Hub Sessions

We will present how The Netherlands has developed the various stages of introduction of Energy storage. Combined steps forward in legal and technical innovations, and discussions with government ensures long term clarity of business cases.  

Storage is growing rapidly. The question is how to deal with storage as a TSO, who is allowed to own storage assets and how can it provide products needed by the TSO. TenneT is involved in several pilot projects and will express their position on storage.

Until now, no one seems to have been able to scale a business model for the aggregation of distributed energy sources that can benefit both prosumers and the electricity system. Elemize Technologies, a young Italian startup, is trying to do so, with a system that connects prosumers with electricity markets. The presentation will give the point of view of a startup operating in this sector, while also showing how energy market rules significantly affect the scalability of ESS aggregation.

In recent years, Brazil has reduced the storage of water in its reservoirs mainly because of the environmental pressure and the great distance from the great rivers (the majority is located in the Amazon Region – located in north) to load centers (in south, southeast and northeast). This has generated high costs and increased emissions, as we are using diesel generation to supply the deficiency in storage, but also suplly more energy during the dry season. Because of this, Brazil is trying to diversify its energy matrix introducing new sources of renewables, such as solar and wind.

Projects and case studies that focus on large and small scale storage system applications, as well as the latest developments in the area of new battery technologies. What is their importance for the industry and can they also be economically profitable?

Renewable energy carriers are necessary to meet our ambitious CO2 reduction targets Green methanol is an excellent renewable energy carrier With the project “greenfuel” innogy demonstrates the complete value chain for green methanol –  production, logistic and use to power cars and a ship

In this presentation, Terna will showcase the results of the first two years of experimentation on its storage pilot plants connected to the NTG. In particular, the presentation will analyze and evaluate the performance of the different battery technologies and their capacity in providing ancillary services by showing some operating cases-of-study. The results of the experiment conducted by Terna will make it possible to identify the potential and margins for improvement in battery storage technologies, encouraging the development of innovative systems and solutions and optimising the use of each technology for existing ancillary services, maximizing the operational benefits.

The presentation will offer deeper understanding of decentralization, its deep connection to digital, the value it is creating, and how it will be enabled or blocked by a number of business, technological and regulatory evolution in years to come. In this presentation, we will try to shed light on some of the above by answering one simple question: is there actual value in optimizing locally, ie in energy communities, from the point of view of the global power system and from that of the end-user ? We will present results obtained from modelling the future (2030) power system,  which provide us with a clear positive answer – given some enabling conditions. We will then discuss the path to that future grid vision, and discuss some ideas on how to start enabling the true value of decentralization in 2017.

The presentation will focus on providing IHS Markit’s current views and outlook major trends that are shaping the battery energy storage industry, sharing valuable insight and analysis.

In this presentation EASE will provide an overview of innovative solutions to some of the problems identified by the UK system operator, using new long and short duration storage technologies. Being an island, the UK is likely to face renewable integration challenges earlier than other countries in Europe. National Grid identified needs for black start, dynamic VAR and solutions to tackle lower levels of inertia. A hybrid system comprised of flywheels, supercapacitors and liquid air energy storage can address specific services optimising utilisation of each technology and maximizing the value delivered to the grid.

Electric Vehicle (EV) battery systems are no longer suitable for vehicle application after the amount of energy that is able to be stored has degraded to approximately 80% SOC or the capable of only storing 80% of the energy of a new battery. This used battery can have significant number of charge/discharge cycles remaining, prior to the battery requiring fundamental recycling. A multi-partner project sponsored by the Clean Energy Fund of Canada (CEF) investigated methodology for extending the useful life, and thereby providing a 2nd life to used EV battery systems into a stationery energy storage system that could be implemented for grid stability and reliability. This project successfully demonstrated a 2nd life energy storage.

A TenneT speaker will be introduced

Eneco introduced in 2016 as one of the first European reseller the Tesla Powerwall. But already started to develop services based on this, and other home batteries. In 2016 we introduced ‘CrowdNett’, a sharing concept. We use partly the capacity of the home batteries and use it, aggregated, for ancillary services (PCR for TSO). As a result we can offer the customer a discount on their installation and a yearly gratification which makes the CrowdNett formule a very compelling offer. In the integration, we work closely together with development teams of Tesla, SolarEdge and Ampard. CrowdNett is now starting to enter other region’s like Germany with utility partner LichtBlick. In the presentation we focus on the integration, the balancing market, the customer concept and future developments.

In the all-electric housing area solar production is combined with in-home battery systems, combined with smart home functionalities. The presentation will explain how the inhabitants were able to use more self-produced solar energy and how the battery systems can be of benefit to control the load flow in an urban micro grid using the USEF control mechanism.

Nice Smart Valley is the French demonstrator of the INTERFLEX project.

In 2016, UKPR won contracts to build 120MW of battery storage. This will make the company one of the largest energy storage players in Europe. This presentation will focus on the behind the scenes challenges and opportunities of putting together such a large scale project in a rapidly changing market. A UK Power Reserve speaker will be announced

Storage of electricity as high temperature heat in rocks has potential to be a feasible and scalable solution for integration of wind and solar. Furthermore it could utilize existing thermal power plants otherwise threatened to shut down. Energinet is currently researching this potential in cooperation with Danish utility company Seas-NVE, DTU and other partners including the construction of a pilot plant. The presentation will focus on the potential socio-economic and private economic value of the storage technology as well as integration in the energy system.