agder energi - flexibility from norwegian hydro power to germany - Øyvind stakkeland

Flexibility from Norwegian Hydropower to Germany German Norwegian Energy Forum - October 24th 2013

Øyvind Stakkeland, Director Regulatory Affairs

Agder Energi

Major hydropower producer in Norway

Annual production: 7,800 GWh -

6% of total Norwegian production

1,700 MW installed capacity

47 power stations

Experience in interconnector projects: NorGer and NorthConnect

Partner in CEDREN (Centre for Environmental Design of Renewable Energy)

The Agder Region

Power Stations

Tonstad – 960 MW

Skjerka – 110 MW

Brokke – 330 MW

Holen – 230 MW

Flexibility Needed in German Power System

Intermittent energy increasing

How to provide flexibility?

Source: Agora

Flexibility sources

Flexible production

Demand Side Management

Energy Storage

Interconnectors

BASF, Ludwigshafen am Rhein - Image courtesy of BASF

Norwegian Power System

30,000 MW – 96 % Hydropower

Hundreds of large reservoirs

Holds 50 % of European hydro reservoirs

1,400 MW interconnector to Norway-Germany 2018

Indirect Storage

Source: Statnett

Export Import

Generation

Demand

Norway

5,300 MW of balancing

Tyin

Holen

Tonstad

Hol

Jøsenf jorden

Tinnsjø

Nore

Mauranger/Oksla/Tysso

Kvilldal

Lysebotn

Sima

Aurland

CEDREN Case Study 2030 Potential: 20,000 MW

Shetland

Orknøyene

Flexibility to Europe within 2030?

10,000 MW new interconnector capacity

Some interconnectors in combination with

pump capacity

Interconnection with several countries

England

Scotland

England

Scotland

Physical Market Access

Grid capacity Norway

Pump storage?

Interconnector capacity

Regulatory Challenges Economy

Capacity mechanisms

Balancing markets

Social acceptance

Political Channel

Norwegian White Paper – international perspectives

Economically profitable interconnectors should be built

No interconnector ownership restrictions

Offentlig

ISBN nr. 978-82-93150-12-1

FORNYBARUTBYGGING OG MELLOMLANDSFORBINDELSER MOT

2020

Mars 2012

THEMA Rapport 2012-05

Oppdragsgivere: BKK, Lyse Energi, Agder Energi, Statkraft og Vattenfall

Market Channel

Market design that reveals flexibility value

Access to German balancing markets

Experience from DK4 (Norway-Denmark)

Access to German capacity markets

TSO reserve contracts

30 s 15 min 1 hour

Participant-to participant trading

Activation

/ duration

Primary

control

Secondary

control

Tertiary

control

Hourly

reserve

5 min

Intraday markets

>1-2 hours

Physical Channel

NORD.LINK

Interconnector and pump storage

Business models promoting investments

Long term contracts

Two Interconnectors Norway - Germany

www.ae.no

oyvind.stakkeland@ae.no