IEM special seminar series in energy storage systems: Energy storage in renewable-dominated energy grids: integration paradigms and challenges
Event details
| Date | 22.03.2022 |
| Hour | 14:00 › 15:00 |
| Speaker | Fabrizio Sossan (Associate Professor at MINES ParisTech - PSL University, France) |
| Location | Online |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Abstract: Energy storage has great potential to enable fully renewable-supplied power and energy systems, supporting energy transition plans. However, its massive deployment engenders several obstacles that existing scheduling and planning methods for power grids cannot handle. This seminar first discusses integration paradigms for energy storage in existing energy grids and the associated challenges. Then, it presents two pioneering contributions in energy storage integration. The first is the development of a rigorous dispatching framework for power distribution grids hosting a substantial amount of stochastic renewables. The seminar shows how extending this framework to bulk power grids may reduce reserve requirements with pay-back times of energy storage systems compatible with the lifespan of existing battery technologies. The second contribution refers to a dedicated model predictive control of hydropower plants combined with energy storage systems to decrease the wear of critical mechanical components. We show that, for a medium-head hydropower plant, the penstock’s service life can be increased by a factor of 2 while still providing rapid balancing power to the external grid. Although different, these applications exemplify the multi-disciplinary challenges of energy storage integration at both device and system levels, and the diverse operational objectives that coexist. Coordinating these different applications at all relevant spatial and temporal scales to achieve cost-optimized and reliable global operations of energy systems stands as the key research challenge in this domain.
Bio: Fabrizio Sossan is an associate professor at MINES ParisTech - PSL University (France). His research interests are planning and scheduling of distributed energy resources for behind-the-meter and power and energy grid applications. His objective is to understand how these heterogeneous applications can be harmonized and coordinated to enable optimized techno-economic operations of future power and energy grids and 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 scientist at NREL (USA), and a scientist at ETHZ (Switzerland).
Bio: Fabrizio Sossan is an associate professor at MINES ParisTech - PSL University (France). His research interests are planning and scheduling of distributed energy resources for behind-the-meter and power and energy grid applications. His objective is to understand how these heterogeneous applications can be harmonized and coordinated to enable optimized techno-economic operations of future power and energy grids and 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 scientist at NREL (USA), and a scientist at ETHZ (Switzerland).
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Electrical and Micro Engineering Institute (IEM)
Contact
- Prof. Jean-Philippe Thiran, IEM Director