Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - OSMOSE (Optimal System-Mix Of flexibility Solutions for European electricity)

Teaser

Six TSOs, eleven research partners, together with sixteen industrial (manufacturers, solution providers) and market players (producers, ESCo) address the identification and development of flexibilities required to enable the Energy Transition to a high share of renewables...

Summary

Six TSOs, eleven research partners, together with sixteen industrial (manufacturers, solution providers) and market players (producers, ESCo) address the identification and development of flexibilities required to enable the Energy Transition to a high share of renewables. This approach captures synergies across needs (energy markets, system services, grid flow control) and sources of flexibilities (renewable generation, demand response, grid, storage), such as multiple services from one source, or hybridizing sources, thus resulting in a cost-efficient power system. The key objectives are to :
- demonstrate flexibility solutions enabling synergies across flexibility sources and applications via four large scale demonstrators on the transmission grid
- increase the techno-economic scalability of these solutions;
- forecast the economically optimal mix of flexibilities for the European power system, taking into account their synergies
- propose evolutions of market designs and regulations leading to this mix and capturing these synergies

Work performed

The main results of the project during its first year and a half (01/2018-06/19) are listed below.

About the “Optimal mix of flexibilities” (WP1), the main results are:
- Three long-term scenarios simulated with multi-sectors investment tools for preliminary assessment of the electricity demand and needs of flexibility (deliverable 1.1: European Long-Term Scenarios Description).
- A data base of performances and cost of flexibility solutions (deliverable 1.2: Flexibility cost and operational data outlook).

About “Market designs and regulations” (WP2), the main results are:
- A new method and algorithm to generate forecast errors on load and RES generation that conserves historical temporal correlations (deliverable 2.1: Methodology for error forecasts at European scale).
- 77 Key Performance Indicators to quantify the performance of market designs (internal document so far).
- A market and regulatory survey to describe how different countries are integrating flexibility technologies and services within their system (internal document so far).
- A list of candidate market designs for future simulations (deliverable 2.2: Candidate market mechanisms and regulatory frameworks).

About the demonstrator “Grid forming for the synchronization of large power systems by multi-services hybrid storage” (WP3), the main results are:
- A scheduling and control framework for a battery energy storage system to provide simultaneously multiple services to the electrical grid (deliverable 3.1 : Multi-service control algorithm for converters)
- Specifications of the demonstrators and their KPIs (deliverable 3.2: Overall specifications of the demos).
- Control strategies and their simulations, including the description of a IEEE 39 bus system for benchmark tests (deliverable 3.2: Overall specifications of the demos).

About the demonstrator “Multi-services by the coordinated control of different storage and FACTS devices” (WP4), the main results are:
- A detailed description of the functionalities expected from the demo and a set of technical requirements (deliverable 4.1 : Comprehensive report on functionalities and services for the power system)
- Preliminary development of the components of the master control (Strategy & Optimization, Control System, SCADA and HMI) and simulation platform (internal documents so far)
- Control system and layout for the components of the Hybrid Flexibility Device (internal documents so far)
- Development of the architecture system of a lithium-ion battery connected at high voltage in DC (≥ 1 kV) and main technical specifications (internal documents)

About the demonstrator “Multi-services by grid devices, large-demand response and RES generation coordinated in a smart management system” (WP5), the main results are:
- Description of the demo components (7x150kV lines, 2 RES power plants, 9 industrial loads) and specifications of the flexibility services (deliverable 5.1 : Techno-economic analysis of DSR and RES selected services)
- Specifications for line Dynamic Thermal Rating, in particular innovative DTR with a distributed computing framework (deliverable 5.2 : General technical specification for EMS and physical demo implementation - not public)
- Specifications for a Zonal Energy Management System and for Aggregators EMS (deliverable 5.2 : General technical specification for EMS and physical demo implementation - not public)
- Assessment of the flexibility of 9 large industrial loads (deliverable 5.2 : General technical specification for EMS and physical demo implementation - not public)
- Literature review on RES and load forecasting methods (deliverable 5.2 : General technical specification for EMS and physical demo implementation - not public)

About the demonstrator “Near real-time cross-border energy market” (WP6), the main results are:
- Specifications of the market based on a Model Predictive Control taking into account grid constraints for bids selection every 5 m

Final results

The OSMOSE project should provide :
- Simulations of a power system with more RES and flexibility to feed-in the decisions on the energy transition
- Methodologies and tools to improve the design of a power system with more flexibility
- Validated on field algorithms and platforms for an optimized control of a power system with more flexibility
- Validated on field innovative materials providing flexibility

All these results should contribute to :
- Foster the development of new flexibility solutions and associated services
- On-going policy developments in the field of the design of the internal electricity market
- Enhanced interconnections between Member States and between energy networks;
- Ensure that the EU electricity network is capable of integrating large share of renewables in a stable and secure way;
- Ensure that the EU electricity network operates within a well-functioning wholesale market, providing the EU consumers with competitive prices of electricity and integrating renewable sources in a cost effective manner.
- Ensure that the EU electricity network evolves towards a pan-European network with increased levels of security of resource sharing;

Website & more info

More info: https://www.osmose-h2020.eu/.