inteGRIDy Newsletter issue 2

Integrated Smart GRID Cross-Functional Solutionsfor Optimized Synergetic Energy Distribution,Utilization Storage Technologies Issue 2 - Mar. 2018INDEX Editorial Overview Partners Key achivements Project News Next steps and events SMART GRID H2 H2www.integridy.eu This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731268.

EDITORIALDear reader,It has been a while since we published We would like to present in thisour first newsletter back in June newsletter what we consider our most2017. Now inteGRIDy has successfully remarkable outputs so far, namelyachieved all first year milestones. This the reference architecture and ourpast year was crucial for the project, first approach to business cases. Inas we struggled to set the basis of the addition, we will continue the partnerinnovation yet to be deployed in our presentation with the following 5pilots. This way, we are now in a position consortium members in alphabeticalwhere all inteGRIDy partners are aligned order. Finally we will share the insights ofaround a common understanding of the all our past dissemination events and theregulatory and market needs of each plan for the first half of 2018.stakeholder, we have built a commonreference architecture to be used for our We are thrilled to share all ourenergy tool fine tuning and integration achievements with you. Latestand we have identified promising and updated news can be alsobusiness cases for us to develop further. followed through our web page (www.integridy.eu) and our twitterThere are still three challenging years account (@integridy_H2020).ahead of us, but we have gainedmomentum and the next phase is now Please do not hesitate to interact within force, with special focus on actual us!developments for our energy tools,towards a unified interaction andvalidation.2 www.integridy.eu

OVERVIEWintegrated Smart GRID Cross-Functional Solutions forOptimized Synergetic Energy Distribution, Utilization StorageTechnologiesThis project has received funding from the European Union’sHorizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grantagreement No 731268Topic: LCE-02-2016 - Demonstrationof smart grid, storage and systemintegration technologies with increasingshare of renewables: distribution systemObjective: inteGRIDy is integratingexisting technologies to implement asmart grid distribution platform whichoffers ”smart grid energy services” forlow voltage (LV) and medium voltage(MV) networks. In business to business(B2B), business to consumer (B2C)and business to business to consumer(B2B2C) market contexts. Duration: Jan 2017 to Dec 2020 Partners: 30 Countries: 10 (Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Rumania, Spain, United Kingdom) Pilots: Total Budget: 10 15.840.275 € EU Grant: 12.329.013 €Coordination entity: Atos www.integridy.eu 3

PartNersAs the project consortium comprises 30partners, several newsletters are usedto formally present them all. We alreadypresented our coordinator Atos together withASM Terni, Azienda San Severino Marche,ATKearney and AIGUASOL in our previousissue back in June 2017. This second issueintroduces the following 5 members, inalphabetical order, including inteGRIDy’stechnical coordinator.www.cperi.certh.gr ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKISwww.iti.gr ANAPTYXISGreece The Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH) is the only research centre in Northern Greece and one of the largest in the country and it was founded in 2000. It is a legal entity governed by private law with non-profit status, supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) of the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs. From CERTH, Information Technologies Institute (ITI) and Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute (CPERI) participate in order to fulfil the objectives of inteGRIDy. CERTH/ITI as a strategic partner for inteGRIDy project with profound experience on pilot realisation and platforms implementation, actively participates in the inteGRIDy Cross- Functional Platform implementation, as well as leading the activities envisioned related with Small Scale Demonstration and Performance Monitoring at Pre-Pilot Use Cases.4 www.integridy.eu

