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An integrated pan-European research infrastructure for validating smart grid systems

Abstract

A driving force for the realization of a sustainable energy supply in Europe is the integration of distributed, renewable energy resources. Due to their dynamic and stochastic generation behaviour, utilities and network operators are confronted with a more complex operation of the underlying distribution grids. Additionally, due to the higher flexibility on the consumer side through partly controllable loads, ongoing changes of regulatory rules, technology developments, and the liberalization of energy markets, the system’s operation needs adaptation. Sophisticated design approaches together with proper operational concepts and intelligent automation provide the basis to turn the existing power system into an intelligent entity, a so-called smart grid. While reaping the benefits that come along with those intelligent behaviours, it is expected that the system-level testing will play a significantly larger role in the development of future solutions and technologies. Proper validation approaches, concepts, and corresponding tools are partly missing until now. This paper addresses these issues by discussing the progress in the integrated Pan-European research infrastructure project ERIGrid where proper validation methods and tools are currently being developed for validating smart grid systems and solutions.

Category

Academic article

Language

English

Author(s)

  • Thomas I. Strasser
  • Filip Prostl Andren
  • Edmund Widl
  • Georg Lauss
  • Erik de Jong
  • Mihai Calin
  • M Sosnina
  • Ali M. Khavari
  • JE Rodriguez
  • Panos C. Kotsampopoulos
  • Marita Blank
  • Cornelius Steinbrink
  • Kari Maki
  • Anna Kulmala
  • Arjen A. van der Meer
  • Rishabh Bhandia
  • Ron Brandl
  • Gunter Arnold
  • Carlo Sandroni
  • D Pala
  • DE Morales Bondy
  • Kai Heussen
  • Oliver Gehrke
  • Federico Coffele
  • Que Tran
  • Evangelos J. Rikos
  • Van Hoa Nguyen
  • I Orue
  • Merkebu Zenebe Degefa
  • S Manikas

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Energy Research / Energisystemer
  • Technical University of Denmark
  • VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
  • France
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • Greece
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • Delft University of Technology
  • Spain
  • University of Strathclyde
  • Germany
  • Austrian Institute of Technology

Year

2018

Published in

E & I. Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik

ISSN

0932-383X

Volume

135

Issue

8

Page(s)

616 - 622

View this publication at Norwegian Research Information Repository