ENERGIX-Stort program energi

A great share of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) has to be integrated in existing European energy distribution systems all over Europe to cope with the climate and energy 20/20/20 targets of the European Union (EU). Due to RES fluctuating character, in particular weather-dependent wind turbines and photovoltaic systems, the complexity of balancing generation and demand rises significantly. Smart grid technologies are used to assure the cost-effective expansion of distribution systems. The ERA-Net SG+-project "SmartGuide" focuses on the development of improved planning and operating guidelines for European smart grids, considering renewable energy sources and the demand that arise from smart market applications (e.g. demand response, frequency control and reserves management). Belgische Universität Wuppertal is the coordinator of the project. Partners in the project are research institutes/Universities and Distribution System Operators from Germany, UK, Portugal and Norway. The Norwegian partners are Skagerak Nett (DSO) and SINTEF Energi (research). Project period: 2016-2019. The focus in the first two work packages has been on describe the state of the art for smart grid solutions and technologies (WP1) and smart grid business models and market integration (WP2) for the countries involved in the project. The reports are available at the project web site: http://www.smartguide.uni-wuppertal.de/en/publications.html WP3, Advancing Smart Grid Planning Methods and Tools, is one of the focal WPs of this project. It starts with identifying today?s practice related to network planning as well as missing planning methods and tools for each country and their specific smart grid technologies separately. Because of the different requirements for the planning process for grids with these technologies, there will be different tools and methodologies to ultimately derive the planning principles later in the project. For the Norwegian part of the project an excel prototype have been developed. With this prototype it is possible to develop consumption profiles for households with different alternatives of PV panel, electric vehicle and demand response. The use of this tool is described in a report from WP3, that will be published in 2019. In WP4, Simulation, the independent country specific tools developed in WP3 will be used to execute planning of grids representative of the country specific contexts of partner DSOs. For that, the participating DSO will provide data and plans of representative MV- and LV-Grids that will be adapted to comply with the tools input standards. Subsequent simulations and analysis will be carried out by the research partners. With help of the DSOs the simulation results will be revised. The country- specific tools and methods will be applied to grids from the other participating countries (e.g. Portuguese tool with British grids and vice versa). WP5, SG Guidelines for Planning, Regulation and Business as usual Transitioning, will receive the inputs from WP4 conclusions and will firstly establish a comparison of country specific planning and operation guidelines in the smart grid era. In order to support the dissemination of the investigated technical solutions and approaches, studies performed (WP1 and WP2) with the use of the developed tools (WP3) and the scenario results (WP4), were synthesised to guidelines (WP5). Referring to the adoption level, it is the objective to assist the affected stakeholders to create the circumstances for the investigated solutions to become business as usual: 1) Advanced planning tools and methods, in particular those developed in SmartGuide, should be applied to network planning activities, reducing necessary network reinforcement expenditures. 2) Planning of future investment strategies should integrate development scenarios to hedge against an increasingly uncertain future. 3) Network planning methods should harness and integrate emerging data types from new sources, such as Smart Meter data, providing enhanced visibility of emerging technologies at customer level. 4) It is recommended to include the representative modelling of neighbouring voltage levels, deriving investment plans that reflect wider operating conditions. 5) The value of flexibility has to be assessed on a case by case basis, and can be facilitated by advanced planning tools and methods. 6) In cases of curtailment assessment of flexible resources, the application of half-hourly time-series method must incorporate conservative assumptions to avoid underestimation of curtailment volumes. 7) Constraint analysis techniques must model demand-specific flexibility characteristics to ensure a representative estimate of constraints and their impact on flexible demand.

The main objective of the SmartGuide project is the development of improved and generalized planning and operating guidelines for European smart grids, considering renewable energy sources and the demands that arise from smart market applications (e.g. demand response, ancillary services like frequency control). The key outcome of the project is the derived planning and operation guidelines for smart grid technologies. Due to the different circumstances in the partner countries the guidelines are rather generalised observations from the performed studies than actual and specific planning guidelines a network operator could adopt.