Funding entity Università di Cagliari
The objective of the project is to develop and implement approaches for the appraisal of the impacts determined by smart grid initiatives that involve sector coupling and flexibility services.
One of the proposed objectives is to formulate an evaluation approach for sector-coupling consistent with smart grid initiatives. Due to its characteristics, this evaluation approach will be an integral part of the Multicriteria Cost-Benefit Analysis (MC-CBA) appraisal procedure, which will be extended to include the appraisal of sector coupling initiatives. The research activity includes the methodological formulation of the MC-CBA appraisal tool for multi-sector initiatives and its application to a case study.
The second objective of the proposed collaboration activity concern the study of flexibility service and the methodologies for estimating the related impacts. Flexibility services will be studied in light of defining approaches to evaluate them from the point of view of system needs and potential service providers. Flexibility services will be grouped into homogeneous categories, and a definition of flexibility products with technology-neutral characteristics will be provided. This activity is preliminary to the identification of the metrics useful for assessing the impact of flexibility services and identifying methods for estimating these impacts in the planning phases of the electricity system. These performance indicators have to characterise from a technical or economic point of view the effectiveness of flexibility services exploited in different smart grid initiatives under appraisal.
Layman's summary: The objective of the project is to develop and implement approaches for the appraisal of the impacts determined by smart grid initiatives that involve sector coupling and flexibility services.
ACB-MC-Cagliari
