ENERGIMARKED 2.0

The energy system in Norway faces several challenges, including increased electrification, changed patterns of consumption and the introduction of renewable (non-regulated) electricity production. The consumer side can fortify these challenges. For example, more electric cars will increase the overall load on the power grid, and cause higher effect peaks at certain times. This can lead to an imbalance between production and consumption, which is driving costs for the grid companies, and in turn affects the customers. Statnett estimates investments in development and upgrading of the power grid to approx. NOK 140 billion in the years to come. One solution may be so-called "consumer flexibility", which means that consumers are paid not to use electricity during periods when consumption is high. A report from Energi Norge estimates that the total potential for consumer flexibility in Norway is approx. 5000 MW, where households make up the majority with 3400 MW. Energy Norway indicates a cost of up to 15 MNOK per MW with the traditional development of the power grid. In cases where there is an alternative, by using households as flexible resources, the costs are only a fraction of this. The major challenge associated with this is that private households have not had the opportunity to contribute with consumer flexibility. Historically, one of the reasons is that prices of the home technology needed to regulate consumption has not been adapted to a mass market. However, the development of recent years, with mass-produced, cheaper and better technology, has made "smart homes" more accessible to the consumer. Nevertheless, there are still two major challenges that have prevented private households from contributing consumer flexibility back to the grid: 1. Today's energy market has not been adapted for digital transactions that enable two-way "peer-to-peer" electricity trading (kWh from producer via grid owner to customer, and kW from customer back to the grid company). 2. To date, there have been no technical solutions and market mechanisms, neither on the consumer side nor on the grid owner side, where private households can connect their equipment and sell consumer flexibility back to the grid. This is the reason why the project partners Tibber, BKK Innovation, BKK Nett, BKK Produksjon and NHH initiated the project Energy Market 2.0. The overall goal of the project was to demonstrate a large-scale digital marketplace for two-way electricity trading, as well as to demonstrate how Tibber's technology makes it possible to deliver capacity back to the electricity grid from private households' flexible and controllable smart home technology.

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Energisystemet utfordres av nye typer forbruk og ikke-regulerbar strømproduksjon. Dette setter helt nye krav til strømnettet, som Statnett mener må oppgraderes for 140 mrd. Alternativet til milliarder i investeringer er å la husholdninger bruke mindre strøm på enkelte tidspunkt, mot en kompensasjon. Dette er ikke mulig i dag, siden det ikke er mulig for husholdningene på noen enkel måte å få tilgang i et marked. Energimarked 2.0 skal løse denne problemstillingen ved å etablere et parallellt, fulldigitalt energimarked som lar husholdninger kjøpe strøm direkte fra produsent og selge tilbake kapasitet som kan disponeres ved høy trafikk i strømnettet. Dette er en peer-to-peer modell som bringer delingsøkonomien til energimarkedet. Prosjektet gjennomføres i samarbeid med 3000 husholdninger, Vestlandets største energiprodusent BKK, Norges Handelshøyskole og Europas ledende plattform for digital handel og styring av strøm Tibber.