Modelling challenges for future power and energy systems
Recommended practices for high shares of wind and solar energy
The International Energy Agency (IEA) WIND Task 25 focuses on the ”Design and Operation of Energy Systems with Large Amounts of Variable Generation”. This talk will present a set of Recommended Practices for power system impact studies, commonly known as wind and solar integration studies. The Recommended Practices provide research institutes, consultants, and system operators with the best available information on how to perform an integration study, considering resource adequacy, operational, and stability challenges. The Recommended Practices are also useful in benchmarking any integration studies: the recommendations check list can be used to identify what has and has not been taken into account. This seminar will present the latest update, to Edition 3, which was published in 2024 and includes recommendations for very high wind and solar shares– wind and solar dominated power systems, with sector coupling and energy system integration.
Speaker
Dr Hannele Holttinen is currently RDI Lead, Energy systems at CLIC Innovation Oy as well as Partner at Recognis Oy where she is acting as Operating Agent of IEAWIND Task 25 and Pillar 5 lead of G-PST (Global Power System Transformation Consortium). She has her MSc and PhD from Helsinki Technical University, where she is Docent since 2014. She worked previously at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland for more than 25 years in different fields of wind energy and energy system integration research, last years as Principal Scientist. Her main interests are on the impact of wind and solar on power and energy systems. She has chaired IEAWind in 2011-12, and has been active in European Wind Energy Platforms ETIP and TPWIND as well as in Nordic energy research.
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