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Grid Issues/ Constraints. The Orkney distribution network is connected to the Scottish mainland network via two 33kV submarine cables. SSEN (Scottish and Southern Energy Networks) are the DNO for the area, as well as the rest of the north of Scotland, Figure 5. 1. This allows generators in Orkney to export, electricity to the Scottish Mainland as well as importing when there is no generation. Within Orkney, there are smaller 11kV and LV circuits going to the North Isles and the Orkney mainland. The total renewable energy capacity installed is around 57MW. Most of this is from wind energy, as well as some others from solar, biomass, tidal and wave. The winter peak demand is 34MW (Figure 3). Orkney still imports significant amounts of fossil fuels for domestic heating, transport (road, marine, air) and industry. 61 "IEEE Xplore: IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy - (Current Issue)." ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5165391. Accessed 14 Feb. 2018. 62 "Demand Response in an Isolated System with high Wind Integration." Figure 5.1: Graph showing Orkneys demand versus Generation

Grid Issues/ Constraints. The island produces more electricity than it consumes owing to offshore and onshore wind power, and 70% of the heat demand is covered by district heating based on biomass from local resources plus individual CO2 neutral heating solutions. While there is not yet an issue with curtailment of renewable generation in the energy system of Samsø, there are bottlenecks which present opportunities for better management of locally generated energy, taking into account local demand. Shifting peaks in energy demand, for example, can help to stabilize and reduce energy prices for residents and visitors, as well as providing a valuable service for the local distribution system operator (DSO) by helping them to manage and balance the grid (D3.1). The problem that needs to be addressed is managing/adjusting the peak load caused by the boat chargings at the Marina especially in the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇. In the Marina of Ballen city, a Photovoltaic (PV) system and a battery storage system are going to be installed. Preliminary simulation studies are carried out with PV and ▇▇▇▇ for ▇▇▇▇▇▇ load. From the results, it was observed that the peak-load could not be met by the intermittent PV along with ▇▇▇▇. However, utilizing these resources, proper DR techniques need to be proposed which helps the harbour master to overcome the peak-load situation. A direct load control incentive based DR technique is proposed in66 for residential load peak-shaving. The impact of peak-loading on the distribution transformers caused by the charging of EVs is analyzed in 67 and an incentive based DR strategy is proposed to tackle this transformer overloading situation. The effectiveness of ▇▇▇▇ is analyzed in 68 in order to enforce peak shaving and smoothing the load curve using nonlinear programming. With PV systems and ▇▇▇▇, a dynamic programming based peak shaving scheme at lower cost is proposed in 69 for a day-ahead power management. A real time smart charging algorithm 66 "Strategies of residential peak shaving with integration of demand " 67 "Demand Response as a Load Shaping Tool in an Intelligent Grid With " 9 Nov. 2011, 68 "Load peak shaving and power smoothing of a distribution grid with " ▇▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/RePEc:eee:renene:v:86:y:2016:i:c:p:1372-1379. Accessed 14 Feb. 2018. 69 "Optimal Power Flow Management for Grid Connected PV Systems " is proposed in70 where the charging scheme is able to reduce the peak demand by prioritizing the EVs which can be applicable for both commercial and ...