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EDGE Project Fact Sheet
Key details of project EDGE are presented. All dollar
values are reported adopting the conversion rate of
AU$1→US$0.77.
* Total cost: US$21.6 million.
* Project length: Three years.
* Project website: www.arena.gov.au/projects/victor
ian-distributed-energy-resources-marketplace-trial/.
* Customers involved: From ~50 (initial stage) to ~1,000
(final stage).
* Customer types: Residential, commercial, and industrial.
* Infrastructure
˚ distribution network analytics platform
˚ bottom-up services and market platform
˚ distributed energy resource (DER) aggregation
platform
˚ central communication and data-exchange hub.
* Services explored
˚ peak demand relief
˚ feeder capital expenditure deferral
˚ quality of supply management
˚ customer impact reduction from planned outages
˚ feeder automation enhancement during unplanned
outages.
* Key partners and participants
˚ leader: Australian Energy Market Operator
˚ industry: AusNet Services, Mondo Power
˚ academia: University of Melbourne, Deakin University
˚ management: Nous Group.
* Areas of study: Engineering, economics, and social
sciences.
development). " EDGE Project Fact Sheet " presents key
aspects of the project.
Within the EDGE project,
the main task involves the
research and development of a practical, end-to-end solution
that allows distribution companies, aggregators, and
(transmission) system operators to trial operating envelopes.
The project also aims to demonstrate and evaluate the role
of reactive power in unlocking distribution network capacity
for (active power) market participation and the provision of
different grid services. Throughout the life of the project,
several real-world demonstrators will be established across
the Hume region of Victoria (the only state in Australia with
full deployment of smart meters) to assess how operating
envelopes can be used to unlock network-aware bottom-up
flexibility. The knowledge gained throughout the EDGE and
similar projects is expected to inform the wider community
on how to adequately operate such markets, where services
are originating from the edge of the grid.
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For Further Reading
Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), " Dynamic
operating envelopes workstream. " Canberra, Australia. Accessed
May 2021. [Online]. Available: https://arena.gov.au/
knowledge-innovation/distributed-energy-integration
-program/dynamic-operating-envelopes-workstream/
L.F. Ochoa, " DER and network integrity: Meter-level operating
envelopes, " IEEE Smart Grid Webinar, Dec. 2020.
[Online]. Available: https://resourcecenter.smartgrid.ieee.
org/education/webinar-videos/SGWEB0144.html
K. Petrou, M.Z. Liu, A.T. Procopiou, L.F. Ochoa, J.
Theunissen, and J. Harding, " Operating envelopes for prosumers
in LV networks: A weighted proportional fairness
approach, " in Proc. IEEE/PES Innovative Smart Grid Technol.
(ISGT Europe 2020), Oct. 26-28, 2020, p. 579-583.
K. Petrou, A.T. Procopiou, L. Gutierrez-Lagos, M. Z. Liu,
L. F. Ochoa, T. Langstaff, and J. Theunissen, " Ensuring distribution
network integrity using dynamic operating limits
for prosumers, " IEEE Trans. Smart Grid., to be published.
H. Wang, S. Riaz, and P. Mancarella, " Integrated technoeconomic
modeling, flexibility analysis, and business case
assessment of an urban virtual power plant with multi-market
co-optimization, " Appl. Energy, vol. 259, p. 114142, Feb.
2020. doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.114142.
G. Chicco, S. Riaz, A. Mazza, and P. Mancarella,
" Flexibility from distributed multi-energy systems, " Proc.
IEEE, vol. 108, no. 9, pp. 1496-1517, 2020. doi: 10.1109/
JPROC.2020.2986378.
P. D. Martini, " Operational coordination architecture:
New models and approaches, " IEEE Power Energy Mag.,
vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 29-39, 2019.
G. Strbac et al., " Cost-effective decarbonization in a decentralized
market: The benefits of using flexible technologies
and resources, " IEEE Power Energy Mag., vol. 17, no. 2,
pp. 25-36, 2019. doi: 10.1109/MPE.2018.2885390.
Biographies
Michael Z. Liu is with the University of Melbourne, Melbourne,
3010, Australia.
Luis (Nando) Ochoa is with the University of Melbourne,
Melbourne, 3010, Australia, and the University of
Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Shariq Riaz is with the University of Melbourne, Melbourne,
3010, Australia.
Pierluigi Mancarella is with the University of Melbourne,
Melbourne, 3010, Australia, and the University of Manchester,
Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Tian Ting is with AusNet Services, Melbourne, 3006,
Australia.
Jack San is with AusNet Services, Melbourne, 3006,
Australia.
John Theunissen is with AusNet Services, Melbourne,
3006, Australia.
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