FP7-288429-Cassandra

Cassandra

A multivariate platform for assessing the impact of strategic decisions in electrical power systems

Project CoordinatorCenter for Research and Technology –Hellas / Informatics and Telematics Institute

Power System Status – the near future

Lack of tools for modeling the new Power System status Inability to aggregate the market power of small-scale consumers Necessity for dynamic models for assessing the impact of actions

and policies to be applied

• Decentralized, small-scale production sites

• Renewable energy• Market liberation• Smart grid • More players involved

Big market potential unexploited!

Filling in the gap…Cassandra!

A software platform for modeling the energy market from an end user perspective

• Main Cassandra objectives: Theoretical and software modeling of stakeholders in terms of energy

profiles and consumption patterns, as well as their interactions Increase the market power of low level consumers through Consumer

coalitions (Consumer Social Networks - CSNs) A Key Performance Indicator (KPI) methodology, in order to assess

energy performance and CO2 emissions reduction A modular, expandable Software platform to model and benchmark

scenarios and act as a Decision support tool.

Cassandra vision/actors…

Cassandra at a glance

• Duration: 30 months• Partners: 9 (1 Res. Center, 4 Universities, 4 SMEs)

• Person-months: 340• Workpackages: 8• Deliverables: 49• Requested EC

contribution: 2,834M€

Cassandra Partners

1.Co

CERTH Center for Research and Technology – Hellas

Greece

2. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece3. VaasaETT Global Energy Think Tank Finland4. Politecnico di Milano Italy5. Coventry University Enterprise UK6. Luleå University of Technology Sweden7. Cleopa GmbH Germany8. Erasmus University Netherlands9. Draxis Greece

The Partner Puzzle

ModelingRequirements

Multiresidential

building3 Pilots

Software DevelopmentCERTH Draxis Erasmus

PoliMi

Consumer Network

Lulea

Lighting products

CUE Cleopa

DisseminationExploitation

VaasaETT DraxisCleopa

AUTHPoliMiDraxis

CERTH

VaasaETT VaasaETT VaasaETT

Cassandra methodology

• Five SE Phases• Two-round iterative

software development• Two Software prototypes

(early-final)• Three Pilot Cases

Pilot Case 1: Multi residential building

• Scope: To evaluate the performance of the Cassandra platform in a small scale consumer network• Main objectives: To test and validate

– Basic and Aggregate Consumer Modeling– Load Modeling– Heating/Cooling combined with building envelope

• Secondary objectives: To test and validate– Consumer Network Modeling– Behavioral aspects

Weather conditions

User profilesPlants model

Building model

Pilot Case 1: Multi residential building

• Site: Residential building in Northern Italy

• Specific Info:– Approximately 30 apartments– Shops– Monitoring and automated control equipment partially exist

• Methodology:– Monitoring of the electrical and thermal consumption– Modeling and Simulation– Demand response and energy efficiency modeling and

implementation

Weather conditions

User profilesPlants model

Building model

Pilot Case 2: Consumer Network

• Scope: To evaluate the performance of the Cassandra platform in a medium scale consumer network

• Main objectives: To test and validate– Basic and Aggregate Consumer Modeling– Consumer Network Modeling– Behavioral Aspects

• Secondary objectives: To test and validate– Load Modeling– Heating/Cooling combined with building envelope

Pilot Case 2: Consumer Network

• Site: Living Lab in Sweden• Specific Info:

– More than 50 households– SABER: a complete solution for the

full monitoring of energy consumption

• Methodology:– Monitoring of the total energy

consumption– Modeling and Simulation– Research, modeling and implementation of behavioral stimuli

within the Consumer Network

Pilot Case 3: Benchmarking lighting products

• Scope: To evaluate the performance of the Cassandra platform as a market enabling tool for a company

• Main objectives: To test and validate– Load Modeling– Strategic Planning capabilities

• Secondary objectives: To test and validate– Basic and Aggregate Consumer Modeling

Pilot Case 3: Benchmarking lighting products

• Site: UK, Germany, sites of Pilot Cases 1 and 2

• Methodology:– 2-3 lighting products will be developed

for deployment at different application levels

– Factors affecting energy consumption for lighting will be researched in the sites of Pilot Cases 1 and 2

– Modeling and Simulation

Assessable Outcome

• Cassandra is essentially a:

Modeling Software Platform• To provide:

Modeling of electrical installations (small or large scale, individual or combinations of arbitrary number of installations)

Knowledge regarding consumption patterns and demand-response incentives

Decision support (analysis of what-if scenarios) Open platform for energy companies/communities

(Global energy think Tank, PowerTAC) Empowerment of the end consumer Environment for studying change and sustainability

• We expect to:– Model accurately individual installations– Model accurately the aggregated demand served

by a utility– Offer the capability to understand macroscopically

the behavior and response of its customers– Offer a tool that will either produce realistic

results with little effort, or dynamically produce real results with considerable initial effort.

Assessable Outcome

Assessable Outcome

• We do not expect to:– Model accurately all individual customers of a

power utility– Forecast the real response of individual

customers