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Concrete design of local flexibility markets using the traffic light approach
(AIM, June 2018)The progressing expansion of decentralized renewable energy conversion systems in low and medium voltage grids is accompanied with upcoming congestion problems that will occur more often in the near future. This paper ... -
Local energy communities: an insight from European smart grid projects
(AIM, June 2018)The paper uses an extended database of real life smart grid projects in Europe, to identify projects related with the new concept of local energy communities and provides some interesting and useful insights. Thereafter, ... -
H2020 sensible Project – Laboratory Results for the Short-Circuit Behaviour of the Storage Devices, under Islanding Conditions
(AIM, June 2018)The continuous increase of Distributed Generation (DER) along the electrical grid can offer several benefits, such as microgrid operation. However, microgrid operation requires special attention and introduces new challenges ... -
The multiple roles of a battery energy storage system - Results of a pilot project
(AIM, June 2018)ewz, the electrical utility of the city of Zurich, investigates possible applications of battery storage units. A large battery energy storage system was installed and tested in the low voltage grid of the city. Self-consumption ... -
A novel optimal electricity pricing method in microgrids based on customers’ participation levels
(AIM, June 2018)The main focus of this paper is to determine floating smart tariffs for customers in a microgrid via the optimal energy scheduling and combination of PV system size and battery capacity. For a higher return on investment, ... -
The Strijp-S living lab for embedded microgrid studies
(AIM, June 2018)Some existing challenges with the integration of distributed energy resources (DER) and embedded microgrids are: congestion and voltage management, and fault protection issues. Until now, a limited amount of field experiments ... -
Grid-Forming Converters – Inevitability, Control Strategies and Challenges in Future Grids Application
(AIM, June 2018)At the heart of the energy transition is the change in generation technology: from conventional generation based on synchronous machines towards renewable energy sources interfaced with power electronic converters. The ... -
Socio-technical Modelling of Customer Roles in Developing Low Voltage Distribution Networks
(AIM, June 2018)The transition of low voltage (LV) distribution networks towards more intelligent and smart microgrids is dependent on both technical and behavioral factors, thus forming a socio-technical systems change. Sociotechnical ... -
Fallback Solution for a Low-Voltage Regulator Control using Artificial Neural Networks
(AIM, June 2018)With the increase of renewable generation, violations of voltages or thermal limits are more likely to happen in particular in rural distribution networks. Instead of cost intensive grid expansions, other measures can be ... -
Legal challenges for smart grid deployment in the european union
(AIM, June 2018)The present paper focuses on the legal opportunities for Smart Grid deployment in the European Union, in the light of the recasts of the Internal Energy Market Directive (IEM) and Renewable Energy Sources Directive (RES). ... -
Research on Key Technologies of Regional Integrated Energy Management System
(AIM, June 2018)Regional Integrated Energy Management System(IEMS) can integrate cold, heat, electricity, gas and other energy synergy into account, and can be used to achieve renewable energy local absorption on a large scale and improve ... -
Energy Local, a business model for local energy communities - concept and outcomes
(AIM, June 2018)Community energy business models have become challenging as renewable energy subsidies are withdrawn. We describe the regulatory niche, operational systems and practical benefits of a novel approach allowing consumers to ... -
Bidirectional electrical conversion: the first step towards smart energy gates
(AIM, June 2018)Microgrids and local energy communities require new electricity management strategies. Such strategies involve smart energy gates consisting of bidirectional electrical converters. Such converters have been developed for ... -
Probabilistic Topology Detection for Efficient MV-Micro Grid Control with Autarkic Smart Grid Systems
(AIM, June 2018)Due to political and economic goals, not only the German power grid is in a radical change. The classical top-down energy flow is continuously transforming into a bottom-up energy flow. Intelligent automation systems are ... -
Experimental validation of Adaptive FCC and BRC functionalities for the proposed ELECTRA Web-of-Cells
(AIM, June 2018)Distributed renewable energy sources are responsible for the rising of new challenges for the power system operation and control. To deal with the foreseen issues, the European funded project ELECTRA IRP has developed the ... -
Power trading and pricing among DSO and multi-microgrid in transactive energy market
(AIM, June 2018)TEM emerges as a new end-to-end power market andenables the synergetic trading and operation of endusers. The increasing distributed energy sources (DERs)and microgrids necessitate the synergetic operation andtrading. ... -
A Droop Control Design Method in DC Microgrids
(AIM, June 2018)The analysis and design of the droop control applied to the bi-directional distributed generator in the dc microgrid are presented. The effects of line resistance on power sharing and voltage regulation performance are ... -
A New Protection Strategy for Micro-grid Based On Relative Measured-Impedance and Regional Negative Sequence Component
(AIM, June 2018)Aiming at the problems existing in micro-grid, a set ofprotection schemes, which are according to the faultcharacteristics of micro-grid system with differentvoltage levels of 10kV and 400V in distribution network,are ... -
Agent based distributed optimal power flow using ADMM method
(AIM, June 2018)In this paper, we address the AC optimal power flow (OPF) problem of a microgrid with a distributed mathematical strategy. The goal is to find an optimal operating point of a grid with limited communications. A multi-agent ... -
LCL-filter Optimization Design Considering Stability of Grid-Connected Inverters in Microgrid
(AIM, June 2018)As the existing optimized filter of grid-connected inverter design schemes give no consideration to the effect of grid impedances and current controllers, it will eventually cause the grid-connected LCL-filtered inverters ...