EXPERIENCE FROM NORWEGIAN INTELLIGENT ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION PILOT PROJECTS

CINELDI is a research centre for environment-friendly energy research (FME), focusing on the future flexible, intelligent and robust electricity distribution grid. CINELDI has 29 partners from the Norwegian power industry. The partners are involved in the centre via research, laboratory activities and pilot projects. This paper describes a common process for pilot projects established within FME CINELDI, with main focus on the pilot process and how pilot projects at user partner are initiated, executed and finalised, exemplified with a description of the following selected pilot projects: Pilot projects at Skagerak Energilab related to transition to island mode (Case 1.1) and optimization of local balancing with batteries (Case 1.2), and pilot projects with flexibility markets to solve voltage problems due to bottlenecks in the distribution grid (mainland) (Linja - Case 2) and on an island (Haugaland Kraft Nett – Case 3).