Smart Multi-Energy Systems and Microgrids for Enabling the energy transition


21 Sept.			16:00 - 17:30



ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY
TECHNOLOGIES AND SOLUTIONS FOR THE ENERGY TRANSITION
TT.VIII - Technical Multi-Track with Parallel SYMPOSIA
Smart Multi-Energy Systems and Microgrids for Enabling the energy transition
Co-organized with ENEA Chairs: Martina CALIANO (on line) & Maria VALENTI - CV, ENEA

The energy policies implemented in recent years have supported a substantial diffusion of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) which have become a key tool for the decarbonisation of the European and Italian energy and economic system. The objectives of increasing the share of RES in total energy consumption (electricity generation, thermal generation, and transport) necessarily require actions for the enhancement of generation from RES through a coordinated use of the distributed resources implemented through innovative and advanced control and management logics of the distribution networks. Starting from this awareness, the research support actions in the main European countries have been oriented, in the last decade, towards the financing of research and industrial projects focused on interventions for the modernization and smartization of electrical grids. A lower level of attention was placed on thermal networks and on integrated multi-vector (thermal-electrical) energy networks, at both European and Italian level. Such systems, while requiring more complex management and control mechanisms, would favour the best exploitation of generation from RES by maximizing the levels of self-consumption and facilitating the achievement of the National Energy and Climate Plan’s targets. At the state of the art, therefore, in order to accelerate the transition towards hybrid and multi-vector energy systems, it becomes essential to experiment, on the field and in a representative environment, advanced solutions for the transition towards smart multi-vector energy networks, capable of enabling the integration between the different energy carriers, through solutions enabling interoperability and communication between the multiple actors/devices of the energy system (consumption, generation from RES, accumulation, etc.). In such a context, the session will report the latest results obtained within the Italian project MISSION aimed at the development, implementation and testing of advanced conceptual models for the operation of distributed multi-vector energy systems (thermal-electric) in a Smart Grid approach and in a real and representative environment.

TT.VIII.G.1	Maria VALENTI - CV ENEA Smart, multivector and integrated microgrids and systems, to accelerate the energy transition
TT.VIII.G.2	Giovanni BRUNACCINI - CV CNR Flexibility analysis of multicarrier smart micro-grids: electrical and thermal vectors teaming for energy services provision
TT.VIII.G.3	Chiara GANDOLFI - CV Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico – RSE S.p.A The RSE MV/LV hybrid AC/DC Test Facility
TT.VIII.G.4	Carlo SANDRONI - CV Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico – RSE S.p.A Multi-energy system integration for a flexible power system: the RSE’s demonstrator