The Case of Elering Smart Grid Platform

2017-03-08

Public sector innovation in energy: The case of Elering smart grid platform – Estfeed

Kaija Valdmaa

Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance

Project Manager of Estfeed Elering AS

07.03.2017

Elering in Brief

• Independent electricity and gas transmission system operator • Main task is to ensure high-quality, sustainable and secure energy supply to Estonian consumers o Manage, maintain and develop the internal and cross border energy infrastructure o Baltic States energy markets integration with EU – electricity system desynchronization from Russia and regional gas market that covers Finland and Baltic States • Also to ensure the functioning of the open energy market and equal treatment of all energy market participants o Implementation of the objectives of the European Energy Union • Competence centre of energy sector in Estonia, initiation of R&D projects o Recognition of the importance of ICT in the development of energy systems • Contribution to policy formulation

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Elering Group at a Glance

110-330 kV lines, AC HVDC connections Emergency power plant connections with Latvia and Russia EstLink 1 and EstLink 2 and 145 substations

Eurobond listed on Asset value London Stock Exchange, 230 employees Moody’s A2/stable ca MEUR 880

Transmission Networks Electricity transmission network consists of over 5500 km lines and near 150 substations. Natural gas transmission network consists of ca 900 km gas pipelines and 39 gas metering and distribution stations.

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Strategic goals

• Security of supply through efficiently functioning markets • Desynchronization from Russian power system

Both goals can be achieved only with adequate interconnections

Regions

Generation: 94 GW Peak load: 66 GW

Generation: 631 GW Peak load: 390 GW

Generation: 337 GW Peak load: 215 GW Baltic power system: Generation: 8,4 GW Peak load: 4,5 GW

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Estfeed - smart grid data sharing platform designed for increasing the efficiency of energy consumption, production and transmission

Innovative data sharing ICT infrastructure for energy market participants

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Minimum core functionalities of data exchange platform

1) Platform for sharing metering consumption/generation (kWh) data 2) Central platform serving the whole country 3) Data made available at least with hourly resolution (where smart meters exist) with time lag of one day 4) Customer’s ability to access its consumption/generation data 5) Customer’s ability to authorize other parties (at least suppliers) to access his/her consumption/generation data

Energy data exchange platforms in Europe • Austria: www.apcs.at/en; APCS Power Clearing and Settlement AG is a public limited company owned by businesses in the energy, industrial and financial sectors. A total of 36% of the share capital is held by system operators (TSO’s share is (14.42%) • Belgium: www.atrias.be; Atrias is a joint initiative of the five most important DSOs in Belgium: Sibelga, Infrax, ORES, RESA and EANDIS. • Denmark: http://energinet.dk/DA/El/Datahub/Sider/DataHub.aspx; DataHub is owned and operated by TSO – Energinet.dk • Estonia: http://estfeed.ee/en/; http://elering.ee/estonian-data-hub/; Estfeed data exchange platform and central data hub are owned and operated by TSO – Elering • Ireland: http://www.mrso.ie; ESB Networks as the sole DSO in Ireland takes the role of Metered Data Provider in Ireland thus covering country’s all metering points • Norway: http://elhub.no/en/pages; the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate has assigned Statnett (TSO) the task of establishing a so-called datahub that will encompass all metering data for electricity in Norway • UK: https://www.smartdcc.co.uk/; Smart DCC Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capita plc (provider of business process management) • Hungary: A pilot project is going on to organize a central data exchange platform at TSO level • Poland, Finland, Sweden: Central data hub to be operated by TSO, not yet in operation

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Estfeed

• Intermediary platform between data/service providers (data sources) and applications • Example: person's energy data for monitoring and analysis service • Maintain control over personal data

Data + Platform + Applications = Smart energy efficiency

• Estfeed brings together data sources and applications • Data sources: – Electricity, gas and district heating smart meter readings, weather forecast and energy day-ahead prices – Consumption information from individual devices in industry, offices, households • Access to data for app developers through interpreting and combining data: – Cost optimizing energy efficiency applications for service providers and end-users – Applications for user-friendly operation of the platform

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Estfeed – security, efficiency, neutrality, transparency, interoperability

• Central platform built on Estonian X-Road – Highest security requirements – Access to all public data sources – Better efficiency for the society (standardization) • New role for TSO – Elering as Smart Energy System Operator and Estfeed as the tool for realizing smart grid – Elering as neutral party to provide data sharing service for the public in transparent, reliable and independent way – Growing importance of ICT and IoT is becoming central in running energy system – Customer involvement and central integration of energy services

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http://estfeed.ee/en/ https://vimeo.com/148612278

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Value proposition & impact on sustainability

• Consumers – rapid energy consumption analysis, also direct and indirect savings on energy costs

• Application developers – business opportunity, smart energy solutions and services with impact and revenue

• Renewable energy producers and other market participants (sellers, BRPs, prosumers, producers) – promotion of services that support network operation capacity and generate extra revenues

• Network operators – data transparency, equal treatment, implementation of EU law, flexibility services, effective and efficient investments into physical grid

Wider benefits and opportunities

• Energy consumption & production monitoring and management makes it possible for market participants to change their behaviour and operate more efficiently and effectively

• More widely it enables to achieve Estonian and EU renewable energy and energy efficiency goals

• Standardized and harmonized platforms – Baltic energy data exchange platform and EU data exchange platform!?

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Kaija Valdmaa +37253448048 [email protected]