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InnoGrid2020+
Taking stock of ongoing projects: Knowledge sharing for progress
Smart grids at the JRC: Observe, Assess, Way forward
Giovanni F. De Santi
Director
Serving society
Stimulating innovation
Supporting legislation
A changing energy landscape
• The European Union is committed to becoming the world
leader in renewable energy
• Towards a further electrification of the energy system
• The Energy Union is looking at smart electricity grids as a key
enabler for the proper integration of intermittent renewable
energy sources in a fully integrated energy market
• The transition towards a low carbon and smarter energy
system comes at a cost
• What is the cost of this energy transition? Who is benefiting
from the new market/grid structures?
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Smart grid promises to
change the energy landscape
• Key questions: is investing in Smart Grids worth the cost? Is
there a business case for scaling up locally tested Smart Grid
solutions to wider cities or regions? To what extent can
citizens benefit from such innovation?
• How these changes in the electricity networks can help the
EU Member States in achieving the ambitious security of
supply, sustainability and competitiveness targets defined in
the EU energy policies?
• The Energy Union will need to deliver with a new European
electricity market design
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Neutral data broker of
European power systems
and smart grids
developments
Learning
together at the
JRC with a
Power Systems
and Markets
Observatory
Collecting, processing and
sharing data
• Inventories of Smart Grid Projects in
Europe
• Inventories of Smart Grid research
facilities
• Cost Benefit Analysis to real cases
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Smart grid investment in
Europe – the big picture
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JRC Outlook 2014 - The big picture
 459 smart grid projects
 D&D (55%) and R&D (45%)
 More National (63%) than Multinational
 Over €3 Billion Investments
 More investments into D&D (73%)
 National funding (57%) weights a bit more than
Multinational (43%)
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JRC Outlook 2014 - The big picture
 About 1700 organizations
represented, mainly
concentrated between FR,
BE, NL and DE
 Universities/ Research
centres/ Consultancies and
DSOs the Most active
organisation types
 Average: 6 partners per
project
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Insights - Geographical distribution of investments
 Investment
exceeded €250
million/year
since 2008
 UK, France and
Germany have
invested strongly
in D&D projects.
 Denmark and
Finland have
invested more in
R&D projects
Insights – Smart metering
 The smart metering roll-out planned
by EU-27 Member States is
estimated to amount to €35 billion
by 2020 (ca. 200M meters covering
ca. 72% of European consumers).
 Finland, Italy and Sweden have
already finalised their nation-wide
smart metering roll-outs,
representing 23 % of the envisaged
installations by 2020.
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Inventory of Smart Grid research facilities worldwide
including information of the areas of research, activities
carried out and the equipment used
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SGLI Observatory
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Complexity in Smart Grids
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Different standards & technologies
Different markets worldwide
Vast number of areas
Wide range of actors
Lack of public inventories with
extensive information on facilities and technologies
Problems identified
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No activities + equipment information together
Sparse information without harmonized data
Outdated or non-dated information
Untrusted sources
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General Info
SGLI
Results
Research Areas
Infrastructure
26 completed
questionnaires
72
organizations
invited
44 => positive
interest
Range of countries covered by the participant
laboratories in our survey (asked about
activities and research information)
Countries (%)
Map of participants
Spain
Italy
France
8
13
16
29
Portugal
13
17
Greece
Other
countries
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General Info
SGLI
Results
Research Areas
Infrastructure
Percentages of SG Labs per activity
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Distribution Automation
Grid Management
Storage
Sustainability
Market
Generation and DER
Electromobility
Smart Home/Building
Smart City
Demand Response
ICT: Communication
Cyber Security
AMI
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General Info
Research Areas
SGLI
Results
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
What is widely used in smart grid research laboratories?
50% of labs use
80% of labs use:
42% of labs conduct:
3-phase electric power
systems (AC)
Tests through HIL
Simulations
Real Time Simulator
for:
Generation & DER
Distribution Automation
Grid Management
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SGLI
Preliminary conclusions
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Data analysis and report publication with
aggregated information
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13 categories identified
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The initial budget for setting up the lab is, on
average, around 1 M€, but for large institutions it
reaches up to 30 M€. On average, the estimated
total annual running cost amounts to 50000 €.
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Research activities gaps and technological trends
identified for each category (details in the
report)
(Distribution Automation, Grid Management, Smart Homes,
Smart Cities, Storage, E-Mobility, Market, Sustainability,…)
2 April 2015
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From pilots to full scale projects
• Smart Grids can change the way power is
• produced, exchanged and traded
 JRC Smart Grid Projects Outlook
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More than 450 active projects
More than € 3bn invested since 2002
• Worth to invest in Smart Grids?
• Is scaling up pilot projects a viable business?
 JRC Cost Benefit Analysis Methodology applied to:
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Smart metering deployment in the EU
Evaluation of priority EU infrastructure (Projects of Common Interest)
Real Smart Grids projects
Malagrotta pilot project
Existing grid features:
• 69.5 km of MV grid
• 4 generation facilities
• 2 primary & 76
secondary sub-stations
• 1200 consumers in LV
grid
Smart grid project:
Sub-project 1
Sub-project 2
Sub-project 3
Advanced MV
automation
2 April 2015
MV/LV
monitoring
New grid
management
criteria
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JRC – ACEA study
Goals:
Scalability
• What is the economic
impact of scaling up
Malagrotta pilot project to
Rome's distribution grid?
Benefits
maximisation
• What scalability options maximise
benefits for ACEA and for society?
Sensitivity
analysis
• What factors can change
the evaluation?
• How will it change (+/-)?
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Overall positive outcomes for the extension of the
smart grid project to the city of Rome, both in the
private investor/societal CBA
The smart grid pilot faces the typical challenges of a
demonstrator leading to generating losses of
moderate size
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Conclusions
• Malagrotta's scale up evaluations
show that smart grids are viable
for entire distribution
networks
• Sensitivity analysis confirms that
Investment in smart grids is
viable even in adverse
economic conditions
• Central role of the consumer
• Social cost monetisation for various
factors of impact (e.g. NOx, SOx, PM10)
should be further elaborated
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Knowledge sharing
for progress
The JRC will continue working along its mission
improving the data, analysis and intelligence needed
to underpin the Energy Union by pooling the relevant
knowledge and making it easily accessible to all
stakeholders
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Thank you for your attention.
Giovanni F. De Santi
Institute for Energy and Transport
Director