www.eac.com.cy ARCHI ILEKTRISMOU KYPROUGyprus Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) is the incumbent power utility in Cyprus, following public body governance rules. EAC is responsible for almost all conventional power production, owner of the Transmission System (which is operated by TSO (Transmission System Operator)), owner and operator of the distribution system. So far, it is the only power supplier in Cyprus. Currently, it employs approximately 2200 employees, out of which around 200 are scientists and engineers, focusing their activities on the operation, on the maintenance and on the development of the power system. EAC’s role in the inteGRIDy project is to support the design and deployment of the micro-grid at the University of Cyprus (UCY) premises, provide all necessary information and expertise for the design of the optimal demand response mechanisms to be applied to the pilot case. Additionally, will enable the bidirectional flow of information with the consumers, using smart-meters and PLC or GPRS communication technologies, enabling demand-side management.www.electrica.ro SOCIETATEA ENERGETICA ELECTRICA SARomania SDFEE Electrica S.A shortly named “Electrica”, is a Romanian legal person, organized as a joint stock company, managed in the one tier system, and it carries out its business according to Romanian laws. Its object of activity consists in power distribution (DSO) and supply, providing communications infrastructure / information and energy services. The Company is a leader in terms of size of existing assets, since it has about 36% of electrical networks at various voltage levels. Regarding the geographical coverage, Electrica covers 18 counties and it serves about 42% of the number of consumers of the country In inteGRIDy project, Electrica develops, for the Romanian use case, an innovative infrastructure with energy consumers and energy providers whose demand and supply of energy are monitored. The aim is to reason on energy consumption and provision such that, by optimizing (reducing) the overall energy consumption a positive impact on environment can be ensured. www.integridy.eu 5

www.powerstar.com EMSc (UK) Ltd United Kingdom EMSc (UK) Ltd is a UK energy solutions company which design www.eng.it and manufacture an innovative range of commercial energy Italy management technologies. EMSc (UK) Ltd was formed in 2001, and has installed over 7,000 systems throughout the world, the6 company’s solutions are exported to over 20 countries and the client base includes landmark sites, large blue-chip companies, public sector estates, government and local authorities and SME’s across a range of industries. In inteGRIDy project, EMSc acts as a supplier of 15 Virtue-EV stations with 60kWh’s (each) of integrated energy storage that connects grid tied and connects to a B.T exchange Telecom site. This allow B.T to charge up to 30 vehicles simultaneously without having detrimental strain on the local electrical network, or forcing the network to be upgraded, resulting in large costs. The unit runs alongside renewable PV in order to provide extra energy to the batteries in order to reduce the overall reliance of the charging stations on the Isle of Wight Grid Network. EMSc supplies and connects the hardware as well as provides a DSR (Demand Side Response) platform, whereby local/ national aggregators can take control of the unit, and provide demand side management services. ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.a. is a leading provider of advanced Information Technology systems and services to diverse commercial and governmental customers, with a particular attention to the Energy and Smart Grid sector. Engineering Group is currently the first IT group in Italy has 40 branch offices in different countries. The Engineering Group operates through 7 business units; its innovation capability is supported by the Central Unit of Research & Development, with around 250 researchers currently involved in over 50 research projects co-funded by national and international authorities. ENG works on the definition of the overall inteGRIDy architecture by contributing not only in the definition of scenarios and use cases and in the elicitation of requirements but also in the integration of the wide set of components, tools, methods and methodologies that the Consortium is putting at disposal of the project. A strong participation is foreseen also in tasks related to the optimization of energy flows, and, as large enterprise and IT company, also contributes to the definition of business models for the InteGRIDy future sustainability. www.integridy.eu

KEY ACHIEVEMENTSinteGRIDy Architecture, Functional and Technical SpecificationMarilena Lazzaro, Senior ResearcherResearch and Development Laboratory, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica [email protected] of the main goals of the inteGRIDy Functional Requirements (NFR) that theproject is to demonstrate a set of inteGRIDy system should meet are alsoinnovative technologies and solutions described.to enable demand-response, enhancesmart grid management, and use novel Figure below provides an overview ofstorage techniques together on an the all high-level macro functionalitiesintegrated energy system. Pursuing this comprising the inteGRIDy referenceobjective, inteGRIDy aims at delivering architecture and the data flow betweenan integrated framework of tools the cross-functional modular platformcompliant with the inteGRIDy reference (CMP) and the lower and upper layers.architecture, which has been sketched Indeed the inteGRIDy architecturein the project’s proposal and provides is organized per layer; the middlepreliminary guidelines for the integration layer corresponds to the core of theof tools to be extended and improved to architecture, the CMP, an integratedsatisfy the specific Pilots’ needs. These framework comprising all inteGRIDytools represent the Asset that each tools. The CMP can be also decomposedTechnology Partner wants to bring in the in sub-layers, grouped by the specificproject. functionalities that are exploited. This way, inteGRIDy will create synergiesinteGRIDy Architecture, Functional between existing models/modellingand Technical Specification aims at tools brought by consortium partnersaccomplishing this goal by applying in order to have a wide base of models,a specific methodology based on profiles & storage characterization.the Requirements elicitation process Moreover, the project will implementrequiring the cooperation of both pilot the innovative operation analyticsleaders and technology. The outcome techniques, applying forecasting,is produced as a reference architecture prediction, big data analytics andfor the inteGRIDy Framework, as well simulation techniques in the energyas a set of functional and technical domain. Finally, techniques able tospecifications for all inteGRIDy tools. optimise, take decisions, and scheduleOn top of that, the data model used is strategies related to the smart controlagreed and described, so as to capture of the energy resources of the systemand formalise the conceptual model will be delivered. The lower andof the information data stored and the upper layers of the inteGRIDymaintained in the inteGRIDy Reference reference architecture represent theKnowledge Warehouse. The Non- Field Middleware and the Integrated www.integridy.eu 7

