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Pan-European system with an efficient coordinated use of flexibilities for the integration of a large share of RES

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EU-SysFlex

Grant agreement ID: 773505

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 November 2017
End date

31 October 2021

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 26 489 895,25
EU contribution

€ 20 279 863,72

Coordinated by:

EIRGRID PLC

Ireland

Objective

The overall objective is to ensure an efficient and sufficient level of system services are provided to facilitate meeting world leading levels of RES-E while maintaining the level of resilience that consumers and society have come to expect from the European electricity system.

This requires defining the right amount of flexibility and system services to support transmission system operators using a threefold approach.

Firstly, the technical needs of the pan-European system will be defined for scenarios with more than 50% RES-E in will be identified and translated to services and products to be delivered in an enhanced market design.

Secondly, the electricity market design and regulation needs to be augmented to efficiently and effectively procure the appropriate combination of these system services.

Thirdly, implicit and explicit barriers to competitive forces being applied need to be removed. This requires an in-depth understanding of all stakeholders’ roles (Generation and flexibility providers, Transmission system operators (TSO) and Distribution System Operators (DSO) and regulators) at all system levels (interconnected system, national transmission and distribution sub-systems and consumers).

For doing so, EU-SysFlex joins a multidisciplinary team of 34 partners from 14 European countries, led by the (Transmission System Operators) TSOs representing four different synchronous systems that integrate the pan-European interconnected electricity system: EirGrid & SONI (Ireland), PSE (Poland), AST (Latvia), Elering (Estonia), supported by the necessary (Distribution System Operators) DSOs, technology providers, and research & experienced entities. In addition, a group of three other European TSOs: Fingrid (Finland), LitGrid (Lithuania) and Ceps (Czech Republic), will join the advisory board of the project, in addition to EDSO for Smart Grids and USEF, in order to help the project maximising its impact.

Field of Science

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Programme(s)

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

Topic(s)

LCE-04-2017 - Demonstration of system integration with smart transmission grid and storage technologies with increasing share of renewables

Call for proposal

H2020-LCE-2017-SGS

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Funding Scheme

IA - Innovation action

Coordinator

EIRGRID PLC

Address

Shelbourne Road 160 Ballsbridge The Oval
4 Dublin

Ireland

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

EU Contribution

€ 2 380 787,50

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Participants (33)

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SONI LIMITED

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 511 743,75

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN

Ireland

EU Contribution

€ 288 917,50

IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 749 962,50

UPSIDE ENERGY LTD

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 74 913,13

POYRY SWEDEN AB

Sweden

EU Contribution

€ 97 454,88

ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE

France

EU Contribution

€ 2 416 575

AKKA INFORMATIQUE ET SYSTEMES

France

EU Contribution

€ 363 737,50

POLSKIE SIECI ELEKTROENERGETYCZNE SPOLKA AKCYJNA

Poland

EU Contribution

€ 803 807,38

NARODOWE CENTRUM BADAN JADROWYCH

Poland

EU Contribution

€ 121 875

ELERING AS

Estonia

EU Contribution

€ 508 701,38

GUARDTIME AS

Estonia

EU Contribution

€ 266 207,38

TARTU ULIKOOL

Estonia

EU Contribution

€ 330 218,75

AKCIJU SABIEDRIBA AUGSTSPRIEGUMA TIKLS

Latvia

EU Contribution

€ 66 937,50

INNOGY SE

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 1 239 989,63

ENERCON GMBH

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 468 890,63

FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 913 140

UNIVERSITAET KASSEL

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 252 878,75

HELEN OY

Finland

EU Contribution

€ 607 359,38

Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy

Finland

EU Contribution

€ 363 243,75

EDP DISTRIBUICAO ENERGIA SA

Portugal

EU Contribution

€ 561 750

CNET CENTRE FOR NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES SA

Portugal

EU Contribution

€ 832 843,38

INESC TEC - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIADE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES, TECNOLOGIA E CIENCIA

Portugal

EU Contribution

€ 668 562,50

SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 1 389 450,30

E-DISTRIBUZIONE SPA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 959 000

RICERCA SUL SISTEMA ENERGETICO - RSE SPA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 322 500

VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V.

Belgium

EU Contribution

€ 836 616,25

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN

Belgium

EU Contribution

€ 619 375

ZABALA INNOVATION CONSULTING, S.A.

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 378 131,25

I-EUROPA SRO

Slovakia

EU Contribution

€ 296 091,25

ENOCO AS

Norway

EU Contribution

€ 169 190

CYBERNETICA AS

Estonia

EU Contribution

€ 70 350

ELEKTRILEVI OU

Estonia

EU Contribution

€ 26 162,50

FUNDACION ESADE

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 322 500

Project information

EU-SysFlex

Grant agreement ID: 773505

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 November 2017
End date

31 October 2021

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 26 489 895,25
EU contribution

€ 20 279 863,72

Coordinated by:

EIRGRID PLC

Ireland

Project information

EU-SysFlex

Grant agreement ID: 773505

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 November 2017
End date

31 October 2021

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 26 489 895,25
EU contribution

€ 20 279 863,72

Coordinated by:

EIRGRID PLC

Ireland

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - EU-SysFlex (Pan-European system with an efficient coordinated use of flexibilities for the integration of a large share of RES)

Reporting period: 2017-11-01 to 2019-04-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

EU policy makers have set ambitious targets for the decarbonisation of the energy system, demanding increased levels of energy efficiency and world leading levels of renewable energy technologies.

