WorkGroups

The HysGrid+ consortium will exceed the current state of existing control strategies for thermal and electrical networks. The successful development of the new concept of a local energy community with a positive balance implies the need to progress in the search for global control and management strategies that integrate and analyse all available generation systems, consumption needs and possible intermediate energy storage systems, as well as the possible exchanges of energy flows between thermal and electrical networks.

In this sense, one of the main lines of research to be addressed by the group will be the development, analysis and validation of a centralized management and control system that defines, in real time, the optimal exchange rates and flows between the thermal systems and electricity considering, among other aspects, the operating restrictions and the current state of the resources, the existing thermal demand, and the availability of electricity surplus / deficit at all times. Additionally, the design and development of decentralized systems (edge computing) with distributed intelligence for the active management of resources in the distribution network will be studied.

At the same time, a research effort will be conducted to improve existing techniques for the management and control of thermal networks, as well as those used in purely electrical networks. Likewise, strategies for the joint and integrated operation of thermal and electrical networks will be studied and proposed with a view to an integrated management system of the different resources and energy uses in a positive local energy community.

Actions:

• Design and development of the DMS of the electrical subsystem.
• Development of new intelligent algorithms and management tools for the exchange of thermal-electrical energy.
• Distributed system for monitoring and active management of resources in the distribution network.