The Electric power production activity from renewable energy sourcesCogeneration and waste in Spain is of fundamental importance in achieving the objectives of improving the environment, security of energy supply and technological development and innovation of the country.
During the day In recent years there has been a very important development of technologies for electrical power production from these sources. This growth is partly possible thanks to the existence of successive frameworks for supporting the regulations that create economic stimuli for the production of electricity with these technologies. The next step is the flexibility of the electrical system.
Renewable energies grow in Spain
The Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (Miteco) has published The relationship of the five projects that have been favorably evaluated in the context of the call for access to the Regulatory Testing Bank for the promotion of research and innovation in the electricity sectorAvailable here.
This initiative, the first of its characteristics in Spain, represents a step forward in the flexibility of the electrical system to adapt it to the new needs of the sector. These five projects still have a provisional way with help for 10 million euros, According to the resolution of the call for new business models, which can be consulted here.
The regulatory test bench – or sandbox – makes it possible to set up a controlled environment for innovative pilot projects that are needed to apply sector regulations for their development, with The ultimate goal of giving rise to a regulatory innovation.
Coordinated with regulatory authorities
Sandbox is made thanks to a close contact between regulatory authorities to guarantee an orderly side in the system and without risks for their safety.
In addition, Projects that have received a favorable prior evaluation must subscribe a test protocol With the State Secretary for Energy, and in most cases with the National Commission of Markets and Competition, given the nature of the exemptions.
The 5 projects that have received green light are:
- Flexibility solutions in distribution networks (S2F)From a group of 10 distributors, Omie, University of Comillas, Cide, Aseme and Aelec. The project proposes use cases with local flexibility markets and flexible access capacity.
- Storage of citizensThe EDP customers SA. The project is intended to demonstrate that the operation of a BTM battery that manages the customer’s demand curve can be compatible with the discharge of surpluses in the network, so that it is assimilated with a self -consumption installation, as a first step to manage those surpluses of an aggregated way.
- I-flexBy Ignis Energía S. The project proposes to create the right stimuli that make the flexibility of demand, storage and generation possible renewable, And eliminate legal barriers for participation in balance sheets.
- FlexibilityFrom a group formed by Francisco Espinosa and Associates Energy Management Services, Galp energia España, Ferrovial Construcción, Indra, Omie, Etecnic Electric Mobility, Navardsanto and Green Eagle Solutions. The project consists of testing to define the business model of the independent aggregator on energy markets and on the new local flexibility markets.
- Prat -energy: Distributed shared storage, from Communità Energía del Prat SL, OlivoEnergy Consulting SL, Bamboo Energy Platform SL, Irec and Omie. It consists of the use of distributed energy sources that are shared at the local level via batteries and managed by an energy community.
Other business models
At the same time, Four of these five pilot projects fall within the final resolution proposal of the first call for help for new business models in the energy transition Within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience (PRTR) plan, today published at the electronic headquarters of the Institute for Diversification and Energy Saving (Idae), organism assigned to the Miteco.
The resolution proposal proposes the award of 103 million for the 98 selected projects, including Four of the five projects are included in the SandboxThat financial support receives from 10 million.
The call for new business models is articulated by three action lines Otherwise called “Innovation in the energy transition” (17.5 million for 22 projects), “Discarking of the energy sector and The improvement of the integration of renewable energy“(37 projects and 57.8 million) and” Startups for energy transition “(39 projects and 27.7 million).
Next to The four regulatory innovation projects, one of the proposed financing actionsThere are projects of innovative products and services that will offer flexibility to the energy system, transformation, innovation and digitization of the system and the strengthening of the value chain for energy storage.
In this way the typology of the proposed projects is very diverse and in it Take projects for Energy Island -ManagementQuestion management, aggregators, creation and management of energy communities and development projects of new storage technologies.
This Bet on innovation, and especially for a start -up profileis tailored to strategic documents recently published by the European Commission, such as the competitiveness of the compass or the clean industrial deal.
Promote the energy transition
The projects that receive green light today Crucial points to continue in the energy transition. In this way they include solutions to make distribution networks more flexible in local markets; The use of storage to manage energy surpluses.
The Flexibilisation of demand, storage and generation of renewable generation; Eliminate legal barriers to participate in balance sheets; Define the independent aggregate model in energy markets or show the energy sources for shared storage at the local level via an energy community.
The location of the projects participating in this call extends During Spanish geography. In particular, they will be developed in numerous places of Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Catalonia, Valencian Community, Galicia, Madrid, Navarra and the Basque Country. The maximum duration of participation in the test bench will take two years.
This initiative It will contribute to achieving a more distributed, flexible and multidirectional energy modelIn which citizen participation, energy aggregators, demand management, digitization or energy storage are important factors to resolve the challenges of the energy transition.
In this context, The innovative solutions that are promoted by the program will be decisive to integrate large amounts of renewable generationThat will strengthen our strategic autonomy and the position of the leadership of Spain in clean energy.