How electric mobility investment created a

stationary grid revolution

Ben Hill
28th May 2018

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Who are we ?
Energy Storage as a Service Solar self consumption
Residential and Commercial Residential and Commercial

EV Charging Infrastructure Consultancy

Commercial Vehicles, Buses inc. V2G

Support for projects, ideas and

concepts for startups, banks/funds
and acting as specialists for big
consultancy companies.

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EV-olution

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Technology Improvements – Energy Density

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Lithium Ion Cost

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Applications of stationary storage.

Time of Use
Frequency
Management
Control
Support Self
Microgrids
weak grid Consumption
`voltage Peak
Stability shaving
Load Ramp
Management Emergency Control
Load
backup Ancillary
Shifting
Renewables Services
Smoothing Reserve Transmission
UPS & Distribution
Capacity
Demand
Response

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What is needed

Flexibility - Regulation - Markets

• More flexibility as a result of more intermittent renewable generation

• Classification of storage assets by regulators (they are not generation or
demand)
• Market mechanisms to allow for monetization / incentives for flexibility
• Clarity of the true fully built up costs of thermal generation as peaking
alternatives. Batteries win in most scenarios today.
• Allow storage asset participation in Markets.

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Case Study – Solo Energy Ltd

• Storage-as-a-Service provider

• Solo deploys energy storage systems in homes and businesses across the grid. Solo also
unlocks the flexibility of Electric Vehicle batteries

• FlexiGrid aggregation platform centrally controls distributed assets as a Virtual Power Plant

• facilitate greater use of local renewable generation by balancing supply / demand

• Partner with energy suppliers to offer low cost 100% renewable supply

• P2P energy trading between consumers

• result – lower energy bills and transition to 100% renewables

 FlexiGrid aggregation platform

Grid signals Weather Forecast

FlexiGridTM
Data analytics Electricity Price

Cloud

Data Charge / Discharge Scheduling

Consumers
 current energy system local P2P energy trading

wholesale electricity market

blockchain
settlement
grid operator

local grid
energy supplier

energy

money
prosumer / consumer
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 FlexiGrid interface

solo.FlexiGrid_client4

VPP Zone: Scotland – Central Belt battery

solo.flexigrid_client4

55%
onsite generation

6000 600

5000 500 local discharge

Market Demand (MW)

Market Price (€)

4000 400

3000 300

2000 200
grid-export
1000 100

0 0
0 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 0 3
Scheduling
interactive app

Live

2.7k
W

vehicle-to-home
0kW -2.7kW
 / Thankyou

Ben Hill
B3 New Energy Ltd
ben.hill@b3newenergy.com
www.b3newenergy.com

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