Proceedings of GSM 2022 - 6th Grid Service Market Symposium

The regularly published statistics about the European energy mix and imports from Eurostat 1 shows, that the mix in 2020 consisted of 34.5% of oil and petroleum products, 23.7% of natural gas, 12.7% of nuclear energy, 10.5% of solid fossil fuels and only 17.4% of renewables. The EU's dependence on energy imports is declining, but is still very high at 57.5%. The Ukraine war demonstrates how critical such a great dependence from untrustworthy and unreliable suppliers is. It should be clear by now that the expansion of locally produced renewable energy serves not only to protect the environment and the global climate, but also to ensure security of supply and political sovereignty. It is no longer a prediction of the International Energy Agency that locally produced renewable energies have to grow significantly, but also a political and economic demand to realize this change now and on a large scale.
Such considerable changes represent a significant reduction in CO2 emissions. At the same time, however, fossil fuels that are easy to store are being replaced by renewable energy sources that are at best rather inflexible and geographically as well as temporally unevenly available. This reorientation generates new and more complex requirements to keep the existing electric power system stable, and requires a new level of capacity and flexibility, both short-term and seasonal, at regional, national and international levels.  
 
From July 4-5, 2022, around 60 experts from industry, government and academia gathered for the sixth time the impact, perspectives and solutions of grid services for a changing power system. With 11 scientific papers and 13 invited presentations, the symposium addressed future market developments, international cooperation, operation and new enabling technologies and flexibility-creating solutions.

The full program of invited and scientific contributions can be downloaded at www.GridServiceMarket.com. The scientific contributions were, among others: Different electricity market designs; Flexibility shares in low voltage grids; Market attractiveness of fuel cell CHPs; Grid services with electrolysers; Systemic market view, Support for grids with battery vehicles, smart grids and additional flexibility; Real-time pricing; … see all in the table of contents.

Since Corona has influenced the way people met, the symposium was a hybrid event, with physical present attendees networking traditionally and virtual attendees with remote access. All the presentations are streamed and on-demand available on
www.GridServiceMarket.com/MemberZone.

Below you will find the proceedings of the scientific contributions of GSM 2022 , which we kindly invite you to read.