Digital PV, Grid and Storage
Digitalisation is essential to enabling the massive deployment of photovoltaics in the energy system.
Digitalisation is essential to enabling the massive deployment of photovoltaics in the energy system. Indeed, the decentralised nature of PV creates opportunities, for example by enabling individuals to become active contributors to the transition. It also creates significant challenges for the design and operation of the power system. To keep operation and transaction costs in checks, novel, PV-specific methods need to be more scalable, robust, and automatically replicable than what has been used for more centralised generators.
The objective of the working group work is to define use cases and research needs. Its work combines inputs from practitioners with assessments of the state of the art (scientific literature, patent landscaping, gap analysis) to define roadmaps and propose research themes. The group provides networking opportunities among technical and market experts. It complements existing groups such as SolarPower Europe's digitalisation working group (whose focus is more on regulation) and ETIP SNET's working group 4 (whose scope is much broader and takes a technology-agnostic view to generation).
The "Digital PV, Grid and Storage" working group focuses on these challenges. It addresses in particular:
optimal design, web services, application of artificial intelligence including image processing
predictive maintenance, application of IoT for operations and maintenance, cost/benefit analysis on data-driven solutions, machine learning
optimal interaction with other energy system components such as battery storage systems, machine learning for forecasting, application of artificial intelligence to supervisory and distributed control
reduction of transaction costs in consumer-centric markets, local energy communities, trust and traceability (e.g., with blockchain)
Special role of the inverter as data collection hub, control interface with high computing power and low inertia
Leader:
Marion Perrin, Energy-Pool
Co-Leader:
Venizelos Efthymiou, FOSS
Grazia Barchi, Eurac Research
WG Members:
Barchi Grazia, Eurac Research
Constantinos Peonides, MEGGITT
Elham Shirazi, University of Twente
Giorgio Graditi, ENEA
Giovanna Adinolfi, ENEA
Gofran Chowdhury, 3E
Greg Arrowsmith, EUREC
Ioannis Tsanakas, CEA INES
Jannik Haas, University of Canterbury
Jean-Baptiste Puel, EDF
Jonathan Leloux, Lucisun
Laurent Schmitt, Digital4Grids
Magda Foti, Ubiquitous Technologies
Marion Perrin, Energy-Pool
Pierre-Jean Alet, CSEM
Sara Mirbagheri Golroodbari, University of Utrecht
Saverio De Vito, ENEA
Torunn Kjeldstad, IFE
Uri Sadot, SolarEdge
Venizelos Efthymiou, FOSS
Veronica Bermudes Benito, Berbetin