Fossil-free living within one generation Vattenfall – Presentation at Chalmers 2019.09.25
Who am I?
About me • Chalmers alumnus (K 2001) • 43 years old, born in Nossebro (on ‘ Väschöttschlätta ’) • Living in Stockholm with fiancée and daughter • Previously lived in Sydney, Porsgrunn (NOR), Edinburgh, Nottingham and Berlin • Joined Vattenfall in 2009 as a flue gas treatment expert
Vattenfall at a glance
This is Vattenfall Basic facts Location of our operations and major plants • One of Europe’s largest producers of electricity Wind Nuclear Biomass Coal and heat Hydro Solar Harsprånget Gas District heating Country head office • 100% owned by the Swedish state Largest facilities are marked with a circle Stornorrfors Forsmark • Main products: electricity, heat, gas and energy Uppsala services Ringhals DanTysk • Main markets: Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Sandbank Denmark and the UK Hamburg 2 Amsterdam Berlin Pen y Cymoedd Moorburg • About 20,000 employees Thanet
Vattenfall’s value chain Production Electricity distribution Sales of electricity, District heating Energy services & heat and gas decentralised generation Production from • Guarantees secure • Sells electricity, heat • Drives the Offers energy services supply via well- and gas to consumers transformation towards • Hydro • Heat pumps functioning distribution and business fossil-free heating and • Nuclear • Solar panels networks and smart customers cooling solutions • Coal • Charging solutions for network solutions together with cities and • Focuses on various electric vehicles • Natural gas regions • Enables customers to price and service • Battery storage • Wind feed self-generated models, and gives • One of Europe’s • Network services • Solar electricity into the grid customers the largest producers and • Smart meters • Biomass (“prosumers”) opportunity to reduce distributors of district Provides marketplaces their environmental heating • Waste impact and access to Actively phasing out marketplaces where fossil-based production customers can buy and sell electricity
Vattenfall’s journey (of late); From big baddie…
…to purpose driven industry transformer!
Core beliefs 1 2 3 4 5 6 Customer Further The future energy The complete New Cost efficiency is a centricity and electrification is a system will consist energy value chain competencies, prerequisite for sustainability are key enabler for of both central and will be digitalized value creation and speed in learning key to attracting reduced CO 2 decentralised and diverse and growth in an customers, talent emissions energy solutions increasingly inclusive teams are and investors critical in the competitive market energy transition
Digitalization is relevant for all parts of Vattenfall Customer experience Operational excellence New business models
We don’t have a digital strategy WE HAVE A STRATEGY FOR THE DIGITAL WORLD Smart meter roll-out in district Investing in disruptive heating grids in Germany business models Agile business development Focus on digital and sales forces customer journeys Fossil-free living Advanced analytics , within one Digital DSO VAP and forecasting generation Recruit and retain key competences incl. new digital competencies Digitalization of processes Internal innovation competitions Data governance and information security Staff function 4.0
Vattenfall R&D
Introduction Vattenfall R&D - The movie
Mission • Our premier mission is to create value by supporting Vattenfall’s business areas in achieving their strategic objectives and operational targets
Organisation Overall budget: Roughly 190 MSEK Employees: ~ 115 7 R&D Portfolios (what?) 6 Depts / Sections (how and whom?) Strategic R&D: Development, Demonstration, Industry Deployment Decarbon- Process & isation Power Wind Technology Chemistry Hydro Rotating Data Analytics & Distribution Machines ICT Solutions Customer Heat Products & Solutions Civil Fluid Tactical R&D: Engineering Mechanics Problem solving, qualified testing Digitalisation and validation for internal and for external customers Generation
Laboratories Hydraulic machinery Fluid mechanics laboratory Accredited byproduct laboratory laboratory Combustion Materials technology Accredited concrete and fuel laboratory laboratory ICT labs technology laboratory
My department (Data Analytics & ICT Solutions)
