Towards Future Electricity Networks

• Unité de recherche: OFEN
• Numéro de projet: 102292

Mots-clé (Allemand)

TP0082;F-Netze und Systeme

Description succincte (Allemand)

The project is cooperation between ETH Zurich and Chalmers University of
Technology, Sweden. The basic idea is the internalization of external costs in the electric power production and transmission by the inclusion of ecological characteristics into the optimal power flow algorithm. The optimum system and thus the optimum investment strategy are identified, with regard to technical, but also to economic and ecological issues. In the first phase of the project together with SFOE and Chalmers the conceptual algorithm has been developed and the first results have been obtained. In the second phase a European benchmark model will be created and case studies for Swiss as well as for the European transmission
network will be executed. The introduced time dependency of the input variables will help to evaluate and identify optimal transmission investment plans on the way to a sustainable future European electricity network including technical, economic and ecological requirements.

Publications / Résultats (Anglais)

This is the first Annual Report within the second phase of the project "Towards Future Electricity Net-works" which is ongoing at the Power Systems Laboratory of ETH Zurich. In 2009 the following tasks have been in focus: • Implementation of the sustainability optimal power flow (SOPF), for the evaluation of future transmission investment plans. • Reduction of the European transmission network based on publicly available data. • Environmental policy issues internalizing the external costs of power production. • Time-dependent inputs of the model considering future power plants installations. • Strengthening of the collaboration with Chalmers University of technology in Sweden. The predefined goals have been reached so far, followed by 2 published papers in IEEE conferences and one more submitted paper together with the research group from Chalmers.

Auftragnehmer/Contractant/Contraente/Contractor:
ETH Zürich – Power Systems Laboratory, ETL G 28

Autorschaft/Auteurs/Autori/Authors:
Papaemmanouil,Antonis
Andersson,G.

Documents annexés

• Towards Future Electricity Networks - Jahresbericht 2007 [PDF] 337 kB
• Towards Future Electricity Networks | Project Phase 2 - Jahresbericht 2009 [PDF] 190 kB

Rapport final (Anglais)

The project is motivated by the need to develop new transmission planning tools in restructured power networks to face the challenges that arise due to economic, envrironmental and sociaI issues. Transmission, generation and energy policy planning have to be integrated to support a common strategy towards sustainable electricity networks. In the first phase of the project the main focus was the definition of criteria and inputs that are most likely to affect sustainable transmission expansion plans. Models, concepts, and methods have been developed in order to study the impact of internalization of external costs in power production.To consider external costs in the planning process a concurrent software tool has been implemented, capable of studying possible development scenarios. One model outcome are “integrated” price signals, reflecting not only economic properties, but also environmental and societal cost. The calculation of such multi-dimensional price signals intends to provide incentives for the different market participants, such as generation companies, transmission system operators and customers to follow sustainable strategies for power system usage and expansion. Additionally, a complementary concept has been developed to identify congested transmission lines or corridors as well as to evaluate the dependencies between the different market participants. The concept is the so-called Degree of Independency (DoI), where the impact of new transmission and/or generation facilities can be evaluated through the use of that indicator.

Auftragnehmer/Contractant/Contraente/Contractor:
ETH Zentrum, ETH Zürich

Autorschaft/Auteurs/Autori/Authors:
Papaemmanouil,Antonis

Documents annexés

• Towards Future Electricity Networks - Schlussbericht [PDF] 1'734 kB