Visualization Platform (IVP) respectively. This reference architecture and itsThe first one provides the basic interface different views represent the startingwith the physical world and is mainly point of inteGRIDy developmentresponsible for gathering the data that activities. This first proposal is subject towill be processed. The second one relies iteration, with a refined and completeon the analysis and interpretation of the specification expected by the end ofdata and provides valuable and visual this year, taking into account both theinformation for stakeholders such as developments and integration activitiesDSOs and final users. carried out through the project.8 Overview of the all high-level macro functionalities comprising the inteGRIDy reference architecture www.integridy.eu

SHAPING INTEGRIDY’S BUSINESS MODELAlina Margolina, Junior Project Manager,Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Smart City Innovation [email protected], the energy industry faces conducting activities to provide thespectacular developments, which foundations for the commercializationforce all market players to reassess its of the developed framework and itscurrent business models. Technological various components, and to developdevelopments play a significant role in new business models as an outcome.this transformation. According to the When developing dynamic businessPwC Annual Global Power & Utilities models, one of the key challenges is toSurvey, 51% of respondents agree that ensure that energy market specifics aresmart metering and grid deployment will analysed and taken into consideration.have a profound impact on the energy With regard to the inteGRIDy project,market. These developments have this becomes particularly relevant asalready started to shape new market the project partners have committed tostrategies, giving a rise to innovative validate the Cross-Functional Platform inbusiness models. The inteGRIDy project 10 different pilots located in 8 differenthas an ambition to contribute to shaping EU states. Each pilot operates underthe future of the energy market as well. particular market conditions peculiar to a country it is based in.inteGRIDy aims at developing, testingand integrating smart grid technologies To address this task, inteGRIDy studiedinto a scalable framework connecting the Business cases and Financialenergy networks with diverse Mechanisms, conducting an extensivestakeholders, facilitating optimal and market design analysis, as well asdynamic operation of the Distribution considering the financial benefitsGrid (DG), fostering the stability and associated with the implementation ofcoordination of distributed energy the inteGRIDy`s solutions.resources and enabling collaborativestorage schemes within an increasing For the market analysis, the followingshare of renewables. To make such a five domains were considered: legalhighly technologically driven integration conditions, market actors, economiccommercially viable and valuable for all conditions, technology requirements,stakeholders involved, an appropriate and stakeholders as potential promotersbusiness model approach needs to be of the demonstrated solutions. Aspectsdeveloped. within these five domains were analysed either by pilot country or by pilot,Tasks related with analysis of depending on what was defined moreEnvironmental, Business Models appropriate per domain.& Financial Mechanisms, aim ataccomplishing this objective by Moreover, the analysis provides the initial business case assessment for thewww.integridy.eu 9

framework as well as for its components. will be utilized to design dynamic valueBoth analyses provided valuable results propositions, define ways to create,with regard to the current attractiveness deliver and capture value for all theof each market for the realization of stakeholders involved.the developed solutions. The results Energy market analysis: key factors analised10 www.integridy.eu

