GreenCharge Project Deliverable: D2.7 Technical Monitoring Report and Feedbacks (Oslo)
Creators: name: Bottolfsen, Hanne Liland
name: Thommesen, John Einar
name: Lindberg, Karen Byskov
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: eMobility
Smart energy management
Smart energy neighbourhoods

description: The deliverable presents intermediate results from the Oslo Pilot and describes collected data fort the OSLO pilot. The deliverable contributes to the final report for the pilot, D2.8 Final report for Oslo Pilot: Lessons Learned and Guidelines. The Oslo pilot consists of three demonstrators; Demonstrator 1 implements smart management of charging in the garage (OSL.D1), Demonstrator 2 implements booking and roaming facilities for publicly available outdoor chargers (OSL.D2) and Demonstrator (OSL.D3) monitors electricity used for heating loads in 10 apartments and electricity used for providing common domestic hot water production for the housing cooperative in five locations. Hence, OSL.D3 is not considered a full demonstrator but complements OSL.D1 and OSL.D2 to demonstrate a complete energy smart neighbourhood (ESN). The main purpose of OSL.D3 is to collect research data for simulation purposes. Despite the delay in start-up of demo, there has been collected a vast amount of datafiles, and we have gained experience in handling challenges related to data communication, software development, hardware, communication and juridical issues. Data is collected in accordance with the "Research Data" document provided in deliverable D5.6 Open Research data as part of WP5. The static data includes information for the installed hardware (Device models and Individual devices). For these files technical data is collected and the files are created manually. The information is added to the log files with a script. The log-file data includes both static metadata and logged values. All data is uploaded to a common SFTP fileserver and stored under 5 subdirectories. The logged data files containing time-series data are stored under the directory //shared/research_ data/recordings_logs, and the static data is stored under directory //shared/research_ data/devices. All files from the Oslo demo contain "P1" into the filename (see appendix B). The device model data (static) are technical data from heating cooling devices, PV panel models, battery models, inverter models, sensor models and EV models. The information is added manually to the files. Static data on EV models is collected from the EV owners, but some technical data like battery capacity and car model were unknown to some EV owners. The missing data were eventually provided by the residents and the board members at the Røverkollen housing cooperative. Weather data (both measured and predicted) is provided by eSmart systems and is uploaded regularly. Initially there where several errors in data structure and filenames. These issues were however corrected during the data collection period. The average grid mix data is collected by SINTEF based on data from the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE). NVE provides yearly statistics on the "product declaration of electricity" used in Norway. The electricity is a mix of electricity produced from renewables, nuclear power, and fossil fuels. Data on electricity prices are key to the demonstrators and is collected by eSmart Systems from Nordpools data portal. The data is downloaded automatically and uploaded manually to the file server. <strong>Main challenges for the Oslo Pilot.</strong> During the intermediate stage several Baseline data have been collected. Because OSL.D1 and OSL.D2 required profound technology development and software integration, the demonstrators were not operative at the time of the delivery. Lacking results, this deliverable could not discuss first experiences of the smart energy management of D1 or the booking and roaming services of D2. Both OSL.D1 and OSL.D2 depend on that the EV-users use the ZET.Charge App. The main blockers for delay of demo startup, were issues related to the development of the app and integration of the back-end systems of the different project partners. Challenges when collecting the Baseline data were sometimes of technical nature, but the most reoccurring challenge was that partners failed to deliver data on time and with the specified file structure and filename. This led to manual additional work to adjust several the data files. During the intermediate stage, the board at Røverkollen housing cooperative have been of great importance for the project and the residents, providing both practical assistance as well as on-site operational insights on the technical hardware and software during implementation. They have provided access to testing and assisted in collecting missing device data from several EV users.