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Identification of Technical Design Constraints and Considerations for Transmission Grid Expansion Planning Projects
Giacomo Bastianel, Clement Hardy, Nils Charels +2
The large-scale deployment of renewable energy sources, particularly offshore wind, requires large-scale transmission grid expansion projects to transmit the produced low-carbon po…
Security-Constrained AC/DC Grid Optimal Power Flow Considering Asymmetrical HVDC Grid Operation using Sparse Tableau Formulation
Oscar Damanik, Giacomo Bastianel, Dirk Van Hertem +1
This paper presents a security-constrained optimal power flow (SCOPF) model for HVDC grids that optimizes the asymmetrical operation of bipolar converter stations, i.e., different…
Identifying Best Candidates for Busbar Splitting
Giacomo Bastianel, Dirk Van Hertem, Hakan Ergun +1
Rising electricity demand and the growing integration of renewables are intensifying congestion in transmission grids. Grid topology optimization through busbar splitting (BuS) and…
Day-Ahead Transmission Grid Topology Optimization Considering Renewable Energy Sources' Uncertainty
Giacomo Bastianel, Dirk Van Hertem, Hakan Ergun +1
The increasing renewable penetration introduces significant uncertainty in power system operations. At the same time, the existing transmission grid is often already congested, and…
Review, Definition and Challenges of Electrical Energy Hubs
Giacomo Bastianel, Jan Kircheis, Merijn Van Deyck +6
To transition towards a carbon-neutral power system, considerable amounts of renewable energy generation capacity are being installed in the North Sea area. Consequently, projects…
Unified Power Flow Model for Bipolar HVDC Grids in Unbalanced Operation
Chandra Kant Jat, Francesco Giacomo Puricelli, Jef Beerten +2
In the near future, point-to-point High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) systems are expected to evolve into multi-terminal and meshed HVDC grids, predominantly adopting a bipolar HVD…
Optimal Transmission Switching and Busbar Splitting in Hybrid AC/DC Grids
Giacomo Bastianel, Marta Vanin, Dirk Van Hertem +1
Driven by global climate goals, an increasing amount of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) is currently being installed worldwide. Especially in the context of offshore wind integratio…
Optimal Grid Layouts for Hybrid Offshore Assets in the North Sea under Different Market Designs
Stephen Hardy, Andreas Themelis, Kaoru Yamamoto +2
This work examines the Generation and Transmission Expansion (GATE) planning problem of offshore grids under different market clearing mechanisms: a Home Market Design (HMD), a zon…
Unbalanced OPF Modelling for Mixed Monopolar and Bipolar HVDC Grid Configurations
Chandra Kant Jat, Jay Dave, Dirk Van Hertem +1
HVDC is a critically important technology for the large-scale integration of renewable resources such as offshore wind farms. Currently, only point-to-point and multi-terminal HVDC…
Chance constrained day-ahead robust flexibility needs assessment for low voltage distribution network
Md Umar Hashmi, Arpan Koirala, Hakan Ergun +1
For market-based procurement of low voltage (LV) flexibility, DSOs identify the amount of flexibility needed for resolving probable distribution network (DN) voltage and thermal co…
Perspectives on distribution network flexible and curtailable resource activation and needs assessment
Md Umar Hashmi, Arpan Koirala, Hakan Ergun +1
{A curtailable and flexible resource activation framework for solving distribution network (DN) voltage and thermal congestions is used to quantify three important aspects with res…
Flexible and curtailable resource activation in three-phase unbalanced distribution networks
Md Umar Hashmi, Arpan Koirala, Hakan Ergun +1
The need for flexibility and curtailable resources is crucial for ensuring the healthy operation of future distribution networks (DN). In this work, we propose a network-state driv…
Congestion Mitigation in Unbalanced Residential Networks with OPF-based Demand Management
Marta Vanin, Tom Van Acker, Hakan Ergun +3
This paper proposes a novel congestion mitigation strategy for low voltage residential feeders in which the rising power demand due to the electrification of the transport and heat…
Evaluation of voltage magnitude based unbalance metric for low voltage distribution networks
Md Umar Hashmi, Arpan Koirala, Rickard Lundholm +2
Voltage unbalance in distribution networks (DN) is expected to grow with increasing penetration of single-phase distributed generation and single-phase loads such as electric vehic…
Real-Value Power-Voltage Formulations of, and Bounds for, Three-Wire Unbalanced Optimal Power Flow
Frederik Geth, Hakan Ergun
Unbalanced optimal power flow refers to a class of optimization problems subject to the steady state physics of three-phase power grids with nonnegligible phase unbalance. Signific…