EMpower

英国峰值电力运营利润率处于历史低点，DECC正在寻求激励措施，以减少峰值需求。配电网运营商（DNOs）正在考虑峰值需求限制，以减少网络加固的投资。EMPower将开发一种技术解决方案，使社区能够通过合作调度电力使用和使用当地发电和储存来提高能源效率。该技术将使社区能够通过向电力市场提供英国供应的峰值需求来确保收入，通过最大限度地利用现场发电和存储，以及通过自动转移负载来实现最大的社区效益，从而实现电费的大幅节省。解决方案需要以客户为中心，最大限度地提高参与度，最大限度地减少干扰，并提供与当前和未来客户需求直接相关的好处。我们的解决方案是在社区层面解决高峰需求减少的挑战，为客户提供更大的成本效益，并为dno提供更强大、更低风险的业务案例。对于dno和国家电网来说，该解决方案的主要好处是能够减少峰值负荷，并限制对传统和昂贵的电网加固的需求。我们将与dno合作构建商业框架，以奖励限制其峰值需求的社区，并为这一金融激励开发交付工具，以确定更广泛应用的潜力。我们为期18个月的项目将在2016年为市场准备解决方案，届时我们预计电价上涨，高峰停电的威胁，电动汽车和电力存储的成熟将使我们的解决方案具有吸引力。我们的项目将通过与巴斯和西部社区能源公司（BWCE）合作，试点我们的技术解决方案。该试点项目将在时间尺度和预算范围内提供最大的效益，重点是展示现场太阳能光伏发电管理与电池存储和负荷转移相结合的价值，以减少高峰时期的电网需求。该产品的首次发布将展示商业案例，与真正的客户和真正的社区一起证明技术，并为随着市场的发展逐步增强产品和发展战略奠定基础。

The UK peak electricity operating margin is at historic lows and DECC are looking to incentivise reductions in peak demand. Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) are looking at peak demand limits to reduce investment for network reinforcement. EMPower will develop a technology solution, which enables communities to improve their energy efficiency by co-operatively scheduling electricity usage and using local generation and storage. The technology will enable communities to secure revenue by offering the electricity market a reduced peak demand on the UK supply to realise significant savings on electricity bills through maximising the use of electricity generation and storage on site, and through automated shifting of loads to achieve the greatest community benefit. The solution needs to be customer-focussed tomaximise participation, minimise disruption and provide benefits that directly relate to current and future customer needs. Our solution to this is to tackle the challenges of peak demand reduction at a community level providing greater cost benefits to customers and a more robust and low-risk business case for DNOs.The major benefit of the proposed solution to the DNOs and National Grid will be capacity for peak load reduction and limiting the need for traditional and expensive grid reinforcement. We will work with DNOs to construct commercial frameworks to reward communities that limit their peak demand, and develop the delivery vehicle for this finance incentive to determine the potential for wider application. Our 18-month project will prepare the solution for market in 2016 when we expect rising electricity prices, the threat of peak-time power cuts, electric vehicles and maturity of electricity storage to make our solution attractive. Our project will pilot our technology solution through partnership with Bath and West Community Energy (BWCE). This pilot project will provide greatest benefit within the timescale and budget by focusing specifically on demonstrating the value of the management of on-site solar PV generation in conjunction with battery storage and load shifting to provide a reduction on grid demands during peak periods. This first release of the product will demonstrate the commercial case, prove the technology with real customers and a real community, and provide the foundation for a progressive product enhancement and development strategy as the market develops.