Dutch Pilot
Location: Living Lab Scheveningen is the flagship programme of The Hague’s Smart City activities. In the lab, a number of societal challenges around environment, safety and sustainability are tackled in the public space.
The EC at the beach side of the harbour is the main project in the energy domain. Since last year, a collaboration with the local DSO (STEDIN) started allowing the development of deeper studies involving grid factors and the test of flexibility services. The Living Lab only targets municipal users, due to legal constraints, but in the already funded next phase of the project, there are plans to expand the physical infrastructure to commercial users as well. The partners set up a cooperative to manage the grid and the member’s value streams, which will be the future adopter of the envisioned platform.
Specific Challenges: Use or create open-source technology focussed on decentralised principles. As one of the cities in the 100 Climate Neutral & Smart Cities EU mission, and with its international profile of the city of peace & justice,
The Hague is keen to adopt technologies that focus on privacy protection & security and adopt decentralized technologies such as edge computing, federated learning, wallet-systems and other privacy enhancing technologies.
The inclusion of grid factors in P2P trading and the test of different services is of major importance in this pilot.
Existing Infrastructure: The site installed and operate a modern 1MW transformer with 2 municipal power supply connections and 22 solar panels for power generation. The site also operates an optical fiber network for connectivity and have an edge computing room nearby in the dike acting as a point of presence with a safe internet connection.
The physical expansion of the grid is expected in 2024. There is funding available to connect smart chargers for EVs and boats, a (mobile) battery and connections for the beach stadium and 3 privately owned beach clubs.