R&D Nester - Centro de Investigação em Energia REN - State Grid, S.A.

🖥️ Digitalising the Energy System EU Action Plan (DESAP) 🖥️ 💡 In the context of DESAP, the project European project ECLIPSE is promoting "Energy Consumption reduction based on Open-source Reference framework" 👨👩👧👦 At the core of ECLIPSE is the objective to implement a Common European Reference Framework (CERF) for energy consumer applications 🌍 ECLIPSE CERF will be deployed and demonstrated across 16 EU countries, involving 11 grid operators, 2 energy services companies, 2 energy associations and 8 energy R&D entities 🛠️ R&D Nester aims to deepen TSO/DSO interaction, as well as fostering collaboration between local and wholesale markets, namely through enabling demand-side response as a reliable and participating agent in the grid services market See more information here: https://lnkd.in/dmh7WhUK ⚡ R&D Nester - Creating a Smart Energy Future! #DESAP #energytransition #energysystem

⚡ ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR FLEXIBILITY SERVICES 🚀 European Project STUNNED - Sistemic Multilevel optimized orchestration of energy management systems for residential, industrial and tertiary energy flexibility services was officially launched! 🤝 Composed of 18 members, from 6 different countries. 💫 The STUNNED project seeks to develop and demonstrate a cutting-edge hardware/software solution for optimizing complex energy systems. 🎯 Its key objectives include: ✔️ enabling groups of buildings and industrial sites to minimize energy costs ✔️ facilitating market participation ✔️ enhancing interoperability between existing energy management systems. 🛠️ By integrating advanced optimization algorithms and addressing multiple levels of control, the project will: ✔️ empower energy flexibility ✔️ support emerging markets such as demand response, smart charging, and congestion management ✔️ while ensuring data security through robust cybersecurity and distributed ledger technologies. See more here: https://lnkd.in/dMKz2uGy R&D Nester - Creating a Smart Energy Future! #flexibility #energysystem #energytransition

"A RISK-AVERSE BIDDING STRATEGY FOR ENERGY COMMUNITY TRADING IN THE SPOT MARKET", in IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2024 Conference 📜 The paper presents a risk-averse bidding strategy designed to optimize the operational planning of aggregated demand-side flexibility, coordinating the peer-to-peer electricity trading with the participation of the energy community in the European day-ahead and intraday markets. 🛠️ The implementation leverages a hardware-in-the-loop simulation platform, where the simulation is structured following to the Smart Grid reference Architecture Model (SGAM). 🖥️ The setup ensures a realistic, flexible, and scalable simulation environment for multi-sized and multi-asset energy communities interacting with energy markets, aiming for optimal resource utilization. 💼 A case study based on simulated data from a Portuguese system demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed approach, highlighting its potential to improve market operations and resource allocation in the face of renewable energy uncertainties. See more in: https://lnkd.in/dEmVt4tB R&D Nester - Creating a Smart Energy Future! #aggregation #energymarket #energycommunities

⚡ "AGGREGATED DEMAND-SIDE FLEXIBILITY PARTICIPATION IN THE ELECTRICITY SPOT MARKET" 💡 R&D Nester presented the paper entitled "Distributionally Robust Bidding Strategies for Aggregated Demand-side Flexibility" at the 7th International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies, SEST 2024 📜 The Paper: 1️⃣ aims at producing optimal bids from aggregated distributed energy resources in the electricity spot market 2️⃣ presents a risk-based approach exploiting a two-stage framework based on a linear programming approach to deal with uncertainties in renewable energy production and spot prices 3️⃣ incorporates the risk of grid constraint violation through distributionally robust optimization. 🛠️ The methodology: 🔩 leveraged R&D's NESTER Real Time Power System Simulation laboratory to realistically emulate the operation of aggregated distributed energy resources 🔩 facilitates the simulation of the seamless integration of aggregated demand-side flexibility with energy markets 🔩 enables the development and testing of strategies for optimal resource management 🔩 ensures compliance with network constraints 🔩 improves the reliability of the aggregated demand-side flexibility in the electricity market. See more in: https://lnkd.in/dhR7WP7p R&D Nester - Creating a Smart Energy Future! #flexibility #demandsidemanagement #energysystem #energymarket #aggregation

