Newsletter
Issue 1 / 2015
Increasing the penetration of renewable energy sources in the distribution grid by developing control strategies and using ancillary services.
Dear readers,
The FP7 project INCREASE (Increasing
the penetration of renewable energy sources in the distribution grid by developing control strategies and using ancillary services) was initiated in September 2013. The project duration is 40 months, the project focuses on how to manage renewable energy sources in LV and MV networks and provide ancillary services (towards DSOs but also TSOs). More information at:
http://www.project-increase.eu.
This newsletter will not only give you information on ongoing initiatives, policy news, past and upcoming events but also an overview of the project results.
With best regards,
The INCREASE dissemination team
INCREASE Summer school - This year in Belgium
INCREASE- Overview of our first results and ongoing work
INCREASE mitigates overvoltage in LV grid
The INCREASE team analysed the most common solutions to cope with overvoltage, including inverters with ON/OFF switching and droop-based control features. These two techniques place customers connected at the end of a radial feeder in a disadvantageous position as their power generation is curtailed more than their counterparts who are connected closer to the MV/LV transformer. This situation is generally known as unfair power curtailment.
Read more about the proposed INCREASE solution...
50% decrease in curtailment thanks to INCREASE!
The INCREASE solution leads to a 50% decrease in curtailed renewable energy! A three-phase four-wire inverter has been developed which injects power from the renewable sources so that the balance of power between the three phases is restored.
Read more about the results of the first simulations...
INCREASE develops simulation tool
INCREASE partner Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) is developing a flexible simulation tool that will comprise all the benefits of the existing software products, which are short execution times and robust integration of DG control schemes. The proposed tool is based on two software products, namely MATLAB and OpenDSS. The performance of the proposed simulation tool is demonstrated by comparing it to common software products.
Read more about this research and this tool...
INCREASE papers
Related projects and policy initiatives
REserviceS: outcome and recommendations available now
The publication and recommendations of the REserviceS project in which one of the INCREASE partners, University of Ljubljana took part, were launched at a Final Event on Tuesday September 30, 2014 in Brussels, which attracted 74 participants.
Read more about the final project conclusions and recommendations
ENTSO-E Recommendations on Market Design and Demand Side Response
To integrate 45% of electricity from Renewable Energy Sources (RES) by 2030, new thinking, methods and partnerships are required. In response to the challenges ahead, ENTSO-E is publishing two policy papers on Market Design and Demand Side Response.
Read more about both policy papers
CEER Public Consultation Paper: The Future Role of DSOs
This CEER consultation paper considers different regulatory tools to reflect the current differences in DSOs activity profiles, unbundling and structural and technical issues. CEER invites all interested stakeholders to respond to this public consultation through the dedicated online tool. The deadline for responses is 27 February 2015.
INCREASE meetings and presentations during the past 6 months
As awareness around the project INCREASE is rising, requests from Belgian organisations were sent to Ghent University to present the project.
Read more about these presentations and events
There has also been foreign interest in the INCREASE project, such as the IGreenGrid conference.
Read more about this
Several partners of INCREASE were also presenting at the 5
th IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies European Conference (ISGT-EU 2014) in Istanbul from October 12 to 15, 2014. Eindhoven University of Technology presented their accepted paper "An Integrated Control for Overvoltage Mitigation in the Distribution Network".
UGent-iMinds presented the paper “Economic evaluation of active network management alternatives for congestion avoidance – the DSO perspective” at ISGT-EU 2014.
Upcoming events
Check our events webpage for more
| INCREASE Advisory Board Meeting 2015, Aachen, Germany, March 18, 2015. | |
| Common event DREAM, evolvDSO, IDE4L and INCREASE 2015, Aachen, Germany, March 19, 2015. | |
| The 4th International Conference on Smart Grid Systems (ICSGS 2015), will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, July 13-14, 2015. | Conference website |
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