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Flexible smart metering for multiple energy vectors with active prosumers

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Project information

FLEXMETER

Grant agreement ID: 646568

Project website

Start date

1 January 2015
End date

31 December 2017

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 3 869 607,25
EU contribution

€ 3 197 791,38

Coordinated by:

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

Italy

Objective

The introduction of the electricity market, the widespread diffusion of distributed generation from renewable and non-programmable energy sources and the need for storage are quickly changing the problems that Transmission and Distribution system operators have to face in their activity and are requiring a “smarter” grid. A first step in this direction is the development and installation of a flexible smart metering architecture for multiple energy vectors. Up to now the smart meters that in some countries are being installed at the users are nearly only devoted to billing improvements. The new metering systems must go much further to provide their contribution to various objectives such as end-user affordability of electricity, energy and market efficiency improvement, CO2 emissions and pollutants reduction. In the FLEXMETER project a flexible, multi-utility, multi-service metering architecture will be designed and deployed in two demonstrators. Simple off-the-shelf meters will be placed at the users for electric, thermal and gas metering; they will communicate with a building concentrator, where the “smartness” of the metering system will reside. A central cloud system will collect data from the building concentrators and from MV/LV substation meters. Data collection, fusion and mining algorithms will be adopted. The proposed architecture will allow for innovative services for the prosumers (e.g. analysis of the energy consumption), for the Distribution System Operators (DSOs) (e.g. fault detection, network balancing and storage integration) and for the retail market. Also demand side management devices could be plugged into the system. In the FLEXMETER project two pilot applications in two different countries (Italy and Sweden), on real systems, with the involvement of the local DSOs and volunteer prosumers will be demonstrated. The results on the demonstrators will then be scaled up to the size of the cities in order to evaluate the advantages on a real scale.

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Programme(s)

H2020-EU.3.3.4. - A single, smart European electricity grid

Topic(s)

LCE-07-2014 - Distribution grid and retail market

Call for proposal

H2020-LCE-2014-3

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Funding Scheme

IA - Innovation action

Coordinator

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

Address

Corso Duca Degli Abruzzi 24
10129 Torino

Italy

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

EU Contribution

€ 683 523,50

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IREN ENERGIA SPA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 8 750

STMICROELECTRONICS SRL

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 305 499,25

TELECOM ITALIA SPA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 281 750

RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 280 000

INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE

France

EU Contribution

€ 223 197,50

JRC -JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE- EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Belgium

EU Contribution

€ 50 000

UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI

Romania

EU Contribution

€ 190 625

SIVECO ROMANIA SA

Romania

EU Contribution

€ 192 500

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 202 875

E.ON SVERIGE AB

Sweden

EU Contribution

€ 299 999,88

IREN SPA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 479 071,25

Project information

FLEXMETER

Grant agreement ID: 646568

Project website

Start date

1 January 2015
End date

31 December 2017

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 3 869 607,25
EU contribution

€ 3 197 791,38

Coordinated by:

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

Italy

Project information

FLEXMETER

Grant agreement ID: 646568

Project website

Start date

1 January 2015
End date

31 December 2017

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 3 869 607,25
EU contribution

€ 3 197 791,38

Coordinated by:

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

Italy

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - FLEXMETER (Flexible smart metering for multiple energy vectors with active prosumers)

Reporting period: 2016-07-01 to 2017-12-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The introduction of the electricity market, the widespread diffusion of distributed generation from renewable and non-programmable energy sources and the need for storage are quickly changing the problems that Transmission and Distribution system operators have to face in their activity and are requiring a smarter grid. This smarter grid should also enable new services to increase people awareness of consumption and production to optimize energy usage. A first step in this direction is the development and installation a flexible smart meter architecture to enable an easy development of innovative services for both the prosumers and the DSOS and be able to manage meters for multiple energy vectors. Up to now the smart meters that in some countries are being installed at the users are nearly only devoted to billing improvements. The new metering systems must go much further to provide their contribution to various objectives such as end-user affordability of electricity, more detailed and rich information about energy consumption and production, energy and market efficiency improvement, CO2 emissions and pollutants reduction. In the FLEXMETER project a flexible, multi-utility, multi-service metering architecture has been designed and deployed in two demonstrators. The main component of the architecture is a software platform for meter data collection/actuation and a set of data analytics, storage and visualization components. The architecture is ready to manage large amounts of data generated by next generation meters. The architecture allowed to implement innovative services for the prosumers (e.g. analysis of the energy consumption), for the Distribution System Operators (DSOs) (e.g. fault detection, network balancing and storage integration) and for the retail market. FLEXMETER paves the way for new business models and companies providing such innovative services to end-users and DSOs. Data coming from the installations of new smart meters in the two pilot countries (Italy and Sweden), have been used to test FLEXMETER services. Business models have been discussed with local energy distributors, highlighting limits and issues due to technical and regulatory factors. To this purpose, FLEXMETER developed a real-time co-simulation framework able to simulate the smart grid and the whole software infrastructure processing simulated energy data.

