Unlocking Flexibility to achieve a climate-neutral energy system

1. UNLOCKING FLEXIBILITY TO
ACHIEVE A CLIMATE-NEUTRAL
ENERGY SYSTEM
PERTTU LAHTINEN, HELEN OY
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2. HELEN IN BRIEF
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SÄHKÖ
805M€
Turnover 2017
Awarded in
sustainability
One of the largest
energy utilities
in Finland
customers
400,000
900
employees
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3. efficiency in
combined energy
production
90%
Of District Heat is
produced with
Combined Heat and
Power generation
90%
of properties in Helsinki
are heated with District
Heating
90%
HELEN’S CURRENT, AWARDED
ENERGY SOLUTION
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4. FIVE STEPS TOWARDS A CLIMATE-
NEUTRAL FUTURE
The role of customers
will increase
A shift from fossil fuels
to x –economy via
bioeconomy
Waste heat is
recovered and reused
more efficiently
Flexibility is needed
More investment is
needed in innovations,
develompent and
research

5. WHY FLEXIBILITY?

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Non-
syncronous
Variable
Loss of
inertia
UnbalanceVRE
VARIABLE RENEWABLE ENERGY MUST BE BALANCED

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Non-
syncronous
Variable
Loss of
inertia
UnbalanceVRE
mFRR
aFRR
FCR-D
FCR-N
SOLUTION ORIENTED APPROACH
Grid reserves
Forecasting

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Load
management
SOURCES OF FLEXILIBITY
Storages
Hydro /
pumped hydro
Curtailment
services
Power-to-
gas
Vehicle-to-
grid services
Strong area
connectors
Demand-side Generation Transmission
Market
development
Market design

9. Siemens DEMS 3.0
VPP START UP
2015 2016 2017 2018
Partnered up with Siemens
Commercially active Yearly FCR-D
First (test) site connected
Helen Trading integration ready
”How to put a SCADA system in a cloud?”
Ramp up 1st stage ready (10+ MW connected)

10. ON-SITE LOAD CONTROL
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• Developed by Siemens
• Industry grade components
• Enables reserve provider participation for all TSO
reserve markets
– FCR-D
– FCR-N
– mFFR
– aFFR
• Device + installation offered in Helen’s DR program,
free of charge
Demand Response Control Module (SieDer)
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11. VPP OPERATIONS
WITH RESERVE PROVIDERS
Yandex Data Center (Mäntsälä, Finland)
• Cooperation started in 2016
• Helen enables the ancillary market
operations for Yandex
• Datacenter with back-up power generator
/ dynamic UPS system (~ 8 MW).
• Load management for FCR-D
– f < 49,50 Hz, 1 s. requirement
– Reaction time~ 20-30 ms
• First datacenter in the world providing
FCR 5-10 % Savings in electricity costs

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Load
management
industry
Flexibility
Battery
storages
EV Charging
Battery
storages
(small scale)
V2G
Service
provider
Load
management
households
Service
provider
Solar
+ Heat flexibility
FLEXIBILITY IN UTILITY SCALE
Service
provider
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13. Energy utility is a platform for
new innovations and smart city
solutions
Demand
response
solutions
New
energy
services
Energy storages
Solar Power
Heat Pump applications
Electric traffic
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