Integrating Renewables into the Grid: Stocktake project Stocktake Results Prepared for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency Version 1 August 2014 Integrating Renewables into the Grid: Stocktake project | Version 1 Notes Stocktake Format This document is only an interim format for distributing the stocktake results. an online portal that will allow easy searching, filtering and exploring Assessments of Relevance The projects in the stocktake were included on the basis that they address or inform one or more objectives that relates to integrating renewable energy into Australian distribution networks. In this stocktake, we have assessed the degree to which each project addresses or informs each of these objectives. The purpose of these assessments is to let users find the projects in the stocktake most relevant to them. The assessments that each project receives are not intended to judge whether the project was successfully executed or not. A project may be completely successful on its own terms, yet tied to an unusual physical or regulatory environment that makes it largely impossible for other entities to adopt and learn from: it would be assessed as less relevant. Conversely, a project may have utterly failed to achieve its own goals, yet the reasons for its failure may be highly instructive to other entities: it would be assessed as more relevant. The table below shows the possible assessments that a project can receive against each objective. Relevance Description When will projects will receive this score? Assessment LOW Informs or addresses the There is a qualitative link between the project objective, but in an indirect and the objective, and or unclear way or tangible lessons that other Australian entities can readily use. MED Informs or addresses the There is a strong articulated link between the objective clearly and project and the objective, clear evidence that the directly project has addressed it, and tangible lessons that other Australian entities can readily use. HIGH Informs or addresses Only exceptionally thorough, comprehensive and objective clearly and directly informative projects will receive this enough to constitute assessment. essential knowledge for other entities. Page 2 Integrating Renewables into the Grid: Stocktake project | Version 1 Note that if a project does not address or inform an objective at all, no assessment or comment will be shown. Navigating the Stocktake To find a particular project by Turn to the section Projects by Title name This alphabetically lists all the projects in the stocktake. mber to find out more about that project. To find a list of projects that Turn to the sections Projects by Objective, match a particular objective, or Projects by Approach, or Projects by Result took a particular approach, or These alphabetically list all the projects in the found a particular result. stocktake, organised under headings corresponding to each Objective, Approach and Result. about that project. To start browsing through the Turn to the section Catalog of Projects projects in the stocktake Page 3 Table of Contents Projects by Title 5 Projects by Objective 14 Projects by Approach 46 Projects by Result 62 Catalog of Projects 82 Page 4 Projects: By Title ID Title Organisation Page 116 A Distributed Energy Market: Consumer & Utility Interest, and the Australian PV Institute (APVI) 82 Regulatory Requirements 266 Accelerating Renewable Connections Scottish Power Energy 86 Networks (SP Energy Networks) 251 ACT Community Solar Scheme Environment and Sustainable 89 Development Directorate 249 ACT District Energy AECOM 91 257 ACT Large-scale Solar Feed-in Tariff Auction Environment and Sustainable 94 Development Directorate 219 ADDRESS French Pilot EDF SA 96 139 Adelaide Solar City Origin 99 322 ADINE Project Technology Centre Hermia 102 Ltd 309 Adsorption Solar Air Conditioning Ergon Energy 106 247 Agua Caliente Solar Project First Solar Inc. 108 140 Alice Solar City Alice Springs Town Council 111 (ASTC) 11 Alice Springs High Penetration PV Study report Australian PV Institute (APVI) 114 235 An advanced platform for development and evaluation of grid National Renewable Energy 117 interconnection systems using hardware-in-the-loop Laboratory 234 Analysis of High-Penetration Levels of PV into the Distribution Grid in National Renewable Energy 120 California (NREL/SCE High-Penetration PV Grid Integration Project) Laboratory 238 Analysis of Variations in Instantaneous Weather Effects across the CAT Projects 124 Geographic Boundaries of an Electricity Grid, and the Development of an Improved Estimate for Maximum Solar Grid Penetration without Energy Storage 283 CSIRO 127 285 BDR Project Opower 130 237 Bega Library Solar Energy System Essential Energy 133 319 BESOS Project