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Risks, and contingency plans:

Technological risk : Developing plug and play power converters able to be connected on many types of
power sources and storage elements is a real challenge. Work on control strategies of power elements may
lead to the conclusion that the system can not accept a large and heterogeneous part of “green” power
sources, and that making a” protocol” of connection faces a too strong variety of needs and solutions. Even if
we do not achieve this plug and play ability, the project will lead to an existing power system adapted to
one demand. If the “protocol” is not integrated inside the power converters, we can consider the approach
build during the project as the protocol for plug and play “power systems”, and so fasten the next
development to answer similar demand.
The contingency plan is therefore to lower the plug and play performances.
Investment risk : The project targets to satisfy some of the RES demand of the 2 communities involved.
We may risk that the investment to buy power sources and storage elements be much higher than the one
planned in the project, although our first evaluation has been made with care. We plan, in as much as
possible to install significant equipments, to sustain the “real-scale” aspect. Should we fail short of this
performance target, the work on the project may conclude the best way to equip the island is to install
several autonomous power systems, (this being the contingency plan).

Monitoring & Metrology Systems :(MMS)
Monitoring approach:
This project has two complementary objectives:
- Satisfy a real demand for the installation of a “green on grid” autonomous power system
- Develop a plug and play tool (software and hardware) able to satisfy other similar demands
- Achieve the integration of the system within its tourist and ecological assets.
So to monitor the good achievement of this project we must
· measure the population & local authorities’ satisfaction,
· validate the ability of the tools developed to be re used easily on other site.
· Validate the environmental performance of the implantation
Metrology approach and criteria:
To measure “satisfaction”& “acceptability-affordability” on the experimental site*
· a online satisfaction survey (tuned to the population and local authorities) will be at disposal as soon
as the testing phase shall start and will be complemented by a physical survey carried out by the local
partners and overlapping the project phase and the post project phase.
· The financial performance of the project will be evaluated against the viability models of the fossil
energies consumption, against the stakeholders usual cost tables and comparison against the cost of a
connection to the continental grid. The whole economics of the traditional and project technologies
will be compared to validate the attractiveness of the technology take-up and exploitation plans.
· Technical performances will be measured with the analysis of the power quality, the maximum
reduction of power sources installed and the lifetime of equipments.
· The ecological performance (visibility of the equipments, etc…..) will be determined using the
European standards for environmental audits of electricity production sites.
To measure the performances of the project technology
· Technological Audit :
In view of an extended take-up of the technology, it is important that a technological audit be
conducted, so as to provide a clear assessment table of the innovative elements and their
performances.
· Performance targets :
o Technological : Power installed < 3 times the power issued
o Operational: Quality of the power issued: Voltage harmonics < 5 %, less than 4 power outages a
year,
To measure the performances of the project
· The Validation methodology will be part of the Project management task and will involve all partners
and the Commission project officer
· A particular attention will be given to the way the partners have managed and surmounted the
difficulties to assemble and implement the technological system born out of their cooperation.