The decarbonisation of the energy sector represents a challenge that requires new tools and approaches of analysis. This paper aims to demonstrate the fundamental role that geographical distributed real-time co-simulations (GD-RTDS) can play in this regard. To this end, three different case studies have been analysed with GD-RTDS, covering a wide range of applications for the energy sector decarbonization: a) implementation of Renewable Energy Communities for supporting the share increase of Renewable Energy Sources, b) the integration and management of Onshore Power Supply, and c) the integration of a forecasting tool for the management of the Electric Vehicle charging. The performed experiments included fully simulated components, together with (power) hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop elements. These components have been simulated in different laboratory facilities in Italy and Germany, all operating in a synchronised manner under the presented geographically-distributed setup. The results show that the proposed architecture is flexible enough to be used for modelling all the different case studies; moreover, they highlight the significant contribution that the GD-RTDS methodology can give in informing and driving energy transition policies and the fundamental role of power systems to spearhead the complete decarbonisation of the energy sector.

MAZZA Andrea;  BENEDETTO Giorgio;  PONS Enrico;  BOMPARD Ettore;  DE PAOLA Antonio;  THOMAS Dimitrios;  KOTSAKIS Evangelos;  FULLI Gianluca;  VOGEL Steffen;  ACOSTA-GIL Andres;  MONTI Antonello;  BRUNO Sergio;  IURLARO Cosimo;  LA SCALA Massimo;  BONFIGLIO Andrea;  CEPOLLINI Pietro;  D'AGOSTINO Fabio;  INVERNIZZI Marco;  ROSSI Mansueto;  SILVESTRO Federico;  DE CARO Fabrizio;  GIANNOCCARO Giovanni;  VILLACCI Domenico; 

2024-10-09

ELSEVIER

JRC138060

2352-4677 (online),   

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352467724002303,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC138060,   

10.1016/j.segan.2024.101501 (online),