2-A: The flexible integrated energy system

by FMEs CINELDI and NTRANS

Large-scale electrification is one of the pathways to reducing emissions and combating climate change. Electricity grid is a key enabler of electrification and is the backbone of the integrated energy system, facilitating the connection of renewable energy resources such as solar and wind with loads in sectors such as transport, industry, and buildings. The electricity distribution grid, with its immense potential for the utilisation of flexibility it affords, also facilitates the integration of other energy carriers and forms of energy storage. 

CINELDI develops new concepts, technologies and solutions that will enable the cost-effective realisation of a flexible, intelligent, and robust electricity distribution system. NTRANS focuses on the role of the energy system as a whole in the decarbonization of sectors such as energy, transport, industry, and buildings, investigating, among others, how the scope of the energy transition could be widened to include citizens and their interaction with technologies and systems.

In this session, speakers from CINELDI and NTRANS will talk on the role of flexibility in the energy system from the viewpoint of realizing electrification: How could flexibility in power production, consumption, storages, and other energy carriers be utilised for a rapid and efficient large-scale electrification of the society?

Program:

Chair: Stein Mortensholm, SINTEF

13:00    Introduction and setting the scene by Stein Mortensholm (Chair)

13:05   Presentations

• from CINELDI: A Flexible Electricity Grid as the Backbone of Energy System
  • Sigurd Bjarghov (SINTEF Energy Research) - “Energy communities as a tool for accelerated connection of new industrial demand”
  • Aurora Flataker (NTNU) - “Faster grid connection of Fast-charging Stations” 
  • Bjørn Bakken (Statnett) - "Flexibility at the system level”
• from NTRANS: Power Market Designs and the Role of Flexibility Providers 
  • Felipe van de Sande Araujo and Ehsan Nokandi (NTNU) – “Intraday markets and the integration of Flexibility markets into the Norwegian Power Market”
  • Maria Lavrutich (NTNU) – “Effects of End-User Participation Under a TSO-DSO Coordination Scheme for Norway”

14:05     Panel discussion: How does the flexible integrated energy system look like and what is needed to realize it?

• Bjørn Bakken, Statnett
• Magnus Korpås, NTNU
• Endre Bjørndal, NHH

Note. ‘External perspectives’ will be provided through the selected panel members. 

Panel members: (Bjørn Bakken, Magnus Korpås, and Endre Bjørndal)

14:25    Closing remarks by the chair

14:30    END of session

Welcome and kind regards,

Vijay Venu Vadlamudi (CINELDI), Pedro Crespo del Granado (NTRANS)