RELIANCE

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RELIANCE
CooRdination perspectives of the European
transmission network research activities to
optimise the reLIAbility of power supply, usiNg a
systemiC approach, involving growing distributed
generation and renewable energy markEts
Marc Stubbe Karim Karoui

• Warsaw, October 8th 2004

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Outline

• Background
• The objective of RELIANCE
• Implementation of the activities
• Consortium structure
• Project management
• Resources
• Resulting impacts
• Proposal agenda

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Background (1/5)

• EU directives have implemented the unbundling of
  electricity utilities
• Central generation
• TSOs
• DSOs
• Retailers
• EU policies favour security of supply massive
  wind energy is being deployed in Europe (Denmark,
  Germany, Spain) with correlative impacts on the
  power transmission networks
• Several DER technologies, using renewables or
  not, appear in line with the Kyoto protocol
  orientations (CO2 emissions)

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Background (2/5)

• Thus energy policy making in Europe put more and
  more stresses on all the EU power transmission
  networks

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Background (3/5)

• A number of previous or on-going EC funded
  projects have addressed some improvements of
  power network performances (Technologies,
  socio-economics, regulations, grid management)
  is the critical mass of RTD in Europe standing at
  the level of the challenges to be addressed by
  2020 ?
• When compared to the RTD work being performed in
  the USA today, there is evidence that the
  European challenges ahead by 2020 are not yet
  faced by the proper amount of RTD work to bridge
  knowledge gaps that TSO are or will be facing

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Background (4/5)
A greater attention ought to be paid to the
capabilities and performances of the future
power networks through coordinated and
increased RTD activities
Will there be enough researchers to perform
the work ?
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Background (5/5)

• Research coordination appears urgently needed
• To identify who does what and where today to meet
  TSO operational challenges
• To prioritize the 2020 power network performance
  challenges that will be faced inevitably by all
  the European TSOs
• To prepare a RTD roadmap where the development
  risks ahead are measured collectively
• A Europe wide effort can then be proposed on the
  RTD topics having a demonstrated European impact,
  together with funding schemes using
  public/private partnerships that have the support
  of national regulators

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The objective of RELIANCE (1/2)

• To consolidate the RTD needs and efforts
  required for the definition of a future European
  Transmission Network which optimises the
  reliability of power supply within growing
  European Distributed Generation and Renewable
  Energy sources.

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The objective of RELIANCE (2/2)

• How to facilitate efficiently the integration and
  convergence of RTD efforts on power transmission
  networks, to the benefits of a future European
  Transmission Network ?

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Implementation (1/6)
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Implementation (2/6)

• It needs to be a 2 year, iterative approach,
  where
• The first year of work allows to draw a draft
  of coordinated RTD actions with their funding
  requirements based on an appraisal of on-going
  research actions
• A mid Term review with the EC and the Advisory
  Board launches
• The second year fine tuning through a set of
  promotion events to have a majority of key
  players joining the future coordinated RTD plans

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Implementation (3/6)

• The convergence of this process is ensured by the
  partners committing on three intermediate
  results
• Define what must be abandoned from the past
• Agree on a common long term vision (the Future
  European Network capabilities and performances)
• Set a series of intermediate milestones which
  have to be successfully passed to make the Future
  European Network a reality by 2020

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Implementation (4/6)
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Implementation (5/6)
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Implementation (6/6)
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Consortium
Expert companies TRACTEBEL Engineering
(coordinator), FGH, ISET, FEEM, TECHNOFI
TSOs ELIA, ELTRA, GRTN, RED ELECTRICA DSOs/ret
ailers actors of DER Regulatory bodies A
special seat within the Advisory Board
Advisory Board Electricity producers, basic
research teams, regulators, technology
manufacturers Possibly professional bodies (ETSO,
UCTE, EURELECTRIC, .)
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Project management (1/2)
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Project management (2/2)

