Antonio Conati Barbaro Alleantia, Alleantia Presentation from "Launching Cleanweb Italy: Open Meeting" in Luiss University Rome 19/9/2012.

1. Leveraging Realtime Energy Control Systems
for Enabling Innovation in Electric Power
Markets
September 2012

2. Alleantia who ?
Alleantia (www.alleantia.com) is a product and platform
company dedicated to the development of IOT off-the-
shelf products focused on monitoring and control
Solar & Renewable Power Systems Energy Management
Etherogenous Industry Systems
Based on open source software (Linux, Java, HTML5) and
hardware (Arduino), Alleantia products enable improved
performances, O&M cost reduction, service effectiveness
and implementation of new services
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3. Today’s Electric Market
Focus on Grid Health, Continuity and Quality.
The Grid Manages instant demand and supply.
Demand-Offer are balanced every 15 minutes.
Energy Exchange (MPE) set prices through auctions based on planned usage
‘previous day – same day’ modeling, in fixed sessions (MGP/MI)
Customers’ end tariff is generally based on timeslots and pre-defined tariffs
Market driven by producers, distributors and very large end customers
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4. The Renewable Energy Problem: Predictability
PV and Wind Power Systems Subject to Production
Variation, Seasonal and non-Seasonal
Peaks beyond planned load are managed
through I/O disconnection
(Italy: starting August 2012)
? ?
Italy: more than 12 GWp ‘Dumped’ Energy Production
installed from 37,000+
PV systems >50 kWp unplanned (1h) and sparse
Could Customers use this wasted
production if offered at convenient price ?
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5. Adaptable industry cycles – two examples
Compressed Air Standard Cycle Variable Cycle
Tank air Tank air
pressure pressure
compressor activated on pressure trigger compressor activated on pressure and external triggers
time time
Standard Cycle Variable Cycle
Refrigeration Cooling Cooling
temp temp
compressor activated on temp trigger compressor activated on temp and external triggers
time time
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6. A Potential win-win Scenario
• Renewable Energy investors must maximize ROI
• Consumers may use more energy with limited notice
• There could be room for a near-real-time Energy trading
system
• Near-real time information from producers and consumers
necessary as basis for implementation (integrated with Grid
Management)
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7. Leveraging Control Systems for Open Electric Marketplace
1: power availability estimation
• Grid absorbed power (planned) ‘Next Hour’ Electric
• Per-Zone ‘dumped power ‘
availability forecast Trading System
• Next hour (fraction) forecast
Production Energy
• Actual power production • Additional power
Control and near term forecast request (kW, duration) Management
System • Historical trend and • Time start & end System
meteo forecast data • Discount requested
integration
• Actual power delivered to
grid and planned
forecast
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8. Leveraging Control Systems for Open Electric Marketplace
2: near-real time extra power allocation
• Revised next hour (fraction) ‘Next Hour’ Electric
forecast
Trading System
Production Energy
• Actual power production • Additional power
Control and near term forecast purchased (kW, Management
System • Historical trend and duration) System
meteo forecast data • Time start & end
integration
• Actual power delivered to
grid and planned
forecast
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9. Proposing a Hackaton Project
• Alleantia could provide data simulation
– for Production forecast (next 30’ – 60’ – 120’)
– for Energy Management system (energy bidding next 30’ – 60’ –
120’)
• Data could be provided on
• Additional Grid System data input to be added
• Scope of work could be a basic demand-offer matching
system (‘Next hour’ automatic bidding)
– Book
– Forecast
– Matching
– Feedback info to user
– Dashboard
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