Project News 28-30.06.2017 - Participation in Sustainable Places 2017In June, Lena Holzner and Rene Bohnsack(Universidade Catolica Portuguesa)represented inteGRIDy at SustainablePlaces 2017 conference. They presenteda keynote named “Business modelschallenges for sustainable energy firms”.In addition, Vladimir Vukovic (TeesideUniversity) provided a general inteGRIDypresentation during the Smart Grid andStorage Workshop.Sustainable Places 2017 (SP2017) was Buildings (EeB) and smart grids to furtherthe 5th Sustainable Place iteration, commercial, scientific, and technologicaland part of the official EU Sustainable advancements across interdisciplinaryEnergy Week (EUSEW) Energy Days fields.initiative. It brought together keystakeholders on Energy-efficient12-13.09.2017 - Plenary Meeting in MilanointeGRIDy held its second plenary These technical activities were officiallymeeting back in September 2017, kicked off during this meeting. Thekindly hosted by Politecnico di Milano. reference architecture discussions started and the tool development/This meeting was a good chance forproject partners to present the results adaptation based on this architectureand outcomes of the first phase of the were also started.project lifetime, where the requirementssetup, the regulatory and marketframework analysis and the business caseelicitation is conducted.The feedback collected and thediscussions maintained provided valuableinformation for the project to producethe first reports and set the basis for thenext coming technical activities. www.integridy.eu 11

14.09.2017 - 1st International Conference inteGRIDyHosted in the framework of inteGRIDy,this project organized event gave theopportunity to set up an interactivedialogue among the ongoing EuropeanH2020 R&I Projects on innovativetechnologies for smart grid on MV/LVin the topics of Demand Response andintelligent distribution grid. The eventwas organized as an open discussionamong representatives from NationalAuthorities for Energy and EuropeanDSOs.During the conference, a specific session(in the form of roundtable) involvingrepresentatives from different countrieswas scheduled so as to discuss aboutdifferent future policy visions forevolving the current electricity market.Specific questions were answered byexpert guests in order to assess if theinnovations promoted in inteGRIDy hadbeen oriented in the proper direction.The event was mainly organized intothree sessions:• Session 1. Discussion on the EU ongoing and future policies for the European energy market.• Session 2. Roundtable with speakers from National Energy Authorities.• Session 3. Presentation of related EU projects which can foster, from the technological point of view, the flexibility on the smart grid, underlining their commonalities with inteGRIDy.12 www.integridy.eu

03-05.10.2017 - inteGRIDy in European Utility Week 2017inteGRIDy participated at the EUW17 inAmsterdam, disseminating the projectscope and outcomes and raising a lot ofattention. This was done in collaborationwith BRIDGE initiative, which gatheredtogether a number of H2020 projects.In addition, our coordinator, AndreaRossi (Atos), presented the project inthe Hub sessions - H2020: EU Researchand Innovation. Andrea introduced themain highlights of the project, a technicaldescription of inteGRIDy’s frameworkand a description of all 10 inteGRIDypilots. 11.10.2017 - ASCENT Blog entry Andrea Rossi, head of the energy sector for Atos Research and Innovation and Coordinator of inteGRIDy project, published an article in Atos Blog titled “New utility horizon”, where he presented inteGRIDy project as one of the H2020 projects that will help supporting a reliable, sustainable and competitive energy system. In the full article is accessible at: https://atos.net/en/blog/new-utility- horizonswww.integridy.eu 13

