2015-02: Building-to-Smart-Grid Integration
June 17-19, 2015
Organizer
Universidad de Sevilla
Sevilla, SPAIN
Coordinators
Antonio Gómez-Expósito – Universidad de Sevilla
Gregor P. Henze – University of Colorado
Motivation and Objectives
Despite continuous upgrades and improvements to the systems that form electricity grids, the fundamental operation of these systems has changed relatively little over almost one hundred years. This is, the supply of electricity to the residential, commercial and industrial sectors is based on demand. As the magnitude and diversity of this demand has increased, so too has the size and diversity of generation required to meet our electricity needs. Traditionally, this has meant that generation capacity was built to satisfy peak demand, using layers of myriad generation sources, from lumbering coal and nuclear plants to nimble gas turbines, with widely varying costs and efficiencies. In practical terms, this has created a large disparity in electricity price from hour to hour and underutilization of most generators, as systems are daily brought online to satisfy demand, and taken offline when demand has subsided.
Assuming that neither grid-scale nor distributed storage are deployed at scale for a decade or more and that renewable generation will continue to become an increasing component in the generation mix, the problem becomes one of how best to enable flexible demand side participation of building sited electricity consumers given a mix of traditional and renewable generation.
Historically, resources on the demand side have played a relatively inflexible role in energy markets, requiring grid balancing to be achieved solely through modulation of generating resources. However, buildings can create additional grid flexibility to aid in absorbing the intermittency of variable generation resources. Previous work has demonstrated that significant peak electric demand reductions can be achieved through active thermal energy storage systems and by utilizing passive building mass as a thermal storage medium. Buildings with significant thermal mass may also be well suited to provide ancillary services, including spinning and non-spinning reserve. Recent work has also considered controllable building electric loads for economic dispatch in energy markets, including transmission constraints. As an example, researchers recently demonstrated that chilled water supply temperature could be modified to create responsive changes in electric demand. Frequency regulation in commercial buildings has also recently been investigated. Moreover, combined heat and power (CHP) plants, installed in individual buildings or campuses, can provide both distributed generation and building HVAC services at high efficiencies.
In summary: Through better integration of building and electric grid operations, greater system efficiencies can be achieved by buildings actively participating in energy markets which in turn can enable greater amounts of renewable generation by creating elasticity in the demand for electricity. In addition, buildings can benefit from providing ancillary services through lower utility bills due to energy price arbitrage, demand charge reductions, demand response revenue, and ancillary service revenue.
This interdisciplinary short-course invites attendees from a wide spectrum of backgrounds interested in energy engineering to understand the demand and supply sides of the electric grid system, explore opportunities for better integration of buildings into the smart grid, and quantify the benefits of load side flexibility through hands-on laboratory and computer simulation practice sessions.
Instructors
Antonio Gómez-Expósito – Universidad de Sevilla
Gregor P. Henze – University of Colorado
Michael J. Brandemuehl – University of Colorado
Susana Carillo Aparicio – Endesa
Miguel Carrión – Universidad de Castilla la Mancha
Clemens Felsmann – Technical University of Dresden
Tomás Gómez San Román – Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Alejandro Marano – Universidad de Sevilla
Francisco Martínez Álvarez – Universidad Pablo de Olavide
José L. Martínez-Ramos – Universidad de Sevilla
Juan M. Mauricio – Universidad de Sevilla
José M. Maza-Ortega – Universidad de Sevilla
Agenda
June 17 (Wednesday)
08:00-08:30 Registration
08:30-08:45 Welcome and course overview (A. Gómez-Expósito, G. Henze)
Part I: Building Energy Systems
09:00-10:30 Building energy systems: Residential, commercial, and campus installations (G. Henze, M. Brandemuehl, C. Felsmann)
10:30-11:00 Building energy end uses: HVAC (boilers, chillers, fans, pumps), lighting, DHW, miscellaneous electric loads, appliances, occupancy effects (M. Brandemuehl)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:15 Thermal energy storage: Active, passive, ground-source HX (G. Henze)
12:15-13:00 Cogeneration systems (C. Felsmann)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Building system response opportunities (G. Henze, M. Brandemuehl, C. Felsmann)
16:00-18:00 Practice session: load flexibility in buildings energy systems (G. Henze, M. Brandemuehl)
June 18 (Thursday)
Part II: Smart Distribution Systems
09:00-10:00 Power systems basics (A. Gómez-Expósito)
10:00-11:00 Smart distribution grids (I): Power components (J. Maza-Ortega)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Smart distribution grids (II): ICT components (S. Carillo Aparicio)
12:30-13:30 Data mining and forecasting (J. Riquelme-Santos)
13:30-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:00 Regulatory and market design issues (T. Gómez San Román)
16:00-17:00 Microgrids operation and control (J. Mauricio)
17:00-18:00 Energy procurement for active distribution systems (M. Carrión)
20:00-22:30 Course Dinner
June 19 (Friday)
Part III: Building-to-Grid Integration
09:00-11:00 Practice session: distribution networks including flexible loads and distributed generation (A. Marano and J. L. Martínez-Ramos)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Panel “Removing barriers between buildings and grids”
Venue
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería (Isla de la Cartuja)
Av. de los Descubrimientos s/n, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Course fees
- Members of the EES-UETP: 300.00 EUR
- University non-members of the EES-UETP: 700.00 EUR
- Industry non-members of the EES-UETP: 1400.00 EUR
Fees include registration, course material, coffee breaks, lunches and course dinner.
To register, please fill in the form
Accommodation and further information
See the Leaflet
