Description
This is a 2-day course that covers fundamental, advanced, and practical aspects related to the use of operating envelopes (OEs) by distribution companies. Each day has 3 lecture blocks (approximately 55 minutes, including Q&A).
Day 1 | Structure and Instructors
- Basics of Operating Envelopes (Prof Nando Ochoa)
- Context, Concept, Benefits and Challenges
- Ideal calculation of OEs
- Case Study: Project EDGE
- Different OE Implementations (Prof Nando Ochoa, Dr Arthur G. Givisiez)
- Practical challenges of implementing OEs
- Calculation of OEs with limited observability
- Case Study: Projects "Assessing the Benefits of Using OEs to Orchestrate DERs Across Australia" and "Accelerating the Implementation of Operating Envelopes Across Australia"
- The Bigger Picture (Prof Pierluigi Mancarella)
- Development of local network services
- Fairness of network capacity allocation
- Operating envelopes, distributed energy markets and tariffs
Day 2 | Structure and Instructors
- Actual Implementation of OEs in Australia (Alex Guinman [Energy Queensland], Liam Mallamo [SA Power Networks])
- Case Study: Energy Queensland (Energex and Ergon Energy)
- Case Study: SA Power Networks
- OEs as Business as Usual (Prof Nando Ochoa, Vincenzo Bassi [VoltMind], Jing Zhu)
- The need for more accurate approaches (forecasts, data-driven approaches, etc.)
- Model-Free Operating Envelopes
- Flexible Imports: Challenges
- Justifying investments on OEs (CECV)
- The need for network augmentation
- Hands-On OE Calculations (Prof Nando Ochoa, Dr Arthur G. Givisiez)
- Demonstration of different OE algorithms using interactive code via Jupyter Notebook and Python
- GitHub Repositories
Day 1 | Videos, slides, and other content
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Slides
Further Reading
- Australian Energy Regulator (AER)'s Flexible Export Limits
- ARENA Dynamic Operating Envelopes Workstream
- Project EDGE
- Project Flexible Export Limits
- PV Inverter Functions
- AS/NZS 4777.2:2020 Grid connection of energy systems via inverters, Part 2: Inverter requirements
- PV Interoperability
- AS 5385:2023 Smart Energy Profile Application Protocol
- Common Smart Inverter Profile
- Common Smart Inverter Profile Australia
- 2022 Using OPF-based operating envelopes to facilitate residential DER services - IEEE TSG
- 2021 Grid and Market Services From the Edge: Using Operating Envelopes to Unlock Network-Aware Bottom-Up Flexibility - IEEE P&E Magazine
- 2021 Bottom-Up Flexibility: Flexibility From the Edge of the Grid (Guest Editorial) - IEEE P&E Magazine
- 2020 Paving the way for advanced distribution management systems applications: Making the most of models and data - IEEE P&E Magazine
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Slides
Further Reading
- Project Accelerating the Implementation of Operating Envelopes Across Australia
- Project Assessing the Benefits of Using Operating Envelopes to Orchestrate DERs Across Australia
- 2023 Assessing the Pros and Cons of Different Operating Envelope Implementations Across Australia - CIRED
- 2023 Final Report "Assessing the Benefits of Using Operating Envelopes to Orchestrate DERs Across Australia"
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Slides
Further Reading
- 2021 The Fragile Grid – The physics and economics of security services in low-carbon power systems - IEEE P&E Magazine
- 2021 Grid and Market Services From the Edge: Using Operating Envelopes to Unlock Network-Aware Bottom-Up Flexibility - IEEE P&E Magazine
- 2021 Modelling and characterisation of flexibility from distributed energy resources - IEEE TPRWS
- 2020 Integrated Techno-economic Modeling, Flexibility Analysis, and Business Case Assessment of an Urban Virtual Power Plant with Multi-market Co-optimization - Appl. Energy
- 2020 Market design for system security in low-carbon electricity grids: from the physics to the economics - Oxford Open Energy
Day 2 | Videos, slides, and other content
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Slides
Further Reading
- Project Model-Free Operating Envelopes at NMI Level
- 2023 Final Report "Model-Free Operating Envelopes"
- 2023 Smart Meter Data and Operating Envelopes: A Model-Free Approach - ISGT Latin America
- 2023 From Model-Driven to Model-Free: Comparisons using Real Smart Meter Data and Real Distribution Network from Australia Study - CIGRE
- 2022 Electrical Model-Free Voltage Calculations Using Neural Networks and Smart Meter Data - IEEE TSG
- 2021 Calculating Voltages Without Electrical Models: Smart Meter Data and Neural Networks - CIRED
- 2023 A GMM-Based Phase Group Identification for Residential Low Voltage Networks - IEEE PES GM
- 2021 Using Smart Meter Data for Phase Grouping in PV-Rich LV Feeders - CIRED
- 2020 Assessing the effects of DER on voltages using a smart meter-driven three-phase LV feeder model - PSCC
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Slides
Further Reading
- GitHub Repositories
- Project Accelerating the Implementation of Operating Envelopes Across Australia
- Project Assessing the Benefits of Using Operating Envelopes to Orchestrate DERs Across Australia
- 2023 Assessing the Pros and Cons of Different Operating Envelope Implementations Across Australia - CIRED
- 2023 Final Report "Assessing the Benefits of Using Operating Envelopes to Orchestrate DERs Across Australia"
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