Frankfurt Germany 6 -9 June 2011 Role of

Frankfurt (Germany), 6 -9 June 2011 Role of DSOs in Future (Flemish) Grids Jan NEYENS, Infrax, Belgium 1. INFRAX 2. Regulatory framework 3. Role of DSO in an open electricity market 4. Role of DSO in Smart Grids 5. Experiences of pilots and projects 6. Expectations for the future

Frankfurt (Germany), 6 -9 June 2011 1. INFRAX Responsibilities: - grid management < 30 k. V - metering company - data administrator Flanders Brussels Wallonia

Frankfurt (Germany), 6 -9 June 2011 1. INFRAX = multi-utility Activity Connections Municipalities Customers 123 1 850 000 Electricity 92 575 000 Natural gas 82 235 000 Cable television 91 504 000 Sewerage 80 315 000 Employees Jan Neyens – Belgium – RT 6 a 1 481

Frankfurt (Germany), 6 -9 June 2011 2. Regulatory framework 1. Electricity market is totally unbundled since 2003 2. TSO = ELIA DSO = EANDIS, INFRAX, ORES, SIBELGA Local regulators = VREG, CWAPE, BRUGHEL Federal regulator = CREG Suppliers: Luminus, Nuon, Essent, …. . Essent Jan Neyens – Belgium – RT 6 a

Frankfurt (Germany), 6 -9 June 2011 2. Regulatory framework 3. incentives for Smart Grid projects are rather limited Regulator installed a policy platform to prepare an action plan for the implementation of smart grids 4. Federal clearing house ATRIAS will be installed in 2015 5. INFRAX is a regulated and therefore an independent party Jan Neyens – Belgium – RT 6 a

Frankfurt (Germany), 6 -9 June 2011 3. Role of DSO in an open electricity market 1. Facilitator of an open electricity market 2. Buyer of flexibility to defer grid inforcement and enhance hosting capacity of renewables 3. Multiple meter hardware and communication layers should be avoided decreases costs 4. Control signals may not work against each other 5. Avoiding of fragmentation of responsabilities increases efficiency. 6. DSO = grid manager & data manager / independable partner Jan Neyens – Belgium – RT 6 a

Frankfurt (Germany), 6 -9 June 2011 CONCEPT

Frankfurt (Germany), 6 -9 June 2011 4. Role of DSO in Smart Grids From “building and connecting” towards “connecting and managing”, Jan Neyens – Belgium – RT 6 a Sorce: Eurelectric

Frankfurt (Germany), 6 -9 June 2011 5. Experience of pilots and projects SMART METER PROJECT (proof of concept phase) phase. 400 smart meters are in place. . . Communication medium = cable network offers good results and is applicable for smart grids problems: lack of standards, lack of products available on the market cost/benefits roll out in phases / first clients who can activaly participate to the concept of smart grids. Jan Neyens – Belgium – RT 6 a

Frankfurt (Germany), 6 -9 June 2011 5. Experience of pilots and projects META PV Goal: 1. Increase the hosting capacity of DER with 50% with the same costs as 10% of the costs of regularly needed grid reinforcement. 2. Development of new grid planning tools How: Smart invertors that can control active and reactive power to keep the voltage profiles within the permitted boundaries | 10 |

Frankfurt (Germany), 6 -9 June 2011 5. Experience of pilots and projects Partners: 3 E(B), LRM (B), INFRAX (B), SMA (D), Uo. L (University of Ljubljana (Slovenië)), AIT (Austrian Institute of Technology) Demosite: Lommel / Opglabbeek : 130 households with 4 k. W PV installations – 30 industrial installations of 200 k. W : Status: demosite operational end 2011 Website: www. metapv. eu

Frankfurt (Germany), 6 -9 June 2011 6. Expectations for the future • • • INFRAX participates in ‘’Living labs EVs Flanders’’ Flanders (170 EVs, 350 charge points) Rolls out charging infrastructure on public domain for municipalities Investigates how EVs can be used to support grid management Jan Neyens – Belgium – RT 6 a

Frankfurt (Germany), 6 -9 June 2011 6. Expectations for the future Aggregation of DER Commercial Virtual Power Plants New Market Designs • Allowing distributed generation and demand to participate in global and local markets • Incentives for DER to provide flexiblity • Provision of demand generation flexibility based on commercial drivers • Offering flexiblity on global and local markets SLim Smart Distribution Grid Control Technical Virtual Power Plant • Combining technical grid constraints and CVPP requests • Optimising grid operation by using availlabe generation and demand flexibility System Observability • Nowcast and forecast of distributed generation • Monitoring of distribution grid status • Data exchange between TSO and DSO 13

Frankfurt (Germany), 6 -9 June 2011 6. Expectations for the future • Province of Limburg started a very ambitiues plan ‘’TACO 2’’ to reach CO 2 neutrality in 2020. • INFRAX participates activily in the DO-TANKS supporting TACO 2 • INFRAX, as multi-utility, wants to be partner in Smart Cities projects Jan Neyens – Belgium – RT 6 a