Data-driven algorithms will be implemented to identify the potential for flexibility and to estimate energy savings of the customers that retrofitted their thermal loads.

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Location: Zaragoza, Spain

Climate: [MDN] temperate Mediterranean climate

Participants: DSOs: EDE; FSPs: TV, other possible FSPs

Types of consumers: Residential customers

Type of load: Electrical Space heating/cooling at building level (40 residential customers to be retrofitted), residential/commercial demand response (appliances, lighting, etc.).

Pilot 3.5 & 3.6 [SAP] SAP premises pilot in the South of France (Pilot 3.5) and Normandy (Pilot 3.6) eMobility

The backbone for this pilot is already running several pilot customers including CPOs, Town and Companies. However mainstream CP management systems are passive consumers and only few of them include smart EMS like ours, our goal is to extend its capabilities to be an active node of the flexible market to enable price and carbon footprint optimization, to leverage and develop added value services targeting for both end users and site managers, and to leverage services provided by participants to wider the approach and better advise employees.

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Location: Mougins (Pilot 3.5) and Caen (Pilot 3.6), France

Climate: Pilot 3.5 [MDN] temperate Mediterranean climate, Pilot 3.6 [ATC] Temperate, no dry season, warm summer

Participants: SAP, STEMY, TV, INESC, SOUL

Types of consumers: SAP employees are typically middle/upper class, Technology literate, international & gender mix and their families

Type of load: On the 2 company sites: 1000+ MW charging capacity over 70 on site including slow AC up to Ultra-fast DC from 30+ brands; 150 kWh Storage; 100 kWc PV; Smart building. At employee premise: supervised home charging points with eventually smarthome with local small scale solar panels (80+ employees equipped), domestic electric water heaters or other high consumption devices. Overall, more than 300 battery electric vehicles from multiple brands