EV-OPTIMANAGER- Charging Manager optimization demand

DESCRIPTION
The solutions to be developed will have two main elements:
- A local system that, located at the customers’ facilities, will be equipped with a local control centre that will determine the optimum consumption curve (at a lower cost for the customer-user) and, optionally, with a storage system.
- A main element, which will be the Remote Control Centre, to act as a link between customers (load managers and direct consumers) and the electricity market.
OBJECTIVES
These solutions will be flexible and customisable for each of the two types of customers:
- The load managers of the system will be offered services and equipment for forecasting demand, consumption management, management of supply-purchases in the electricity market and electricity storage system.
- Direct Consumers will be offered services and equipment for forecasting demand and managing bid-purchase in the electricity market.
In addition, as an additional result of the project it is expected to collaborate in the better management of the electric system and the development of infrastructure for the recharging of electric vehicles.
The result is a system (physical products and software + services) of management and control that includes all the functionalities to carry out an efficient management of the electrical energy and even functions of support to the network, helping to balance tensions and loads, to filter harmonics or to compensate reactive energy, among others.
CIRCE'S ROLE
The main demonstrator will be developed in the CIRCE facilities, which will serve to validate the models and prototypes achieved.
In addition, the CIRCE’s building has several loading points of different types for electric vehicles, where the different phases of the project can be tested experimentally. Thus CIRCE will be in charge of the development and implementation of the models for predicting electricity consumption, the algorithms for predicting the price of energy in different time horizons, or the storage system at local level.