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The cPAD Project
Prof Michael Conlon
12 April 2018
The cPAD Project
• Community Grid Project and Demonstrator (cPAD)
• Funded by the International Energy Research Centre
• IERC is an industry-led Enterprise Ireland/IDA Ireland technology centre funded jointly by the Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation and the Department of Energy, Communications and Natural Resources
• cPAD Project hosted by DIT
• Based in the Electrical Power Research Centre (EPRC), School of Electrical
and Electronic Engineering, DIT
• Participation from the Dublin Energy Lab (DEL)
• Participation by industry partners and groups
Context
• Sustained growth in renewable energy technologies at both a
distributed/small-scale level and at a utility level
• Signification participation at an individual customer level
• Photovoltaic
• Small-scale wind
• Micro CHP
• Heat pumps
• Supporting and utilisation technologies
• Energy storage, particular batteries
• Electric vehicles
• Smart-metering
• Enhanced communications and controls; cloud-based systems
• Development, operation, economics of these systems on the
grid
Community Grid
• A group of grid-connected electrical resources, within a clearly
defined electrical boundary in the Distribution System (e.g.sub-
station)
• … with a single logical connection point to the grid, for which:
• Obligation to ensure disturbance-neutrality
• Single controllable entity
• Entitlement to facilitation of grid connections (by DSO)
• Licensed to CSO (Community System Operator)
Project - Summary
• This project aims to develop both a residential based energy
generation and trading platform and novel business model for
community grid based prosumers
• The outcomes of this project are to influence a new era of
distributed generation and energy trading in Ireland
Project – Key Objectives
• Develop a prototype of the technology, and deploy this in an
operational environment so that the feasibility of Community
Grids can be demonstrated to external stakeholders such as
regulators and grid operators
• Develop a high-level commercial model for a Community
Systems Operator (CSO)
Project - Participation
• Funded by the International Energy Research Centre (IERC)
• PI and project developer, Rene Peeren
• Existing DIT Personnel
• John Dalton
• Michael Farrell
• Michael Conlon
• Project initiated in December 2017
• Budget: €1.5 million, funded by IERC and industry
• Duration: 2 years
• Currently in recruitment and engagement stage
Project Partners
• MPower – Lead Industry Partner
• Operator of Tallaght Living Lab
• Knowledge of Community Grid concepts
• South Dublin County Council (SDCC)
• Siemens – Distribution System Technologies
• mSemicon – Smart Metering
• SystemLink – Flexibility, Cryptocurrencies
• Community Renewable Supplier (CRES)/Tipperary Energy
Agency (TEA) – Electricity Market Specialists
• TBA – Market, Regulatory and Commercial Specialists
• IERC – Technical Oversight
Role of the CSO
Project concepts
• Flexibility resources
• Service required to respond to disturbances caused by production
within the community
• Disturbances due to intermittent renewable generation, causing
congestion and voltage fluctuations, for example
• Differentiate from DSO solutions, which may include system upgrades,
or compensating equipment
• Disturbance neutrality
• Achieved for participants of the community grid
• enerXchange
• Based on transactive energy principles, combining energy and flexibility
enerXchange High-level Architecture
Project – Work Packages
• WP 1 – Framework
• Delivery of validated prototype, market design proposals and
commercial model, integration of deliverables from other WPs
• WP 2 – Disturbances
• Delivery of the technology (controls + operational procedures) to
respond adequately to disturbances using available flexibility and
identify opportunities for improving performance through
collaboration with DSO
• WP 3 – Transactive places
• Deliver the technology and market mechanisms to locally contract
adequate flexibility within Community Grid to cover the forecast
production
Project – Work Packages (cont)
• WP 4 – Resources
• Delivers a software development framework framework that allows
production, flexibility or metering resources to be used by
enerXchange in a modular and plug&play fashion, and delivers those
resources that will be used by the prototype and designed in this
project, both SW implementations of the resource model, and SW/HW
of the resources themselves
• WP 5 – Market Design and Exploitation
• Delivers proposals for regulators, policy makers and other stake holders
within the electricity supply chain such as DSOs
• WP 6 – Dissemination
• Dissemination of the results to stakeholders, research community and
the public
Tallaght Smart Grid Test-Bed (Living Lab)
• 200 prosumers contracted, consisting of residential,
commercial and public (SDCC County Hall)
• 80 prosumers metered, 8 of these connected to an Advanced
Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
• Prosumer Dashboard
• 300kW battery array, grid connected, comprising lithium-ion,
lead-carbon and supercapacitors
• 50kW PV powered microgrid in SDCC
• Micro district heating ystem (6.6kWe, 15kWh), gas-fired CHP
• 4 prosumers with behind-the-meter batteries
• 3kVA heat pump at Glenasmole GAA
• 6.5kWe Proven Wind Turbine
• 2.9kWe, 3kWe PV and 3kVA heat pump in community