SESA-Lab (OFFIS) (SES-MGES)

Recent reports represent that the share of renewable energy sources (RESs) has consistent ly grown in the newly installed electricity production sources as well as the major portion of this share is related to wind power generation. This growth of generation share has led to increasing power systems uncertainty and getting harder conventional power plant operation. Therefore, the uncertainties and fluctuations of RESs have become a significant challenge to the operation and control of the power system and they cause that we're not able to utilize these resources more than a certain extent. For instance, renewable energy share in Total Final Energy Consumption (TFEC) has increased from 10.7 to 33.1 in Denmark since 2000 until 2015 [1]. Although Denmark has always been one of the pioneers in the use of renewa ble resources, yet, fossil fuel is a high share in TFEC. This issue occurred due to low access to dispatch-able renewable energy in Denmark. Wind power today provides more than 40% of the electricity energy generated in Denmark. Regarding heat, Denmark is already switch ing from coal to biomass in district heating and favoring renewables over oil and natural gas in individual heating [2]. Integrating variable renewable energy into the electricity system and making the heating sector more sustainable are two special focus areas of the Danish gov ernment. These two areas are critical for advancing decarburization in Denmark and they also offer attractive potential for energy system integration. Moreover, the natural gas net work can also play a key role in energy system integration by considering the development of Power to Gas (P2G) and Hydrogen to Gas process (H2G) technologies in the future [3].

Integration of different energy infrastructures creates a great potential to better operate ener gy sources, reduce energy losses and cost as well as apply a higher share of renewables and lower environmental impact [4]. Traditionally, the primary energy networks such as natu ral gas network and power grid were operated separately. But, nowadays, with the technologies developing in the field of energy conversion, the existing energy carrier systems became closer together and their correlation and interaction have increased. This issue causes to increase the unified management significance of these networks. Energy management for integrated energy systems (IESs) is a so important and complex subject, especially when the competitive environment for an integrated energy market is considered.

In this project, our focus is on energy management of a local energy system, which supplies local energy demands by hybrid renewable energy sources (HRES) generation as well as energy trading through upstream energy networks. In this regard, we will seek a comprehen sive model for the simulation of Smart Energy System (SES) infrastructures and Smart Ener gy Hub (SEH) facilities. The proposed SEH accesses to different energy conversion and storage units and through them can participate in the demand response programming and energy market as a prosumer.