Zaragoza and Asturias, Spain

Description

The demonstration in Spain is taking place mainly in Zaragoza and the surrounding area (Aragon region in the North-East of Spain) and a secondary demonstration will take place in Asturias , Northern Spain (Check Map). With a sizeable portion of its population concentrated in its capital city, Zaragoza, and a sizeable industrial and service sector, Aragon has a high energy consumption rate. The rest of Aragon is mostly rural with a relatively dispersed population and a lot of renewable energy plants. All energy users and prosumers should be brought into flexible markets to help with the integration of these renewable sources. On the other hand, the secondary demonstrator (cluster #3) represents other side of Spanish consumers: big industrial energy demanders. For this reason, the Spanish demonstration site includes all types of energy consumers and prosumers i.e., office (cluster #1 and cluster #2), industrial buildings (cluster #3) and residential (cluster #4).

In this pilot, both hardware solutions and software tools will be developed, standardised and tested, including:

• Development demand side management strategies (including distributed resources as storage or generation) for optimal management and flexibility provision. They will be implemented through Cloud computing in REEFLEX platform and, in the case of CIRCE, on Edge computing using already installed gateways/concentrators (Energy Box) and in the other areas.
• Implementation of smart appliances and monitoring devices at residential level and heritage buildings (URBE offices). The improved availability of data, also supported by NILM algorithms to disaggregate industrial demands in ARCELOR MITTAL, will enable the implementation of algorithms for categorising flexibility potential and the predictive maintenance of energy assets.
• Innovative assets, including batteries, inverters and V2G chargers enabling advance levels of flexibility will be deployed and/or tested at CIRCE taking advantage of its living lab on renewable microgrids. The integration of batteries will also take place at residential level to demonstrate the potential of energy communities promoting the acquisition and operation of green technologies.
• A tool for flexibility calculation, aggregation, market negotiation and customer management will be developed to support URBE as aggregator in the management of flexibility sources.
• OMIE will develop energy services to take advantage of flexibility not only at local level, but also at national and international level. In this sense, models will be used to estimate the flexibility needs of grid operators triggering the process of requesting, trading, negotiating and activating Flexibility Providers