Distributed Energy Resources Forum - Steve Halsey DER Development Manager 20th September 2021 - UK Power Networks
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Distributed Energy Resources Forum Steve Halsey DER Development Manager 20th September 2021
Purpose
An opportunity to seek your views and thoughts and ask for
your input in emerging issues and challenges including our
service delivery plan and slightly further ahead our planning
for the next price control - ED2
………..and of course a bit of networking (of sorts)
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Agenda
Time Subject Who
9.30-9.40 Welcome & Introduction Steve Halsey & Mark Adolphus
9.40-10.00 Service Delivery Plan - Incentive on Connections Engagement Steve Halsey
10.00-10.15 Significant Code Review James Devriendt
10.15-10.45 DERMS (distributed energy resources management system), Matt White, Yiu-Shing Pang, Dr Rita
Open Data Portal & Network Headroom Report Shaw
10.45-10.50 Break
10.50-11.10 Quicker and More Efficient Connections - updated Will Bowen
11.10-11.35 Innovation Rob Greenoak
11.35-12.05 Generator Owner/Operator - Variety of subjects/topics Richard Wilson/Saleem Naeem
12.05-12.30 ED2 James Devriendt
12.30-13.00 Q&A Steve Halsey
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Welcome & introduction Steve Halsey Mark Adolphus – Director of Connections
Who’s here today
Steve Halsey Mark Adolphus James Devriendt Yiu-Shing Pang Matt White Dr Rita Shaw
Will Bowen Rob Greenoak Richard Wilson Saleem Naeem Holly Nigel Turner
Woolliscroft
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Setting the scene Mark Adolphus
Context and headlines
COVID-19
Generation from coal 0-5%
West Burton
6th September 2021
Wind power dipped to just 2.5 per
cent, down from 21 per cent at the
same time the week before.
Balancing Mechanism hit a record high of £4,037.80/MWh
Green Recovery Plan
86 applications total value of ~£66m
EPN – £45.5m
SPN – £12.2m
LPN – £8.4m
147MVA of capacity 8
Service Delivery Plan – Incentive on Connections Engagement (ICE) Steve Halsey
Our Service Delivery Plan
24.21 Roll-out revised queue management connection Process rolled-out by target July 2021
milestones process in line with ENA programme date
25.21 Publish customer journey with SLAs and checklist of key Customer journey published September 2021
activities associated with the provision of a generation by target date
connection
26.21 Review the implementation of the effectiveness of the Report published by target October 2021
Outage Planning Tool date
27.21 Agree and implement enhancements to the DG mapping Enhancements implemented March 2022
tool by target date
28.21 Publish a guidance document on the Statement of Works Guidance document October 2021
(SoW) Process to include timescales and cost. Further published by target date
consider if visibility of the process/applications can be
provided
32 initiatives, 5 specifically for DER
1028.21 – Statement of Works Within 3 months
UKPN NGESO TO
Is PP
initiates
SoW
Processes
SoW
completes
SoW required? N Advise
customer
Process application assessment
Y
Statement
Advise
of Works customer
Within 4
weeks process
UKPN Materiality
Customer UKPN
UKPN confirms Headroom
provides
Customer
which of and Fault confirms Project initiates
Connection
Acceptance
**
three Level N OK to Progression
Project
Progression
Offer* routes headroom proceed
Process
relevant available
Y NGESO UKPN
Project NGESO
submits issues UKPN signs
Progression confirms Customer
Appendix submitted Technical
Modification variation
Acceptance
Modification
Offer to offer to Offer
G process to NGESO Competence
UKPN customer
Within 5
UKPN days
updates NG TO
App G and Advise programmes
submits to customer Works
NGESO
Within 3 months
1125.21 Customer journey
Customer/ICP MAX 90 DAYS
Standard
Utilises available Application Form
info/attends (SAF) submitted
surgery session – Parts 1-3
Pre-
application Application
and and Assessment and design Connection Offer Acceptance
project information
planning
Request Assessment and Issue Connection Offer and
upfront A&D high-level design checklist of post
charge undertaken acceptance activities.
