Quantitative Assessment of Flexibility at the TSO/DSO Interface Subject to the Distribution Grid Limitations
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Abstract
In the last years, renewable energy sources have been changing the power system by making it more challenging to balance the generation and demand at every single point in time. The increasing penetration of distributed generation represents another trend at the distribution level that impacts the exploitation of existing distribution assets. In this context, the flexibility of distributed energy resources connected to the distribution systems may play an important role. The flexibility products are represented by variations in the scheduled/expected active and reactive power setpoints. Recently, regulatory bodies suggested many proposals and undertook actions for enabling new players, such as the distributed energy resources connected to the distribution systems, to provide both system and local services. However, currently, there are still barriers that might limit their effective involvement. Market schemes have been proposed for opening the participation of distributed energy resources in the service markets. This paper proposes an analytical quantification of how much the use of flexibility by the transmission system operator can influence the distribution system operator activities and the expected costs. The final goal is quantifying the flexibility that the transmission system operator can procure from the distribution system without a harmful impact on the distribution network operation. The paper investigates the expected interactions between the use of flexibility for power system balancing and security and the operation of distribution systems. The application of the methodology to a significant Case Study showed that even though the fit and forget approach causes a hypertrophic development of distribution systems to host distributed generation, the transmission system operator cannot obtain the required flexibility services or has to pay extra costs for bottlenecks caused by distribution system operational issues.
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OpenAlex topics: Smart Grid Energy Management · Electric Power System Optimization · Optimal Power Flow Distribution
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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
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