O modernization process necessary for the implementation of VPPs (virtual power plants) in Brazil are underway, but it encompasses the opening of the energy market, improvements in the retail supplier relationship, improvements in the demand response program, digitalization of the electrical sector, among other aspects.
Such plants still need a most appropriate regulatory environment, aiming for a significant change in the sustainability of the sector. The analysis is Marco Cavallo, Director of Sales for the Public Sector and Channels at Denodo.
“Starting this year, Group A consumers, especially high voltage industries and businesses, now have the opportunity to participate in the free energy market without the prior requirement of very high contracted demand. A reducing the demand limit to 250 kW increases participation in this market", said.
“To help Brazilian companies in this transition, it is The combination of data with artificial intelligence and CRM is essential, being essential to catalyze management, relationships between companies and consumers, agility, flexibility and efficiency”, reported the executive.
Denodo believes that the VPPs are the plants of the future because they can operate power in the cloud and deliver renewable energy on demand through innovative web-based interfaces, connecting and remotely managing homes with solar and battery storage. Additionally, VPPs can supply power back to the grid during peak times to lighten the load and keep the grid stable.
The company also believes that the Intelligent, data-driven operations are a key feature which can greatly help utility CIOs design future-proof assets that bridge physical and digital phenomena.
Data Management Platform
Denodo, which operates in data management, is expanding its efforts to provide energy and public services companies with more agility and accessibility in gathering strategic information.
According to the company, with solutions based on data virtualization, it is possible to obtain advanced resources and meet new renewable energy requirements, while remaining in compliance with increasingly stringent regulatory requirements.
“As new technologies have been developed, such as VPPs based on intelligent operations, and also with the management of a growing number of environmental, social and governance (ESG) and sustainability initiatives, data management allows for more assertive decision-making ”, he explained.
According to him, the Denodo Platform facilitates this process through real-time access to a multitude of data and distributed energy resources and, at the same time, generates a unified semantic layer across all data sources, which results in translated information in the “language” required by each user.
With this, he stated that anyone can carry out continuous monitoring and control, while VPP operators can make faster decisions in response to changes in energy demand, prices and environmental conditions.
“The Denodo Platform facilitates the development of intelligent operations and VPPs through several features, including distributed energy resource management, predictive analysis for maintenance and optimization of energy assets”, pointed out the director of Denodo.
“The platform, with its ability to provide real-time data access to increasingly diverse data sources, will sustain success by providing energy and utility business users with access to data at the speed of business.”
international cases
Denodo has a strong track record of providing data management solutions to energy and utility companies such as VTTI, a Dutch energy storage company and developer of critical energy infrastructure; BHP, a global resources company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia; and Engie México, responsible for energy distribution in the country.
The Denodo Platform serves as VTTI's single source of truth for enterprise resource planning data. The company uses it to synthesize, combine and analyze operational insights in order to improve ways of working and address inefficiencies in the micro operational stages of the company's terminals.
It also helps the company visualize and understand the commercial flows of products through terminals and various modes of transport, helping sales teams better serve customers.
“The Platform helps us reduce the overall size of data sets that need to be moved across the network. It helped us create a logical data structure that makes our data assets reusable and can be consumed by users around the world,” emphasized Joshua Fletcher, Superintendent of HSE and Reporting at BHP.
Luis Guadarrama, senior manager of data analysis and innovation at Engie México, added: “The Denodo Platform provides data quickly and easily, which helps us add value to business and democratize access to data.”
“We leveraged the solution to enable a number of strategic initiatives, including web services that help hundreds of thousands of customers balance their natural gas usage, chatbots that assist with problem solving, and machine learning (ML) algorithms that analyze behavior patterns of gas customers between companies and consumers”, he concluded.
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