Webinar recording at https://youtu.be/ueVkeVCbCCw This presentation provides an introduction to flexibility solutions, focused on DSO and demand-side innovative service enabling solutions. This introduction will be followed by the presentation of ATTEST and INTERRFACE as examples of RD&I projects where these flexibility solutions are being developed at the European level.

1. Local flexibility solutions
leveraged by RD&I projects as
system stability solutions
November 10th, 2020
Organized by INTERPRETER, in partnership with INTERRFACE and ATTEST
ISGAN Academy webinar #25
Recorded webinars available at: https://www.iea-isgan.org/our-work/annex-8/
Hans Bludszuweit; George Boultadakis & André Guimarães Madureira

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5. The BRIDGE Initiative
506/11/2020

6. The BRIDGE Initiative
Cooperation group of Smart Grid, Energy Storage,
Islands and Digitalisation H2020 projects
606/11/2020
• BRIDGE fosters continuous knowledge sharing amongst projects
• Focus on joint recommendations about the future exploitation
BRIDGE Working Groups:
Data Management Business Models Regulations
Customer
Engagement

7. The BRIDGE Initiative
This webinar is part of a collaboration action of 5 H2020 projects
related with BRIGDE, organized by INTERPRETER.
706/11/2020
FlexPlan
Organisation:
Invited projects:
Two webinars on Flexibility have been launched
with ISGAN:
ISGAN webinar #24:
Flexibility needs at system level and how RD&I
projects are leveraging these solutions
ISGAN webinar #25:
Local flexibility solutions leveraged by RD&I projects
as system stability solutions

8. Flexibility – system needs and current
context
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9. Power systems – Changing context
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10. Power systems – Changing context
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11. Context – Why flexibility?
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Source: World Energy Council

12. Context – Why flexibility?
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Source: World Energy Council

13. Needs for RD&I
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Source: ETIP-SNET

14. Needs for RD&I
• Clear need for flexibility
solutions and flexibility
enablers at system level
• Not something
academic/research level –
clearly identified at operational
level (e.g. ENTSO-E)
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Source: ENTSO-E

15. Needs for RD&I
• Clear need for flexibility solutions and flexibility enablers at system level
• Multiple solutions
• Leveraged by RD&I Projects (H2020 plays a major role)
• Including grid operators, regulatory bodies, etc.
• INTERPRETER Project aims to provide a contribution
• Technical solutions
• Interaction with other initiatives
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Source: ENTSO-E

16. INTERPRETER Project
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17. Interoperable tools for an efficient management and effective planning of the electricity grid
LC-SC3-ES-6-2019 – Research on advanced tools and technological development
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• Budget = EU Grant: 3.9 M€
(RIA: Research and Innovation Action)
• Duration: 3 Years (Oct 2019 – Sep 2022)
• Coordinator: CIRCE (ES)
• Partners: 9
• Countries: 6
• https://www.interpreter-h2020.eu
INTERPRETER – The project
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 864360

18. The overall objective of INTERPRETER is:
• To develop a modular grid management solution, a set of interoperable off-line
and on-line software tools for optimized design, planning, operation and
maintenance of the electricity grid, with a special focus on distribution network. It
will be offered to grid operators through an open-source software platform.
The overall solution and each of its modules will be:
• developed, tested and validated in close collaboration with 2 DSOs and partners
from 6 different EU countries, providing a set of representative use cases, thus
ensuring the replicability and uptake of INTERPRETER solution across Europe.
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Objectives and approach

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Platform architecture

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Grid operation and maintenance
Non-technical
losses detection
Ancillary
services for DSO
based on voltage
balance and
congestion
DSO/TSO
interaction for
ancillary services
extension
Predictive
maintenance
strategies for
grid assets
Grid control
optimisation and
self-Healing
Grid Planning
Optimal reactive
power
compensation
Planned phase
balancing
Dispersed
storage units
location
optimization
Nodal capacity
allocation
Environmental
and economic
assessment
Low-voltage grid
modelling tool
Contributing to flexibility related solutions at planning and operational levels
10+1 Services (to be) provided