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

In this second period FLEXMETER achieved the following achievements:
• The project succeeded in developing a IoT-oriented smart metering infrastructure connected with smart meters, both commercial and prototypes to provide new services that are currently not available (detailed visualization of consumption curves, aggregations, breakdown into appliances, grid management functionalities).
• New electricity smart meter prototypes as well as commercial meters have been installed. No water or gas meters. Thermal (district heating) meters have been connected to the FLEXMETER system.
• Communication with the FLEXMETER platforms has been developed both through building concentrators (extended to interface with new meters) and home gateways.
• The deployment of the FLEXMETER platform has been completed and stress tested with real data from the pilots and simulated data. It is currently fully operational and collects data from meters through gateways and by connecting to distributor databases (both IREN and EON) by means of adapters.
• The system has been optimized for big data collection using both a non-relational database and a SQL database to collect processing results and allows easy access for user-awareness and control applications.
• Services for both DSO and prosumers have been developed and evaluated. For DSO services and demand-response tests have been performed using the FLEXMETER simulation engine (described in D6.1). User-awareness and NIALM services have been tested using data from pilot users.
• Two mobile applications and a web portal have been developed. They retrieve data from the platform and present energy information to the users.
• A complete real-time co-simulation infrastructure has been developed which integrates simulated with real scenarios. The FLEXMETER infrastructure interfaces to the real-time grid simulator in a seamless manner as a real-grid. The same algorithms developed for the real use cases can be tested in this way on simulated scenarios.
• A consistent number (31) of scientific publications have been achieved exploiting project results in the first period. Various dissemination activities have been pursued by universities and companies to present FLEXMETER in international contexts.

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)

1. Progresses

The project produced the following main progresses with respect to the SoA:
- Smart meters: Development of innovative services based on next generation smart meter prototypes, which are not currently deployed in cities. The project tested new smart meters with Hz-range measuring rate and prototypes of non-intrusive smart meters to be transparently installed independently from fiscal meters
- IoT Platforms for energy data: FLEXMETER innovate from the point of view of IoT oriented software platforms suitable for collection of large amounts of data form smart meters. Challenges for data interoperability and scalability have been faced. A suitable architecture has been developed.
- Services: Innovative services based on high measuring rate data have been developed both for DSO and the prosumers. Specifically, original algorithms for fault location, detection, network reconfiguration and state estimation have been designed. Also, a new version of the NIALM algorithm has been developed.
- Simulation: FLEXMETER innovated on the energy simulation engine. A real-time simulator has been integrated with the software layer to enable seamless development and test of energy management policies mixing real and simulated loads.

2. Impact

The project outlined the following expected impacts on:

• User-awareness: Impact on load disaggregation services and analysis of trade-offs between cloud-based and on-board NIALM
• Real-time services for DSOs and users based on Hz-range measuring rate, such as RES integration, fault location, state estimation, network reconfiguration, demand-response, demand-side management
• Next generations of smart meters: FLEXMETER can impact the development of more open meters providing Hz-range data to the users and third party service companies (unlocking data already available from these meters) and providing voltage, current measurements to enable controllability and observability of the grid
• Privacy of data, which is potentially blocking interoperability. FLEXMETER can impact strategies for original data sharing and ownership of the output generated by the original data). For instance data about the grid mixed with data from the prosumers
• Business models for energy services based on metering data and related ownership of the platform: Platform owner can be envisioned as a third party company with respect to current market players

FLEXMETER solution imposes also a clarification among roles of energy actors like DSO/aggregators/retailers/prosumers, opening relevant questions about the energy market and related regulations.

