To support socio-economic development in South East Asia, particularly focusing on remote areas, the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has launched the Renewable Energy Integration Demonstrator - Singapore (REIDS) initiative, dedicated to microgrid technologies. Supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and the National Environment Agency (NEA), it is the largest hybrid microgrid testbed and research platform in the tropics. Located on Semakau island (8km South of Singapore), the infrastructure provides the 20+ REIDS Industrial Partners with the opportunity to implement and promote their own technologies (solar, diesel, control systems, etc.) related to microgrids. Serving the needs of remote areas in the region, the objectives of the initiative revolve around key success factors such as high penetration of locally produced energy, resiliency and affordability.

The partnership between NTU and EDF, with support from Enedis, aims at developing, testing and demonstrating a microgrid on Semakau island, based on:

• Renewable energy penetration
• Innovative storage technologies
• Affordable electricity cost allowing meeting market expectations in SEA
• Innovative communication control and optimization technologies

The MASERA (Microgrid for Affordable and Sustainable Electricity in Remote Areas) microgrid will aim at bringing a better quality of life to these local communities, through access to affordable and reliable electricity, leveraging innovative technologies, ensuring enhanced reliability and resilience.

Beyond its technical aspects and assets, this microgrid will be an opportunity to implement innovative approaches:

• Combining innovative and rugged solutions in order to control the cost and ensure the reliability and the resilience
• Enhancing controls to optimize distributed energy resources
• Promoting new loads as services
• Lean approach, re-using EDF Group previous developments and experience
• Design to cost, focused on customer needs
• Improve methods for future developments

Alongside EDF, Enedis and NTU other partners, including the Think Smartgrids association (French association aiming at developing smart grids sector and promoting solutions in Europe and around the world) collaborate in the MASERA project. This session will describe the vision, approach, and objectives of both EDF and Enedis, and how these are realized in the MASERA microgrid.

Speakers



Stéphane Jamet served as Deputy Director for Enedis in the Languedoc-Roussillon region (southern part of France) where he was in charge of the distribution system management (1500 employees) as well as the supply and connection of 2 million residential and business customers in the area. His developed expertise is in the issues of local development and relationships with local authorities.

He graduated as an engineer from Ecole des Mines de Nancy in 1990 and joined EDF Group in 1993. He held several positions in IT, grid operation, engineering and customer management. Currently, he is in charge of the microgrids strategy for Enedis for international or French projects.



Dr. Maria Brucoli is chartered electrical engineer with over 14 years experience in electrical power systems engineering. She joined the EDF Energy R&D Smart Customers Group in 2016 where she is leading projects on local energy markets, distributed energy systems, behind the meter storage applications and microgrids. Before joining EDF Energy, she worked as a senior energy consultant and a building services electrical engineer at Arup in the London headquarters. From October 2004 to August 2009, Maria was a PhD student and then a research associate in microgrids and Active Networks Management (ANM) at Imperial College, London.