21. Thank you
Hans Bludszuweit
hbludszuweit@fcirce.es
https://www.interpreter-h2020.eu/

22. INTERRFACE Project
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23. The Project
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• Budget: 20.9 M€
• EU Grant: 16.8 M€ (IA – Innovation Action)
• Duration: 4 Years (Jan 2019 – Dec 2022)
• Coordinator: European Dynamics Luxemburg SA (ED)
• 42 partners
• http://www.interrface.eu/
TSO-DSO-Consumer INTERFACE aRchitecture to provide innovative grid services for an
efficient power system
LC-SC3-ES-5-2018-2020 – TSO-DSO-Consumer: Large-scale demonstrations of innovative grid
services through demand response, storage and small-scale (RES) generation
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 824330

24. The Consortium
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25. Strategic Objectives
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 To design a Common Architecture that will connect actors and markets in a
transparent, non-discriminatory manner
 To drive collaboration in the procurement of grid services by TSOs and DSOs,
and to create strong incentives to connected customers
 To integrate small scale and large-scale assets to increase market liquidity for
grid services and facilitate scaling up of new services
 To define and demonstrate standardised products, key parameters, and the
activation and settlement process for energy services
 To promote state-of-the-art digital technologies in order to engage end-users
into the next generation electricity market transactions

26. INTERRFACE Product
Interoperable pan-European Grid Services Architecture (IEGSA)
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“An open architecture for sharing data among all participants in the electricity system value
chain (customers, grids, market), from local, regional to EU level. It will enable TSOs, DSOs and
customers to coordinate their efforts to maximise the potential of distributed energy resources
(DERs), demand aggregators and grid assets, so as to procure energy services in a cost-
efficient way and create consumer benefits”

27. INTERRFACE Product
Interoperable pan-European Grid Services Architecture (IEGSA)
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Component Layer
Communication Layer
Information Layer
Function Layer
Business Layer
TSO/ DSO
FSP / BSP /
Aggregator
Consumers/
Prosumers
Grid
qualifi-
cation
Product
qualifi-
cation
Activation
Procure-
ment of
services
Settle-
ment
Flexibility
Register
Function
TSO/DSO
Coordination
Function
Single Market
Interface
Function
Settlement
Unit Function
Data model 1 Data model 2 Data model n
Common Information Model
Demo (country/ region) specific
INTERRFACE Data Governance tool
Market
Operator
ECCo SP
Commercial
Market/
Clearing
platforms
National
Data Hubs
Data
Sources
INTERRFACE Communication
Protocols
SGAM structure by CEN-CENELEC-ETSI

28. Finland
Estonia
Latvia
BulgariaItaly
Hungary
Slovenia
Romania
Greece
Demonstrators
Demo Area 1:
Congestion Management and Balancing Issues
Demo Area 2:
Peer-to-peer Trading
Demo Area 3:
Pan-EU clearing Market
• DSO and Consumer Alliance (Centralized Energy
Management system for microgrids)
• Intelligent Distribution Nodes (Grid Services
Management system for flexible LV/MV Networks)
• Single Flexibility Platform (Exchange Platform for
distributed flexibilities in end-to-end electricity networks)
• Asset-enabled Local Markets (Microgrid Local Electricity
Markets using the assets capabilities)
• Blockchain-based TSO-DSO flexibility (Market Platform
with Smart Contract and smart billing)
• DERs into Wholesale (A retail-to-wholesale Market
approach for DERs’ integration)
• Spatial Aggregation of local flexibility (A EUPHEMIA-
based Market Platform to engage local flexibility resources) 28

29. Demonstrators – Local
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1. DSO and Consumer Alliance Demo (ITALY)
(Centralized Energy Management system for microgrids)
• Centralized energy management optimization at a city-scale microgrid
• Improve the power quality of the microgrid by acting on the critical MV
lines
• Promote the final users engagement in DR programs
• Test a methodology to reliably coordinate the operability of the
centralized EES and the distributed loads
Demo Area 1:
Congestion Management and Balancing Issues

30. Demonstrators – Local
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2. Intelligent Distribution Nodes Demo (BULGARIA)
(Grid Services Management system for flexible LV/MV Networks)
• Management of small-scale assets at the distribution level addressed to
improve TSO and DSO interconnection
• New mechanism for end-user aggregators to provide grid services and
increase the share of renewables
• Combination of local congestion management markets with wholesale and
balancing markets
• Ancillary services provision by aggregated end-users, prosumers and
distributed generation
Demo Area 1:
Congestion Management and Balancing Issues

