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Press Release06 February 2024Smart InfrastructureZug
Siemens collaborates with Areti on RomeFlex project to enable local grid flexibility in Rome
Siemens collaborates with Areti on RomeFlex project
Leveraging Siemens’ digital expertise and software, Areti is managing challenges
related to climate change and ‘the electrification of everything’, which are heavily
impacting power grids in Italy and all around the world, more effectively.
As a key enabler of the energy transition in Italy, Areti designed an innovative local
flexibility market architecture that will be boosted by Siemens pioneering energy
domain know-how and dedicated technology.
In the next ten years, it is estimated that the peak electricity demand on the Roman
DSO power grid will increase from 2,200 MW to 3,300 MW. To manage this growth
in energy demand and prevent the grid from criticalities like blackouts or voltage violations, Areti is going to increase its grid capacity at a fast pace, accelerating its
digital transformation to shape the next level of grid management.
"With our RomeFlex project, we're proudly driving innovation in Italy and Europe,
using flexibility in order to make the grid smarter, more resilient and future proof.
This means exploiting software to forecast congestion and grid issues in time to run
sustainable and cost-effective actions, enabling us to keep the grid stable and
reactive for all the Roman citizens. Collaboration with Siemens is critical to make
this local flexibility project successful, in order to create a blueprint not only for Italy
but also in the rest of Europe," said Ercole De Luca, Head of Innovation at Areti.
"With RomeFlex, Areti is confirming its pioneering spirit. Since the EU Platone
project, we have been jointly developing new technologies and grid software
combining IT and OT. It will propel Areti towards next level grid management, based
on a Digital Twin, that enables power utilities to successfully deal with growing
complexity and increase the much-needed grid capacity, accelerating the path to net
zero," said Alessandro Masi, Head of Siemens Grid Software in Italy.
Siemens Grid Software, a business unit of Siemens Smart Infrastructure, enables
grid operators to accelerate and secure the energy transition in a sustainable and
profitable way. The software products are part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio.
They are interoperable, open, flexible and available as a service and provide the
highest cybersecurity standards, helping power utilities accelerate their digital
transformation – easier, faster and at scale.
Background info
RomeFlex project
Approved by the Italian authority Arera in 2023, RomeFlex (Reshaping Operational
MEthods to run grid FLEXibility) is a project that makes real a new and inclusive
Local Flexibility Market accessible by all stakeholders connected to the Roman DSO
MV and LV power grids.
Thanks to its open and modular architecture, the RomeFlex project is scalable and
replicable by all the DSOs active in Italy. All the stakeholders involved can
participate with their generation and consumption assets to the new local flexibility
market by modulating their loads on MV and LV grids managed by the DSO.
EU Platone project
Successfully completed in August 2023, Platone – PLATform for Operation of
distribution NEtworks – was a four-year Horizon 2020 funded European project.
Platone aimed at defining new approaches to increase the observability of
renewable energy resources and of less predictable loads while exploiting their
flexibility. A consortium of 12 partners from Belgium, Germany, Greece and Italy
developed advanced management platforms to unlock grid flexibility and to realize
an open and non-discriminatory market, linking users, aggregators and operators.
The solutions developed in the project were tested in three European demonstration
examples.
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