Guest lecture - Kai Heussen
Tid: Tisdag 9 december 2014 kl 10:00 - 12:00
Aktivitet: Lektion
Lärare: Lars Nordström ()
Studentgrupper: TELPM_2, TSCRM_1, TSCRM_2
For this lecture we will be visited by Kai Heussen of DTO who will be giving a speech on demand response and flexibility in distribution grids. The speech starts at 10.15 and runs for 45 minutes until 11.00 - Welcome!
Abstract
For many, active distribution grids and smart girds are synonymous. However, the vision for active distribution grids is one of incremental automation, where increased transparency in measurements is used in combination with more active control of local devices, such as OLTCs, SVC or FACTS. Here a previously "passive" distribution grid is turned into and 'active' one.
For others, smart grids have been synonymous with smart metering and demand response, where the frequent metering of consumers, combined with some form of feedback through prices would turn 'passive consumers' into 'active prosumers'.
Using demand response for handling distribution grid issues is thus not trivial, as both the complexities of demand response, flexibility aggregation and management, and the aspect of more active distribution grids are integrated.
The Danish iPower project recently demonstrated an approach to addressing this challenge: the FLExibility ClearingHouse (FLECH). As a market-oriented approach FLECH facilitates transactions and clearing of distribution grid flexibility services. Providing a framework for multiple the technical realizations of flexibility services to FLECH adapts to the capability level of DSOs and aggregators.
This talk will introduce the FLECH concept in context of distribution grid operations, as well as different types of distribution grid services that may be facilitated by FLECH. After this introduction and results from a recent demonstration, we turn to discussing a mapping of FLECH and DSO services to the smart grid architecture model as well as possible realizations using an agent based implementation.
Short bio of Prof Heussen
Kai Heussen (Assistant Professor; M’2007 Uni. Stuttgart, PhD’2011 DTU) is currently engaged in several research projects on demand side management, modeling and ancillary service markets, and lead the project RTLabOS on software for simulation-integrated smart grid labs. With a background in control theory and power systems, he currently focusses on decision support for automation in power systems. His research addresses the cross-section of knowledge-based approaches in information technology and automation engineering, with application focus on operation of electric power system and planning of energy systems.