Objective
The project SmartNet aims at providing architectures for optimized interaction between TSOs and DSOs in managing the exchange of information for monitoring and for the acquisition of ancillary services (reserve and balancing, voltage regulation, congestion management) both at national level and in a cross-border context. Local needs for ancillary services in distribution systems are supposed to co-exist with system needs for balancing and congestion management. Resources located in distribution systems, like demand side management and distributed generation, are supposed to participate to the provision of ancillary services both locally and for the system in the context of competitive ancillary services markets.
Through an in-depth and a simulation in a lab-environment, answers are sought for to the following questions:
• which ancillary services could be provided from distribution to the whole system (via transmission),
• which optimized modalities could be adopted for managing the network at the TSO-DSO interface and what monitoring and control signals could be exchanged to carry out a coordinated action,
• how the architectures of the real time markets (in particular the balancing markets) could be consequently revised,
• what information has to be exchanged and how (ICT) for the coordination on the distribution-transmission border, starting from monitoring aspects, to guarantee observability and control of distributed generation, flexible demand and storage systems,
• which implications could the above issues have on the on-going market coupling process, that is going to be extended to real time markets in the next years, according to the draft Network Code on Electricity Balancing by ENTSO-E.
Different TSO-DSO interaction modalities are compared with reference to three selected national cases (Italian, Danish, Spanish) also supposing the possibility of a cross-border exchange of balancing services.
Physical pilots are developed for the same national cases.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
20134 Milano
Italy
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1210 Wien
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8000 AARHUS C
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2800 Kongens Lyngby
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28042 Madrid
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7000 Fredericia
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5220 ODENSE
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50014 Fiesole
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2830 VIRUM
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1348 Louvain-La-Neuve
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9700 BRONDERSLEV
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39100 Bolzano
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20124 Milano
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20128 Milano
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7465 Trondheim
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7034 Trondheim
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20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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00156 Roma
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G1 1XQ Glasgow
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2400 Mol
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3000 Leuven
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02150 Espoo
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L-2540 Luxembourg
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03202 Elche Elx Alicante
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7034 Trondheim
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