Building a Distributed, Transparent Energy Network for The Hague’s Smart Beach

The Smart Beach Net in The Hague is a privately owned network by an energy cooperation consisting of The City of The Hague and multiple beach pavilions. As Stedin, the regional network operator (DSO) is facing net congestion challenges, the cooperation is offering it’s flexibility of both shared and individual EV charging, batteries, heating and solar assets, to help resolving congestion.

The challenge is to design and implement a multi objective and multi layer energy management system which can optimise both on dynamic network capacity and dynamic energy tariffs. Moreover optimisation should optimise both on household/individual level with individual assets, as well as cooperation level with shared assets.

Continuing the learnings from the Amsterdam Sporenburg pilot we presented last year, we will share the latest results from Amsterdam and demonstrate the further developments in The Hague, integrating with day ahead and intraday congestion markets, introducing advanced forecasting models for consumption as well as forecasting EPEX Spot prices, and automated controlling of assets, both on individual as well as cooperation level.

The Hague pilot: https://openremote.io/solution/slim-strandnet-scheveningen-ems-stedin/ Build your open source EMS, get started: https://docs.openremote.io/docs/user-guide/domains/create-your-energy-management-system