Flexmeter scheme

Project information

FLEXMETER

Grant agreement ID: 646568

Project website

Start date

1 January 2015
End date

31 December 2017

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 3 869 607,25
EU contribution

€ 3 197 791,38

Coordinated by:

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

Project information

FLEXMETER

Grant agreement ID: 646568

Project website

Start date

1 January 2015
End date

31 December 2017

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 3 869 607,25
EU contribution

€ 3 197 791,38

Coordinated by:

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

Italy

Deliverables

Documents, reports (26)

Report on evaluation scenario and metrics

D6.2 Report on evaluation scenario and metrics (resp. POLITO) – M26

Report on energy aggregator implementation

D4.3 Report on energy aggregator implementation (resp. TI) – M2

Report on system deployment and data collection

D6.3 Report on system deployment and data collection (resp. EON) – M 33

First period report

D8.1 First year report (M18, resp. POLITO). This report provides a comprehensive view of the results obtained at the end of the first 18 months, the methodologies and approaches employed and the degree to which the objectives were reached. Moreover, the success or fail in passing the milestones scheduled in the first period will be reported.

Report on Platform requirements, data formats and protocols

D1.3 Report on Platform requirements, data formats and protocols (resp. SIVECO) – M11

Report on specification of the distribution network

D1.1 Report on specification of the distribution network (resp. IREN) – M10

Report on energy consumption data analysis

D4.1 Report on energy consumption data analysis (resp. POLITO) – M22

Report on software platform development

D4.6 Report on software platform development (resp. POLITO) – M33

Report on load generation forecasting

D4.5 Report on load generation forecasting (resp. TI) – M22

Report on user interface implementation

D2.3 Report on user interface implementation (resp. POLITO) – M27

Report on unique selling points for FLEXMETER solution

D5.3 Report on unique selling points for FLEXMETER solution (resp. SIVECO) – M36

Report on multiservice interoperability

D2.1 Report on multiservice interoperability (resp. IREN) – M16

Report on energy aggregator impact and business model

D5.2 Report on energy aggregator impact and business model (resp. TI) – M36

Plan for use and dissemination of the foreground

D7.3 Plan for use and dissemination of the foreground (T7.1, T7.2, T7.3) (M12, resp. POLITO). This deliverable will describe the strategy for disseminating and promoting the foreground knowledge, products and research results that are achieved with the FLEXMETER project. Implementation of databases for the management of IPs, both BG and FG. First template of the business plan to be updated during the project by industrial partners.

Plan for use and dissemination of the foreground knowledge

D7.4 Plan for use and dissemination of the foreground knowledge (T7.1, T7.2, T7.3) (M36, resp. POLITO). This deliverable will summarize all promoting activities performed during the FLEXMETER project,future plan on use and dissemination of the FLEXMETER results. Updating of IPR database. Completed version of the business plan from industrial partners, quantification of dissemination activities (teaching/education, new project acquisition) for research institutes.

Report on energy aggregator communication network

D1.2 Report on energy aggregator communication network (resp. TI) – M13

Report on electric storage, fault and outage detection integration

D3.2. Report on electric storage, fault and outage detection integration (resp. UPB) – M21

Report on gateway communication

D2.2 Report on gateway communication (resp. TI) – M21

Report on Substation smart meter integration

D3.1. Report on Substation smart meter integration (resp. IREN) – M12

Report on pilots description

D1.4 Report on pilots description (resp. IREN) – M10

Report on business models for smart meters and retail market

D5.1 Report on business models for smart meters and retail market (resp. POLITO) – M36

Report on demand response algorithms

D4.4 Report on demand response algorithms (resp. POLITO) – M22

Report on evaluation against defined metrics and scaling issues

D6.4 Report on evaluation against defined metrics and scaling issues (resp. RWTH) – M36

Report on algorithms for enhanced features in smart measuring devices

D4.2 Report on algorithms for enhanced features in smart measuring devices (resp. UNIBO) – M22

Report on interface design between Self-powered energy meters and the sub station

D3.3 Report on interface design between Self-powered energy meters and the sub station (resp. ST-I) – M14

Final Report

D8.4 Final Report (M36, resp. POLITO) This report provides a final comprehensive view of the results obtained, the methodologies and approaches employed, changes in the state-of-the-art since the project was contracted (if any), and the degree to which the objectives were reached.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)

Project presentation and FLEXMETER web site

D7.2 Project presentation and FLEXMETER web site (T7.2) (M3, resp. POLITO). This deliverable will contain a short description of FLEXMETER including a project synopsis according to EC formats and a set of slides presenting the project. It also includes a presentation of the FLEXMETER web site and the actual communication plan.

