Forecasting, Planning & Stability of Smart Energy Systems

Description

If a large group of middle and small users is going to supply energy at a large scale, and shows flexibility in their purchase patterns, it will be necessary to provide them access to energy markets, to guarantee freedom of connection to the grid, freedom of transactions and freedom of dispatch. Additonal market control mechanisms on top of the existing markets are necessary to couple these markets and to provide access for the end users of these markets. This needs to done such that it provides an economical optimal dispatch of the millions of assets in the system without sacificing the reliability and availability of the energy system. Distributed market control mechanisms via supply demand matching have to make this possible in an automated manner based upon the best (locally) available information. Technical and economical imperfections of market control mechanisms can lead to instabilities in the system balance. The performance and robustness of these systems are influenced by the forecasting and planning methodologies, but how these precisely influence each other is not clear. This research aims at fundamental insights in and improvements of the working of these mechanisms, their robustness and their mutual influence.

Projectleader

Prof.dr.ir. J.M.A. Scherpen

PhD

D. Bao Nguyen