Coelho, AntónioSoares, FilipeMerino, JuliaRiaño, SandraPeças Lopes, João2018Coelho , A , Soares , F , Merino , J , Riaño , S & Peças Lopes , J 2018 , ' Control Room Requirements for Voltage Control in Future Power Systems ' , Energies , vol. 11 , no. 7 , 1659 , pp. 1659 . https://doi.org/10.3390/en110716591996-1073researchoutputwizard: 11556/599Publisher Copyright: © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.In future power grids, a large integration of renewable energy sources is foreseen, which will impose serious technical challenges to system operators. To mitigate some of the problems that renewable energy sources may bring, new voltage and frequency control strategies must be developed. Given the expected evolution of technologies and information systems, these new strategies will benefit from increasing system observability and resources controllability, enabling a more efficient grid operation. The ELECTRA IRP project addressed the new challenges that future power systems will face and developed new grid management and control functionalities to overcome the identified problems. This work, implemented in the framework of ELECTRA, presents an innovative functionality for the control room of the cell operator and its application in assistance with the voltage control designed for the Web-of-Cells. The voltage control method developed uses a proactive mode to calculate the set-points to be sent to the flexible resources, each minute, for a following 15-min period. This way, the voltage control method developed is able to mitigate voltage problems that may occur, while, at the same time, contributes to reduce the energy losses. To enable a straightforward utilization of this functionality, a user interface was created for system operators so they can observe the network state and control resources in a forthright manner accordingly.114566793enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessjournal article10.3390/en11071659Control roomFuture gridsSystem operatorVoltage controlControl roomFuture gridsSystem operatorVoltage controlRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the EnvironmentBuilding and ConstructionFuel TechnologyEngineering (miscellaneous)Energy Engineering and Power TechnologyEnergy (miscellaneous)Control and OptimizationElectrical and Electronic EngineeringSDG 7 - Affordable and Clean EnergyProject IDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/609687/EU/European Liaison on Electricity Committed Towards long-term Research Activities for Smart Grids/ELECTRAinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/609687/EU/European Liaison on Electricity Committed Towards long-term Research Activities for Smart Grids/ELECTRAFunding InfoThe work presented in this paper was funded by the ELECTRA IRP project (Seventh Framework_x000D_ Programme FP7 2007/2013) under grant agreement No. 609687.The work presented in this paper was funded by the ELECTRA IRP project (Seventh Framework_x000D_ Programme FP7 2007/2013) under grant agreement No. 609687.http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051166423&partnerID=8YFLogxK