Stimulating Energy-Hubs on Dutch Business Park: A Systemic Design Approach

The energy transition is an essential shift towards sustainable and renewable sources, mitigating climate change. However, a large bottleneck arises in this transition as the electricity grid struggles to transport all this renewable energy, resulting in grid congestion. Energy hubs (e-hubs) are local collaborations between stakeholders, where...

Energy Hubs for a Resilient Port Energy System: An Exploratory Modelling and Analysis Approach to Alleviate Grid Congestion in the HIC Rotterdam

In October 2023 congestion is issued in the HIC Rotterdam. As a result businesses can no longer establish, expand or electrify. A potential solution to free up grid capacity is that of an energy hub. This study evaluates future scenarios for the development of an industrial energy hub by utilising the EMA method. A study is done on the details...

Energy Hubs' Contribution to Network Management

As the transition towards a sustainable energy system gains momentum, the concept of energy hubs has emerged as a promising solution to make the existing energy system more efficient. This thesis aims to investigate the contribution of energy hubs to network management in the Dutch energy system. The research questions focus on identifying the...

Energy hubs as the solution to net congestion: A governance and innovation perspective on implementing energy hubs

The Netherlands is dedicated to countering climate change, and a necessary approach is transitioning to renewable energy and promoting the electrification of the Dutch industry. However, this shift from a centralized to a decentralized energy system has led to grid congestion due to the existing grid structure designed for lower energy demand...

A guide to orchestrate Smart Energy Hubs: Exploring the formation of Smart Energy Hub networks to enable effective collaboration

The global energy transition presents significant challenges for large consumers, particularly business owners on business parks. These challenges often exceed the capabilities of individual businesses, necessitating collective approaches such as Smart Energy Hubs (SEHs) that enable resource, cost, and expertise sharing. However, many SEH...

From expectational conflicts to energy synergies: The evolution of societal value co-creation in energy hub development

Societal value co-creation is an emerging practice in renewable energy projects. Despite its increasing popularity, however, unclarities persist regarding its operationalisation. This paper provides relevant insights by explaining how expectations of societal value co-creation evolved and became performed in a co-creative energy hub project in...

The societal impact of different technical lay-outs of an energy hub

The Dutch government's "Green deal 173" increases the challenge of electrification of mobility. The "Green deal 173" states that city centres will be emission free as from 2025 and whole cities will be emission free as from 2050. Emission free cities are in need of electric buses in the city centres. Thus, the need for charging infrastructure...

Interconnection and generation from a North Sea power hub: A linear electricity model

We research effects on the electricity market of countries surrounding the North Sea after a proposed offshore wind park in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea has been constructed. Interconnection and generation distribution are analysed separately. The supply price of electricity for each country is calculated by a linear regression...

Dynamic Frequency Support for Low Inertia Power Systems by Renewable Energy Hubs with Fast Active Power Regulation

This paper concerns the feasibility of Fast Active Power Regulation (FAPR) in renewable energy hubs. Selected state-of-the-art FAPR strategies are applied to various controllable devices within a hub, such as a solar photovoltaic (PV) farm and an electrolyzer acting as a responsive load. Among the selected strategies are droop-based FAPR, droop...

The role of grid-size energy storage in enabling a community-level energy hub: Case study in Zuid-Oost Amsterdam Region

To follow the rapid advance of the Energy Transition, the technology and application of the renewable energy resources and energy storage devices have been developed in an unstoppable speed. When the application of energy storage technology starts to prosper gradually over the world, there are some problems showing up while lots of advantages...

Cooperative Economic Scheduling for Multiple Energy Hubs: A Bargaining Game Theoretic Perspective

Under the background of global energy conservation, the energy hub (EH)-based integrated energy system is becoming the transition direction of future energy structure. In this paper, we study the cooperative economic scheduling problem for multiple neighboring integrated energy systems on the basis of EH. Different with the traditional non...

Design of a control strategy for optimal operation of an autonomous distributed generation system for electricity and heat

The increasing demand for developments in energy efficiency, the emerging distributed generation technologies like CHP units, the strong development of alternative energy sources such as wind energy, the aim to achieve low production costs, and the new environmental regulations that ask for greenhouse emission reductions are just a few of the...

Distributed control applied to combined electricity and natural gas infrastructures

The optimization of combined electricity and natural gas systems is addressed in this paper. The two networks are connected via energy hubs. Using the energy hub concept, the interactions between the different infrastructures can be analyzed. A system consisting of several interconnected hubs forms a distributed power generation structure where...