Integrid - Bridging the Gap

70 9. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS InteGrid tackled all the proposed project goals by providing intelligent and interoperable grid solutions that would integrate energy injection from renewable energy sources while maintaining levels of comfort and efficiency in industry, services and residential sectors. As a complement, it developed a customer centric approach leveraging the distribution grid stakeholder’s active role on its journey to complete decarbonization and transition to decentralized generation and consumption which will lead us to the democratic use of Clean Energy by everyone, according to EU energy policy goals. For 46 months, from January 2017 to October 2020, the InteGrid consortium was able to tackle such challenges by implementing the InteGrid concept so that a successful project and relevant conclusions were delivered to EU and the EU citizens. The InteGrid concept was implemented and demonstrated based on three complementary drivers: I. Proactive day-ahead distribution grid operational planning and intraday, real-time dispatch of existing distributed flexibility sources, as well as forecasting mechanisms covering impacts from renewable generation and consumption profile variability and uncertainty. HLUC01 (MV Grid operation based on flexibility) and HLUC02 (LV Grid Operation based on flexibility), as well as HLUC05 (Traffic Light System Providing Distribution Grid Flexibility for third parties) are good examples of such achievements; II. Innovative business models for flexible DER, where flexibility provided by distribution grid clients were evaluated and allocated, according to the value for grid operation efficiency improvement, as well as in relation to its value based on market/competitive mechanisms. The multi-purpose nature of HEMS, which was able to manage customer flexibility, both with regard to energy consumption optimization (as in HUC09) and grid flexibility support in the case of technical constraints (as in HLUC02) is a good example. This is also the case with the VPP concept where MV customers and RES power plants can use this flexibility for ancillary market participation (as in HLUC12) or MV grid support in the case of technical constraints (HLUC05 and HLU01); III. The value based on information exchange between different stakeholders in the energy sector as an opportunity to maximize the economic, societal and environmental gains from the combined integration of DRES and flexible DER was achieved. This took place where the InteGrid ICT ecosystem developed in Portugal (IDP) leveraged by the gm-hub, demonstrated the importance of the core role of such tools so that the DSO can ensure the stability of the grid by having the visibility of aggregation actions connected to its network. As the data managing party, the DSO guarantees the information flow between the different parties in the energy sector and provides a level playing field where information is available to all in a transparent, independent and non-discriminatory manner. GDPR requirements and obligations were fully covered by InteGrid and several grid-focused cases of use (i.e. HLUC01, HLUC2) were implemented based on common data such as the market focused cases of use (i.e. HLUC05 and HLUC12 and HLUC09). Simultaneously, the gm-hub enabled several Cases of Use and services provided by third parties for distribution grid customers (i.e. “Sizing PV and Storage Capacity”and “MV Customer Load Profile Enhancement”). InteGrid developments spanned four domains and was demonstrated by all three demonstrators, in accordance with the leading driver: I. For the Grid Operation Domain , both flexibility management in MV and LV grids were demonstrated in Portugal (HLUC01, HLUC02 and HLUC05) while “Asset Health Diagnosis for Predictive Maintenance” and “Improved repair of unplanned outages and remote diagnosis” were demonstrated in Sweden (through HLUC03 and HLUC04), with replication in Portugal (for the “Predictive Maintenance” case); II. For the Grid and Market Hub domain, the gm-hub was demonstrated in Portugal and Slovenia, by HLUC06, while the “Traffic Light System” was demonstrated by HLUC05 in Portugal and Slovenia; III. For the Grid users domain, the “Home Energy Management” systems were demonstrated in Portugal and in Sweden, while the “Electrical