The project consists of a large implementation of the EDEN metering application for around 1,500 metering points. An extended and efficient DLMS meters readout scalable vector architecture is allowing an easy migration to higher readout capacity. The project has also logically distributed tasks with automatic balancing features, web-oriented user access and flexible reconfiguration.

Client’s advantages include:

• Deregulated energy market access;
• Flexibility in choosing the energy supplier;
• Reduced bill by accurate measurement at exact border with the distribution company;
• Consumption prediction and comparative analysis of tariffs;
• Follow-up of energy quality through electrical readout diagram on request;
• Support for further analysis for optimization of energy consumption.

 

The system integrates several functions as telemetering readouts, remote
commands and consumption monitoring, in a consistent and scalable
hardware and software solution.

The benefits:

• Increases the efficiency of the used energy;
• Reduction of illegal consumption in the public lighting network;
• Optimizes the cost of the consumed energy;
• Enables the client to have the status of active eligible consumer;
• Optimization of the maintenance of the public lighting network.

It is the first Romanian system for monitoring the public lighting network via the Internet on a fiber optic network directly connected to the energy meters, available for direct access from a Central Point using Wide Area Network technologies.

 

A Virtual Power Plant (VPP) with a portfolio of renewables such as wind and solar power plants, combined with a controllable generation facility, such as a gas-fired Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP) is ideal for complementing the stochastic behavior of renewables with a deterministic energy production.

The detailed simulation of such a VPP has been extensively performed in typical days of a year, based on real-time data for wind production and on advanced VPP algorithms for controlling the total production, such that the whole being acting as a predictable and efficient power plant. The simulations have shown a high potential for reducing balancing costs, while meeting the contractual arrangements of the VPP.

 

The application takes advantage of the complementarity between the flexibility of Hidroelectrica’s Hydro Power Plants and the OMV Petrom 860 MW CCPP Brazi working under restricted conditions.

With the SIRIUS-SGS platform a balancing support functionality is provided inside the VPP, such that the balancing services acquired from the centralized market are widely reduced.