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Minutes of SolarPower Europe Digitalisation & Solar Task
Force scoping workshop
Scoping Workshop – 8 December 2016Sonia Dunlop and Alexandre Roesch
The following PPT contains the outputs from the discussions in the workshop and the PPT presentations.
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Before we start…
You are invited to attend the
Digitalisation & Solar Task Force
Kick-off meeting
Brussels, Thursday 16 February 2017
Registration will open soon here. Workshop is free to attend and exclusively for SolarPower Europe members.
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INVITE TO KICK OFF MEETING
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What is SolarPower Europe?
The new European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA)
We represent organisations from the whole solar value chain
We help shape the policy environment and make business happen in the solar industry
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Significant growth in members
Total number of members
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Over 200 members, including the following leading companies:
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Who we represent
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Agenda of scoping workshop (8 December 2016)
Topic Responsibility Time
1.Tour de table:What is digitalisation and why is it relevant for solar?
• Sonia Dunlop
• Alexandre Roesch09:30 – 09:45
2.Virtual Power Plants: Input presentation and interactive session
• Peter Van Den Heede, ABB
09:45 – 10:45
3.Digitalised solar solutions:Input presentation and interactive session
• Alison Finch, Huawei 11.00 - 12.00
Networking lunch
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Breakout sessions
• Scope and objectives of taskforce
• Focus areas and workstreams
• All participants 12.00 – 12:45
5. Conclusions and definition of next steps• Sonia Dunlop
• Alexandre Roesch12:45 – 12:50
Networking coffee break
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10:45 – 11.00
12:50 – 13:30
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First Name Last Name Company
Martina Pianta 3E
Florian Chapalain ABB
Peter van den Heede ABB
Bjorn Spiegel Arge Netz Gmbh
Heidi Quinger BayWa r.e. (via conference call)
Clara Lemaire Centrica
Nathan Arbitman DSM Innovation Center
Floris Sprengers DSM Innovation Center
Jaap Jansen ECN
Maria Luisa Lo Trovato Enel Green Power (via conference call)
Robert Boyle European Parliament
Leah Charpentier First Solar
Vincent Boiteau GE Power Conversion
Alison Finch Huawei
Thomas Frommer Jabil Circuit
Mohamed El-Fatatry MASAR
Ines Flores Openwatts Ventures
Etienne Buessler Reuniwatt
Raymond Schonfeld Single Market Ventures
François Sonnet SolarChange/Solcrypto
Pol Spronck Solarwatt
Amélie Pans Vattenfall
Petja Piilola Wartsila/Aula Europe
Aloys Nghiem WindEurope
Who attended the scoping workshop?
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The different facets to solar & digitalisation
Micro
•Peer-to-peer selling
•Blockchain
•Smart homes
•Smart meters
Macro
•Aggregation
•Virtual Power Plants
•Smart grids
Consumer experience
•Bundling of services
•Facilitation of engagement with energy services
• O&M and Asset Management
• Potential for cost reduction
Industry 4.0
The digitalisation of solar is an umbrella term for a whole range of trends, technologies and transformations that encompass the application of digital technology to the solar PV ecosystem.
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OUTPUTS OF INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
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What are the drivers and barriers for the digitalisation of solar and the solar
ecosystem?
Key question for the workshop:
The following slides contain the main conclusions of our interactive sessions. Yellow boxes are drivers and blue boxes are barriers. If you would prefer the
outputs in Word document format, click here.
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OUTPUTS OF INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
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New business models
Blockchain and peer-to-peer selling
From utilities to platform providers
Reduced costs and
lower prices
Challenges in scaling
up
LCOES still too high and IRRs too low
Lack of cheap
monitoring for small-
scale
Slow renewal of building stock
What are the drivers and barriers for the digitalisation of solar PV and the solar ecosystem in terms of new business models for solar?
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OUTPUTS OF INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
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Grid management
Overcoming grid
congestion
Less need for back-up
Better forecasting
supply/demand
Electrification of heating, cooling & mobility
Little value for flexibility
Cautious approach DSOs and utilities
Differences in
connection standards
What are the drivers and barriers for the digitalisation of solar PV and the solar ecosystem in terms of grid management?
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OUTPUTS OF INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
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Consumer experience
Transparency for consumers
(prices and consumption)
Customer loyalty
and trust
Responding to demands for greener local power
Bundling of services and ease
of use
Differentiation between customer segments
Solutions for
consumers that cannot
go solar
Lack of engagement
and knowledge
What are the barriers and drivers for the digitalisation of solar PV and the solar ecosystem in terms of consumers and the customer experience?
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OUTPUTS OF INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
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Regulation
Improvements from draft
Market Design package
Climate change targets
Subsidies to conventional generation
Illiquid electricity markets
Challenges for storage,
demand response
and aggregators
What are the drivers and barriers for the digitalisation of solar PV and the solar ecosystem in terms of policy and regulation?
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OUTPUTS OF INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
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Technical
Advances in
algorithms
Smart meters
Lack of interoperability
Varying national
standards
Competition leading to competing standards
Cybersecurity risks
What are the drivers and barriers for the digitalisation of solar PV and the solar ecosystem in terms of technical considerations?
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OUTPUTS OF INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
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Data
Risks surrounding
remote controllability
Data ownership
issues
Quality of data
Standardisationdata
management and formatting
Lack of data
sharing
Data protection concerns
What are the drivers and barriers for the digitalisation of solar PV and the solar ecosystem in terms of data issues?
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Draft objectives: outputs from break-out sessions
Solar and
Digitalisation Task
Force
Expected Outcome
Market
opportunities
report
Standards/
Commitments
Policy asks
Dialogue with
stakeholders
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Objectives
Coordinate
consumer
education
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Produce report on new business models for solar, state of play re technology, costreduction and maximising network value solar.
Put forward policy and regulatory asks(especially to remove barriers) and educatepolicy-makers.
Coordinate efforts to educate, inform and empower the consumer as lack of understanding is a key barrier.
Create industry commitments re quality/technicalstandards (e.g. data management, KPIs, security) & standard terminology.
Be a platform for solar industry to dialogue with other sectors and stakeholders e.g. aggregators, smart appliances, Blockchain etc.
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Workstreams: ideas from group discussions
Digitalisation& Solar Task
Force
Work stream:
Data and technical
Work stream:
Policy
Work stream:
Consumers
Work stream: New business
models
Work stream: Grid
management
Other ideas for work streams included electric vehicles, the residential segment, smart meters and Blockchain
innovation. Note that we don’t necessarily have to have different workstreams in the Task Force (most
SolarPower Europe Task Forces don’t), we could just organise conference calls and meetings around
deliverables e.g. Market Opportunities report, Policy Asks, Technical/Quality 10 Commitments, Consumer
engagement.
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Draft timeline – potential dates for your diary
Dec 17Oct 17May 17Apr 177-8 Mar 17
16 Feb 17
8 Dec 16
Scoping workshop
• Defined vision for Task Force
• Drivers and barriers
Offical Kick-Off Meeting
• Define deliverables and objectives
• Agree on dissemination strategy
• First discussion of policy asks
Expert Workshop
• Challenging ideas• Sequence of Q&As• Gathering evidence
Digital Utilities Europe (10-11 May) and/or Intersolar (31 May-2 Jun)
• Publish top 10 policy asks
End 2017 TBC
• Publish industry commitments on technical/quality standards
Digitalisationdinner, Solar Power Summit (see next slide)
• Stress-test initial policy asks
European Utility Week(3-5 Oct)
• Publish market opportunities report
Sponsor-ship oppsavailable
Conference calls will be held throughout the year to discuss specific deliverables.
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Incl.Digitalisation
dinner & roundtable
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2Virtual Power Plants: how to create more value from distributed generation – input presentation
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Peter Van Den Heede, ABB
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© ABB Group
January 6, 2017 | Slide 20
Novemebr 2016; Peter Van Den Heede, Smart Grid Responsible cluster Europe
Microgrid & VPPEnabling resilient and cost effective access to power
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© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 21
Energy and grid transformationGlobal trend – big shift in the electrical value chain
DER: Distributed Energy Resources
Renewable share: ~40% of capacity by 2035
Greater volatility, less predictability
More feed-in nodes
Increasing complexity
Control / information flow is key value driver
Transmission: longer distances, higher
voltages
On- and off-grid
Control / automation on “local” level
Energy storage is key
Generation mix
Power
transmission
and distribution
Micro- / Nano-
grids
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© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 22
Energy and grid transformationMicrogrid participation
Power grid
Power grids are larger
conventional and spread out
grids with high voltage
power transmission
capabilities.
Microgrid technology can be
applied to weak grids making the
network more robust.
Microgrid
Distributed energy resources
and loads that can be
operated in a controlled,
coordinated way either
connected to the main power
grid or in “islanded”* mode.
Microgrids are low or medium voltage
grids without power transmission
capabilities and are typically not
geographically spread out. Nanogrid
Low voltage grids that
typically serve a single
building.
Microgrid technolog can be applim
Islanded mode: ability to provide power independently from the main power grid
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Microgrids with RES as answer for rural electrification
© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 23
PV & Wind Sources as replacement or support for Diesel Engines
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Driver: fuel independence and lower LCOESecure power generation and fuel cost savings
© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 24
Fuel cost is volatile
Renewable energy cost is less volatile
and decreases over time
Renewable energy is economically
competitive today
Steady decline of renewable energy
installation costs is opening new market
opportunities
An optimized energy mix leads to a lower
cost of electricity
Sources: 1) US Energy Information Administration – Independent Statistics and Analysis
2) Alliance for Rural electrification (ARE). Projections made from a case study based in Ecuador with real natural conditions.
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Average Oil price USD$/Barrel is volatile
$133.88 June ‘16
$50.03
$13,000/kW
$5,000/kW
$93/Barrel
$7,000/kW
$3,500/kW
LCOE: Levelized Cost of Electricity
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Driver: uninterrupted power supplyManaging power fluctuations
© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 25
Inherent volatility of renewable energy
can compromise grid stability
The renewable energy integration
solution must address requirements
traditionally fulfilled by diesel
generation (base load)
Renewable energy generation
capacity should be sized to maximize
ROI* and fuel savings
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Project Mauretania
© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 26
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Project Cambodja, 45% PV penetration+ Batteries
© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 27
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Control system: Core of the microgrid (VPP)
© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 28
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OPTIMAX® PowerFitReference Application Trier, Germany
Stadtwerke Trier Virtual Power Pool within the balance group
Integration of power generation units, storage devices and controllable loads
Wind, Solar, Biomass / Biogas, CHP/MicroCHP
Battery storages and e-vehicle charging stations
Water and hydropower plants (in planning stages)
Controllable consumers
Decreasing the payments for balancing power
Embedding with the forecasting and trading tools
ABB Solution Smart Energy Management System for Balance Group
Optimization
Intraday Optimization for balancing of power production subject to fluctuating renewables
Reducing payments for balancing power
© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 29
Balance the fluctuating feed-in of renewable energy
in the balancing group
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Next Kraftwerke: +1000 production units in one VPP system
© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 30
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ABB Deliveres Control System for Worlds first portable hybrid Microgrid
© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 31
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Smart@Home : Ambition
© ABB Smart@Home |19 October 2015| Slide 32
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© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 33
Cloud
COMFORT
(Via Free@Home) (WIFi, KNX, P1/P4,
RS485, MODBUS, …)
or
REACT:
Production
&Storage
Home LANHome LAN
ENERGY(Real time,
secure, private)
Free@Home
(3rd party)
APPS
3rd party energy
interfaces/services
DSO, TSO, retailer, APX
(USEF, OpenADR, …)
Mosaiq API
TRADING
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REACTBattery modularity
N° battery unit 3
Capacity 6 kWh
Max power in charge 3 kW
Max power in discharge 3 kW
• Easy installation and
upgrade
• Battery size to match
customer needs
• Second and third battery can
be added in a second time
1 December 2015
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Boosting self-consumption and self-sufficiencyExample Italy*
*Country: Italiy, power: 5kWp, Year consumption; 4100 kWh, irradiance: 1300 kW/kWp
Pure PV React React + load management
+15%
+25%
Self-sufficiency
Self-consumption
1 December 2015
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Mozaiq open software platformABB –Cisco- Bosch
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© ABB Smart@Home |19 October 2015| Slide 37
International standards under preparationUSEF (Universal Smart Energy Framework & Open ADR
Memorandum of
Understanding signed
2 Nov
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© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 38
Grid connected microgridGrid resiliency, power quality, self consumption and lower environmental impact
Industrial
WindSolar
Battery
Storage
Stabilization
Hydro
Residential
CHP* Conventional
Connection to
Power Grid
PCC: Point of Common Coupling
CHP: Combined Heat and Power
PCC*
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Hybrid or Islanded microgridAccess to power in remote locations, power quality plus lower cost and environmental impact
© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 39
Islanded microgrid example
Solar
Conventional CHP
Wind
Battery
Storage
Industrial
Residential
Stabilization
CHP: Combined Heat and Power
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© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 40
ABB in microgridGlobal references
Mawson Station, Antartica
Cocos Islands, AU
Ross Island, Antarctica
Canary Islands
Faial Islands
Marble Bar
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ABB in microgridExtensive installed application range
© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 41
Hybrid power plant,
greenfield project, turnkeyHybrid power plant,
brownfield project
Stabilization &
optimization of renewable
integration
Stabilization of on-grid
renewables on a weak gridGrid stabilization, virtual inertia &
ancillary services
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Hybrid power plantMarble Bar, PV/Diesel
Project name
Marble BarCountry
Western Australia, AustraliaCustomer
Horizon Power
Government of WA Completion date
2010
ABB solution
Turnkey solution for a greenfield microgrid project
PV/diesel Microgrid with PowerStore grid-stabilizing technology and Microgrid Plus System
The resulting system consists of:
Diesel (4 x 320kW)
PV (1 x 300kW)
PowerStore-flywheel (1 x 500kW)
Microgrid Plus System
Customer benefits
Minimize diesel consumption, 405,000 litres of fuel saved annually
Minimum environmental impact, 1,100 tonnes CO2 avoided annually
Reliable and stable power supply
60% of the day time electricity demand is generated by the PV plant
About the project
Marble bar and Nullagine are the world`s first high
penetration, solar photovoltaic diesel power stations
© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 18
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Integration of renewables and storage with dieselWestern Australia, PV/diesel and storage
© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 18
Project name
DeGrussa Copper-Gold MineLocation
Western AustraliaCustomer
juwi Renewable EnergyCompletion date
2016
ABB solution
Integration of a new 10.6 megawatt (MW) solar PV field and a battery storage system with existing diesel generation to provide reliable base-load power.
The resulting system consists of: PowerStore™ grid stabilization solutions (2 x 2 MW), solar inverter stations (5 x 2 MW), solar MV stations, a transformer and the Microgrid Plus System
Customer benefits
Expected diesel fuel saving is 5 million liters per year, cutting diesel consumption by 20%
About the project
The new hybrid solar facility will be the largest integrated
off-grid solar and battery storage plant in Australia.
Once fully integrated, the plant will reduce CO2
emissions by 12,000 tons.
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Integration of renewablesKenya, Wind
© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 18
Project name
Marsabit wind farmLocation
KenyaCustomer
Socabelec East Africa Ltd (SEAL)Completion date
2016
ABB solution
Supply, installation and commissioning supervision of a PowerStore-flywheel
Stabilizes the connection of 2 x 275kW wind turbines to the grid
Customer benefits
System optimization to avoid curtailment of excess wind power
Reliable and stable power supply
ABB solution allows the customer to maximize renewable
energy penetration by stabilizing the system and avoiding
curtailment of excess wind power
About the project
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Reliable power in presence of a weak gridJohannesburg, PV/diesel and grid
© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 18
Project name
LongmeadowLocation
South AfricaCustomer
Longmeadow Business EstateCompletion date
2016
ABB solution
PV/diesel microgrid with battery-based system to maximize solar contribution and ensure security of power supply at ABB’s premises in Johannesburg
The resulting system consists of:
750 kWdc rooftop PV plant, including ABB PV inverter
1 MVA/380 kWh battery-based PowerStore
Microgrid Plus System
Customer benefits*
Reliable and stable power supply
Optimized renewable energy contribution to the facility
Ability to island from the grid in case of an outage
CO2 reduction: over 1,000 tons/year
Up to 100% renewable energy penetration
About the project
The microgrid solution is for the 96,000 sqm facility houses
hosting ABB South Africa’s headquarters as well as
manufacturing facilities with around 1,000 employees. The
innovative solution will help to maximize the use of solar
energy and ensure uninterrupted power supply.
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Ancillary power system servicesSP AusNet, grid energy storage system
© ABB Group January 6, 2017 | Slide 46
Project name
SP AusNet GESSCountry
Victoria, AustraliaCustomer
SP AusNetCompletion date
2014
ABB solution
Design, engineering, installation and testing of PowerStore-Battery, transformer and diesel generator
Microgrid Plus System for overall system management
Based on transportable containerized solution
Customer benefits
Manage peak demand - Active and reactive power support during high demand periods
Transition into isolated/Off-grid operation on command or in emergency cases without supply interruption
Delay of power line investments
First Embedded Generation system with Battery Grid
Energy Storage for distribution network support in Australia
About the project
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Alison Finch, Huawei
This presentation is not available for download but please seethese two videos here and here for an idea of Huawei’s work in this field.
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Do you have feedback on how our scoping workshop in December was run and ideas for how similar workshops could be improved in
future? Please email Sonia Dunlop on [email protected]
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ANY FEEDBACK FOR US?
And finally, in the meeting several participants asked we circulate more information on Vattenfall’s new PowerPeers project, see info here.