🔌 ⚡ R&D NESTER PRESENTED KEY CHALLENGES FOR OPERATING FUTURE GRIDS UNDER A CARBON-NEUTRAL EUROPE AT MEDPOWER ☀️ R&D Nester was invited for this year's edition of MEDPOWER 2024 - Mediterranean Conference on Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Energy Conversion. ⛈️ In this 14th edition, R&D Nester was represented in the Panel entitled "Resilience Against Natural Disasters and Extreme Weather: Innovations, Applications and Policies in Power Systems", with a presentation titled "Key challenges for operating future grids under a carbon-neutral Europe". 🎤 Nuno Souza e Silva, Managing, Managing Director of R&D Nester, was invited to be a speaker on this panel sharing R&D Nester' experience framing the remaining participants and assistance on the content of R&D Nester's current projects and its results and achievements. 🔊 In the same session we had also the insightful presentations 💫 on "HEDNO: Climate Resilience Strategy", from George Andreakos, 💫 on "Building Machine Learning Supported Resilient Power Grids" by Jin Zhao, Trinity College Dublin, 💫 on "Resilient, reliable and secure power systems: the eFORT project", by Maria Fotopoulou, CERTH, Greece, 💫 on "Operational and Infrastructure Planning to Enhance Resilience", by @Dimitris N. Trakas, SMPnet, UK and 💫 on "Regulatory Frameworks and Standards for Resilient Power Systems", by Aleksandra Krkoleva Mateska, UKIM/FEIT, Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. 🔊 Furthermore, Nuno Souza e Silva also moderated a Keynote session where the following topics were addressed: 💫 "Green hydrogen seasonal storage and generation adequacy", by Prof. João Abel Peças Lopes, 💫 "From Sensors to High-Impact Applications supporting Net-Zero Transition" by Prof. Haris Patsios, 💫 "Achieving Energy Transition Towards Climate Neutrality: The Potential of Smart Cities and Renewable Energy Communities in the EU", by Prof. Carlo Alberto Nucci and 💫 "Orchestration of Cooperative and Self-Organizing Electric Vehicles for Implementing V2G-based Ancillary Services in User-Centric Smart Cities", by Prof. @Alfredo Vaccaro. R&D Nester - Creating a Smart Energy Future! #rdnester #medpower2024 Nikos Hatziargyriou APOSTOLOS KOKKOSIS

🚀 R&D NESTER PRESENTED “Energy Communities’ impact on power grids” AT ENLIT EUROPE ⚡ In this year event R&D Nester was represented in the Session "Energy Communities' impact on power grids: Energy Community Embedment Increasing Grid Flexibility and Flourishing Electricity Markets". 🎤 Nuno Souza e Silva, Managing Director of R&D Nester, was invited to be a speaker about the document produced in the context of the ETIP-SNET (European Technology and Innovation Platform - Smart Networks for Energy Transition) (https://lnkd.in/dNfs7uNc ) 1️⃣ The discussion addressed on one side the Technical aspects concerning the challenges that Energy Communities pose to the grids and system operation and the benefits that Energy Communities can bring as contributors to solving other concerns. 2️⃣ On the other hand, it also addressed economical and monetization aspects regarding the participation of such communities in the Energy System and in the market. For more information see: https://lnkd.in/dAPkEtyt R&D Nester - Creating a Smart Energy Future! #rdnester #energytransition #smartgrids #energycommunities #enlit2024 #etipsnet Mugur George PAUNESCU Mark McGranaghan Helena Gerard Natalie Samovich Elissaios Sarmas Olivier Genest

📢 Peer-to-peer (P2P) trading and energy sharing in Energy Systems 💡 R&D NESTER AND AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO P2P ENERGY 📽 The U2Demo project aims to advance the field of peer-to-peer (P2P) trading and energy sharing by introducing innovative, user-centric management strategies that foster the widespread development of consumer participation in these mechanisms. 🛠 The testing of tools and platforms across four pilot projects, within four distinct Energy Communities (including a demo site in Évora, Portugal) will enable a comprehensive evaluation of advanced P2P trading and energy-sharing methodologies. 🤹♂️ R&D Nester is leading 3 important tasks: ⚡ Forecasting and data analytics methods to support the decision of Active Consumers ⚡ Standards, Interoperability, and Cybersecurity of the P2P platform and ⚡ Assessment of demonstration results and evaluation of the main KPIs. ✨ R&D Nester will be also involved in the Portuguese demonstrator assessing the potential of DERs in black-start and in the development of valorisation algorithms for the consumers. R&D Nester - Creating a Smart Energy Future! https://lnkd.in/duPNhdqn

🔌 Digitalization of the Energy System With the project "Hedge-IoT" "Holistic approach towards Empowerment of the DiGitalization of the Energy ecosystem through adoption of IoT solutions", we are 💡 revolutionizing the energy systems by deploying IoT assets across different levels, 💡 from behind-the-meter to the TSO level, 💡 and infusion intelligence into the edge and cloud layers using advanced AI/ML tools. 🎯 The Portuguese pilot has the ambition to optimize and facilitate the deployment of grid flexibility services in residential and commercial energy communities located in different geographies of the country. ⚡ R&D Nester's expertise on energy market participation and simulation capabilities will path the way towards a future implementation and adoption of client participation in ancillary services' markets. See more here: https://lnkd.in/dB4Gpi6E R&D Nester - Creating a Smart Energy Future!

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POWER GRID Protections under very high penetration of renewables 📢 As a consequence of the present-day decarbonisation goals, the number of renewable energy sources (RES) connected to the transmission and distribution grids has been continuously growing over the recent years and will continue to grow. ⚙ This increasing amount of RES, however, places several changes to the design, planning, operation and regulation of the electric grids. 📖 Having this in mind, R&D Nester undertook the Prot4HiRES project, studying the impact of the renewable energy sources on the protection systems for transmission lines. ⚡ The scope of the research were the overcurrent, distance and line differential protection functions. Check the publications produced during this work: 📑 "Assessment of potential problems on the behaviour of protection functions due to the massive integration of wind sources in transmission networks" (22nd Wind & Solar Integration Workshop) 📑 "Methodology for the assessment of the behaviour of protection functions in transmission grids with high penetration of renewable sources" (PEPSC 2023 - Power Electronics and Power System Conference) 📑 "Behaviour analysis of transmission line protection functions in grids with high penetration of renewable sources' (Developments in Power System Protection conference). R&D Nester - Creating a Smart Energy Future! https://lnkd.in/dXFtMRTz