FLEXGRID project

Results in brief at cordis

The research results of the Flexgrid project are presented in this interview with cordis:

https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/442875-a-flexible-approach-to-the-energy-transition

Future smart grids require the effective interaction between energy markets and electricity grid management systems in order to introduce new services and mitigate risks introduced by high RES penetration. FLEXGRID envisages the orchestration and integration of:

1. advanced electricity grid models and tools,
2. flexibility assets’ management tools, and
3. data analytics and accurate forecasts of the various markets and RES production, in order to guarantee cost-effective and stable electricity grids.

Towards this end, the FLEXGRID project proposes a holistic future smart grid architecture able to accommodate high RES penetration through the advancement, interaction and integration of:

1. innovative models that are based on recent advances in game theory in order to quantify and highly improve the trade-off between the various future energy markets’ requirements (Real Time, Efficient, Strategy Proof, Competitive, Scalable, Fair and Privacy Protecting) and guarantee, theoretically and in practice, the “fairness” of the equilibrium points that energy markets reach,
2. grid system models that use optimization theory to achieve more efficient market clearing and Optimal Power Flow (OPF) algorithms to achieve scalability, in a way that must also be Low Overhead, Multi-period, Robust and Network Upgrade Planning Aware, and
3. innovative Business Models through the use of artificial intelligence, which can be exploited by modern Energy Service Providers (ESPs) and RES Producers (RESPs) to achieve economic and operational benefits through their efficient interaction with FLEXGRID’s advanced markets and electricity grid models.

FLEXGRID will help:

1. DSOs/TSOs manage safely and at low cost their electricity grid by interacting with ESPs and RESPs through novel flexibility market procedures,
2. modern ESPs become more competitive and sustainable, and
3. RESPs optimally compose and exploit their production in a risk-averse manner by making their RES generation dispatchable.