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Community-based Virtual Power Plant

A new way of organising the energy system

Energy Days Eindhoven, 28 March 2019 Anna J Wieczorek School of Innovation Sciences Eindhoven University of Technology

Outline

• 1. Energy system in transition but slow progress
• 2. VPP as a solution but problematic
• 3. Community version
• 4. Interreg NWE cVPP project - space for learning

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Current energy system is in transition

The changes open windows of opportunity

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Broad context

Incumbent systems

x x x x x x x x x x

Technology Infrastructure Policy Markets & users Culture & routines Politics Industry Research

TSO/DSO

Radical systemic changes

Are outcomes of an interplay of many factors

Broad context

Development of

New system

Incumbent systems

x x x x xx x x x x

Manders, Wieczorek and Verbong, 2018

Technology Infrastructure Policy Markets & users Culture & routines Politics Industry Research

ENERGY TRANSITION

Energy transition is about a different ways of organising

• ur energy system

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• Energy system in transition, many efforts, variety of changes
• But little progress

Two-fold problem

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Picture by Luc van Summeren

Internally unorganised, ideologically driven, lack critical mass, confined to niches Locked-in: reg. framework; overwhelming market power of FF, supply-driven market model

Virtual Power Plant - A smart solution?

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Transmission Network Distribution Network

Picture by Luc van Summeren

Transmission Network Distribution Network

Picture by Luc van Summeren

Transmission Network Distribution Network

Picture by Luc van Summeren

Transmission Network Distribution Network

Virtual Power Plant

Picture by Luc van Summeren

Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Nothing new

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• Software-based solution
• Aggregates distributed energy resources
• Acts as coordinated single entity similar to a conventional power

plant

• Allows to perform roles in the electricity system: managing,

trading

• DER portfolio: DG, DR, ESS
• Control architecture
• Role in the system

van Summeren, Wieczorek and Verbong, 2019

Many VPPs on the market

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44% 7% 7% 7% 7% 7% 15% 4%

Neighbourhood Campus District City Region Island Country Transnational

4 7 11 14 18 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Number of VPP projects per year

• Initiated by: utilities, research centres
• Aim: technical, grid stabilisation
• Prosumers: ’self-interested autonomous agents’, financially driven, ’bought in’ to join
• No empowerment, no democratisation, support to status quo

van Summeren, Wieczorek and Verbong, 2019

Community version?

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Interreg NWE project

From VPP to cVPP

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Picture by Luc van Summeren

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Community-based Virtual Power Plant

Picture by Luc van Summeren

Empowering communities

What makes VPP community-based?

Community choices

• Community needs & motivations
• Ownership
• Governance
• Distribution of risks and benefits
• Engagement
• Inclusiveness
• Scale & nature of generation technology

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Hicks & Ison (2018), Walker & Devine-Wright (2008) van Summeren, Wieczorek and Verbong, 2019

place-based, sectoral, interest-based, virtual

Community logic

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van Summeren, Wieczorek and Verbong, 2019

Roles Community logic

Roles in the current system

Fixed price, fixed tariff

• Prosumers produce and pay DSP, TSO, SUP
• Straightforward tarification structure
• No incentives to be active players on intelligent market

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Roles in the future energy system

Creating value though flexibility

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Klaassen & Van der Laan, 2019

Interreg NWE cVPP project

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In this project

Testing in practice

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BE - social IR - dispersed NL - rural

TD

Community

• based

Virtual Power Plant Community

• based

Virtual Power Plant Comm unity- based Virtual Power Plant Comm unity- based Virtual Power Plant Comm unity- based Virtual Power Plant

In this project

Supporting with research

How can cVPP facilitate different way of organising energy system?

• Community, Context, VPP
• Upscaling, empowerment, decarbonisation, democratisation
• Database, action research, testing, training, Master theses
• Transdisciplinarity, integration, co-creation

Sustainability & societal relevance

• cVPP - a new type of promising innovation
• Can help re-organise the energy system
• But will take a lot of struggle
• Implications need to be studied
• Science that matters

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http://www.nweurope.eu/projects/project-search/cvpp-community-based-virtual-power-plant/ a.j.wieczorek@tue.nl @AnnaJWieczorek, #cVPPproject