After the dark period of COVID-19, where all conferences were held on-line, ENLIT has perhaps been the first in Europe to open again for a physical meeting. ENLIT, formerly European Utility Week and PowerGen Europe, is one of the most important events in Europe in the field of energy. The event has a unique format…
In the days 23rd and 24th November, a FlexPlan project meeting was held in Trondheim. It was the first physical meeting after the project kick off in Milan in October 2019. Object of the discussion: the development of the 6 regional cases and a introductory brainstorming for the regulatory analysis. On 24th November, the second…
FlexPlan.jl is a Julia/JuMP package to carry out transmission and distribution network planning considering AC and DC technology, storage and demand flexibility as possible expansion candidates. Using time series input on renewble generation and demand, as well a list of candidates for grid expansion, a mixed-integer linear problem is constructed which can be solved with…
The OptimalTransmissionRouting.jl package is a Julia/JuMP package to determine the optimal transmission system route considering spatial information. Such package has just been published as an open access license toolbox and can be found on: https://github.com/Electa-Git/OptimalTransmissionRouting.jl The principle upon which the toolbox works is: spatial information coming from an image file is convertered into an array…
ISGT Europe is possibly the most important conference on Smart Grids in Europe. This year, as it id the case for most of the events, it will take place in virtual form. The program of the event is available (hours in Finnish time): at: https://easychair.org/smart-program/ISGT-Europe2021/index.html FlexPlan will be present in a dedicated session which is…
The FlexPlan newsletter for September/October 2021 was recently published. As usually, it contains a thorough information on the progress realised by FlexPlan both from the theoretical point of view and in the practical application to the 6 regional cases. The new Newsletter issue can be downloaded here.
As known, CIRED is the most important discussion forum on R&D activities concerning distribution networks. The 2021 edition (https://www.cired2021.org/) will be held in virtual form on 20-23 September 2021. FlexPlan will provide two important contributions: Presentation of the paper “Planning of distribution networks considering flexibility of local resources: how to deal with transmission system services”.…
The Italian Transmission System Operator TERNA has recently published its annual Development Plan for year 2021: https://download.terna.it/terna/Piano_Sviluppo_2021_8d94126f94dc233.pdf – in Italian, which highlights all grid reinforcement investment planned for ensuring security of supply of the Italian network. In such document, the FlexPlan project is mentioned on page 87 as one of the key on-going R&D projects.…
The FlexPlan pre-processor is the tool that analyses grid investment needs (new lines, new storage devices, flexible exercise of big loads) on the basis of Optimal Power Flows with non-expanded grid but updated generation and load scenarios. The results of this analysis is the elaboration of a set with the most promising candidates for grid…
A special session was held during the first day of the virtual conference PowerTech 2020, to present some highlights of the two projects FlexPlan and INTERPLAN. The session, titled “Innovative solutions for transmission and distribution planning: results of the FlexPlan and INTERPLAN Projects” lasted 75 minutes and was coordinated and chaired by the FlexPlan project…