C6.
Mission
Assessment of technical impacts arising from wider adoption of DER applications on planning and operation approaches, and of enabling technologies and innovative solutions for integrating DER in active distribution systems.
Within this framework, additional specific areas of attention include:
Enabling technologies for renewable and distributed energy resources integration and implementation: active network management, microgrids, virtual power plants, distribution management systems (DMS, ADMS, DERMS), DER monitoring and control, aggregation systems and platforms, blockchain applications. Innovative solutions for DER and distribution technology deployment: Smart converters and power interfaces, connection and integration requirements, MV/LV DC supply systems, distribution system modernization.
Storage technologies: Deployment of various storage technologies such as electrochemical electric battery energy storage systems, flywheels, flow batteries and new storage Multi-energy solutions (including thermal storage), Power2X applications (including power-to-heat, power-to-gas), electric vehicles. New approaches to defining new distribution systems for improved reliability and flexibility: grid-connected islanded networks, power exchange between microgrids. New approaches to determining impact and planning and operation of distribution systems in context of wide DER deployment, including hosting capacity analysis and protection
Integration and Consumer Empowerment: Demand-side integration and participation, demand response, load management, smart load, new customer sectors such as electric vehicles, smart home and smart meter applications with impact on distribution systems.
Smart Cities: Integrated distribution system technologies, power, control and deployment of information and communication technologies for flexibility, integration of multi-energy systems.
Rural Electrification: Island power systems and individual off-grid systems, new solutions, weak grid connected systems.
