Engaging Communities in a Smart Energy Future · 2019-05-30 · network operators (including...
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Engaging Communities in a Smart Energy Future The experience of Scottish Communities Surgeons Quarter, Edinburgh 25 th September 2018 Gillian Hurding Innovation Manager Community Energy Scotland
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Engaging Communities in a Smart Energy Future
The experience of Scottish CommunitiesSurgeons Quarter, Edinburgh
25th September 2018
Gillian HurdingInnovation Manager
Community Energy Scotland
• Over 790 islands
• 93 inhabited
• Home to ~96,000*
people*2011 Census Data
Imaged sourced from: http://www.scan.org.uk/knowledgebase/topics/island.htm
• Opportunities
• Discrete Areas & Identity
• Social & Regulatory Cohesion
• Active, aware communities
• Need for localised solutions
• Abundant natural resources
• Challenges• Depopulation & high fuel poverty
• Social & economic fragility
• Centralised supply chains
• Lack of representation
• Weak and/or constrained electricity networks
UK Energy Snapshot: 2012
• >5 fold increase in UK renewables in a decade
• Approximately 65% of community energy projects cannot gain a full or firm grid export connection for their planned installed capacity
• UK Energy Regulator OFGEM conclude there is £8 billion savings to be made if Grid Operators manage the grid “smartly” prior to building reinforcement
• First real curtailment happens in the Orkney islands Electricity Network
How have we ended up here?
Before
Infrastructure restrictions
Grid instability
£
£Reducing revenues
Increasing consumer costs
The internet of things
Smart
meters
Better
storage
New energy technologies
The future? ...is already playing out in
our Scottish communities
What are the opportunities for Community Energy and whole
system transition planning?
• Local Supply & Storage
• Grid Services & Aggregation
• Low Carbon Local Transport
• Local Energy Planning & Capacity BuildingLocal supply Local generation Local demand/storage National Grid
Energy EnergyEnergy
Cash flow
Local Finance (community ownership)
H2£
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Community Energy Scotland
Our MISSON : to strengthen and
empower local communities by helping
them to own, control and benefit from
their local renewable energy resources,
control and reduce their energy costs,
regenerate their communities and play
their part in the low carbon transition.
Community Energy Scotland
Communities
Support Services
Funders
Regulators and Statutory
Bodies
• Local Supply & Storage
• Grid Services & Aggregation
• Low Carbon Local Transport
• Local Energy Planning & Capacity Building
What are the opportunities for Community Energy and whole
system transition planning?
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ACCESS PROJECT:Islands of Mull & Iona
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Scottish
mainland
Scottish
mainland
Isle of Mull
Isle of Iona
Diverting unused renewable energy into affordable heating
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THE GENERATOR SENDS A SIGNAL TO A “CLOUD-BASED CONTROL PLATFORM” RIGHT BEFORE IT IS SET TO POWER DOWN DUE TO TOO MUCH ENERGY BEING GENERATED…
…WHICH SENDS A SIGNAL TO A “DYNAMO” INSTALLED IN A LOCAL HOME…
…THE DYNAMO POWERS UP THE HOMEOWNERS’
ELECTRICAL HEATING SYSTEMS
...STANDALONE INTELLIGENT QUANTUM STORAGE HEATERS,
…PARALLEL HOT WATER IMMERSION
HEATERS,
AND/OR PARALLEL
ELECTRICAL FLOW
BOILERS.
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Salmon Hatchery
Fish processing
Anaerobic Digester
Biogas CHP Plant
Hydrogen Electrolyser
New Hydrogen CHP Plant
Wind Turbine
Circular Economy
OHLEH ProjectOuter Hebrides Local Energy Hub
Isle of Lewis
New Hydrogen Vehicle
Creed IWMF
Isle of Lewis
Will include and expand upon existing H2 infrastructure in Orkney • EMEC 0.5MW electrolyser, • CES’s 3x tube trailers & 75kW fuel cell
powering Kirkwall harbour
Will add:• 1MW electrolyser on Shapinsay• H2 heating for council buildings• 2x tube trailers• H2 refuelling station & 10 fuel cell
vehicles in Kirkwall “mainland”
EC-funded & operational for 4 years
BIG HIT
ORKNEY HYDROGEN PROJECTS
• A flagship EU project with 12 partners
from 6 countries bringing prestige to
Orkney, and Scotland
• A €10.9m project, with €5m granted
from the EU via FCH JU
• Only one funded each year under
“Hydrogen Territories” call
SMILE CES update – June 2017, Inverness
SMILE
• Demonstrating 9 innovative technological solutionsin large-scale, smart grid demonstration projects in3 European islands:
• Orkney (Scotland)
• Samsø (DenmarK)
• Madeira (Portugal)
The technological solutions include:
• integration of battery technology• power to heat • power to fuel • pumped hydro • electric vehicles
• electricity stored on board boats• aggregator approach to demand
side management (DSM) • predictive algorithms.
Islay – Local Energy Supply Business Plan
Case Study: Dumbydykes,
Edinburgh City Centre.
‘Tower Power’: Enabling on-site
generation in multi storey buildings
Energy Networks Association Open Networks Project
Stems from need to prepare the UK electricity network for
the rapid changes in how the country’s electricity is
generated and consumed.
Who /What is it?
“Energy Networks Association (ENA) is the voice of the UK’s energy networks, representing the 15 companies responsible for operating and maintaining the ‘wires and pipes’ that deliver electricity and gas to households, businesses and communities in UK & Ireland.“
Open Networks Project (launched January 2017)
“This project brings together all 8 of the UK’s electricity network operators (including National Grid as the System Operator), the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and the energy regulator Ofgem, as well as leading academics, trade associations and NGOs.”
1. A system whereby local generators can secure reduced DUoS charges or even payments owing to benefits they create for local grid balancing
2. Greater opportunities for connection where grids are constrained through ANM as business-as-usual
3. Recognition and support for community groups to engage their local consumers in understanding and being able to take advantage of the evolving ‘smart system’ (and positioning local community groups in this process)
4. Scope for local, community-led DSR services.
5. Building community capacity to engage in this ‘smart / flexible system’ agenda.
CES Engagement in Open Networks Project aiming to achieve:
Thank You
Gillian Hurding
Innovation Manager
Community Energy Scotland
The Whisky Bond
2 Dawson Road, Glasgow, G4 9SS
M:07947568995
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