People • 22 full time employees (incl. Head of Department) • 4 trainees on secondment • 12 consultants • 1 master’s thesis student • 72% male, 28% female • 9 different nationalities • Offices in Stockholm, Älvkarleby, Edinburgh (UK), Kolding (DK)
General profile • Eight running agile teams with DA & ICT staff; • Data Analytics • Data Driven DSO • Digital Inspections • E-Mobility • Energy System Optimization • IP Data Analytics • Micro Grids & ICT Solutions • Smart Energy Solutions Data IP Cross portfolio Analytics • First-rate technical acumen within; Data Micro Driven Distribution Grids DSO • Data Engineering, Data Science & Machine Learning / AI Smart Customer Products E-Mobility • ICT, IoT & IT Integration Energy & Solutions Solutions • AR / VR Energy System Heat Optimization • Expertise in; Digital Digitalization for Inspections Generation • Business Analysis • Intellectual Property (IP) Processes • A mix between technical specialists, business analysts and assignment / project managers
Expertise along the entire data & analytics value chain Data Analytics & Value Data & analytics value chain Discipline ICT Solutions Artificial Intelligence (AI) Algorithms applied inside systems to automatically execute decisions and actions Machine Learning Business Domain Knowledge Analysed to create insights Data Science IP Data Engineering Combined and structured into meaningful information IT Integration Operational Technology (OT) Data in our systems of record and external data Internet of Things (IoT)
Lab facilities • ICT Labs • Smart Home i-Lab • A flexible integration lab designed as a modern studio flat, for testing and demonstration of; • Decentralised energy solutions, e.g. batteries, PV, EV charging • Digital energy management systems • Smart home technologies • XR Lab • Space for experience and testing of AR / VR equipment • ICT Workshop • Multipurpose ICT and low voltage laboratory • Pre-testing and development of all of the above on a individual basis • Battery Container • Isolated test bed for battery testing • Separated for fire safety purposes Server Room • • TestNet • Flexible and secure IT environment • Network connecting server room with Smart Home i-Lab and ICT Workshop Mail server, data storage, clientless VPN access, VPN bridges to external sites • • Prototyping, mock-ups and demos, vendor proofing and testing • Älvkarleby Computing Cluster • Modelling, forecasting and calculations • R&D Azure Account • R&D’s own sandbox environment underneath VF’s enterprise agreement
Examples of recent activities
Data Analytics - Predictive maintenance • Machine Learning & Advanced Analytics to determine the condition of powerplants • 100% data-driven approach • Close collaboration with domain experts • Design of experiments (data-labeling) • Ä-by G6 , Laxede G3, Ligga G3 • Current work Clogging RCIP – Challenge Dig. Inspection Detect clogging incident in Framework Design cooling system Steering System Data Pipeline • Automated digital inspection of steering Predict time to maintenance Ongoing Work Monitoring System system (runner & guide vane) • Powerplant operation efficiency Powerplant Cooling System Oil Leakage Efficiency Detect & Prevent excess Detect leakage Ongoining Work heat build up scenarios Generalize the analysis for Predict Full Load Stator other systems Winding Temperature
Data Analytics - Forecasting • Intelligent optimisation & control → Energy savings & availability • Machine learning & advanced analytics E-Mobility PoC HEM PoC • EV forecasting • PV forecasting • Electricity forecasting • Heat load/consumption forecasting • Disaggregation and insights Haga PoC Jungheinrich PoC Showcase RPC PoC Gustavsberg
Smart Energy Solutions – Energichecken customer app Value • Support Vattenfall needs to gradually shift towards offering differentiated energy solutions and EaaS to our customers. • Digital offerings and the customer journey. • First step towards selling value added and data driven HEM services that we can charge with different revenue set ups Objectives • Install and test new market hardware (“real time” measurement) and develop a customer friendly user interface. Stake- • Receiver: C&S, DES Nordic holders • Partners: Vattenfall IT, Sigma Consulting, potentially Digital Development CS
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