2011-01-04 12:54
The energy sector is in transition. Firstly, the deregulation process forces companies to restructure their value chain in order to increase their market efficiency. Secondly, in order to reduce carbon emissions, the use of renewable energy sources is enforced by national and international regulations. Thirdly, smart metering is being widely adopted. The main goal of the project is to develop an Information Communication Technology (ICT) system that fits the future deregulated energy sector and enables the integration of a higher rate of distributed and renewable energy sources into the electricity grid. We will explore an approach for demand (and supply) side management in which electricity consumers and producers issue flex-offers indicating flexibilities in time and amount of the electricity. These flex-offers will be processed by our system in order to balance electricity supply and demand in near real-time.
In this deliverable, we describe the goals of our envisaged Energy data management system (EDMS) and the observations and assumptions we made and we will build upon. A major prerequisite to design the EDMS in a way that it will be applicable to the future deregulated energy sector is to understand the current situation of the energy sector in different European countries and foresee its future structure. We therefore describe the current national electricity markets for some European countries in detail and compare the national roles to the roles defined in the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ETSO) harmonized model. Based on that we describe the EDMS and the processes in which it is used. We then analyze the use cases on two hierarchical levels of the energy system, on balance group level and in market balance areas in terms of roles involved and processes executed on these levels. Finally, we describe functional, non-functional, and market-system-based requirements for the EDMS and describe its conceptual architecture.
With the description of the role and process model, the use cases and the conceptual architecture of the EDMS, we provide the base for all technical work packages. This deliverable is an extended version of the deliverable D1.1 State of the art report and initial draft of the role model. Final adjustments to the role and process model and the detailed architecture will be added in the next deliverable D1.3 Conceptual draft of the flex-offer management architecture and its design. [read more]
Authors:
Zoran Marinšek, Gregor Cerne, INEA; Henrike Berthold, SAP; Christos Nychtis, CRES; Frens Jan Rumph, Mente Konsman, TNO; Hellmuth Frey, EnBW; Laurynas Šikšnys, Torben Bach Pedersen, Dalia Kaulakiene, AAU; Bogdan Filipic, JSI; Matthias Böhm, TUD
With the description of the role and process model, the use cases and the conceptual architecture of the EDMS, we provide the base for all technical work packages. This deliverable is an extended version of the deliverable D1.1 State of the art report and initial draft of the role model. Final adjustments to the role and process model and the detailed architecture will be added in the next deliverable D1.3 Conceptual draft of the flex-offer management architecture and its design. [read more]
Authors:
Zoran Marinšek, Gregor Cerne, INEA; Henrike Berthold, SAP; Christos Nychtis, CRES; Frens Jan Rumph, Mente Konsman, TNO; Hellmuth Frey, EnBW; Laurynas Šikšnys, Torben Bach Pedersen, Dalia Kaulakiene, AAU; Bogdan Filipic, JSI; Matthias Böhm, TUD
