Engineering and Validating Cyber-Physical Energy Systems: Needs, Status Quo, and Research Trends

Strasser, Thomas; Andrén, Filip

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“…Especially the integration of the electric power system with other domains (thermal, gas, water/waste water, transportation etc.) into a smart energy system requires additional efforts which are [12,13]:…”

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Achievements, experiences, and lessons learned from the European research infrastructure ERIGrid related to the validation of power and energy systems

Strasser

Jong

Sosnina

et al. 2020

Elektrotech. Inftech.

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Power system operation is of vital importance and must be developed far beyond today's practice to meet future needs. Almost all European countries are facing an abrupt and very important increase of renewables with intrinsically varying yields which are difficult to predict. In addition, an increase of new types of electric loads and a reduction of traditional production from bulk generation can be observed as well. Hence, the level of complexity of system operation steadily increases. Because of these developments, the traditional power system is being transformed into a smart grid. Previous and ongoing research has tended to focus on how specific aspects of smart grids can be developed and validated, but until now there exists no integrated approach for analysing and evaluating complex smart grid configurations. To tackle these research and development needs, a pan-European research infrastructure is realized in the ERIGrid project that supports the technology development as well as the roll-out of smart grid technologies and solutions. This paper provides an overview of the main results of ERIGrid which have been achieved during the last four years. Also, experiences and lessons learned are discussed and an outlook to future research needs is provided.

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Achievements, experiences, and lessons learned from the European research infrastructure ERIGrid related to the validation of power and energy systems

Strasser

Jong

Sosnina

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Elektrotech. Inftech.

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“…In the literature there are a several well-known development and validation methods documented which are suitable for the domain of power and energy systems [14,17].…”

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“…However, the four main stages are common for the whole process as depicted in Fig. 2 and described in Table 2 [14,17]. As indicated in the figure a step back to an earlier stage is possible if necessary.…”

Section: Engineering and Validation Processmentioning

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Towards System-Level Validation

Strasser

Andrén

Calin

et al. 2020

European Guide to Power System Testing

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Power system operation is of vital importance and has to be developed far beyond today's practice in order to meet future needs like the integration of renewables or battery storage systems [3]. In fact, nearly all European countries faced an abrupt and very important growth of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) such as wind and photovoltaic that are intrinsically variable and up to some extent difficult to predict. In addition, an increase of new types of electric loads such as air conditioning, heat pumps, and electric vehicles; and a reduction of traditional generation power plants can be observed. Hence, the level of complexity of system operation increases steadily. To avoid dramatic consequences, there is an urgent need for a system flexibility increase [18]. Also the roll-out of smart grids applications and solutions such as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and power electronic-based grid components is of particular importance in order to realize a number of advanced system functionalities (power/energy management, demand side management, ancillary services provision, etc.) [6,7,13,14].In such a Cyber-Physical Energy System (CPES)-also denoted as "Smart Grid" in the literature [3]-this also requires distributed intelligence on different levels in the system as outlined in Fig. 1 and Table 1. Flexibility, adaptability, scalability, and autonomy are key points to realize the automation systems and component controllers of CPES [13]. Also, interoperability and open interfaces are important to enable the above described functions on the different levels of intelligence [6]. Hence, such kind

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“…into a smart energy system [1] requires additional efforts. Therefore, the following list is an attempt to point out possible research and development directions that still needs to be explored from CPES validation point of view [2,4]:…”

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Summary and Outlook

Strasser¹,

Jong²,

Sosnina³

2020

European Guide to Power System Testing

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The expected large-scale roll out of Cyber-Physical Energy System (CPES) products and solutions during the next few years requires a multi-disciplinary understanding of several domains. The validation of such complex solutions gets more important as in the past and there is a clear shift from component-level to system-level testing. An integrated, cyber-physical systems-based, multi-domain approach for a holistic testing of smart grid solutions is currently still missing which is addressed by the ERIGrid approach [3].Four main research priorities have been identified in this pan-European project to tackle the shortcomings in today's validation and testing of power systems and corresponding components. The research focus is put onto the development of a holistic validation methodology and the improvement of simulation-based methods, Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) approaches, and lab-based testing, which can be combined in a flexible manner. The integration and online connection of power systems/smart grid laboratories is also a challenging research and development task in ERIGrid. All these activities need to be supported by the training of researchers and power system professionals [3].With the in the book described integrated pan-European Research Infrastructure (RI) approach in ERIGrid the following improved methods, services, and tools are being made available by the consortium members [3]:

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Engineering and Validating Cyber-Physical Energy Systems: Needs, Status Quo, and Research Trends

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Achievements, experiences, and lessons learned from the European research infrastructure ERIGrid related to the validation of power and energy systems

Achievements, experiences, and lessons learned from the European research infrastructure ERIGrid related to the validation of power and energy systems

Towards System-Level Validation

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