The Flexibility Aggregator: the example of the GreenLys Project

Guillaume Lehec

Demand Side Management is only one part of a full packaged Energy Efficiency Offering

Electricity supply costs can be reduced in several ways:

“Static” optimization: definitive distortion of the load curve shape by changing deeply the behavior of the customer

“Dynamic” optimization = load management: punctual load curve

distortion according to the economic conditions • Consumption distortion: anticipation and delay of consumption • Remote control distributed generation : CHP, Diesel engines

Load shedding Load shifting to low price hours

Load increase in low price hours

Reduce quarter hourly imbalances

Different kinds of Dynamic Optimization

Dispatching of decentralised assets

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GreenLys: a field test designed to prepare offerings development.

GreenLys aims at designing the future local market design

• Developing 2 field test platforms on Grenoble and Lyon by 2016 : 1000 B2C customers and 40 B2B customers

• Testing the social acceptance and the offerings attractiveness • Testing in real conditions the relationships between distributed generation and

Demand Side Management and the value for the electric system • Proposing regulatory evolutions in order to let DSM create the maximum value

for the electric system

GreenLys Stakeholders

GreenLys gathered all the players along the electricity value chain

TSO/DSO Producers Suppliers

Research institute

Manufacturers IT Associatio

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The package for the B2C customers

Through the solution the customer is no more passive !

Energy monitoring (web user experience) Energy management (scheduling and remote control) Load shifting (temporaly temperature reduction/increase)

Schneider Wiser Box

Already 300 B2C customers are contributing to the GreenLys Project in Lyon and Grenoble

GreenLys first results for Aggregators

Customers interest confirmed for packaged offerings especially with gamification and challenges within the users community

Consumption reduction to be assessed in the next month, Customers expectations regarding the aggregators offerings to be re-

assessed according to GreenLys users feedback

Load shifting has almost no impact on B2C customers comfort 3-5% curtailment cancelled by customers

The distributed portfolio is more than 90% available during winter

Customers cancelation, technical failure

GreenLys first results for Aggregators

The created value for the system will be assessed in the next month and so the Business Model of a B2C aggregator

The solution is technically scalable but

The offerings has to be test beyond the early adopters Installation and maintenance costs must be optimized smart meters on B2C customers are necessary (French regulation

constraint – deployment in progress) Distribution tariffs have to evolve in order to bring the right incitation to

the customers and the aggregators