Periodic Reporting for period 2 - FARCROSS (FAcilitating Regional CROSS-border Electricity Transmission through Innovation)
Período documentado: 2021-04-01 hasta 2022-03-31
In the Clean Energy of all Europeans Package the lack of sufficient cross-zonal capacity is considered as one of the main barriers to the integration of electricity markets. ENTSO-e, in the “Completing the map Power system needs in 2030 and 2040” report has identified that by 2040, 93 GW of additional cross-border capacity in Europe is needed.
FARCROSS project strives to address this challenge, especially in the broader area of SE Europe, and to achieve the EU goals in energy regarding the establishment of a geographically large market by initially improving its cross-border electricity interconnections. A geographically large market, based on imports and exports of electricity, could increase the level of competition, boost the EU’s security of electricity supply, and integrate more RES into energy markets. Electricity should, as far as possible, flow between Member States as easily as it currently flows within Member States, so as to increase sustainability potential and real competition as well as to drive economic efficiency of the energy system. To this end, FARCROSS addresses this challenge by connecting major stakeholders of the energy value chain and demonstrating integrated h/w and s/w solutions that facilitate the “unlocking” of the resources for the cross-border electricity flows and regional cooperation.
FARCROSS objectives are to develop and introduce advanced s/w solutions that will increase cross-border capacity and the potential of cross-border grid services, to design and propose a robust set of technical and market codes enabling the building up of the harmonization of the network codes, to design and present a CBA to enhance the planning of cross-border infrastructure investments, to demonstrate h/w and s/w technologies and relevant concepts in realistic environments and to facilitate further research and new market opportunities across the energy industry by ensuring an efficient dissemination of the FARCROSS outcomes to key stakeholders.
FARCROSS project strives to address this challenge, especially in the broader area of SE Europe, and to achieve the EU goals in energy regarding the establishment of a geographically large market by initially improving its cross-border electricity interconnections. A geographically large market, based on imports and exports of electricity, could increase the level of competition, boost the EU’s security of electricity supply, and integrate more RES into energy markets. Electricity should, as far as possible, flow between Member States as easily as it currently flows within Member States, so as to increase sustainability potential and real competition as well as to drive economic efficiency of the energy system. To this end, FARCROSS addresses this challenge by connecting major stakeholders of the energy value chain and demonstrating integrated h/w and s/w solutions that facilitate the “unlocking” of the resources for the cross-border electricity flows and regional cooperation.
FARCROSS objectives are to develop and introduce advanced s/w solutions that will increase cross-border capacity and the potential of cross-border grid services, to design and propose a robust set of technical and market codes enabling the building up of the harmonization of the network codes, to design and present a CBA to enhance the planning of cross-border infrastructure investments, to demonstrate h/w and s/w technologies and relevant concepts in realistic environments and to facilitate further research and new market opportunities across the energy industry by ensuring an efficient dissemination of the FARCROSS outcomes to key stakeholders.
During the first 30 months, activities related to the design, preparation, installation, testing and operation of the demos took place. In parallel, horizontal activities about ethics requirements, project and technical management, quality assurance, data and innovation management, stakeholder involvement and clustering, exploitation and impact-value creation as well as communication, dissemination and awareness-raising. In addition, regulatory and legal challenges to innovation were addressed, followed by secanarios and recommendations for improved cross border harmonization. The CBA framework methodology for smart grid and market innovations in the pan-EU context has been introduced as well as a methodology for development of project-level KPIs.
The main results achieved so far are the timely submission of the planned deliverables and the achievement of the associated milestones. Concerning the demos' progress, the deployment of the MPFC demo configuration has been completed and operational data are being acquired. The DLR-H demo sensors were pre-tested and installed in the selected lines. The deployment of technology was validated in relevant environment and operational data are being acquired. Furthermore, the oscillation detection algorithms were identified, the WAMPAC solution was tested in the laboratory, as well as the overall system architecture and service distribution have been completed. The definition of the EUROPAN architecture and system requirements, the system infrastructure developments and the technical development of the full platform have been completed. The locations for the weather and energy generation, transmission and consumption data acquisition, as well as the service distribution have been completed. The market design and the IT architecture for the cross-border co-optimized energy-reserve allocation were defined and the architecture and service distribution of software components have been validated in an industrially relevant environment.
