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• Role of DSOs in Future (Flemish) Grids
• Jan NEYENS, Infrax, Belgium

• 1. INFRAX
• 2. Regulatory framework
• 3. Role of DSO in an open electricity market
• 4. Role of DSO in Smart Grids
• 5. Experiences of pilots and projects
• 6. Expectations for the future

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1. INFRAX
Flanders
Brussels

• Responsibilities
• - grid management lt 30 kV
• metering company
• data administrator

Wallonia
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1. INFRAX multi-utility
Activity Municipalities Customers
Connections 123 1 850 000
Electricity 92 575 000
Natural gas 82 235 000
Cable television 91 504 000
Sewerage 80 315 000
Employees 1 481
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2. Regulatory framework

• 1. Electricity market is totally unbundled since
  2003
• 2. TSO ELIA
• DSO EANDIS, INFRAX, ORES, SIBELGA
• Local regulators VREG, CWAPE, BRUGHEL
• Federal regulator CREG
• Suppliers Luminus, Nuon, Essent, ..

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2. Regulatory framework

• 3. incentives for Smart Grid projects are rather
  limited
• Regulator installed a policy platform to prepare
  an action plan for the implementation of smart
  grids
• 4. Federal clearing house ATRIAS will be
  installed in 2015
• 5. INFRAX is a regulated and therefore an
  independent party

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3. Role of DSO in an open electricity market

• 1. Facilitator of an open electricity market
• 2. Buyer of flexibility to defer grid inforcement
  and enhance hosting capacity of renewables
• 3. Multiple meter hardware and communication
  layers should be avoided ? decreases costs
• 4. Control signals may not work against each
  other
• 5. Avoiding of fragmentation of responsabilities
  ? increases efficiency.
• 6. DSO grid manager data manager /
  independable partner

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CONCEPT
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4. Role of DSO in Smart Grids
From building and connecting towards
connecting
and managing,
Sorce Eurelectric
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5. Experience of pilots and projects
SMART METER PROJECT (proof of concept
phase) . 400 smart meters are in
place . Communication medium cable network
offers good results and is applicable for smart
grids . problems lack of standards, lack
of products available on the market cost/benefi
ts . roll out in phases / first clients who can
activaly participate to the concept of smart
grids.
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5. Experience of pilots and projects

• META PV
• Goal1. Increase the hosting capacity of DER
  with 50 with the same
• costs as 10 of the costs of regularly
  needed grid reinforcement.
• 2. Development of new grid planning tools
• HowSmart invertors that can control active and
  reactive power to keep the voltage profiles
  within the permitted boundaries

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5. Experience of pilots and projects
Partners 3E(B), LRM (B), INFRAX (B), SMA (D),
UoL (University of Ljubljana (Slovenië)), AIT
(Austrian Institute of Technology) Demosite
Lommel / Opglabbeek 130 households with 4 kW
PV installations 30 industrial
installations of 200 kW Status demosite
operational end 2011 Website www.metapv.eu
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6. Expectations for the future

• INFRAX participates in Living labs EVs
  Flanders
• (170 EVs, 350 charge points)
• Rolls out charging infrastructure on public
  domain for municipalities
• Investigates how EVs can be used to support grid
  management

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6. Expectations for the future

• Aggregation of DER - Commercial Virtual Power
  Plants
• Provision of demand and generation flexibility
  based on commercial drivers
• Offering flexiblity on global and local markets

• New Market Designs
• Allowing distributed generation and demand to
  participate in global and local markets
• Incentives for DER to provide flexiblity

SLim

• System Observability
• Nowcast and forecast of distributed generation
• Monitoring of distribution grid status
• Data exchange between TSO and DSO

• Smart Distribution Grid Control Technical Virtual
  Power Plant
• Combining technical grid constraints and CVPP
  requests
• Optimising grid operation by using availlabe
  generation and demand flexibility

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6. Expectations for the future

• Province of Limburg started a very ambitiues plan
  TACO2 to reach CO2 neutrality in 2020.
• INFRAX participates activily in the DO-TANKS
  supporting TACO2
• INFRAX, as multi-utility, wants to be partner in
  Smart Cities projects

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