D1.3 Operational and design optimization methodologies for flexibility

The report at hand is the deliverable D1.3. of Work Package 1 (WP1) of the Flexi-Sync project which summarizes the implementation of operational and design optimization methodologies for flexibility. The deliverable consolidates, withing the scope of WP1, the results from tasks T1.2 and T1.3 which are defined as follows:
 

Task 1.2 is “Operational flexibility enabled optimization”. The characterization from Task 1.1 is used to develop optimization approaches that are widely usable and scalable. Different flexibility measures are included in the analysis (for example the thermal inertia of the buildings, the possibility to store heat in the network, as well as other storage solutions). The developed method will cover both optimization of operation and optimization-based control, the tasks is based on results from H2020 project Opti.

Task 1.3 is “Design for operational flexibility”, in it the principles and aspects that need to be consider on the design stage to enable operational flexibility are considered. There will be an interaction with WP2 and WP3 to safeguard the applicability in these contexts.

The results obtained so far will be complemented by results from Work Packages 2 and 3, namely Tasks 2.2 and 3.3 in which the flexibility definition is applied at the simulation level of demonstrator areas and tested against the effect of weather conditions, respectively. Finally, a prototype solution will be implemented and tested in the real areas in Work Package 4.