Sun and wind for all
Alternatives to traditional network expansion are needed to ensure sustainable development of the power grids. New technologies, methods, and markets are emerging to provide increased flexibility in consumption, generation, and power transfer capacity.
The ANM4L project will develop solutions to enable integration of renewables with the agility required from developments in demand and production.
ANM4L aims at demonstrating how innovative active network management (ANM) solutions can increase the integration of renewable energy sources (RES) in electricity distribution networks.
ANM solutions will consider both management of active and reactive power to avoid overload situations, maintain voltages within limits, minimize the need of RES curtailment, and enable further RES uptake even when the theoretical design limit of the network has been reached.
Core research and development activities are the development of:
- Active network management methods for local energy systems.
- Business models to provide decision support for market players.
- An integrated toolbox to support the planning and operation of the distribution system, considering the developed ANM methods and business models.
The toolbox, methods and business models for ANM will be demonstrated in Sweden and Hungary. The project will also prepare solutions and recommendations for replication in other local and regional energy systems.
“Alternatives to traditional network expansion are needed to ensure sustainable development of the power grids”, says the project manager Emil Hillberg, RISE.
“New technologies, methods, and markets are emerging to provide increased flexibility in consumption, generation, and power transfer capacity.
The ANM4L project will develop solutions to enable integration of renewables with the agility required from developments in demand and production.“
Our workpackages
WP1 – Setting the framework
Functional specifications based on the identification of needs and needownwers, with co-creation process.
Main objective: To set the framework of the project and in particular the technical WPs, and ensure that the developed toolbox and demonstrations take into account the needs och the need-owners and that the KPIs used are able to reflect true value och the toolbox.
Lead beneficiary: E.ON Sweden.
Start month 1, end month 12.
WP2 – ICT Solutions
Main objective: Develop an interoperable and replicable ICT toolbox for planning and operation using ANM methods.
Lead beneficiary: RWTH Aachen.
Start month 1, end month 24.
WP3 – Congestion & voltage
Main objective: Develop ANM algorithms that exploit available flexibility to make best use of the available network capacity, to permit increases in renewable electricity generation connected capcity and energy production.
Lead beneficiary: Lund University.
Start month 1, end month 34.
WP4 – Business models
Main objective: Create decision support for investments and operation through development of business case methods and models.
Lead beneficiary: RISE.
Start month 4, end month 34.
WP5 – Demonstrations
Main objective: To demonstrate the functionality of the toolbox developed in WP 2, 3 and 4.
Lead beneficiary: E.ON Sweden.
Start month 7, end month 33.
WP6 – Replications
Main objective: To validate the replicability of the developed toolbox and approach to other locations and DSOs..
Lead beneficiary: RWTH Aachen.
Start month 18, end month 34.
WP7 – Communication & dissemination
Main objective: To widely disseminate the results of the project and prepare theri exploitation.
Lead beneficiary: RISE.
Start month 1, end month 36.
WP8 – Interaction with ERA-Net
Main objective: Knowledge sharing and learning as organised by the ERA-Net SES Knowledge Community.
Lead beneficiary: RISE.
Start month 1, end month 36.
WP9 – Project management
Main objective: Facilitate a good cooperative environment for the participants in the consortium, follow up on milestones, deliverables and activity reports etc.
Lead beneficiary: RISE.
Start month 1, end month 36.
Project name
ANM4L – Active Network Management For All
Time plan
2019 – 2022
Project coordinator
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden