Leveraging Realtime Energy Control Systems for Enabling Innovation in Electric Power

Markets

September 2012

Alleantia who ?

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Solar & Renewable Power Systems Energy Management

Based on open source software (Linux, Java, HTML5) and hardware (Arduino), Alleantia products enable improved

performances, O&M cost reduction, service effectiveness and implementation of new services

Alleantia (www.alleantia.com) is a product and platform company dedicated to the development of IOT off-the-

shelf products focused on monitoring and control

Etherogenous Industry Systems

Today’s Electric Market

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Focus on Grid Health, Continuity and Quality. The Grid Manages instant demand and supply. Demand-Offer are balanced every 15 minutes.

Energy Exchange (MPE) set prices through auctions based on planned usage ‘previous day – same day’ modeling, in fixed sessions (MGP/MI)

Customers’ end tariff is generally based on timeslots and pre-defined tariffs

Market driven by producers, distributors and very large end customers

The Renewable Energy Problem: Predictability

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‘Dumped’ Energy Production unplanned (1h) and sparse

Peaks beyond planned load are managed through I/O disconnection (Italy: starting August 2012)

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Italy: more than 12 GWp installed from 37,000+

PV systems >50 kWp

PV and Wind Power Systems Subject to Production Variation, Seasonal and non-Seasonal

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Could Customers use this wasted production if offered at convenient price ?

Adaptable industry cycles – two examples

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Compressed Air

Refrigeration

Standard Cycle Variable Cycle

Standard Cycle Variable Cycle

time

Tank air pressure

compressor activated on pressure trigger

time

compressor activated on pressure and external triggers

time

Cooling temp

compressor activated on temp trigger

time

compressor activated on temp and external triggers

Cooling temp

Tank air pressure

• Renewable Energy investors must maximize ROI

• Consumers may use more energy with limited notice

• There could be room for a near-real-time Energy trading system

• Near-real time information from producers and consumers necessary as basis for implementation (integrated with Grid Management)

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A Potential win-win Scenario

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Leveraging Control Systems for Open Electric Marketplace

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Discussion Purpose

Production

Control

System

Energy

Management

System

• Actual power production

and near term forecast

• Historical trend and

meteo forecast data

integration

• Actual power delivered to

grid and planned

forecast

• Grid absorbed power (planned)

• Per-Zone ‘dumped power ‘

availability forecast

• Next hour (fraction) forecast

• Additional power

request (kW, duration)

• Time start & end

• Discount requested

‘Next Hour’ Electric

Trading System

1: power availability estimation

Leveraging Control Systems for Open Electric Marketplace

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Discussion Purpose

Production

Control

System

Energy

Management

System

• Actual power production

and near term forecast

• Historical trend and

meteo forecast data

integration

• Actual power delivered to

grid and planned

forecast

• Revised next hour (fraction)

forecast

• Additional power

purchased (kW,

duration)

• Time start & end

‘Next Hour’ Electric

Trading System

2: near-real time extra power allocation

• Alleantia could provide data simulation

– for Production forecast (next 30’ – 60’ – 120’)

– for Energy Management system (energy bidding next 30’ – 60’ – 120’)

• Data could be provided on

• Additional Grid System data input to be added

• Scope of work could be a basic demand-offer matching system (‘Next hour’ automatic bidding)

– Book

– Forecast

– Matching

– Feedback info to user

– Dashboard

Proposing a Hackaton Project

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