By 2050, electricity use is estimated to increase from 20% of the overall EU energy use today to 40% of energy needs. Currently, Renewable Energy Sources from Electricity (RES-E) accounts for approximately 30% of overall electricity demand. By 2030 the EU have set a target to increase this to over 50%. This represents a seismic challenge to how we will operate the pan-European power system of the future.

The primary increase in RES-E will come from technologies such as wind and solar. Due to their intermittent and non-synchronous characteristics, power system operators must devise solutions which ensure stability and reliability of the future power system at all time. These solutions can be described as System Services and Flexibility which address stability, power system resilience, balancing of load, increasing needs for reserves and flexibilities in existing and new generation sites. The scale of non-synchronous technologies on the future power system relative to large thermal power stations will results in a system with less inertia and less operational capacities for dispatching or for restoration. Finally, the power system of the future is becoming more decentralised and therefore there is greater need for cross sectoral coordination of the power system between transmission to distribution level. Consequently, there is a need to achieve greater levels of digitalization of the power system to exchange and manage data closer to real-time between producers, consumers, system and market operators is an imperative.

The overall objective of the EU-SysFlex project is to facilitate the provision of effective and sufficient level of system services and power system flexibility to ensure that the objective of 50% RES-E by 2030 is met. This requires defining the right amount of flexibility and system services to support transmission system operators using a threefold approach. Firstly, the technical needs of the pan-European system will be defined for scenarios with more than 50% RES-E in will be identified and translated to services and products to be delivered in an enhanced market design. Secondly, the electricity market design and regulation should be augmented to efficiently and effectively procure the appropriate combination of these system services. Thirdly, implicit and explicit barriers to competitive forces being applied need to be removed.

EU-SysFlex will represent an opportunity for society from both the perspective of climate change mitigation and a diver for innovation, competitiveness of our industries and job creation. The later impacts of the project will lead to material improvements to meet the desired world leading levels of RES while maintaining the level of resilience expected by consumers and society.

The EU-SysFlex project consortium is represented right across the electricity sector, consisting of 34 partners from 15 European countries. The consortium consists of TSOs, DSOs, generation companies, technology providers, research institutes, academia an aggregator and retailers. The project consortium is supported by an advisory board consisting of industry representative bodies ENTSO-E, E.DSO Wind Europe, Eurelectric, USEF, IWEA as well a number of European and International TSOs and European DSOs.

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

During the first reporting period, the members of the consortium have contributed with their work to reach the overall goals of the project.

The partners participating in WP2 have worked in collaboration to provide a set of technical shortfalls. These are being studied in further detail and will serve as a base to develop the needed flexibility of the system. The results are the basis to develop new scenarios and models for further simulating the impact of high RES penetration on the EU power system.

The WP3 partners have led the recommendations for enhancing the market and regulation framework to enable an efficient and effective procurement of flexibility services. The seven industrial scale demonstrators have worked on providing their Business Use Cases in collaboration with WP3, providing their KPIs with WP10 and describing all their specifications in their respective Demo WPs (WP5, WP7, WP8, WP9). They have been contributed to set up the demonstrations, securing software and hardware developments, communication channels, equipment acquisition, installation, etc. to allow tests to start in 2019. The EU-SysFlex demonstrations are focusing on complementary aspects of improving system flexibility in power, voltage and transfer capacity with high RES penetration.

WP4 focuses on going one step closer to the market and the operational integration of these services in the system operator’s tools and procedures. A first WP4 report provided extended feedback from the Irish Qualifying Trials for new technologies to provide System Operator Requirements and the national experiments to provide insight on communication enhancement with Remote Terminal Units, but also on the capabilities of Demand Side Response and of new sources to provide steady state reactive power.

In order to define the KPIs of the Demonstrations a literature review has been made, to build on existing available flexibility roadmaps. However, it is still early in the project and the roadmap cannot really start without solid results. The results from the demonstrations will need to be first analysed in terms of replicability, scalability and reliability at European level. An essential aspect of new flexibilities is also their dependence on the digitalization and data management in the power systems. Recommendations will be issued later in the project by WP5, which, in addition to describing data exchange model and use cases, has started the studies on cybersecurity, privacy, data collection and processing, and interoperability for data exchanges.

As a part of WP11, the project has participated to several conferences and events, from IEA to Sustainable Energy Week, as well as BRIDGE initiative meetings, providing a large visibility to the project and its first results. A methodology for exploitation has been defined and a kick-off of Exploitation Board took place.

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 main ambition of EU-SysFlex is to go beyond the current state of the art by demonstrating a set of innovative solutions that foster the appropriate balance and development of needed system services and flexibility. The outcome from this will simply be a better balance of investment in complementary system services providing new technologies. To achieve this innovation it is necessary to remove existing barriers to allow these technologies to be securely and reliably dispatched and operated in the future. This will challenge existing TSO and DSO processes and procedures.
The ultimate ambition of EU- Sysflex is to enhance the design and operation of the energy market to drive the complementary investment in system service capability that will realise the world leading policy objectives of the EU.

Consortium photo at the General Assembly 2018 in Lisbon (Portugal)

Project information

EU-SysFlex

Grant agreement ID: 773505

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 November 2017
End date

31 October 2021

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 26 489 895,25
EU contribution

€ 20 279 863,72

Coordinated by:

EIRGRID PLC

Project information

EU-SysFlex

Grant agreement ID: 773505

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 November 2017
End date

31 October 2021

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 26 489 895,25
EU contribution

€ 20 279 863,72

Coordinated by:

EIRGRID PLC

Ireland

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Project information

EU-SysFlex

Grant agreement ID: 773505

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 November 2017
End date

31 October 2021

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 26 489 895,25
EU contribution

€ 20 279 863,72

Coordinated by:

EIRGRID PLC

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