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Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Storage4Grid (Storage4Grid)

Teaser

Storage4Grid (S4G) started on Dec. 1st, 2016 and will end on Nov. 30th, 2019. The project aims at boosting the uptake of Energy Storage Systems (ESS) between the distribution grid level and the end-user level, by developing a novel, holistic methodology for modelling...

Summary

Storage4Grid (S4G) started on Dec. 1st, 2016 and will end on Nov. 30th, 2019. The project aims at boosting the uptake of Energy Storage Systems (ESS) between the distribution grid level and the end-user level, by developing a novel, holistic methodology for modelling, planning, integrating, operating and evaluating distributed ESS (at end-user premises and at substations), Electrical Vehicles (EVs), innovative energy metering and energy routing technologies. The S4G holistic methodology comprises:
• A Decision Support Framework (DSF) for planning the deployment of distributed ESS
• Predictive control algorithms prioritizing and optimizing the use of storage capacity distributed at end-user premises, substation level and in EVs
• An innovative Unbundled Smart Meter (USM) and an Energy Router (ER) enabling the S4G storage control strategies in real-life settings.
S4G pursues a set of Technical Objectives (TO) linked with long-term Strategic Objectives (SO):
• TO1: pre-design the S4G interfaces, namely a set of interfaces and a joint Common Information Model (CIM) suitable for monitoring and control of heterogeneous storage systems
• TO2: develop a set of predictive control algorithms suitable to perform real-time optimization of distributed storage system in existing low and medium voltage grids
• TO3: establish an Unbundled Smart Meter (USM) extending existing AMI standards in open fashion to allow local “plug-in” integration of interfaces providing information about storage control, EV charging and local user interfaces to enable interaction with users
• TO4: establish a fully integrated Energy Router allowing an easier integration of DC home grid, renewables and EV’s in a Smart Grid ready approach
• TO5: develop a decision-support tool for analyzing, planning, forecasting and optimizing the use of distributed storage in the low and medium voltage grid
• TO6: To propose and apply an evaluation methodology that assesses the technical feasibility of the developed technologies & solutions and as well as evaluates the user acceptance while considering the multiple actors and stakeholders within a Smart Grid.
• SO1: engage with private and professional end users to secure acceptance of S4G solutions
• SO2: develop a business model framework involving relevant actors (individual prosumers, ESS technology providers, service providers, DSOs, ESCOs, etc.) supporting a number of business cases
• SO3: within the business ecosystem outlined in SO1, extend available insight on the potentials of storage technologies to help decision makers in defining investment strategies
• SO4: provide inputs to on-going standardization activities in the area of storage modelling, testing and control, so to foster an eco-system of vendors, service providers, private and professional storage users
• SO5: provide a set of cyber-security guidelines and policies for operating storage systems involving users data and preferences handling correctly privacy- and security-related aspects

Work performed

A) Initial Scenarios and Use Cases
3 scenarios were defined:
• The “Advanced Cooperative Storage Systems” scenario in Bucharest addresses lower-TRL solutions; namely, the energy router, the joint use of storage and DC buses, V2G services (Figure 1).
• The “Cooperative EV Charging” scenario is a real life test site in Bolzano addressing methodologies for planning, evaluating and controlling storage units communicating and cooperating with EVs charging systems both in a commercial case and in a residential case (Figure 2).
• The “Storage Coordination” scenario is a real life test site located in Denmark addressing the use of storage as a buffer for fluctuations. It features 5 residential house in Fur, with storage units paired with PV installations, a lab and a grid area in the municipality of Skive with a large number of RES (Figure 3).
B) System architecture
Based on the first set of scenarios, use cases and requirements S4G developed a System Reference Architecture using the Smart Grid Reference Architecture (SGAM) Framework.
C) Prototypes
• The Unbundled Smart Meter (USM) is made of a certified Smart Metrology Meter and a Smart Meter eXtension (SMX) Box hosting a modular software, running on a dedicated small-form Personal Computer, which hosts plug-in components providing added-value services.
• The User-side ESS control system has a software at its core that runs site-wise ESS control algorithms, receiving quasi-real-time information from local devices (ESS, PV, loads, EV chargers, etc.) and charging/discharging profiles for the next 24h generated by a global ESS controller service (GESSCon).
• DSF components necessary to gather data from the test sites in Bolzano and Fur by operating with 3rd party and DSO systems.
• An initial version of the DSF co-simulation runs power flow simulations in the grid of Bolzano and Fur.
• Three Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) allowing residential (in Bolzano) and professional users (for ALPERIA in Bolzano and ENIIG in Denmark) to interact with the S4G system.
D) Initial Business Models
An overview of the storage market, TRL-level, stakeholders and policy framework in general, followed by a description of each test site and the associated business models were provided. Every business model takes as input the S4G Use Cases and is addressed in terms of stakeholder analysis, SWOT analysis from DSO perspective, risk analysis.
E) Test sites
In each test site the various S4G components were integrated following the S4G architectural view and adapted to the real-life situation in the field. Evaluation on activities were carried in each test site covering practical, technical and economic aspects, so to demonstrate potential benefit for stakeholders in terms of cost efficiency and added-value information.

Final results

The areas targeted by S4G in progressing beyond the state-of-the-art and results expected until the end of the project are summarized in Table 1. Such objectives are still valid and the initial results presented in the previous section well depict the status of S4G progresses in achieving them. In fact, S4G adopts an iterative approach that, on one hand, ensures that the final S4G outcomes achieve the goals set out in the project plan still meeting real-life needs and, on the other hand, issues a first full version of the results at early stages and subsequently improves and extends it as the project progresses. S4G plans three full iterations (also referred to as “phases”) each 1-year long; therefore, this first 18-month project reporting period ends in between the first and the second iteration.

The 9 Expected impacts (EI-1, …, EI-9) identified in the Grant Agreement (Table 2a and Table 2b) are still relevant and do not need to be updated.

Website & more info

More info: http://www.storage4grid.eu.