Achievements, experiences, and lessons learned from the European research infrastructure ERIGrid related to the validation of power and energy systems
Author/s
Strasser, T. I.; de Jong, E. C. W.; Sosnina, M.; Rodriguez-Seco, J. E.; Kotsampopoulos, P.; [et al.]Date
2020-11-09Keywords
Education
Hardware-in-the-loop
Research infrastructure
Simulation
Smart grids
Testing
Training
Abstract
Power system operation is of vital importance and must be developed far beyond today’s practice to meet future needs. Almost all European countries are facing an abrupt and very important increase of renewables with intrinsically varying yields which are difficult to predict. In addition, an increase of new types of electric loads and a reduction of traditional production from bulk generation can be observed as well. Hence, the level of complexity of system operation steadily increases. Because of these developments, the traditional power system is being transformed into a smart grid. Previous and ongoing research has tended to focus on how specific aspects of smart grids can be developed and validated, but until now there exists no integrated approach for analysing and evaluating complex smart grid configurations. To tackle these research and development needs, a pan-European research infrastructure is realized in the ERIGrid project that supports the technology development as well as ...
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