DRES2Market: Technical, business and regulatory approaches to enhance the renewable energy capabilities to take part actively in the electricity and ancillary services markets

Project Information

DRES2Market

Grant agreement ID: 952851

DOI 10.3030/952851

Closed project

EC signature date 10 July 2020

Start date 1 August 2020

End date 31 January 2023

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy

Total cost € 2 998 597,50

EU contribution € 2 998 597,50

Coordinated by

ASOCIACION DE EMPRESAS DE ENERGIAS RENOVABLES - APPA
Spain

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - DRES2Market (DRES2Market: Technical, business and regulatory approaches to enhance the renewable energy capabilities to take part actively in the electricity and ancillary services markets)

Reporting period: 2020-08-01 to 2022-01-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

DRES2Market is focused on overcoming the existing barriers (technology and regulatory framework) for developing the integration of these technologies, based on the following issues:
The analysis of the existing grid codes and markets rules in the European markets to assess their capacity to enable the participation of variable renewable energy.
The identification of opportunities for the active participation of final consumers (based on distributed generation) in the penetration of these technologies, according to market criteria, proposing collaborative schemes.
The identification of arguments of the positive impact of these technologies, to obtain the social acceptance of these technologies.
Since the project started in August 2020 the objectives of the DRES2Market project have been the following:
First objective: to Identify technical and economic characteristics of the variable renewable energy technologies, energy storage devices and smart solutions. This work phase was a groundwork activity for all subsequent activities in the project.
Second objective: to design affordable solutions to enable the active participation of distributed generation in the electricity and ancillary services market. A template with a table was produced including the name of project where some of the consortium members had directly participated.
Third objective: to identify barriers hindering the development of distributed generation based on PV and wind energy generation. The study of the barriers was focused on the market, regulatory, technical, administrative, financial, social and environmental barriers which slowdown large scale deployment PV and wind power energy into the networks.
Fourth objective: to analyse the most promising approaches or solutions for enabling the active participation of variable renewable energy in markets: grid codes, market rules, technologic solutions, operative procedures, and effective collaboration of the consumers’ frameworks.
Fifth objective: to evaluate from the technical, economic, regulatory, environmental and social point of view a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). They were designed to carry out the case studies that will be developed in WP3.
Sixth Objetive: to develop the test cases proposed in previous tasks of the project. The consortium will develop cases to study based on a market simulation environment and on the ancillary services and impact on the grid. The test cases counted with both real and simulated data, mainly focuses in market data, grid composition, contingencies and unbalance, demand consumptions and renewable energy production.
The objective of the communication and dissemination activity has been taken into account from the beginning of the project and it will remain until the end of the project. (Website, Conferences, social networks (Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.).

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

The work carried out in the work packages of the project has been carried out within the times specified in the grant agreement. WP2 already finished. WP1, WP5 are going on until the end of the project and WP3 focused on the simulation taste cases is currently being developed as it´s planned in the Grant Agreement. Once we start having the results of the simulations the technical, regulatory, environmental, and social recommendations will start to be elaborated, this is the task to develop in the WP4.
Regarding the Dissemination and communication (WP5) just highlight that the Website was operative by January 2021.www.Dres2Market.eu
Newsletters: have been published in January 2021, July 2021 and January 2022.
DRES2Market leaflets and posters have been published to promote the DRES2Market project in conference, tradeshow and educational centres such as universities and schools. Articles: two articles have been published since the project started. The first article has been published in polish and English and the topic of this article is “Barriers to development of photovoltaic systems on electricity markets”. DRES2Market partners have participated in different project presentations. The most relevant events and presentation that has been hold since the project started. Such as Intersolar Europe 2021 fair in Munich - Project’s leaflets available at the polish Photovoltaic Society stand. The European utility week in Milan at the end of November: Enea presented the project. Genera trade show: A EERR trade show in Madrid hold in November. APPA presented the results obtained of the DRES2Market project.
Brochures: in May 2021 the lead partner of the task, IEn, published the first project brochure that has been distributed among schools and universities
Social Media: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/dres2market/; and Twitter https://twitter.com/dres2market.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

The project’s scope is strongly committed to the European Union Energy policy targets and guidelines. The main expected impact stated with the identification of technical and economic of the variable renewable energy technologies, energy storage devices and smart solutions to propose appropriate integrated approaches for the effective integration in the electricity and balance and reserve markets.
The main target audience on which the project will have a great impact is in the energy community such as; system operators, market operators, distribution operators, equipment manufacturers, European and national energy authorities and policy makers.
The analysis of the current European electricity markets, especially the intraday and the continuous markets as an effective approach for the active participation of variable renewable energy and distributed generation in the electricity marker will impact in managing the production and consumption of the energy according to market prices.
The simulation processes with real data condition in terms of distribution and transmission networks will help in the validation process of the most promising solutions and approaches and will impact in the development of the regulatory framework to enhance RES integration.
Socio – economic impact:Manufactures, regulatory bodies and DSOs must take decisions regarding investments in new infrastructure to supply future demand and services, and to develop new and adapted technology and equipment.
This actions and decisions will have a relevant impact on the employment and economic growth in Europe. Enhancing the penetration of RES will reduce dependency from imported fossil fuels.
Social impact – EU citizens: Increase renewable energies will allow to reduce the greenhouse gases emissions into the atmosphere and avoid other riskier conventional technologies when producing power: Improvement of the quality of life, health and safety.
The direct employments will be also affected due to the creation of new companies such as aggregators, energy service companies and retailers.
Regulatory Impacts: The assessments focused on evaluating the impact of self- consumption and the active demand management on the electricity supply will be used by policy makers to produce new regulations.
The new regulations will be used to help the effective integration of RES. The aim of the energy market regulation is to provide a functioning setup for the electricity sector he says. It will enable the EU’s overall objectives for the decarbonisation of the energy sector, affordable energy, and system reliability.

DRES2MArket Leaflets

Presentation Dres2Market project at APPA Renovable Congress

DRES2Marketwebsite

DRES2Market Poster