Post on 16-Dec-2015
- GREDOR - Gestion des Réseaux Electriques de
Distribution Ouverts aux Renouvelables
Project scope-
Présentation du projet
Moulin de Beez, 29/04/2015Raoul Nihart, EDF-Luminus
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Why a project?
GREDOR - Gestion des Réseaux Electriques de Distribution Ouverts aux Renouvelables
Introduction of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in electric distribution grid induces a change of paradigm
”Going from centralized energy production to decentralized production”
“Going from unidirectional power flows to bidirectional power flows”
BUT this change has not been followed by the distribution grid design!
Distribution Grid was originally designed to bring electricity to the final consumers. It is now also used as an entry point for renewable energy thus increasing the risk of congestion!
Today’s situation
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Why a project?
GREDOR - Gestion des Réseaux Electriques de Distribution Ouverts aux Renouvelables
This change of paradigm is associated with
Growing electrification (Electric Vehicles, Heat Pumps,… )
Challenges induced by the intermittent production of RES (solar, wind,…)
leading to a need for huge changes in the design and operation of distribution grids
If nothing changes
Evolution of RES integration will slow down
Quality of power supply may decrease
Distribution costs may increase
GREDOR is a research project funded by the Walloon Region with two main objectives
1. Define and Analyze market models including e.g. integration of flexibility services, renewable energy sources…
2. Implement decision making support tools for distribution grid operators in order to help them evolve in this new landscape by taking optimal decisions for the social welfare
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Consortium of 7 Partners
GREDOR - Gestion des Réseaux Electriques de Distribution Ouverts aux Renouvelables
Academics Industries
Project’s Partners
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Total Budget: 4,3 M€
Five main tasks shared between the Partners1. Design and recommendation for a new market model
2. Design and development of a decision making support tool for grid investments
3. Design and development of a decision making support tool for short term congestion management
4. Design and development of a decision making support tool for real time congestion management
5. Customization of production and consumption data to create use cases for testing the different decision making systems
Project leader: University of Liège (ULg)
Supervised by the CWaPE (Commission Wallonne Pour l’Energie)
Website: https://gredor.be/
GREDOR - Gestion des Réseaux Electriques de Distribution Ouverts aux Renouvelables
Project organization
Objectives of the project
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Long Term Grid Investments
Short Term Congestion Management
Real-Time Congestion Management
How to define the path
towards smart grids
Which type of investments should be made?
How to take into account RES and flexibility services in investment decisions?
How to define action plan (network reconfiguration, flex services,…) in order to manage short term congestion?
Which actions may affect other stakeholders ? How to deal with this? Which data should be exchanged?
How to solve in real-time a congestion
Which action should be taken?
Which data should be exchanged?
WP 2 WP 3 WP 4
Market Models + Scenarios How to deal with actual and new stakeholders in order to optimize RES integration, achieve active
network management, avoid/prevent congestion and call for flexibility services in such a way that social welfare is optimized and system balance is ensured
WP 1
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Timing: 48 months
Started: February 2013 & Deadline: January 2017
The five tasks are running in parallel
Task 1 and task 5 are feeding Tasks 2, 3 and 4 with Scenarios and local instantiations Use cases Load and flexibility profiles
Current status: mid project, different market models under discussion, decision making systems under development
Main deliverables
Scientific reports: detailed description of the solutions /results
Decision making support tool for grid investments, short term and real time congestion management
GREDOR - Gestion des Réseaux Electriques de Distribution Ouverts aux Renouvelables
Timeline and main deliverables