Notify likely impact on T
MAX 90 DAYS
UK Power Networks
PGMD is a living document
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UKPN/Customer engagement as necessary25.21 Customer journey
Customer/ICP
Option B/C
Issue commissioning
Update PGMD programme 28 days
as necessary before commissioning
Review NP
Agree Engineering Solution
Issue Design Sign & return
report and Construction
PGMD submission/ Connection Agreement
issue and delivery
approval and SRS
compliance
MAX 28
Days report
Acceptance MAX 12 weeks
Commissioning Energisation
MAX 40 WD
Assess compliance report Issue EON Issue ION Issue FON
Issue Network Construction and delivery WT undertaken
Parameters report
Check results are
Confirm impact between planning
on T Undertake MPAN issued and compatibility
construction levels – Monitor
Initiate PP
activities Issue Draft Connection for 12 months
if required
Agreement and SRS
UK Power Networks Option A
PGMD is a living document
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UKPN/Customer engagement as necessarySignificant Code Review James Devriendt Head of Commercial Services
Connection Charging Boundary - Proposals
• Demand Connections to move to shallow charging boundary
• Generation connections to move to shallowish charging boundary
• Reinforcement part-charged to connecting customers at connection voltage only
• High Cost Cap rule retained
• Transmission charges will continue to be passed to connecting customers where applicable
• Intended implementation for connection requests made after 1 April 2023
• ECCR interaction acknowledged; Ofgem wish to avoid amending ECCR(2017)
Notes:
• Weakening of location signal, and therefore heightened risk of inefficient investment acknowledged
• Advised to expect little or no change to possible subsequent DUoS reforms
15Access Rights – Proposals
• Ofgem will define certain access rights choices at distribution
• Non-firm – users choose % of time (no. of hours) they can be curtailed. Once
agreed, DNOs wanting additional curtailment must procure it
• Time-profiled rights. Applies to a % of user’s import/export. During peak, users can
have no, reduced or non-firm access. Time profile may vary seasonally
• DNOs to develop common approach and guidance to monitoring and enforcement
– may require additional control/monitoring equipment (expected for non-firm) at
user cost/risk
• Although existing users access rights not affected, they have option to change
(expect most non-firm users to apply for firm access as zero cost)
• Options not taken forward
• Non-firm access defined by physical conditions, no. of curtailments, or energy
curtailed.
• ‘Financially firm’ access at distribution; ‘Connect and Manage’ arrangements at
distribution
• Defining access rights for small users (with no agreed capacity)
• Changes to rights at transmission
• Shared access (although further trialling via ENA encouraged) 16TNUoS Charging for SDG - Proposals
• SDG >1MW face TNUoS charges as for LDG (>100MW) now
• SDGUK Power Networks’ View
• Positive towards Ofgem’s ‘minded-to’ position
• Some improvements to drive efficient investment suggested in our response
• Gaps in definition of access arrangements – keen to contribute to further definition
• Implementation on 1 April 2023 likely to cause transition impacts on DNOs and
customers
• UK Power Networks suggested implementation immediately after decision, or at least
phased introduction
• Significant Impact on our ED2 business plan – additional DUoS cost
• Directed to submit final business plan based on ‘minded-to’ position
• Major Connections Strategy largely un-impacted
• Commitment to re-classify some non-contestable scope requires further thought
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• We expect intent of the ‘minded-to’ position to remain in Ofgem’s final decisionDistributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS), Open Data Portal & Network Headroom Report Matt White, Yiu-Shing Pang and Dr. Rita Shaw
What is DERMS?
DERMS – Distributed Energy Resources Management System
Why Change?
Distributed Energy Resources Management system
• ANM has become DSO Platform (DERMS)
synonymous with Flexible [previously ANM]
Connection product
• The platform being rolled out
by UK Power Networks can Smart
facilitate much more than just Network Flexible Flexibility RDP Active Power Optimise
Connections Services Services Response Potential Prime
Products
Flexible Connections
20EPN DERMS Live 15th September
• DERMS capability successfully implemented in EPN.