31. Demonstrators – Local
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3. Single Flexibility Platform Demo (ESTONIA, FINLAND, LATVIA)
• Single Platform, where TSOs, DSOs, prosumers (flexibility owners), BRPs, Suppliers
can trade flexibility services in a transparent and cost-effective way
• Validation of a dynamic market model that promotes liquidity, exposes flexibility
resources, enables connectivity of resources
• Expands the opportunities for market participants to be involved in balancing and
flexibility markets
• Simplifies entry of Demand response to balancing and other reserve markets
Demo Area 1:
Congestion Management and Balancing Issues

32. Demonstrators – Local
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4. Asset-enabled Local Markets Demo (HUNGARY, SLOVENIA)
(Microgrid Local Electricity Markets using the assets capabilities)
• Showcasing a local market for energy trading between local communities
• Enabling the participation of local flexibility providers or small prosumers
• Congestion management solutions inherent to the market clearing algorithm
• Solving local congestions through dynamic network usage tariffs
Demo Area 2:
Peer-to-peer Trading

33. Thank you
George Boultadakis
george.boultadakis@eurodyn.com
http://www.interrface.eu/

34. ATTEST Project
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35. Advanced Tools Towards cost-efficient decarbonisation of future reliable Energy SysTems
LC-SC3-ES-6-2019 – Research on advanced tools and technological development
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• Budget = EU Grant: 4.0 M€ (RIA)
• Duration: 3 Years (Mar 2020 – Feb 2023)
• Coordinator: INESC TEC (PT)
• Partners: 9
• Countries: 6
• https://attest-project.eu/
The Project
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 864298

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Energy system of 2030

37. The overarching objective of the ATTEST
project is to develop and operationalize a
modular open source toolbox comprising
a suite of innovative tools to support TSOs /
DSOs operating, maintaining and planning
the energy systems of 2030 and beyond in
an optimized and coordinated manner.
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Objectives

38. The tools will be organized
in 3 modules inside the
toolbox:
• Planning,
• Asset management and
• Operation.
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Proposed approach

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Main concept
ICT platform for TSO/DSO coordination
TSO/DSO data access
and storage component
TSO/DSO visualizationtools
Module with
asset
management
tools
Module with
operation
tools
Module with
planning
tools
Opensource toolbox
Input data
Input data
Datasets
Results
Results
Joint ICT platform
to enhance
TSO/DSO
collaboration and
coordination and
ensure a secure
data exchange
• Minimize CAPEX
and OPEX
• Increase
reliability and
quality of
service
• Decrease
environmental
impacts
Existing input
data
DSO database
TSO database
Input data
generatedin
the project
MARKET
SIMULATOR
TEST CASE

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Main outputs

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ICT platform components

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Demo site in Croatia
• The ICT platform and a selection of tools from the open source toolbox will be
validated in the single demonstrator of the project in Croatia
• The demo site includes 3 different zones of the electrical system of Croatia:
o Zagreb demo (focusing on demand response and flexibility from buildings)
o Koprivnica demo (focusing on network operation and flexibility from DSO assets)
o Northwestern Croatia demo (focusing on network planning /expansion)

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Demo site in Croatia

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Demo site in Croatia
• Zagreb demo includes two buildings that are able to provide flexibility at MV level
o FER Skyscraper and HEP Headquarters
• Characteristics:
o Both have their own 10/0,4 kV transformer substations equipped with advanced meters;
o Both have a dedicated multi energy management system to control their flexibility based
on batteries, PV systems, controllable heating / cooling zones…
• These assets provide a level of demand response with meaningful effects to the
DSO and, with a degree of upscaling, to the TSO
• Both HOPS (TSO) and HEP ODS (DSO) will schedule their reserves in the day-
ahead having in mind the actual needs for reserves

45. Thank you
André G. Madureira
andre.g.madureira@inesctec.pt
https://attest-project.eu/

46. Check out related ISGAN webinar #24
4606/11/2020
FlexPlan
Organisation:
Invited projects:
ISGAN webinar #24:
Flexibility needs at system level and how RD&I
projects are leveraging these solutions
ISGAN webinar #25:
Local flexibility solutions leveraged by RD&I projects
as system stability solutions

47. Thank you
Hans Bludszuweit
hbludszuweit@fcirce.es