• Executive Board (SSB, 6 months, 2/3)
• Defines and validates the expected outputs and
  exploitation targets, resolves any conflict
  raised by the STB,
• Scientific and Technical Board (STB, three
  months, 2/3)
• Ensures that the expected outputs are coherent
  and will be met on time (effectiveness), within
  preset funding (efficacy)
• Resolves technical or budget conflict raised by
  WP leaders,
• Work package leaders ( three months, 2/3)
• Ensure that task leaders are effective, defines
  technical or budget solutions to solve conflicts
  between task coordinators,
• Advisory board ( six months)
• Advise, gives information and recommendations on
  issues or conflicts raised by the STB or any WP
  leader related to road maps validation,
  dissemination actions,

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Resources (draft)
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Resulting Impacts (1/5)
Technology based performance upgrades of the
Future European Transmission Network

• Detail the technology-based performance upgrades
  of the European transmission networks required to
  meet Europes 2020 challenges.

• a selected number of performance challenges
  around 2020 validated by the full chain of the
  electricity market players
• functional requirements and then technological
  needs are described
• the knowledge gaps that have to be filled through
  RTD tasks are identified

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Resulting Impacts (2/5)
RTD roadmaps to bridge the existing RTD gaps

• Delineate the RTD roadmaps which will support
  the future technology development work required
  to meet the above demands.

• In depth analysis of the above RTD tasks
• Production of a coherent set of road maps
  (intermediate goals, required funds, timing and
  interactions between work packages)

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Resulting Impacts (3/5)
How to share the present and future RTD work ?

• Define the share of RTD work within these RTD
  roadmaps whose effectiveness and efficiency at
  producing outputs will be optimized using a mid
  and long term coordination at a European level
  and at the various national levels.

• Coordination involves a mix of national actions
  that have some European added value
• and European actions that must meet European
  challenges that will grow as DER expand and
  market adapts.

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Resulting Impacts (4/5)
Organisational and funding scenarios

• Propose organisational and funding scenarios
  which will support the coordinated part of the
  work at a European level, in coherence with what
  will remain funded at national level.

• What are the expected funding needs ( expected
  levels that are comparable to the ones being
  invested since 2002 by Federal and private funds
  in the USA) ?
• What type of financing instruments at national or
  EU level are able to cope with such constraints?
• What are the required new organisations and new
  public /private partnerships within short term
  perspectives to meet such financing challenges ?

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Resulting Impacts (5/5)
A collective conviction to avoid RTD inaction

• To reach a collective conviction about RTD
  performance and coordination of a majority of key
  players (TSO, research organisations, regulators
  and clients of the TSO) which will support the
  enhancement of an interconnected, optimized
  European power transmission network

• How to manage Coordination at European level of
  research on power transmission networks which is
  a breakthrough approach per se?
• How to take advantage of the monopolistic nature
  of TSOs to facilitate cooperation on long term
  issues?
• What are the remaining barriers which will slow
  down the coordination process ?

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Proposal agenda

• Expression of interest meetings February 2004
• Expression of interest Mars 2004
• Proposal Meetings
• July 2004
• September 2004
• October 08-09 2004 (Warsaw)
• November 2004 (Brussels)
• Consortium Agreement signed 7 December 2004
• Proposal 8 December 2004

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Relevance (1/2)

• Sustainable Energy Systems Electricity - call
  2004.ML
• Transmission System Operators in Europe are
  facing similar networks problems, and, not being
  in competition between themselves, should welcome
  common solutions.
• This Co-ordination Action should mainly assess
  the feasibility to setup an autonomous European
  Energy Grid Research Organisation, co-financed by
  TSOs (including non-EU members), the EU and other
  relevant actors.

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Relevance (2/2)

• Sustainable Energy Systems Electricity - call
  2004.ML
• The Co-ordination Action should aim at agreeing
  on and co-ordinating common objectives and RDT
  needs for the future European Transmission
  Network identifying potential partners of the
  Organisation and potential financing tools and
  means defining the legal framework for the
  Organisation and its implementation plan.
• The main objective of the Organisation should be
  to consolidate and coordinate the RD needs and
  effort for the design, development and validation
  of the concepts of the Future European
  Electricity Network, compatible with a large
  penetration of RES and DG, and to develop a
  dynamic simulator of the network, useful for
  testing as well as for the training grid
  operators.