Objetivo
The DREAM project will lay the foundations for a novel heterarchical management approach of complex electrical power grids, providing new mechanisms for consumer involvement in economical and ecological electricity use as well as stable and cost effective integration of distributed renewable resources.
Applying the principles of autonomous agent-based systems to the control and management of the electricity distribution grid will allow the system to constantly adjust to current operational conditions and make it robust to exogenous disturbances. In turn, this will allow for greater penetration of intermittent resources and will make the distribution grid more resilient to failures. DREAM will include several layers of controls for normal, congested and post-contingency situations that will use different coordination strategies ranging from market-based transactions to emergency demand response and create ad-hoc federations of agents that will flexibly adjust their hierarchy to current needs.
The system will transition smoothly between control layers depending on local operational conditions, so that responses to disturbances will be sized precisely, margins will be used parsimoniously and full network flexibility will be tapped. The system will involve only limited data transfers and no centralized control, promoting extensibility, heterogeneity and easy deployment across countries with different network architectures and hardware manufacturers.
DREAM will demonstrate the economic and technical feasibility of these novel control mechanisms thanks to several real-world small-scale pilots dedicated to different use-cases, and computer simulations will be used to study further scalability. Furthermore, economic viability will be model and examined for the various actors in the grid taking into account the unpredictability of consumer power production, market dynamics, novel regulation schemes and the adoption of DREAM mechanisms over time.
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Convocatoria de propuestas
FP7-SMARTCITIES-2013
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CP - Collaborative project (generic)Coordinador
38031 Grenoble Cedex 1
Francia
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Participantes (14)
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28108 MADRID
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6812 AR ARNHEM
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117 43 ATHINA
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9000 St Gallen
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106 82 ATHINA
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6812 AR Arnhem
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20054 Segrate Mi
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08019 Barcelona
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2595 DA Den Haag
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20093 Cologno Monzese
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34125 Kassel
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67000 STRASBOURG
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20121 MILANO
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80686 Munchen
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