• The nine “ANM 100” customers are migrated from the legacy system over to the new
STRATA DERMS
• This enables new connections starting next month in the Norwich area.
• PowerOn has now been integrated and enhanced to model and integrate flexible
connections with the Control Room.
• This gives customers enhanced comms, better reporting and allows DERMs to be scaled to
future demand.
• Getting this live is a major step towards supporting our flexible customers, meeting UK
Power Networks commitments and our ambition to be the leading DSO.
21Open Data Portal Yiu-Shing Pang Open Data Manager
Objectives
• Explain our aims in developing an Open Data Portal
• Digitalisation Strategy and Action Plan (what we plan to do)
• How we will determine what to publish and when (triage and
prioritisation – stakeholder driven)
• Demonstrate the Portal (video from July 2021)
• Provide additional insight into the planned Portal launch – 1
October
opendata@ukpowernetworks.co.uk 23Why are we doing this?
• Energy Data Task Force (EDTF) recommendations > Energy
Digitalisation Task Force (EDiT)
• Presumed open
• Open Energy Data is a key enabler of Net Zero, DSO
• Facilitating open innovation
• Benefits to customers, UK Power Networks and UK plc.
• Better visibility, time and money saved, easier
connections
• Aspirational to be a single source of truth, that internal and external
users can refer to.
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opendata@ukpowernetworks.co.ukOur Digitalisation Strategy and Action Plan (DSAP) –
for our stakeholders:
• Reliability
• Ensuring confidence in the data created (Data quality)
• Accessibility
• Opening up and making intelligible key datasets available
(Open Data Portal)
• Interoperability
• Allowing access via industry-standard, technology agnostic
mediums. (Common Information Model - CIM)
• Link
opendata@ukpowernetworks.co.uk 25Triage
• Formal framework developed
with ODI support to holistically
triage datasets, to determine
how it should (or not) be
released.
• Transparency and good
governance: Methodology will
be published, along with results
on the Portal
• Priority: Retrospective >
Reactive (stakeholder – driven)
> Proactive
opendata@ukpowernetworks.co.uk 26Enabling Open Energy Data webinar: Regen and UK Power Networks -
YouTube
opendata@ukpowernetworks.co.uk 27Open Data Portal Launch – 1 October
• Data catalog: Primary and Grid substations, ECR, LCT, LTDS, NHR, soil and
earthing data – all openly licensed CC BY 4.0
• Data request form – what would you like us to release?
• Map and chart builders, API, flat files
• Data Glossary – metadata and machine readable data
• Publication of data triages and requests – transparency
• Currently beta testing
• Two events: a launch event early October; and at the end of October – a
follow up event to feedback to us.
• By the end of the year, the Open Data Strategy will be published
• We welcome engagement, please get in touch, tell us what data you
want
opendata@ukpowernetworks.co.uk 28Network Headroom Report Dr. Rita Shaw Network Development Engineer
Network Headroom Report
Our example Network Headroom Report is now live
30Distribution Future Energy Scenarios (DFES)
31Scope of the example Network Headroom Report
• For all substations in our Long Term Development Statement (LTDS)
• But to 2050 instead of 2023, and over multiple scenarios
• Demand Headroom = peak demand – capacity for demand
• Generation Headroom = peak generation – capacity for generation
• Consistent with our 4 Distribution Future Energy Scenarios (DFES) and our plan for the network
• Shows where additional capacity required in those scenarios – from flexibility or reinforcement
• Based on 2019/20 and 2020 data – supports consultation on the form of the future annual report
32Greater visibility but not the whole picture…
• Medium term view of additional capacity requirements
• Not latest view of network
• Next report based on LTDS November 2021
• Not latest view of available capacity or accepted connections
• DFES forecast view of future demand and generation.
• Assumes % of accepted connections each year will proceed,
spread over an area.
• May not be capacity at your point of connection
• Additional factors e.g. voltage may be relevant
• The connections team is here for you!
• Simplified initial methodology, especially for generation
33Network Headroom Report
Feedback please by mid October to
networkdevelopment@ukpowernetworks.co.uk
with NHR/NDP in the subject line
34Network Development Plan
Every DNO will publish a Network Development Plan (NDP) in May 2022 including headroom reporting.