Final Press Release

D7.5 Final Press Release (T7.2) (M36, resp. POLITO). This deliverable will announce the project results.

First Press Release

D7.1 First Press Release (T7.2) (M3, resp. POLITO). This deliverable will announce the launch of the project and its objectives.

Other (1)

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (4)

Non-invasive voltage measurement in a three-phase autonomous meter

Author(s): Davide Brunelli, Clemente Villani, Domenico Balsamo, Luca Benini

Published in: Microsystem Technologies, Issue 22/7, 2016, Page(s) 1915-1926, ISSN 0946-7076

DOI: 10.1007/s00542-016-2890-7

Multi-site European framework for real-time co-simulation of power systems

Author(s): Marija Stevic, Abouzar Estebsari, Steffen Vogel, Enrico Pons, Ettore Bompard, Marcelo Masera, Antonello Monti

Published in: IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Issue 11/17, 2017, Page(s) 4126-4135, ISSN 1751-8687

DOI: 10.1049/iet-gtd.2016.1576

A cloud-based smart metering infrastructure for distribution grid services and automation

Author(s): Marco Pau, Edoardo Patti, Luca Barbierato, Abouzar Estebsari, Enrico Pons, Ferdinanda Ponci, Antonello Monti

Published in: Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, 2017, ISSN 2352-4677

DOI: 10.1016/j.segan.2017.08.001

A Novel Integrated Real-time Simulation Platform for Assessing Photovoltaic Penetration Impacts in Smart Grids

Author(s): Lorenzo Bottaccioli, Abouzar Estebsari, Edoardo Patti, Enrico Pons, Andrea Acquaviva

Published in: Energy Procedia, Issue 111, 2017, Page(s) 780-789, ISSN 1876-6102

DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.240

Conference proceedings (3)

FLEXIBLE SMART METERING FOR MULTIPLE ENERGY VECTORS WITH ACTIVE PROSUMERS

Author(s): Patti, Edoardo; Bottaccioli, Lorenzo; Pons, Enrico; Martellacci, Dario; Boni Castagnetti, Federico; Bellifemine, Fabio L. Acquaviva, Andrea; Macii, Enrico

Published in: CINI Annual Workshop on ICT for Smart Cities and Communities, 2015

Ultra-low power sensor for autonomous non-invasive voltage measurement in IoT solutions for energy efficiency

Author(s): Clemente Villani, Domenico Balsamo, Davide Brunelli, Luca Benini

Published in: Smart Sensors, Actuators, and MEMS VII; and Cyber Physical Systems, 2015, Page(s) 95172I

DOI: 10.1117/12.2181332

Sensormind: Virtual Sensing and Complex Event Detection for Internet of Things

Author(s): Davide Brunelli, Gianluca Gallo, Luca Benini

Published in: Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society, 2017, Page(s) 75-83

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47913-2_10

Thesis dissertations (1)

Progettazione, caratterizzazione e calibrazione di un sensore di tensione contactless per smart metering

Author(s): Villani, Clemente

Published in: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna - Master Thesis, 2014

Project information

FLEXMETER

Grant agreement ID: 646568

Project website

Start date

1 January 2015
End date

31 December 2017

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 3 869 607,25
EU contribution

€ 3 197 791,38

Coordinated by:

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

Project information

FLEXMETER

Grant agreement ID: 646568

Project website

Start date

1 January 2015
End date

31 December 2017

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 3 869 607,25
EU contribution

€ 3 197 791,38

Coordinated by:

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

Italy

Project information

FLEXMETER

Grant agreement ID: 646568

Project website

Start date

1 January 2015
End date

31 December 2017

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 3 869 607,25
EU contribution

€ 3 197 791,38

Coordinated by:

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

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