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T1 Exploiting flexibility of radio base stations in local DSO markets for congestion management with shared balancing responsibility between TSO and DSO
A1 Madina, Carlos
A1 Jimeno, Joseba
A1 Merino, J.
A1 Pardo, M.
A1 Marroquin, M.
A1 Estrade, E.
AB Electric power systems are facing major challenges as fossil fuel generation is replaced by renewablegeneration, which is often characterised by variable behaviour. This increases the need for resources tobe used to guarantee voltage and frequency stability and to ensure power quality. At the same time, anincreasing number of flexible demand and storage systems are being located at distribution level. Allthese resources can potentially provide network services if they are aggregated effectively. To achievethis, however, the roles of the diverse network stakeholders –transmission systems operators (TSOs),distribution systems operators (DSOs) and aggregators– should be reshaped. Together, the way realtimeelectricity markets are organised must also be adapted to reflect the new operating environment.The project SmartNet (http://smartnet-project.eu/) compares five TSO-DSO coordination schemes anddifferent real-time market architectures with the aim of finding out which one could deliver the bestcompromise between costs and benefits for the system. An ad-hoc-developed platform is used to carryout simulations on three benchmark countries –Italy, Denmark and Spain– whose results are used toperform a cost-benefit analysis. This analysis compares the benefits drawn by the system with the ICTcosts needed to implement each coordination scheme. In parallel, three demonstration projects (pilots)are deployed for testing specific technological solutions to enable monitoring, control andparticipation in ancillary services provision from flexible entities located in distribution networks.This paper summarises the achievements of the Spanish pilot during the first two years of operation.The pilot includes technical and economic aspects, under the “Shared balancing responsibility model”,to demonstrate the feasibility of using urban, distributed radio base stations to provide ancillaryservices for the DSO through demand side management. In this model, the balancing responsibility isdivided between the TSO and the DSO, so that each of them must ensure a predefined schedule in thecommon border. With that aim, the DSO organises a local market to respect the schedule agreed withthe TSO, while the TSO has no access to resources connected to the distribution grid. Commercialmarket parties such as aggregators become flexibility providers of aggregated distributed energyresources at the local market and the DSO allocates flexibility among them in a competitive manner.Additionally, the local market is used also by the DSO for managing the congestions in its own grid.
PB CIGRE
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://hdl.handle.net/11556/692
UL http://hdl.handle.net/11556/692
LA eng
NO C. MADINA*, J. JIMENO, J. MERINO, M. PARDO, M. MARROQUIN, E. ESTRADE Exploiting flexibility of radio base stations in local DSO markets for congestion management with shared balancing responsibility between TSO and DSO, CIGRE 2018, C5-309_2018,
NO The research leading to this publication has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 691405.
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