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.).
