Stavros LAZAROU

Smart Electricity Systems

EC- JRC, IET

22 November 2012, Delft (NL)

Smart Grids Laboratory of the

Joint Research Centre

SMART ELECTRICITY SYSTEMS

� Who are we

� Smart Grids landscape

� Smart Grids policy support

� Activities on power system

SMART ELECTRICITY SYSTEMS

Outline

The Joint Research Centre is the European

Commission’s in-house science service.

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Commissioner

Mairé Geoghegan-QuinnResearch, Innovation & Science

President

José Manuel Barroso

27 Commission Members

DG Research & Innovation (RTD)Director-General

Dominique RistoriJoint Research Centre

European Commission(27 Commission members)

Panorama of the European Union

European Parliament

SG

European Court of Auditors

The Council of the European Union

The Committee of the Regions

Court of JusticeEconomic and

Social Committee

RELEX ENTR MOVE ENER RTD JRC

IPSC IET IHCP ITUIPTSIESIRMM

CLIMA

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn

CommissionerCommissionerCommissioner Commissioner

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Joint Research Centre (JRC)

JRC established in 1957

• 7 institutes in 5 countries:

IT, BE, DE, NL, ES

• 2,845 permanent and temporary staff

in 2010

• 1,398 scientific publications in 2010

• 125 instances of support to EU

policy-maker annually

STATIONARY

TRANSPORT

DeployClean

EnergyIncrease Energy

Efficiency

DeployAlternative

Fuels

Electrificationof

Transport

IncreaseVehicle

Efficiency

Modernisethe Grid

Techno-economic Modelling & Analysis

Experimental Activities

Interoperability

OUR PRIORITIESENERGY SUPPLY ENERGY DEMAND

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The Smart Electricity Systems team,

acting as European Commission’s in-

house consultant, performs independent

scientific research and supports EU

policy-making on transformations

towards smarter electricity systems

JRC Smart Electricity Systems - Mission

Petten, The Netherlands

Ispra, Italy

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SMART ELECTRICITY SYSTEMS

JRC Smart Electricity Systems – Core activities

� Who are we

� Smart Grids landscape

� Smart Grids policy support

� Activities on power system

SMART ELECTRICITY SYSTEMS

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Today’s Power system

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Smart grid: possible future

12Source: EC Smart Grid Standardisation Reference Group

Smart grid: multi-actor, multi-layer system

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JRC smart grid inventory –highlights

• First Inventory of Smart Grids in Europe

completed in 2011, leading to Report:

Smart Grid projects in Europe: lessons

learned and current developments

• 219 Smart Grid projects in EU27

• € 5 billion overall investment

• Majority of projects in EU15

while most of EU12 lag behind

• Project numbers: 7 % Deployment,

46% Demonstration and 47% R&D

� Germany, UK, Italy lead investments in Demonstration projects

� Denmark investing by far more than any other country in R&D projects

Budget in R&D and Demonstration

JRC inventory 2012 - Provisional data

� Who are we

� Smart Grids landscape

� Smart Grids policy support

� Activities on power system

SMART ELECTRICITY SYSTEMS

Smart Grid Task Force

Smart Grid

Task Force

EG1 – Reference

Group for Smart

Grid Standards

EC Mandate M490 on

smart grids to European

Standard Organisations

EG2 – Data protection

and cyber-security

Privacy

and Data Protection

Assessment

Framework

Cybersecurity

Assessment

Framework

EG3 – Regulation/

market models

Market

reference

model

Regulatory

incentives

EG4 – Infrastructure

deployment

Identification of

SG projects of

common interest

Inventory of

SG projects

JRC Database

Smart Grid

Task ForceProjects DB

Projects

DB

EEGI – SETIS

Projects

DB

Other users

(e.g. ISGAN)

www.smartgridsprojects.euhttp://ses.jrc.ec.europa.eu Visualisation

platforms

Projects DB

One repository for more users

Relevant Policy Background

• EC Directive 2009/72 encourages Member States to deploy

smart metering systems and smart grids

• EC Communication (2011) “Smart Grids from innovation to

deployment”:

– EC to provide CBA guidelines to be used by the Member States to fulfill

the provisions of Directive 2009/72/EC for the roll-out of smart metering

systems

– EC to provide CBA guidelines for the assessment of Smart Grid

deployment

• EC Proposal for Energy infrastructure regulation

– Within the Smart Grid Task Force, definition of an assessment framework

for the identification of Projects of Common Interest

• Assessment framework to provide guidance

for conducting cost benefit analyses of Smart

Grid (and smart metering) projects

– based on EPRI (Electric Power Research

Institute)’s work and on collaboration between

EC and US (DoE) in the EU-US Energy Council

– Contribution to Recommendation 2012/148/EU

"roll-out of smart metering systems“

• A European Smart Grid project (InovGrid, led

by the Portuguese distribution operator EDP

Distribuição) used as a case study to fine-tune

and illustrate the assessment framework

Cost-Benefit Analysis for smart meters/grids

EC Regulation proposal for Trans-European Energy Infrastructure

Nov-2011

EC Assessment framework for evaluation of SG projects (EC Task

Force EG4)

