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SUMMARY:IEM special seminar series in energy storage systems: Energy stora
 ge in renewable-dominated energy grids: integration paradigms and challeng
 es
DTSTART:20220322T140000
DTEND:20220322T150000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Fabrizio Sossan (Associate Professor at MINES ParisTech - PSL 
 University\, France)\nAbstract: Energy storage has great potential to enab
 le fully renewable-supplied power and energy systems\, supporting energy t
 ransition plans. However\, its massive deployment engenders several obstac
 les that existing scheduling and planning methods for power grids cannot h
 andle. This seminar first discusses integration paradigms for energy stora
 ge in existing energy grids and the associated challenges. Then\, it prese
 nts two pioneering contributions in energy storage integration. The first 
 is the development of a rigorous dispatching framework for power distribut
 ion grids hosting a substantial amount of stochastic renewables. The semin
 ar shows how extending this framework to bulk power grids may reduce reser
 ve requirements with pay-back times of energy storage systems compatible w
 ith the lifespan of existing battery technologies. The second contribution
  refers to a dedicated model predictive control of hydropower plants combi
 ned with energy storage systems to decrease the wear of critical mechanica
 l components. We show that\, for a medium-head hydropower plant\, the pens
 tock’s service life can be increased by a factor of 2 while still provid
 ing rapid balancing power to the external grid. Although different\, thes
 e applications exemplify the multi-disciplinary challenges of energy stora
 ge integration at both device and system levels\, and the diverse operatio
 nal objectives that coexist. Coordinating these different applications at 
 all relevant spatial and temporal scales to achieve cost-optimized and rel
 iable global operations of energy systems stands as the key research chall
 enge in this domain.\n\nBio: Fabrizio Sossan is an associate professor at 
 MINES ParisTech - PSL University (France). His research interests are plan
 ning and scheduling of distributed energy resources for behind-the-meter a
 nd power and energy grid applications. His objective is to understand how 
 these heterogeneous applications can be harmonized and coordinated to enab
 le optimized techno-economic operations of future power and energy grids a
 nd a transition to renewable energy resources. Fabrizio got his Ph.D. from
  the Technical University of Denmark\, DTU. Before his current appointment
 \, he was a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL (Switzerland)\, a visiting sci
 entist at NREL (USA)\, and a scientist at ETHZ (Switzerland).
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 s/j/62644934101
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