ETRA I+D 136 Page 5 ID Title Organisation Page 47 Breaking the solar gridlock The Australian Solar Thermal 141 Energy Association (AUSTELA) 240 Broken Hill Solar Plant AGL Energy 144 290 Business Model Implementation Project Ergon Energy 146 292 Capacity Limiting United Energy 150 10 Carnarvon High Penetration PV Study report Australian PV Institute (APVI) 152 302 CBD Embedded Generation Project Ausgrid 155 142 Central Victoria Solar City Household Trial Sustainable Regional 157 Australia (SRA) 155 Central Victoria Solar City Solar Park Origin 160 260 Characterising the effect of high penetration solar intermittency on CSIRO 164 Australian electricity networks 277 China Southern Grid's Shenzhen Baoqing Battery Energy Storage China Southern Power Grid 168 Station 286 CIVIS Project University of Trento 171 26 Climate-based PV Performance and Reliability Australian PV Institute (APVI) 174 313 Commercial & Industrial Demand Management (DM) Energex 176 271 Customer PV Voltage Control Project Ergon Energy 179 170 Customer-Led Network Revolution Northern Powergrid 181 233 Deployment of High Resolution Real-Time Distribution Level Metering National Renewable Energy 187 in Maui Laboratory 164 DERINT - Large scale virtual power plant integration DONG Energy 190 293 Direct Load Control of Pool Pump/AC United Energy 193 329 Distribution Scale Energy Storage Isentropic Ltd 195 315 Distribution Transformer Low Voltage Circuit Monitoring Energex 199 297 DOE Global Energy Storage Database Scandia National 201 Laboratories, Department of Energy 137 Doomadgee Solar Farm Ergon Energy 203 RFI Solar Q Energy 318 E.ON Smart Grid Control Center Ventyx 205 Page 6 ID Title Organisation Page 227 ECOGRID EU Energinet.dk 208 220 E-DeMa Project RWE Deutschland AGE 212 273 Education Queensland Ergon Energy 215 299 Effect of Small Solar PV System on Peak Demand Ausgrid 217 311 Effects of PV and CFLs on the Grid Ergon Energy 220 287 E-harbours Project Municipality of Zaanstad 222 146 Emerging challenges in wind energy forecasting for Australia Centre for Energy and 227 Environmental Markets (CEEM) School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales School of Physics, University of New South Wales 221 Enel Info+ Project Enel Distribuzione 229 289 EPIC-HUB (Energy Positive Neighbourhoods Infrastructure Middleware D'Appolonia SpA 233 based on Energy-Hub Concept) 214 EPM FOA Frequency Regulation Ecoult/East Penn 236 Manufacturing 168 eStorage Project Alstom 239 325 eTelligence Project EWE AG 242 6 Evaluating the benefits of implementing existing storage technologies University of New South 248 with residential PV rooftop systems Wales, School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy 244 Expanding the Value Proposition for Building Integrated Photovoltaics BlueScope Steel Limited 251 (BIPV): Thin Film Building Integrated Photovoltaic Thermal (BIPVT) Retrofitting of Buildings 163 Red Eléctrica de España 254 253 FPDI: Analysis of Demand-Side Management Opportunities Clean Energy Council 258 256 FPDI: Demand Side Management Technology Testing Clean Energy Council 261 254 FPDI: Review of Policies and Incentives Clean Energy Council 264 272 FPDI: Review of work undertaken to date Clean Energy Council 267 255 FPDI: Value of Small Scale Embedded Generation and Storage Clean Energy Council 270 336 Fringe of Grid / Stand Alone RAPS Project Horizon Power 273 Page 7 ID Title Organisation Page 245 Future Grid Forum CSIRO 275 349 Gansu Dunhuang Photovoltaic Grid-Connected Power Generation CGNPC Group 280 Project 274 Golden Sun Demonstration Project Ministry of Science and 282 Technology (MOST) 246 Greenough River Solar Farm Greenough River Solar Farm 285 (joint venture between Synergy and GE Energy Financial Services) 185 Grid Interactive Inverter program Essential Energy 288 327 Grid Utility Support System (GUSS) Ergon Energy 292 215 Hampton Wind Farm Ecoult 295 352 Hervey Bay Hospital Solar Queensland Health 298 230 High Penetration Photovoltaic Case Study Report National Renewable Energy 301 Laboratory 267 High performance thermal energy storage systems with high University of South Australia 305 temperature phase change material 264 Hybrid concentrating solar thermal systems for large scale applications CSIRO 308 330 Hybrid PV / Diesel at Marble Bar and Nullagine Horizon Power 311 222 IGREENGrid PRICE Project Iberdrola and Gas Natural 313 Fenosa 259 Impact of Increasing Harmonic Levels on Distribution System University of New South 317 Equipment Wales 113 Impacts of PV, AC, and Other Technologies and Tariffs on Consumer Australian PV Institute (APVI) 320 Costs 124 Improving accessibility of the System Advisor Model (SAM) for Australian Solar Thermal 323 Australian concentrating solar power users Energy Association (AUSTELA) IT Power (Aust)