ISSUE BEING ADDRESSED:
Developing affordable integrated solutions to enhance the penetration of solar photovoltaic distributed generation based on: energy storage devices, accurate monitoring strategies and procedures, and active demand management approaches according to market criteria, to enable the development of the EU Energy and Climate Policies.
Developing the concept of “prosumer”.
Validating the most promising solutions according to technical and economic criteria in five different European real distribution grids.
Validaton process will be a relevant argument to convince the power stakeholders, about the suitability of the most effective distributed solar PV solutions such as smart electricity supply.
Providing technical and regulatory recommendations, mainly focused on enhancing an effective and active renewable energy contribution and effective demand management to the security and reliability of the electricity networks.
IMPORTANCE FOR SOCIETY
Supply at large scale electricity and provide ancillary services to the power system (in safe mode)
Improve the security and reliability of the electricity networks
Mitigate the greenhouse gases emissions.
The main objective of this work package will be to convince the main power sector stakeholders about the benefits due to the large penetration of distributed solar PV: this convincing process will be carried out based on the technical, economic and environmental recommendations based on PVGrid outputs.
Introducing guidelines through meetings with EU Commission, EU Parliament, national regulatory bodies, association of RES and manufacturing leaders in this field.
OVERALL OBJETIVES
Porposing the development of integrated solutions to enhance the large penetration of solar PV distributed generation (e.g. households/larger buildings/park areas) in safe mode and according to market criteria.
Developing the concept of “prosumer”, a player that consumes and produces electricity in his facilities, using solar PV and energy storage equipment, and smart technologies that allow to carry out active demand management.
Developing the most promising solutions that will integrate solar PV generation, energy solar PV production equipment, inverters, storage devices, smart technologies, active demand management approaches, monitoring strategy and procedures, grid operation procedures and criteria, and regulatory models.
Proposing effective approaches for the integration of these solutions with the rest of the electricity system: electricity demand/supply of excess of production, provision of ancillary services, energy flows and economic flows, operative procedures, and telecommunication standards.
Assessment framework will be elaborated to test these above mentioned solutions according to the following criteria: technical, economic, Energy and environmental policies criteria and Regulatory terms.
Based on the developed solutions, their costs (investment and operative costs) and the revenues due to the sale of electricity and/or the reduction of cost of electricity supply, business and management models for distributed solar PV will be proposed.