Selection of Smart Grid projects of common interest

within the infrastructure

package

EC Communication Smart Grids: from innovation to deployment

Apr-2011

EC Recommendation on Smart Metering

Deployment

Mar-2012

JRC policy impact

� Who are we

� Smart Grids landscape

� Smart Grids policy support

� Activities on power system

SMART ELECTRICITY SYSTEMS

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Our target: becoming

power sector

honest data broker

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Lab functions and capabilities

• The European-wide electricity gridmodel built starting from data from the European Transmission System Operators, complemented by datasets from the European power system

• The power grid model includes more than 10,000 elements (nodes and lines) of Europe's transmission grid and can be used to run analyses of the European transmission network via advanced power simulation platforms

The JRC’s European power grid model

• Identification of ‘European critical

infrastructure’ (whose disruption has

a significant impact on at least 2

Member States)

• Web-based application for the

visualisation of Europe-wide

electricity systems and for the

assessment of energy network

criticality and vulnerability

Critical infrastructure (JRC-ENER Admin. Arrangement)

• The EUPowerDispatch model analyses the impacts of variable renewable energy increase on the European cross-border transmission capacity needs

– Minimum Cost Flow Problem (MCFP) taking into account generation and transmission constraints

• The model minimises the annual electricity variable production costs in the interconnected European system

Renewables integration in Europe/Mediterranean

• Assessment of multi-terminal DC (MTDC) grids to integrate large scale offshore wind power in the North Sea (in cooperation with ECN and TU Delft)

• Set-up and testing of a stand-alone configuration with three small-scale Voltage Source Converters (VSCs)

Multi-terminal links for super grids

• Real-time digital simulator interconnection with the VSC-based multi-terminal DC grid for testing and validation of different models and control strategies

• The same concept can be used for multi-terminal grids in the Mediterranean Sea

SOLAR

WIND

• TARGET: Monitoring of wind farms using real-time data streams from PMUs and the detection of renewable energy sources production interactions (in cooperation with KTH)

Sub-synchronous oscillations monitoring in power systems

• DELIVERABLES: setting up a detailed representation of the power system model including the components into consideration and wind farms (type 3 wind turbines - Double Feed Induction Generators and type 4 wind turbines - Converter connected Synchronous Generators)

• TOOLS: The Real-time digital simulator of the Smart Grids Laboratory

• It is aimed to assess the integration of renewable energy sources and electric vehicles (EVs) in the future smart grid through:

• Development of innovative, cooperative multi-agents methods for simulating the emerging behavior of different agents (consumers/prosumers/EVs) at several aggregation levels (e.g. building, district, …) able to:

• (i) enhance the energy use efficiency of the consumers/prosumers;

• (ii) enable large scale integration of renewable energy sources;

• (iii) enable efficient use of the energy stored in the EVsbatteries including development of smart charging/discharging strategies.

Agent Based Modeling

• Cooperation with “Model City Mannheim" project for testing their equipment (http://www.modellstadt-mannheim.de/)

• SmarTest Energy Butler

– an intelligent electricity meter

– a system (energy butler) for switching electrical appliances automatically, and

– an Internet-based Web portal (electricity consumption and costs, information on rates)

Smart Home - Smart Gridsinteroperability

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• Smart Grids as complex techno-socio-economic systems

– with multiple layers (physical, cyber, social, policy)

– and multiple interacting decision makers, with autonomous

behaviours, goals and attitudes

• Networking

• Dissemination

• Collaboration

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• EU: DG ENER, INFSO, RTD,…

• Portugal, Israel, Germany,

Lithuania,…

• US Department of Energy

• ISGAN, ENTSOE, EURELECTRIC, CIGRE, EDP,

EDF, ENEL, TERNA, ACEA……

• Mediterranean solar power integration

(MED-TSO, MEDREG, HELIOS, MEDGRID,..)

• MIT, Cambridge University,

TU Delft, TU Eindhoven,

KTH, PoliTO, PoliBA, …

• Argonne Nat Lab, RSE,

ECN, EERA

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The JRC Smart Electricity Systems (SES) team:

•acknowledged reference for smart grids policies and initiatives

•analytic and experimental capacities for power system analysis

•strengthening cooperation with industry, research and other

stakeholders on smart/power grids

•extending the hardware capabilities of the Smart Grids

Laboratory in Petten and Ispra

In sum

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Smart Electricity Systemshttp://ses.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

Thank you

for your attention

stavros.lazarou@ec.europa.eu