Wind power and storage modeling and integrated control in electric distribution systems

This project run under the specified Transnational Access to the SYSLAB DER research infrastructure at Risø DTU, Denmark, under the DERri project and supported by the European Commission under FP7.
The project is aimed at describing the models of generation sources and storage systems for implementing integrated control strategies of a renewable generation park composed by wind turbines and batteries. The storage system is characterized from an electrochemical and thermal perspective, while the wind turbines have an electro-mechanical characterization. The purpose of the energy storage system is to be coupled to the wind generation system in order to realize different tasks: to have the generation output power smoothed and to grant no power transfer, for a certain period on Distribution System Operator (DSO) request, at the point of common coupling in any battery state-of-charge condition.
The goal of the activity (still in progress in the national context) is to develop simulation models for MV grids with renewable and Distributed Generation (DG) for different operation conditions: interconnected to the distribution grid, islanding mode with privileged loads supplied and in transient conditions (when the plant forms an intentional island and when it is connected again to the public grid). These simulations also aim to verify the most critical automation strategies before implementing them and to test them in test facilities available in large research centers. These models are likely to become simulation instruments used to support the electric utilities in the forecasting of their grid behaviours after a significant DG penetration.
The main aim of the project is to validate models of wind turbine and storage systems and integrated control strategies of the whole resulting system thus describing the benefits that the storage system can provide.
The main aim of the project is to validate models of wind turbine and storage systems and integrated control strategies of the whole resulting system thus describing the benefits that the storage system can provide.