The Strijp-S living-lab: testing innovative solutions for fault protection, self-healing, congestion management, and voltage control

Abstract

Distribution system operators are investigating methods to facilitate a high penetration of distributed energy resources while maintaining network reliability in a cost effective way. Some of the challenges associated with a high penetration of distributed energy resources are network overloading, voltage violations, and inadequate fault protection. Mitigation measures to these challenges are investigated in a newly developed livinglab in the district of Strijp-S, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. This living-lab is home to demonstrators from two H2020 projects: In-terFlex and UNITED-GRID. The InterFlex demonstrator focuses on congestion management and voltage control through a dayahead and intraday flexibility market, while the UNITED-GRID demonstrator focuses on near real-time solutions for congestion management, voltage control, fault protection and self-healing. This paper addresses the innovative solutions which will be developed and tested in both demonstrators, in relation to the living-lab. Furthermore, an initial overview is given of a potential integrated approach to utilize both demonstrators in parallel.

Pathways for the Development of Future Intelligent Distribution Grids

“…When the requirements have been defined, new technical functionalities can be developed and implemented by the DSOs. As an example, the set of functionalities that were developed in the UNITED-GRID project are presented to address the defined current and future needs and to be implemented in a flexible, scalable toolbox (Fonteijn et al, 2018;Wahlström et al, 2021). The core of the developed solution (toolbox) is an advanced distribution management system that interacts with the existing supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, through an inter-operable cross-platform which can communicate securely with all the actors in the system.…”