21-22.11.2017 - inteGRIDy project with BRIDGE initiativeinteGRIDy was represented on BRIDGE Business Modelling Working GroupWorking Group and coordination acting as Analysis of Environmentalmeeting held in Brussels back in Business Models and FinancialNovember 21st and 22nd. This is the Mechanisms leader.first time inteGRIDy members attendedthe Working Group, which is a greatchance to foster deep collaboration onkey topics addressed on the cluster. Inaddition, the project was also involved inthe coordination meeting for the secondtime, taking advantage of the overallguidance of the EC for the whole set ofBRIDGE projects.• Tracey Crosbie (Teesside University) • Javier Valiño (Atos) represented represented inteGRIDy on the inteGRIDy on the Data Management Regulations Working Group acting as Working Group acting as Project Standardization, Analysis, Regulations Management leader. & Privacy Policy leader. • Andrea Rossi (Atos) represented• René Bohnsack (Universidade Catolica inteGRIDy on the Coordination session Lisboa) represented inteGRIDy on the acting as project coordinator. 23.11.2017 - Participation in IV Congreso Smart GridsAtos represented inteGRIDy project policies, economic scenario, current andin the “IV Congreso Smart Grid” future R&D and commercial projects,held in November in Madrid. The normative, administrative considerations,congress included the communication legal advice, etc.“inteGRIDy- Plataforma habilitadora de latransformación de los Smart Grids”. This communication was also published in the digital magazine Smartgridsinfo.This congress is the main professional es (https://www.smartgridsinfo.es/forum for the Smart Grids sector in comunicaciones/integridy-plataforma-Spain. It is a multidisciplinary event that habilitadora-transformacion-smart-grids)includes all stakeholders and differentsectors, integrating the differentaspects around energy sector, such as:technological achievements, strategic14 www.integridy.eu

23-25.11.2017 - Participation in IoT for the Supervisory Control andManagement of Smart Grids with RES and Batteries, 2nd EnergyTechnologies WorkshopIn this national event held in Athens, energy management in a dynamic andinteGRIDy project was represented by distributed environment are determined.our partner CERTH. In the 2nd Energy It also demonstrates the implementationTechnologies Workshop Dr. Spyriros of Internet of Things architecture (IoT).Voutetakis presented a work that The reference system which is used asproposes an integrated methodology a motivating example of autonomousfor managing and supervisory control smart grids is located in SUNLIGHT’sof small-scale smart grids and it is premises is a standalone intelligentimplemented using flexible Energy power grid that includes three stationsManagement Strategies (EMS). The with local energy storage capability usinggrid networks into consideration are lead-acid batteries.powered by Renewable Energy Sources(RES) and have local energy storageusing batteries and / or hydrogen. Theobjective of the EMS is to efficientlyexchange energy between the smartgrid stations to maximize the use ofavailable stored energy at the networklevel and to exploit the overall powerproduced by RES. To achieve this goal,the behaviour of the involved systemsis modelled and the requirements for 24-01-2018 - Launching inteGRIDy official videoIn January this year, inteGRIDy releasedits first introductory video, wheremain objectives, technical insights andexpected outcomes are explained in anutshell.The video is uploaded on a dedicatedYoutube channel, which was opened forthe project. It is also published on theproject’s webpage (www.integridy.eu)and disseminated through the project’stwitter account (@integridy_H2020)www.integridy.eu 15

21-22.02.2018 - Palermo WP4 meetingThe core partners of WP4 met in Palermoat Engineering premises in a 2-dayface-to-face meeting to present thework done in the different tasks of thiswork package. The discussions mainlyfocused on the different layers of thereference architecture, composed by theCross-functional Modular Platform, themiddleware API layer and the KnowledgeReference Warehouse.16 www.integridy.eu

next steps and events 17 Plenary Meeting in Cyprus inteGRIDy partners plan to meet together on the 3rd plenary meeting in March this year, kindly hosted by UCY. The meeting will be used to officially close the work related to requirements and market analysis and speed up on the common understanding and collaboration around the reference architecture, specially oriented to tool providers and pilot participants. Participation in IRES2018 Marco Merlo by Politecnico di Milano will participate in March in the 12th International Renewable Energy Storage Conference (IRES 2018) representing inteGRIDy project. In this event, a paper will be presented, focused on one of the InteGRIDy Pilots. The Smart Grid architecture deployed in San Severino Marche Pilot will be presented and the algorithm adopted in order to optimize the MV feeder will de detailed. Participation in PEMD 2018 Our colleagues from Newcastle University will participate in April in the 9th International Conference on Power Electronic, Machines and Drives, PEMD 2018 with the paper “Modelling and simulation of a smartgrid architecture for a real distribution network in the UK” Participation in EEEIC Giuseppe Paterno from Engineering – Ingeneria Informatica SPA will participate, representing inteGRIDy project, in the IEEE 18th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2nd Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe to be held in Palermo next June. www.integridy.eu

@inteGRIDy_H2020 www.integridy.euThis project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research andinnovation programme under grant agreement No 731268.