System services for reliable power grids as the energy transition and digital transformation move ahead
The energy transition and the increasing development of renewable energy sources mean that existing strategies for regulating and maintaining the energy supply need to be adapted. In the future, these so-called system services will be provided by local generators and, in this context, further improved to meet the requirements of the energy transition and digitalisation. This is precisely where the SiNED project is focusing its research: to ensure that these processes are optimised.
Duration: November 2019 until October 2022
Funded by: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur
Zusätzliche Förderung von Wissenschaft und Technik in Forschung und Lehre aus Mitteln des Niedersächsischen Vorab
Project Participants: efzn Energie-Forschungszentrum Niedersachsen Institut für Vernetzte Energiesysteme TU Braunschweig – Institut für Hochspannungstechnik und Elektrische Energieanlagen – elenia (Projektkoordination) OFFIS e.V. – Institut für Informatik Oldenburg Leibniz Universität Hannover – Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informatik, Fachgebiet Energieinformatik; Institut für Elektrische Energiesysteme, Fachgebiet Elektrische Energieversorgung; Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik TU Clausthal – Institut für deutsches und internationales Berg- und Energierecht
Project Manager at the Institute of Networked Energy Systems: Vanessa Beutel
Project Description: The energy transition and the increasing expansion of renewable energy sources mean that existing strategies for regulating and maintaining grid stability need to be adapted. In the future, these so-called system services will be provided by local generators and, in this context, further improved to meet the requirements of the energy transition and digitalisation. This is precisely where the SiNED project is focusing its research: in order to implement and ensure the optimisation of these processes. Solutions for the reliable operation of future power grids are also being investigated, focusing particularly on windy locations in Lower Saxony that face the challenges of extreme fluctuations in production and the associated need to manage bottlenecks.
In the project’s first phase, the scientists from the Institute of Networked Energy Systems are addressing a number of key research areas. Amongst other things, they are investigating changing requirements for system services that can be activated quickly, such as the instantaneous reserve and static voltage stability, in order to determine the scale on which such services will be required in distribution grids in the future. The control algorithms devised in order to provide the system services are also still being evaluated using an inverter research platform – developed specially for this project – in the network laboratory.
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