Model Predictive Voltage Regulation in Active Medium Voltage Distribution Grids

The renewable generation capacity, particularly solar and wind power installations, has increased steadily in the Netherlands over the course of recent years. Due to the local, small-scale nature of these power plants (compared to conventional power plants), a large share of this generation capacity is installed into the medium- and low-voltage...

Meter Placement for State Estimation in distribution networks

With the increasing environmental concerns, the world is moving towards rapid decarbonization, and to meet the growing energy demand, more renewable energy sources like solar, Wind are getting added to the existing Distribution grid. The addition of new loads like Electric vehicles (EV), Heat pumps, etc. is putting additional pressure on the...

Techno-economic analysis of hydrogen fuelling supply chains: System integration of mobility sector and power grid including renewable energy generation

Ambitious decarbonization targets are introduced to combat climate change. According to the European Commission, sector coupling is required to achieve these targets. This includes the inclusion of renewables into sectors that are difficult to decarbonize, but also using resources more efficient, and introducing new clean fuels. Recent research...

Finite Element Modelling of a Transmission Steel Lattice Tower Based on LiDAR Point Cloud Data: An Automatic Procedure for Geometrical Model Generation

A series of critical transmission lattice towers failures due to severe ice and wind loads forced German utility companies to reassess the structural stability of their power grid infrastructure. During the structural reassessment process, a problem related to an outdated or even missing documentation of the in-use infrastructure occurred. This...

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...

Disaster Risk Analysis of a Power Grid Network

This research introduces a method for using global data sets to conduct a flood risk and cascading failures analysis in countries where high-quality data does not exist. As the goal is to support policy-making on a national level, an impacts analysis is additionally proposed to provide a systematic way of comparing system performance against...

Optimising Grid Topology Reconfiguration using Reinforcement Learning

The de-carbonisation of the energy system, more commonly known as the 'Energy Transition' has a vital role to play in the pursuit of mitigating the climate emergency’s impact. There is a global trend of moving toward making power systems more future-proof and this largely affects the roles and activities of a Transmission System Operator (TSO)...

Co-simulation of Demand-side Management and Load Flow Analysis tools in a LV network: Mitigating Over & Under Voltages

The traditional power grid map has drastically changed with the advent of renewable energy technologies. The intermittent nature of renewable energy sources hours. In order to deal with issues related to the fundamental quantities of a power grid system (frequency, voltage and current), smart grid systems have been introduced to ensure that...

Energy Storage: It's inevitable, Gravity Power: A preliminary feasibility study

This paper has been written for everyone that is interested in the topic of energy and consists of part one and part two. Attempted has been to write this paper in such a way so that it’s easy to follow for everyone. Part one, the non-technical part, should be an easy read for everyone. Part two, on the other hand, is a technical report,...

Vulnerability of Power Grids to Cascading Failures

Power sector vulnerability has been a key issue in society for over a decade. A component failure may trigger cascades of failures across the grid and lead to a large blackout. Complex Network approaches have shown a direction to study some of the problems faced by power grids and it is a continuing challenge thus far. Power grids have been...