Integrid - Bridging the Gap

58 Portuguese demonstrator HLUC CBA Aims and Scope NPV Considerations and sensitivities HLUC01 Aims to assess the economic benefits that deployment of flexibility can bring as an alternative to the traditional grid -€168.4K - Only minor benefits due to investment deferral for two years - Longer deferral period will lead to more negative NPV: Extra costs exceed extra benefits - Implementing flexibility is only an economically viable solution on large grids, when the alternative investments that can be avoided or deferred are large enough. This was not the case in the Portuguese demo. HLUC02 Aims to compare the costs and benefits of flexibility with the costs and benefits of curtailment Valverde high: €1.095,- Valverde low: €293,- - Simulations show equal costs for scenario(flexibility) and baseline(curtailment) Relative costs for InteGrid solution are zero - Simulations show no benefits for flexibility in 2019-2025. Only benefits in 2026 - Costs are zero, benefits only in 2026 NPV is equal to 2026 benefits, discounted to 2019 HLUC08 Aims to test the cost and benefits of the developments for Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTP), which are: - A consumption optimization module, that allows the energy consumed to be reduced - A flexibility matrix module, that allows flexibility to be sold in the ancillary service market P-optimizer: €70.1K Flexibility: €469.2K - Both provision of flexibility and P-optimizer are economically viable solutions - Sensitivity analysis shows that CBA results for flexibility are robust, main conclusion is not likely to change - Further research could be undertaken to determine - whether it can be extended to other processes of the WWTP, this would lead to more benefits HLUC09 Aims to test the costs and benefits of the HEMS-demand response solution. Basic: €137,-/household Premium: €1.3K/household PV: -€549,-/household - Success of the solution is heavily dependent on type of customer - Basic and premium consumers show positive results, PV consumer shows negative results - Observed benefits were low, little margin to build a project upon. Large scale implementation is recommended to reach economies of scale HLUC10 Aims to test the costs and benefits of implementing flexibility from HVAC systems in office buildings for the ancillary services (AS) market. €12.0K - Results show that implementing flexibility from HVAC systems in office buildings is an economically viable solution - Sensitivity analysis shows robust results, input can be varied significantly without leading to a different conclusion Slovenian demonstrator HLUC CBA Aims and Scope NPV Considerations and sensitivities HLUC01 Aims to assess the economic benefits that the deployment of flexibility can bring as an alternative to traditional grid reinforcement from the perspective of a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Low: €4.2M Best estimate: €7.7M High: €10.4M - Positive NPV for all scenarios for both HLUC’s Acquiring flexibility to avoid grid investment is beneficial, both for the DSO and for the VPP - Results for DSO (HLUC01) are more positive compared to results for the VPP (HLUC12). Unequal distribution of benefits. - Sensitivity shows that flex price can be significantly increased without resulting in a loss for the DSO A higher flex price would contribute to a more equal distribution of these benefits between the DSO and the VPP. HLUC12 Aims to assess the economic benefits that deployment of flexibility can bring as an alternative to traditional grid reinforcement from the DSO’s perspective tVPP: €80.7K cVPP: €9.7K tVPP + cVPP: €630.9K