Spirae Confidential

Open Inspiration

- Green Business Models

Peter Keller-Larsen – 11 December 2013

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Spirae Overview

• European Office, Spirae.DK, in Denmark

• Parent company in Ft. Collins, Colorado

• Established in 2002, Privately Owned

• Co-Own and operate InteGrid Laboratory with CSU

• Center for Smart Grid Advancement (CSGA)

launched by Spirae

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Distributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS)

Microgrids and Solar Firming

Smart Cities

Spirae Strategy & Market Segments

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A city or community wide approach

to:

– Lower energy usage

– Higher usage of renewable energy

– Lower CO2 emissions

– Local business opportunities

Live case: Zero Energy District

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FortZED: Power to the Community A Public-Private Grassroots Effort

WA

OR

CA

NV

ID

MT

WY

UT

AZ NM

CO

ND

SD

NE

KS

OK

TX

MN

IA

MO

AR

LA MS AL

TN

KY

IL

WI MI

IN

OH

WV

FL

GA

SC

NC

VA MD

PA

DE

NJ

CT RI MA

ME

NH VT

NY

DC

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Fort ZED - a Zero Energy District A district that produces as much power as it consumes on an annual

basis.

Fort Collins wants to do this through a combination of managing and

reducing demand and increasing local renewable generation.

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FortZED Building Blocks

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20%

25%

15%

20%

15%

Net Zero Energy can be achieved with a

mix of building blocks:

Efficiency

Renewable generation

Conventional generation

Flexible capacity

Energy storage

Smart Grid Requirements:

Intermittency Management

Peak Load Management

Constraint Management

Voltage Control

Volt/VAR Optimization

Potential Mix of Building Blocks by

Type

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Supply and demand become aware of each other...

What is essentially happening?

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Project Partner Sites and Distributed Energy Resources

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Project Total

- 4,010 kW Generation

- 760 kW Load Shed

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Spirae “BlueFin” was used as the core communication and control platform.

The operator screen with overview

of the assets involved in the

project

availability status

Capacity

current peak reduction of each

site

load at the Point of Common

Coupling

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Results: 20% demand reduction using DER and flexible consumption

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“Community Solar Garden”

Next phase

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• Solar garden developed throughout Fort Collins to serve the electricity

requirements of subscribing residents and businesses.

• The size of the virtual plant 10 MW,

• Path toward a sizable, complete net Zero Energy District.

• Smart Inverters will make the solar systems fully controllable.

Main participants will include:

• Local Businesses providing rooftop space (leased)

• Local Customers business and residential electricity customers

• Technology Providers Solar PV array, inverters, storage, control system

• Project Developer secure financing, oversee project development

• Fort Collins Utilities/City of FC infrastructure upgrades for new PV

• PRPA Enable Fort Collins customers to purchase from Virtual Plant

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Smart City Kalundborg

What else are we doing?

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Smart City Kalundborg

- demonstrating 2020 today

ABOUT SMART CITY KALUNDBORG

An €18 million project with a 50% grant from the Danish

Energy Agency.

THE VISION

Demonstrate using the existing city infrastructure, how

energy usage can be optimized. It will happen through

making systems, controlling electricity, water, heat,

transport and buildings ”talk” to one another.

It will be facilitated though an open platform

interconnecting numerous companies providing

technology and knowledge.

PART OF A BIGGER PICTURE

AN AMBITIOUS ENERGY PLAN…

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DSOs

(Demander of flexibility)

Aggregators

(Suppliers)

DERs

(Suppliers)

TSO

(Demander of flexibility)

DSO Motivation for buying flexibility - Where does the money come from?

EXAMPLE OF WIN-WIN-WIN THE VALUE OF VIRTUAL GRID ENFORCEMENT PASSED ON

THROUGH THE VALUE CHAIN

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Rebate

on

EV-Charging

WHAT WOULD GLUE IT ALL TOGETHER? THE ”ENERGY SERVICES HUB”

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IN SCK

– IT’S NOT ONLY ELECTRICITY...

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Cold-Store

Food Service

SCK – PROJECTS

Municipality EV’s

home care

Smart neighborhood

7 buildings

Smart home

Building management

Sport and swimming pool

PV´s and storage

private household

Intelligent substation

Public

charging

kr.

pr.

…

Timer i …

Variable tarifs

Intelligent

Street light

Energy advisory -

privat household

Energy advisory

- business

Municipality EV’s

administration

Energy management

Svebøllehallen

Thank you!

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Peter Keller-Larsen Director

Diplomvej 377, 1st floor, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark +45 4124 8660

www.spirae.com

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