The main results achieved so far are the timely submission of the planned deliverables and the achievement of the associated milestones. Concerning the demos' progress, the deployment of the MPFC demo configuration has been completed and operational data are being acquired. The DLR-H demo sensors were pre-tested and installed in the selected lines. The deployment of technology was validated in relevant environment and operational data are being acquired. Furthermore, the oscillation detection algorithms were identified, the WAMPAC solution was tested in the laboratory, as well as the overall system architecture and service distribution have been completed. The definition of the EUROPAN architecture and system requirements, the system infrastructure developments and the technical development of the full platform have been completed. The locations for the weather and energy generation, transmission and consumption data acquisition, as well as the service distribution have been completed. The market design and the IT architecture for the cross-border co-optimized energy-reserve allocation were defined and the architecture and service distribution of software components have been validated in an industrially relevant environment.
Significant progress beyond the state of the art has been achieved during the first 30 months. An analysis of the regulatory framework and RES integration of the countries participating in the demos describing challenges, status and innovation tools, identifying similarities and differences on how their electrical grid operates in order to find out the potential of cross-border harmonization between these countries has been concluded. The MPFC deployment was completed maximizing the impact of power flow control devices on cross-border lines. A complex expert system has been designed and implemented, which serves as both a complex transmission grid management system and a health monitoring system. The DLR-H system design enables the TSOs to closely monitor the condition of the transmission line and take advantage of every moment its maximum transfer capacity of power. The design and implementation of the WAMPAC system introduced an automatic toolbox that includes scenarios, modal analysis, dynamic events, results and detection algorithms. The EUROPAN's novel technical approach for high resolution weather forecasting enables energy quantities derived on a unit level and then aggregated towards higher ‘abstraction layers’. The selection of appropriate models is made for each quantity and a computational acceleration is achieved via Neural Networks, providing added value for grid observability and alarms. This new approach helps accomplish the tasks of facilitating the increase of RES, ensuring the system security and operational capacity to address the internal electricity market needs. The OPTIM-CAP demo introduced a novel market design, featuring co-optimized day-ahead auction covering both energy and balancing capacity procurement in coupled bidding zones. An innovative CBA methodology appoach has been adopted and project specific KPIs have been introduced.
The expected results until the end of the project can be summarized as follows:
• Introduce an executable framework for implementing pathways for improved cross-border harmonization.
• Run and evaluate the results of the demos, perform the CBA and the impact assessment.
• Develop a scalability and applicability plan at EU level and provide recommendations for rolling-out of innovations and services.
The main potential impacts are the enhancement of regional cooperation in transmission grid operation by driving common approaches to grid services that increase cross-border flows and flexibility and by improving cross-border wholesale market operation, the improvement of flexibility by optimizing the use of large-scale assets and infrastructure investments and the improvement of system security in the context of increasing levels of renewable energy. The project has achieved socio-economic impact and wider societal implications during the first 30 months. FARCROSS has participated in communication, clustering and awareness raising activities promoting the project and its results with digital and physical means. FARCROSS focused on market coupling, improved cross-border energy flows, better resource forecasting, and better utilization of capacity margins and is developing state-of-the art digital technologies, innovative h/w, systems and processes. In addtion, it enabled coordinated efforts between cities, regions and member states as it is building strong market, technology and electricity system links that are based on generation, demand and RES characteristics.
The expected results until the end of the project can be summarized as follows:
• Introduce an executable framework for implementing pathways for improved cross-border harmonization.
• Run and evaluate the results of the demos, perform the CBA and the impact assessment.
• Develop a scalability and applicability plan at EU level and provide recommendations for rolling-out of innovations and services.
The main potential impacts are the enhancement of regional cooperation in transmission grid operation by driving common approaches to grid services that increase cross-border flows and flexibility and by improving cross-border wholesale market operation, the improvement of flexibility by optimizing the use of large-scale assets and infrastructure investments and the improvement of system security in the context of increasing levels of renewable energy. The project has achieved socio-economic impact and wider societal implications during the first 30 months. FARCROSS has participated in communication, clustering and awareness raising activities promoting the project and its results with digital and physical means. FARCROSS focused on market coupling, improved cross-border energy flows, better resource forecasting, and better utilization of capacity margins and is developing state-of-the art digital technologies, innovative h/w, systems and processes. In addtion, it enabled coordinated efforts between cities, regions and member states as it is building strong market, technology and electricity system links that are based on generation, demand and RES characteristics.