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CIRED WORKSHOP, LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA
Microgrids and local energy communities can have a tremendous impact on distribution system development, and may offer a number of important advantages for the end-users and for the utilities. Customers, producers and those who do both have the potential to reduce energy costs, improve service continuity and bidding system services and flexibility. Distribution system operators may reduce or postpone investments, increase hosting capacity and improve quality of services. A proper regulatory framework has to be designed to allow them to bring these expected benefits to the various stakeholders, while maintaining an effective market operation, making sure there is no negative impact on the overall cost base and avoiding unfair cross-subsidisation.
This is the reason why this CIRED workshop focuses on microgrids, i.e. electricity distribution systems containing loads and distributed energy resources (such as distributed generators, storage devices, or controllable loads), that can be operated in a controlled, coordinated way, whether they are:
- Isolated microgrids, which only function in an island mode,
- Embedded microgrids, which can be controlled either while connected to the main power network or while islanded,
- Local energy communities, which comprise consumers cooperating for the satisfaction of their energy needs using local production sources, and which are not designed to operate in an island mode.
WORKSHOP THEMES
- Business models, roles, responsibilities and regulatory aspects
Theme 1 addresses topics related to the overall regulatory, business and organisational frameworks for microgrid implementation and operation, focusing mainly on the roles of the microgrid operators and DSOs in making microgrids an integrated part of the electricity distribution system of the future.
- Architecture and system development
In the domain of microgrids and local energy communities, robust architectures are necessary in order to foster system development, as well as suitable models to compare development options. These are issues addressed in Theme 2.
- Network integration, control concepts and operations
KEY DATES
How to submit your paper
Prospective authors are invited to submit an abstract of 2 A4 pages (including diagrams and illustrations) by 15 December 2017 directly via the Workshop website. All submissions will be peer reviewed by an international panel and successful authors will be invited to submit a full paper of 4 A4 pages by 23 March 2018.
It is a condition of acceptance that all papers must have at least one author registered for the Workshop.
For full details and to submit your abstract online, please visit
www.cired2018-workshop.org
WORKSHOP ORGANISERS