Enabling planning engineers to make informed decisions
How can we increase understanding of the characteristics of demand, generation, and networks? And how can we embed this increased understanding within a simplified reliability model?
Project leader
Dates
December 2018 to February 2020
Sponsors
Northern Powergrid
Partners
Imperial College London
Description
We are developing tools and methods to manage a combination of network and non-network assets, including:
- distributed generation
- demand-side response
- storage
- the application of transfer capacity
The methods for evaluating security of supply will be rigorous enough to provide robust answers. But many planning engineers do not have an in-depth knowledge of risk. They are not skilled in advanced statistics, probability, and reliability theory. So the methods will also be simple enough for use by these engineers. To do this, we will use an iterative, data driven approach. We will validate the methods using established risk analysis.
We will consider the future network challenges associated with security. We will look at how they translate into opportunities for Demand Side Response (DSR), Distributed Generation (DG), and Energy Storage Systems (ESS).
We will investigate the conditions and drivers that lead to networks needing reinforcement.