This document provides an overview of Laborelec, a leading research and services center in energy processes and energy use. It discusses Laborelec's expertise in areas like power generation, transmission, distribution, and energy end-use. It also summarizes Laborelec's role in supporting smart energy and smart grid projects through applied research, technical expertise, and demonstration projects. Finally, it highlights some of Laborelec's ongoing smart energy projects and pilots in areas such as smart metering, distributed generation integration, demand response, and electric vehicles.

2. Tweed Cluster “Smart Energy & Smart Grid”
Michaël De Koster – Product line manager Electricity Grids & end-Use
“Smart Energy : From Hype to Reality
Challenges and Opportunities”

3. LABORELEC IDENTITY KIT
Technical competence centre and laboratory:
 Métier = electrical power
 Power generation
 Transmission and distribution
 Energy end-use
 255 researchers and technical specialists
Applied research and technical expertise
support:
 Turnover € 47.5 M
 Strong growth driven by growing
international demand for technical
expertise support services
 For shareholders and third-party customers
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4. Smart Energy / Grids – General Context
Energy policy "20-20-20" encouraging
distributed generation and renewable
20% reduction in emissions, 20% renewable energies and 20% improvement in energy efficiency
• More and more intermittent production
leads to new flexibility requirements
(production and demand)
• Adaptation of T&D networks to cope with
less predictable flows and connection
constraints of distributed generation
• New investments and new technologies in
the context of the replacement of ageing
infrastructures
EU-27
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5. Toward a Smarter Grid
Automation and grid
optimization
Smart Meter
A smart grid is the combination of an
electrical power system and a
Energy Box
telecommunication network supporting the
deployment of an integrated control of the
Distributed electrical system, allowing:
Generation ! (1) The advanced management of
generation (centralized and
Aggregation decentralized) and loads (or DSM)
Virtual Power Plant !
(2) The remote control and the automation
of the system, including the
Demand implementation of automatic restoration
Management
actions and protection again back-out.
Electrical Vehicle
Storage / V2G
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6. Smart Grids – Hype or reality
• Basic technologies is available
• Multiple barriers (Economical, Regulatory, Societal and Technological)
• Although the deployment of smart grids is slow, heterogeneous and
incomplete, it still presents opportunities (and riks)
• Importance of demonstration projects to better understand the real potential
and the costs / benefits
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7. Smart MicroGrid @ Laborelec
2007
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8. The LABORELEC smart grid team meeting
2008 - 2010
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9. … leading to the realisation of
the first zero-emission energy systems of the
Princess Elisabeth station in Antarctica
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10. Electrical Grid: Design – Smart MicroGrid
BMS P load > 3 x P production
Controller PLC
SMA Schneider
Synchro check & ctrl
GENSETS
SAPV L3
SAPV L1
SAPV L2
BIPV L3
BIPV L1
BIPV L2
17 x solar energy
GS GS
DC DC DC DC DC DC
AC AC AC AC AC AC
For garage tools
AC AC AC AC AC AC
DC DC DC DC DC DC
& welding
DC DC DC
LOADS
4 Batteries AC AC AC
2000Ah 48V C10 +300kVA
6kWp 6kWp 6kWp
12 Sunny L1 L2 L3
Islands
9 Wind turbines
Net stabilisators
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11. The Demand Power Management System – DPMS ©
Kitchen
Office Office
Blocked
Idle
Living Pending
kitchen
room
On
Kitchen Office
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13. Opportunities - How does DPMS fit in a smart
grid vision ?
Holistic - monolitic
 Everywhere at Once Organic - fragmented
 Top-Down Planning  Multiple functionalities for
DSOs and Suppliers
 Deployment per Segment
DPMS
SLEM B2B
Smart Home B2C
Grid Automation Behind Meter
Before Meter
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14. B2C - @ HOME
Distributed
Even though the energy Generation
consumption of an average
household is declining for the
time being,
we expect an important
increase in power
consumption
due to new applications like heat
pumps and electrical vehicles. Smart
Applications
Distributed Generation is also
challenging (No simultaneity
between generation and
consumption and low equivalent
hours (+/- 850h for PV)
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15. Heat Pumps integration in the distribution grid
When the outside temperature drops below
– 5 0C the booster elements are needed to
fulfill the heat demand of the house.
