Flexigy Smart-grid Architecture

Tiago Fonseca, Luis Ferreira, Lurian Klein, Jorge Landeck, Paulo Sousa

2022

Abstract

The electricity field is facing major challenges in the implementation of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) at a large scale. End users are taking on the role of electricity producers and consumers simultaneously (prosumers), acting like Distributed Energy Resources (DER), injecting their excess electricity into the grid. This challenges the management of grid load balance, increases running costs, and is later reflected in the tariffs paid by consumers, thus threatening the widespread of RES. The Flexigy project explores a solution to this topic by proposing a smart-grid architecture for day-ahead flexibility scheduling of individual and Renewable Energy Community (REC) resources. Our solution is prepared to allow Transmission System Operators (TSO) to request Demand Response (DR) services in emergency situations. This paper overviews the grid balance problematic, introduces the main concepts of energy flexibility and DR, and focuses its content on explaining the Flexigy architecture.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Fonseca T., Ferreira L., Klein L., Landeck J. and Sousa P. (2022). Flexigy Smart-grid Architecture. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS, ISBN 978-989-758-551-7, pages 176-183. DOI: 10.5220/0010918400003118

in Bibtex Style

@conference{sensornets22,
author={Tiago Fonseca and Luis Ferreira and Lurian Klein and Jorge Landeck and Paulo Sousa},
title={Flexigy Smart-grid Architecture},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,},
year={2022},
pages={176-183},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010918400003118},
isbn={978-989-758-551-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,
TI - Flexigy Smart-grid Architecture
SN - 978-989-758-551-7
AU - Fonseca T.
AU - Ferreira L.
AU - Klein L.
AU - Landeck J.
AU - Sousa P.
PY - 2022
SP - 176
EP - 183
DO - 10.5220/0010918400003118