We are now developing our plans to deliver this.
At the end of August, the ENA
Open Networks project published
‘Proposals for the Form of
Statement of the NDP’
35Let’s take a break
Quicker and more efficient connections Will Bowen – Regulation and Compliance Manager
Management of Capacity
• UK Power Networks went live on 1st July 2021 for applications
where either:
• the requested generation is 1MW or above and / or
• the connection requires EHV work (including demand connections)
• The revised milestone table will appear/has appeared in
quotations issued where the application date is on or after the
1st July 2021
• For generation connections the new Energy Network
Association (ENA) Queue Management Milestones will replace
the existing QMEC (Quicker More Efficient Connections)
Milestones, where the application date is on or after 1st July
2021.
38Reminder / refresh - Queue Milestones
•Industry Direction:
• Energy Network Association (ENA) Open Networks Project: establish
consistent and effective processes within Distribution and Transmission
to lay foundations for the smart energy grid
• Introduction of Distribution and Transmission Queue Management Milestones is
one of many products to this end
• Ofgem ED2 Business Plan: better usage and allocation of capacity,
efficient investment, quicker access to the network
• Objective is to minimise capacity lost to slow moving / stalled
connections that could be utilised by ‘ready’ projects.
39Milestone Table
• Quotations will start appearing with the
updated Milestone table – very similar to
the QMEC (Quicker More Efficient
Connections) Milestone Table in offers
issued from c2017
• Includes a new Project Commitment
Milestone (primarily for Transmission
Offers)
40Next Steps – Queue Milestones
• UK Power Networks will continue to send quotes with the Milestones
Q4 2021
included – opportunity for customers to discuss with their Project
Managers where unclear
Q1 / Q2 • Opportunity for UK Power Networks and Customers to discuss progress
2022 of milestone achievement, flagging issues early to allow us consider
options
• Quotations accepted late 2021 / early 2022 that have not made (or at
Q3 / Q4 least evidenced) any progress may start moving to more formal
2022 escalation and ultimately cancellation. This is likely to be limited to early
milestones (Planning Permission, Land Rights)
41Innovation with Connections Rob Greenoak Innovation Programme Manager September 2021
Innovation in Numbers
43Innovation Delivered
Timed Profiled
Connections Connections
Smart Connect
Continuous
Improvement
Network Vision
44Innovation in Action
Transport Heat
Electricity
Optimise Prime* Active Response*
Voyage Constellation*
Shift Energy Exchange
Transport Electricity Envision
Heat LoadShare
Heat Street
CommuniHeat
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*Network Innovation CompetitionInnovation Pipeline
How can I reduce
How can I get Where is my my connections
connected quicker? costs?
application in the
process?
What time is
lunch?Engaging with Innovation
My Idea Network Innovation Allowance
Summary Report 2020-21
https://innovation.ukpowernetworks.co.uk Innovation@ukpowernetworks.co.uk
/submit-an-idea
https://smarter.energynetworks.org/annual-
innovation-summary/
47Operational Information Richard Wilson
Agenda
• Network Vision
• Outage Impact for Connections
• ENA EREC P18 – Circuit Complexity
• Utilization of Services
• Operational Data Sharing
• GC0117 – Generator Sizing
49Network Vision – Outage Planning Web Portal
https://networkvision.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/
Contact us mbx-networkvision@ukpowernetworks.co.uk
50Network Vision – Outage Planning Web Portal
Usage
• 244 customers (161 at time of last forum)
• 618 customer supply points
• 5748 Outages (constantly updating the
historic data)
Benefits to customers
• Self service to search for data
• Automated emails for impact to customer
sites
51Network Vision – Outage Planning Web Portal
Supporting our Customers
• Bi weekly training / Q&A sessions
• Ad-hoc available to suit customers
Continuous Improvement
• Internal / External feedback will lead to
changes to benefit you
• Tell us what you want and need
52Network Vision – Outage Planning Web Portal
Improving with your help
• Successful setup of live platform to customer
asset management tool link via API
Future Trial
• Will be integrating with market platform tool
for Innovation Trial to procure services in
operational timeframes
UK Power Networks - Energy Exchange
53Network Vision – Outage Planning Web Portal
>85% positive response
“We have only been energised a few weeks now and although we
understand more works are taking place on the wider network we are
normally blind to the outage plans. We are getting sight of outages that
will affect us through the network vision tool and its emailing system,
which will enable our operational team to plan ahead or trigger us to
discuss our needs with UKPN.
