Seminar Details
2016-04-22 (11:00) : The Future Electric Power System-Developments and New Analysis Tools
At Euler building (A002)
Organized by Mathematical Engineering
Speaker :
Göran Andersson ( Power System Laboratory, ETH Zürich)
Abstract :
An effective and sustainable energy system is a fundamental prerequisite for the development of the society. In many parts of the world, the electric power system has over the last 100 years
developed to be the backbone of the energy system. Due to a number of new requirements, i.e. environmental, political, and economical, the electric power system is today facing a number of challenges
and problems, whose solutions require joint efforts from engineers, environmental scientists, economists, social scientists, etc. There are many indications that the future power and energy systems
will be more diverse as compared with the ones of today and yesterday. Non-dispatchable generators, energy storage, and consumers with load management schemes are examples of new system components.
Further, the electric power system will interact more with other energy carrier systems, such as gas and heating systems, and with other infrastructure systems such as transportation systems,
e.g. electric vehicles of different types.This lecture will give an overview and background of these challenges and current developments, particularly in Europe.
The above changes imply that the traditional ways of operating and planning the power systems are not always appropriate and new models and analysis tools are needed. In order to meet these new
modelling demands novel concepts for system-level considerations have been developed, which concepts allows the modelling of technologically diverse unit portfolios in a unified approach, e.g. the
energy hub and the power node approaches. These frameworks are used for designing operational strategies, especially in the presence of non-dispatchable generation and significant storage capacities,
as well as for evaluation of operational performance in terms of energy efficiency, reliability, environmental impact, and cost. This lecture will also discuss these models and tools, and their application
to system studies will be demonstrated.