TY - JOUR
T1 - An integrated pan-European research infrastructure for validating smart grid systems
AU - Strasser, Thomas
AU - Pröstl Andrén, F.
AU - Widl, Edmund
AU - Lauss, G.
AU - de Jong, Erik
AU - Calin, Mihai
AU - Sosnina, Maria
AU - Khavari, Ata
AU - Rodriguez, J.
AU - Kotsampopoulos, Panos
AU - Blank-Babazadeh, Marita
AU - Steinbrink, C.
AU - Mäki, Kari
AU - Kulmala, Anna
AU - van der Meer, A.
AU - Bhandia, R.
AU - Brandl, Ron
AU - Arnold, G.
AU - Sandroni, Carlo
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - education
KW - hardware-in-the-loop
KW - research infrastructure
KW - simulation
KW - smart grids
KW - testing
KW - training
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85057093227&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00502-018-0667-7
DO - 10.1007/s00502-018-0667-7
M3 - Article
SN - 0932-383X
VL - 135
SP - 616
EP - 622
JO - e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
JF - e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
IS - 8
ER -