Periodic Reporting for period 3 - INTERRFACE (TSO-DSO-Consumer INTERFACE aRchitecture to provide innovative grid services for an efficient power system)
Reporting period: 2022-01-01 to 2022-12-31
With the growth of renewables, the increased interconnection of European grids, the development of local energy initiatives, and the specific requirements on TSO – DSO cooperation as set forth in the different Network Codes and Guidelines, TSOs and DSOs face new challenges that will require greater coordination. The European Commission adopted legislative proposals on the energy market that promote cooperation among network operators as they procure balancing, congestion management and ancillary services. The measures encourage procurement of services at both the transmission and distribution level, recognizing that this will enable more efficient and effective network management, will increase the level of demand response and the capacity of renewable generation. TSOs and DSOs must now define the services they want to procure in collaboration with market participants, and must set up ways to procure them in a coordinated manner. Digitalisation is a key driver for coordination and active system management in the electricity grid, enabling TSOs and DSOs to optimise the use of distributed resources and ensure a cost-effective and secure supply of electricity but also empowers end-users to become active market participants, supporting self-generation and providing demand flexibility. To support the transformation, the INTERRFACE project will design, develop and exploit an Interoperable pan-European Grid Services Architecture to act as the interface between the power system (TSO and DSO) and the customers and allow the seamless and coordinated operation of all stakeholders to use and procure common services. State-of-the-art digital tools will provide new opportunities for electricity market participation and thus engage consumers into the INTERRFACE proposed market structures that will be designed to exploit Distributed Energy Resources.
During the final 12 months of the project the following achievements can be reported:
• Addressed the ethical issues and requirements of the project and outlined the project approach on the procedures to be implemented for data collection, storage, protection, retention and destruction and confirmation that they comply with national and EU legislation
• Finalized the second IEGSA release
• Finished the integration of IEGSA with all project demos
• Updated the IEGSA documentation (user manual and deployment manual)
• Finalized the Piloting phase in all 7 project demonstrators
• Extracted the most important results from demonstrators and performed a thorough evaluation
• Calculated final Key Performance indicators for all 7 demonstrators in order to verify the successful completion of the piloting phase
• Extracted and analyzed lessons learnt from demos and proposed recommendations towards relevant stakeholders
• Performed a thorough impact assessment on the demo results
• Finalized the execution of the 6 Open Call projects'
• Organized a Workshop presenting the results of the Open Call Projects
• Prepared and/or participated in communication and awareness raising activities promoting the
project and its results in web, social and physical means:
o Kept social media up to date
o Several scientific publications
o Participation to events at national and European level (conferences, events and workshops)
o Participation to BRIDGE initiative activities and meetings
o Organization of the final Annual INTERRFACE Flexibility Webinar
o Publication of the joint Paper with CoordiNet (“Sister” project of INTERRFACE)
o Issued a Newsletter
o Continued the Synergy with the OPEN DEI H2020 Project
o Organized the Project’s final Event with participation of many external Stakeholders and EC actors
o Published a Roadmap Addressing the scalability and replicability considerations for bringing IEGSA to the markets
o Published recommendations to policy makers and regulators
o Finalized the IPR Management of the Project
• Timely and appropriate trouble-shooting, immediate reaction to problems and misunderstandings and adequate use of all project resources by the project and technical management
• Addressed the ethical issues and requirements of the project and outlined the project approach on the procedures to be implemented for data collection, storage, protection, retention and destruction and confirmation that they comply with national and EU legislation
• Finalized the second IEGSA release
• Finished the integration of IEGSA with all project demos
• Updated the IEGSA documentation (user manual and deployment manual)
• Finalized the Piloting phase in all 7 project demonstrators
• Extracted the most important results from demonstrators and performed a thorough evaluation
• Calculated final Key Performance indicators for all 7 demonstrators in order to verify the successful completion of the piloting phase
• Extracted and analyzed lessons learnt from demos and proposed recommendations towards relevant stakeholders
• Performed a thorough impact assessment on the demo results
• Finalized the execution of the 6 Open Call projects'
• Organized a Workshop presenting the results of the Open Call Projects
• Prepared and/or participated in communication and awareness raising activities promoting the
project and its results in web, social and physical means:
o Kept social media up to date
o Several scientific publications
o Participation to events at national and European level (conferences, events and workshops)
o Participation to BRIDGE initiative activities and meetings
o Organization of the final Annual INTERRFACE Flexibility Webinar
o Publication of the joint Paper with CoordiNet (“Sister” project of INTERRFACE)
o Issued a Newsletter
o Continued the Synergy with the OPEN DEI H2020 Project
o Organized the Project’s final Event with participation of many external Stakeholders and EC actors
o Published a Roadmap Addressing the scalability and replicability considerations for bringing IEGSA to the markets
o Published recommendations to policy makers and regulators
o Finalized the IPR Management of the Project
• Timely and appropriate trouble-shooting, immediate reaction to problems and misunderstandings and adequate use of all project resources by the project and technical management
INTERRFACE supports pan-European RES penetration, sector development, and global leadership by implementing and testing cutting edge technologies in a cost-effective and coordinated manner. It is a crucial enabler to achieving the EU Energy Union and is in line with the Clean Energy Package, which sets out the EU’s ambition to its global leadership in RES, market integration and the need for consumers to be active and central players of the energy market of the future. INTERRFACE helps to integrate the roles of energy sector actors and to engage energy assets such as renewable generation and demand response. The project provides an architecture that can integrate the main tools and data for TSOs, DSOs, power exchanges and market participants, and enables communication between different data hubs and market participants, facilitating market integration.
INTERRFACE will demonstrate services for congestion management and local flexibility in the network, supporting the integration of new and existing distributed generation projects, and promoting innovative business models relating to emerging technologies such as bulk electrical energy storage. It will engage energy assets such as renewable generation and demand response in new ways in the energy market
INTERRFACE will demonstrate services for congestion management and local flexibility in the network, supporting the integration of new and existing distributed generation projects, and promoting innovative business models relating to emerging technologies such as bulk electrical energy storage. It will engage energy assets such as renewable generation and demand response in new ways in the energy market