Energyforum
Ancillary Services Europe
14-15 April 2010, Brussels
Day 1
8.30 - 9.00 Coffee and registration
9.00 – 9.10 Introduction by the Chairman
Konrad Purchala, Advisor to the Board, Polish TSO PSE Operator
9.10 – 10.30 Introduction panel: Latest updates from the European Regulators and Industry Associations
Short presentations and discussion with delegates:
Dirk Bierman, convenor of the Working Group Ancillary Services, ENTSO-E
Ancillary Services - concepts and European market development
- Different European concepts for technical design and procurement
- Market development and regulatory framework
- Cross-border balancing
- ENTSO-E perspective and activities
Ruud Otter, Chairman SG Balancing & Intra-day markets, Eurelectric
Open issues with intra-day, balancing and reserve markets:
- Examples in current markets
- Market preference for some issues in the GGP
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Next steps in integration
Dirk-Christof Stüdemann, EFET Europe
Towards an integrated European balancing market - current status, objectives and requirements
- Balancing models in Europe
- Intraday market as an implicit and automatic balancing tool
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Role of renewables in the balancing market
10.30– 11.00 Break
11.00-11.40 Opening the energy markets for non-utilities – case study Benelux
Jean-Paul Harreman, Manager Marketing, PVNED BV
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barriers for new entrants to energy and balancing markets
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how PVNED has tackled these issues in the Netherlands and Belgium
- benefits for the market and competition in general resulting from the PVNED business model
- suggestions for harmonization in Europe and future regulation that can stimulate liquidity and competition
11.40 – 12.40 Lunch
12.40 – 13.40 Ancillary Services and Balancing Markets Integration in Europe - Status and Prospects
Tahir Kapetanovic, ERGEG
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Electricity Balancing Markets integration - rationale behind
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European Target model and objectives
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Balancing, intraday and automatically activated reserves
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Future prospects
13.40-15.10 Panel discussion: Renewables - a challenge to AS needs and markets
Javier Paradinas, Head of the Generation Control Centre, Energy Management, Iberdrola
Miguel de la Torre, Engineer in the Control Centre Department, Red Eléctrica de España
Klaus Baggesen Hilger, Senior Innovation Manager, Group R&D, Dong Energy
Gitte Agersbæk, Senior Engineer, Energinet
Is the growing number of renewables that are not integrated in the system sustainable in the long-run? Practical experiences with renewables and distributed generation as supplier of AS. The challenges and recommendations on the integration of renewables into AS market.
Case study - Spain:
Spanish experience with integrating renewable energy into electricity market. New AS requirements for a safety system operation and what are the opportunities for generators:
- Spanish Market Structure
- New ancillary services needed for the Electricity System : greater provisions of reserves, balancing power, reactive power support, congestion management
- The new role of traditional generators
- The role of renewable producers
Case study – Denmark:
Energinet:
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Need for ancillary services in Denmark
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Production portfolio
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Flexible resources
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Marked based solutions
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2025 Scenario (how we see the future)
Dong energy:
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DONG Energy has the unique challenge in Denmark of integrating a large amount of electricity generated by renewable wind. Key issues addressed:
- integration with central CHP and portfolio balancing
- market integration across Nordic power and energy markets
- mobilization of wind for ancillary services
- uture perspectives on the balancing and integration of large amounts of renewables
15.10-15.40 Break
15.40-16.20 Ancillary Services – a business opportunity or a loss for investors?
Jacques Deuse, Chief Engineer – Power System Consulting, Tractebel Engineering S.A. /GDF Suez
Stéphane Rapoport, Project Manager – Power System Consulting, Tractebel Engineering S.A. /GDF Suez
What are the technical issues related to Ancillary Services for generators? What kind of a business case do Ancillary Services make compared to the energy sales for a generator? Is it possible to make money out of them or are Ancillary Services more of a cost and a burden for the investors?
16.20-16.50 Conclusions of the day by the Chairman
19.00 Networking dinner
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Ancillary Services Europe 2010 Brochure.pdf
Day 2
9.00-12.00 Presentations of different AS practices across European countries
ROUND 1:
9.00-9.20 Germany : German internal coordinated balancing regime
Peter Hoffmann, Head of system operation concepts, Transpower
Since December 2008 three German TSOs have successfully established a close co-operation in provision and use of secondary control reserve by a new technical development of the control concept. International expansion is ongoing. The lecture will describe the idea behind, the technical realisation, the saving potential and it will discuss the compatibility with the ENTSO-E rules.
9.20-9.40 Scandinavia: Latest updates on the Nordic balancing practices
Kjell A Barmsnes, Vice President, Grid Operations, Statnett SF
The presentation will give an update on Nordic market issues, including status on Load frequency control and primary reserves market, Frequency quality, Gate closure, Quarterly resolution, Reservation of capacity for balancing and ancillary services, Ramping on HVDC.
9.40-10.00 Benelux: Potential benefits of implementing cross-border balancing trade between Belgium and the Netherlands
Leen Vandezande, PhD researcher, K.U.Leuven – ESAT/Electa
Balancing services in Belgium and the Netherlands are procured and activated locally so far. However, the implementation of cross-border balancing trade between both countries is expected to entail significant benefits. The assessment in this presentation illustrates that the implementation of a cross-border balancing market between Belgium and the Netherlands is a lucrative and achievable goal that does not entail unrealistic or overly expensive preconditions. Significant cost reductions could have occurred with cross-border balancing during the year 2008 – due to netting and cross-border procurement of relatively cheaper services. Restrictions imposed on cross-border balancing due to cross-border capacity constraints would have been rather small.
10.00-10.15 Q&A with speakers of the Round 1
10.15-10.45 Break
ROUND 2:
10.45-11.05 France: A regulated market for ancillary services open to exchanges
Alain Taccoen, Regulation and Finance Department, RTE
- The specificities of the French generation mix
- RTE agreements with producers
- The TSO2TSO agreement between France and UK
- Voltage control
11.05-11.25 Norway: Exchange of balancing services between synchronous systems
Gerard Doorman, Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
- Case study: Nordic vs Continental Europe
- Particular issues regarding exchange between synchronous systems
- Draft of options
- Availability of interconnection capacity
- Benefits - model calculations
11.25-11.45 UK: Demand Side Management: The UK System Operator Experience
David Wildash, Account Manager, National Grid
How does National Grid currently balance the UK electricity system and how, over the next decade, can demand side services help manage a more diverse and complex system.
11.45-12.00 Q&A with speakers of the Round 2
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-15.00 Open issues - discussions in small groups
Delegates discuss in smaller groups their own issues of interest connected to Ancillary Services - networking and exchange of experiences among delegates through facilitated process.
1) Formation of groups based on the common interests of participants who suggest and prioritize the issues to be discussed within each group
2) Focused discussions on selected topics within smaller groups
3) Conclusions – each group shares key conclusions and questions with the rest of delegates
15.00-15.40 Future ancillary services markets
Konrad Purchala, Advisor to the Board, Polish TSO PSE Operator
- Possible market design evolutions and their implications
- New kinds of ancillary services
- New players on the ancillary services markets
- Challenges for TSO
15.40-16.00 Conference conclusions by the Chairman