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16. Push method
Control signals
Pull method
Send price signals to smart appliances
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17. “SMART HOME”
Distributed
Generation
Concentrator Smart meter
DSO Smart
grid system
New
market
model
MUC
Information Smart
Terminal Applications
Supplier dB
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18. Electrical Vehicles – Pilot Project
Work Program
 Monitoring facilities:
integrated in the vehicle
 Performance (incl. impact
of climatic conditions),
behaviour of driver and
wear over time
 Control of charging
infrastructure
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19. …and the Customer’s “Flexibility” ?
"Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent.
Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”
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20. LINEAR collaborative project in Flanders
2009-2014 - Smart grids for retail market
Main Goal: demonstration of the smart
grids philosophy in an existing
residential area
 Pilots implementation of smart metering and
orks and Energy Active Regions” : Pilot project on the large scale energy management systems in >100 building
ve demand in de distribution network
 Test of active demand management with
rs’ ticket to the top-5 innovative regions within Europe, concerning
(μ)CHP, heat-pumps, thermal and electrical
of May 2009, total budget of 42M€ energy storage concepts
 Energy consumption profiles
S (23M€ including Hombeek-Leest), INFRAX (6M€), SPE (1M€), …
 Understanding of the technical, social and
economic aspects of consumers flexibility
LBE contribution:
 Participation in the development of algorithms & control
software: time of use case, smart heatpump,…
 Logging & monitoring design
 Labo setup of all equipments
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21. Smart Local Energy Management
Smart grids for B2B market
It consists of a control system which determines
local load scheduling, generation scheduling and
use of storage (electrical, heat, cold,…) in such a
way that:
Industrial
• The profile of net power import from the process
electricity grid is as smooth as possible
• The flexibility in consumption and local
production is increased and controllable
(day-ahead / Intraday) to respond to energy
offers of dynamic pricing (or aggregation),
• The local renewable electricity generation is
as high as possible for a given capacity of the
grid connection
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22. Summary
The Smart Grids Value Chain
Regulated Transport Distribution Customers
Retail
Tertiary
Liberalised Generation Trading Supplier Services Industry
Technology - Smart Metering SM -
Data
- Smart Sub- - Smart Home
Concept Aggregation - Substation
clearing metering or - Smart local
Virtual Power automation Billing
interface energy
Plants - Load flow
Smart Box management
management
Value - Avoid some
Creation Flexibility investments - Energy Efficiency
Balancing -Reduce OPEX - Demand side management
Grid services - Reduce Fraud - Integration DG
- Integration DG - New energy services
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23. The business case of the Smart Energy
Allocation of Cost vs. Value Creation
New Geneation Portfolio
DSO < > supplier
roles
International Supergrids
Distribution System Automation
Smart Integration (PV, CHP, EV, …)
? Smart Meters (.. and new market models)
Smart Energy Management : DSM + aggregation
? Smart Customers : adapt behaviour
B2A
B2B B2C
Smart Cities
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24. Implementation Succes Factors
• Technology
 Affordable technology
 Data Management
 System Integration / Interoperability / Standardization
• Market Model
 “Borders” Generation - Distribution - Supply - Services
 Allocation of Cost vs. Value Creation
 Business cases: in some Business Segments vs. All users
 Offers and New Price Structure (Supply + Grid) - capacity market ?
• Customer Take-Up
 Economical Rationale vs. Blue Ocean (“Must Have”) ?
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25. LABORELEC at your service
Thank You !
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26. From innovation to operational assistance in energy
Laborelec is a leading research and services centre in energy
processes and energy use, with almost fifty years of experience.
We are part of the Research and Innovation Division of the GDF
SUEZ Group, a world leader in the energy sector.
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