This is a fantastic tool and we look forward to using it more in the
future”. Gary Camplejohn Harmony Energy
54Outage Impact Information for Customers
• Customers request historic outage statistics as part of due
diligence
• Currently a manual process which can take several working
days for response
• Data exists in Network Vision for existing customers
55Outage Impact Information for Customers
Proposal Number of days of outages leading to potential
constraint
• Webpage showing report with planned and 30
25
unplanned outage historic by site or circuit 20
15
• Trial in SPN region 10
5
• What do you want/need? 0
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Circuit for connection GSP/BSP supply to Circuit
• Any customers currently requesting this
information willing to assist in trial?
UK Power Networks will be conducting a survey as per our Service Development Plan during October
“Review the implementation of the effectiveness of the Outage Planning Tool”
56EREC P18 – Circuit Complexity
• 132kV to 22kV Circuit Complexity
• DNOs generally applied to EHV but without
consistency, will now provide consistent
approach to application across all DNOs
• Implementation from Q1 2022
• Requirements will not be retrospective – will
only apply to new applications
57Utilisation of Customer Provided Services
58Utilisation of Customer Provided Services
Contract in place to provide post fault
response.
Allows UK Power Networks to restore all
customers in the event of a fault within
minutes – faster than historic option of
mobile generation
59Utilisation of Customer Provided Services
• Delivers new connections faster
• Allows work to be planned more efficiently for
available resource
• Provides additional revenue stream
• More planned works in 2021.
• Look for tenders on Piclo Flex
60Operational Data Sharing
Open Networks Workstream to standardise
publish operational data
• Network usage
• Curtailment
• Outage
See what the networks are actually doing
61Operational Data Sharing
UK Power Networks DSO
Dashboard – Setting the
standard for what DNOs
should provide
UK Power Networks DSO
Dashboard - Grid Supply
Areas - Grafana
(ukpowernetworks.co.uk)
62Operational Data Sharing
Open Networks
Open Networks: developing the smart grid -
Energy Networks Association
63Grid Code Change GC0117
Proposal to align small/medium/large
requirements for generators across the UK
64Grid Code Change GC0117
Impact to new connections:
• Requirement to contract with National Grid
• More onerous connection process
• More onerous and regular planning data
submissions
• More work for customers
65Grid Code Change GC0117
Live Industry Questionnaire (Open until 27th Sept)
https://forms.office.com/r/UTWTX15aAD
This could impact all new connections >=10MW
66ED2 – an update James Devriendt
ED2 Timing Plan
Today
•
68Proposed Commitments & Metrics
‘Minor Connections’ will remain as ED1 – BMoCS* & AtTC/Q incentives
‘Major Connections’, defined as everything else is subject to a strategic delivery incentive
• Like Incentive on Connections Engagement (ICE) in ED1, down-side only and based on market segments not
to have passed the competition test
Major Connections Strategy drafted with 4 key commitments:
• Customer satisfaction survey, similar to BMoCS
• Customer engagement / wider services satisfaction score
• Improved digitisation / access to network records, asset data and forecasted capacity
• Further de-classification of non-contestable services
Ofgem pushing for common metrics and have short-listed the following for further discussion in the autumn:
• Customer survey of quotations and connections
• Survey of engagement / wider services
• Average time to quote (only in some sectors)
* Broad Measure of Customer Satisfaction
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** Average time to Connect/QuoteCompetition Test
HSS & Connections Roadshow
• Last reviewed by Ofgem in 2013
• Consultation issued on 18-Jun on whether and how to review competition test
• Ofgem aim to complete process ahead of final business plan submissions
70Thank you – any questions
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