Optimal bidirectional charging control of Electric Vehicles: Minimizing carbon footprint in a realistic simulation environment

Electricity grids worldwide are experiencing increased peak demands and decreasing simultaneity due to higher shares of Renewable Energy Sources (RES). It is expected that many grids will soon reach their limits. One solution to mitigate these issues is exploiting flexibility in e.g. electric vehicles. In this work, a shrinking horizon model...

Efficient Shapley Value Approximation Methods: for Cost Redistribution in Energy Communities

With the emergence of energy communities, where a number of prosumers (consumers with their own energy generation) invest in shared renewable generation capacity and battery storage, the issue of fair allocation of benefits and costs has become increasingly important. The Shapley value, a solution concept in cooperative game theory initially...

State Estimation in Medium Voltage Distribution Networks

Transition from fossil fuels to sustainable sources of energy like wind and solar is the need of the hour. All over the globe, plans are in motion to achieve this goal. This implies addition of new elements to the grid in the form of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). These affect the working of distribution grids and to ensure reliable as...

A quantitative analysis of user participation in demand response in a future electricity network: An agent-based exploratory modelling study of price- and incentive-based interventions

In the future, the energy supply will primarily consist of energy from renewables, which makes energy producers and grid operators fear that grid security and reliability could be threatened. On top of a more fluctuating supply, energy demand is also expected to increase in the coming years, especially if heating will be electrical when gas is...

Energy Management and Peer-to-Peer Trading in the Future Smart Grid

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of this time. One of the necessary changes to combat this challenge is a shift from conventional power resources, such as coal and natural gas, to large scale deployment of renewable resources, such as wind and solar power. However, renewable energy resources are volatile because they depend on the...

Optimisation based design of an integrated energy system in the Netherlands: A case study at Picnic

As the share of solar and wind in the energy mix increases, the inherent intermittency of these energy sources pose a great challenge for the Dutch power grid. The occurrence of problems with congestion and balancing power supply and demand are becoming more common. Companies in the Netherlands show potential to implement means for smart use of...

Smarter Charging: Modeling optimal EV charging in solar parking lots for reducing peak demand, considering uncertainty in solar power forecasting and EV energy demand

Smart charging offers the potential for electric vehicles to use renewable energy more efficiently, lowering costs and improving the stability of the electricity grid. Many computer models have been developed to simulate the behavior of smart charging. Yet these models often assume that future information is known perfectly, including when...

Economic Model Predictive Control for the Demand Side Management of Residential Microgrids

Traditional electric power systems with large centralized base load power plants have a limited ability to react rapidly to the high supply variability associated with the increasing deployment of variable and intermittent renewable energy sources (RESs). Furthermore, with current power distribution networks primarily designed for unidirectional...

Interconnecting Geographically Distributed Laboratories for Smart Grid Testing & Validation

There is a convergence occurring between the energy demands of modern society and the sustainability requirements of the environment in which we live in. The combination of these factors is driving the development and implementation of an updated power system with integration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES). This calls for an update of the...

Modeling and Scheduling of a Controllable Electrolyser in an Industrial Grid

Natural gas has been a significant source of energy for the Netherlands for a long time, but due to developments such as climate change awareness and increased seismic activity in the Groningen area, the Dutch Government has decided to shift away from natural gas and look for alternatives. Hydrogen gas is such a contender, as it can partly use...

Design for Values in Smart Electricity Grid Components: An explorative analysis into stakeholder interpretations of the values at stake within The Netherlands

Long before the existence of today’s computer, information and communication technologies, the design of current energy grids has been set. Nowadays, ‘conventional’ energy grids – including electricity, gas and thermal grids – are being transformed into smart grids, which consist of various technological components such as smart meters, energy...

Evaluation of changes required in the transmission system to facilitate developments of smart grids

This project is a study into the transmission network system setup of tomorrow in the Netherlands. This work was carried out at TenneT TSO and investigates the Network behavior in response to faults at various locations in the system and the influence of varying electrical generation and loads under four growth scenarios envisaged by TenneT in...