Optimization of Heating, Electricity, and Cooling Services in a Microgrid to Increase the Efficiency and Reliability
(Room Lehar 4)
20 Jun 18
11:00 AM
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12:30 PM
Tracks:
Track 4: Power Generation – Everything You Know is Wrong
Speaker(s):
Daniel Muschik, Senior Researcher, Bioenergy2020+ GmbH, ; Manfred Steinlechner, Consultant, World-Direct eBusiness solutions GesmbH, ; Tarek Ayoub, Consultant, World-Direct eBusiness solutions GesmbH, ; Markus Gölles, Area Manager, Bioenergy2020+ GmbH; Klaus Lichtenegger, Senior Researcher, Bioenergy2020+ GmbH
Microgrids, a research topic within the smart grids area, build on close relationships between demand and supply and they will create a 170 Mrd. € market potential in 2020. The close relationship between supply and demand will enable higher efficiencies (e.g. due to waste heat utilization), higher integration potentials for renewables (e.g. due to smart controls), reduce the CO2 emissions, reduce the need for high voltage transmission line upgrades, and finally, incorporate local energy forms in a more efficient way (e.g. biomass or biogas). The largest export markets for microgrid planning and control technologies will be Asia and North America, followed by Europe. These individual markets are characterized by different technologies of interest. For example, biogas might play a key role in microgrids in Asia, compared to Photovoltaics, Combined heat and Power (CHP), as well as storage technologies in North America. All these different technologies need to be financially planned, coordinated, and controlled since investors’, utilities’, or developers’ budgets are constrained. Several research institutes and companies are working on microgrid control systems and algorithms as well as platforms to identify the best technologies suitable for microgrid development. We will present a novel optimization platform, which will allow economic and environmental planning for Microgrids and enable them for smart microgrid control systems (e.g. Artificial Intelligence). We build our research and development work on microgrid design and control algorithms that have been acknowledged by President Obama in 2016 as one of the key innovative research contributions at the frontiers of science and technology. We will explain the mathematical background behind that platform, latest additions (especially for heating and district heating modelling), and demonstrate the usability for microgrid planning based on a real implementation example from Europe.