PROSUMER CELLS

Building energy infrastructure «bottom-up»

by means of smart grid technologies

Solar Day 2015

Professor, Dr.ing. Bernt A. Bremdal
Norwegian Centre of Expertise Smart Energy Markets.
Narvik University College

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Norwegian Centres of Expertise

Smart Innovation Østfold

 3 basic questions asked
1. Can smart grid technologies and local energy generation solve basic challenges in
rural energy supply?
– without extensive investments?

2. Can smart grid technologies and local energy generation help undeveloped
regions to «leap-frog» traditional infrastructure developments?

3. Is it possible to create local markets that leverage the position of the prosumer?
The basic Smart Grid concept

Basic infrastructure for electric energy supply

“Intelligence” infrastructure

“ICT” infrastructure

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Kilde: Tom Oh, Rochester Institute of Technology
Concept
The Smart Rural Grid
Sponsored by EU’s FP 7 programme

• To develop
– an Intelligent Distribution Power Router (IDPR)
– new long-distance PLC over electricity distribution
networks.
– a robust communication network to connect
different IDPRs
– a data and energy control system that manages
local micro-production units and different IDPRs
• To integrate
– all the novel features into one, single system
• To demonstrate and validate
– the system full-scale in two European regions to
assess the technological and economic feasibility of
this new, innovative platform
• To cater for exploitation of results
– for business and social development
Philosophy

Each rural region and village self-contained with energy

Island
Normaloperation
operation

Data flow

DSO
 IDPR
The Intelligent Power Router (IDPR)

Allows different modes of operation

Demo site: Valfogona de Ripollès
 The basic concept

Substation
Central supply
(MV)

IDPR
Storage
Management Vallfogona de Ripollès
system (EMS)

Village with micro- and community

production
Mode 1

Substation

IDPR

Management
system (EMS) Vallfogona de Ripollès
Mode 2 = “island mode”

Substation

IDPR

Vallfogona de Ripollès
 Who takes control?
Ownership determines business models and social benefits

Substation

IDPR

Management
system (EMS) Prosumer Community
“Bottom-up” development

Local market Local market

Management
system (EMS)

IDPR

Village 1 Village 2
A cell structure will emerge

IDPR IDPR

IDPR

IDPR
IDPR

IDPR
IDPR IDPR
IDPR
IDPR

IDPR
IDPR

Management
system (EMS)

1 EMS system, multiple cells

The road onwards:“Power Packeting”
Energy as a non-commodity
local Electricity retail Markets for Prosumer smart grid
pOWER services

IDPR
EMS
IDPR & trading
IDPR
IDPR
floor
IDPR
IDPR

IDPR IDPR
IDPR IDPR

IDPR
IDPR IDPR
IDPR

• Each IDPR has a «Power IP» address

Village 1 • Energy is transmitted as packets Village 2
• Direct routing
• Traceability
• Automatic balancing
 Follow the project

Twitter: @smartruralgrid Web: www. Smartruralgrid.eu