Effects of decentralized new-gas injection in relation with sustainable electricity on the market system dynamics

Researchers have thoroughly investigated the effects of decentralized feed-in and control of electricity on the information and communication architecture. Yet, they did not pay attention to a parallel phenomenon in the gas industry. This research, therefore, takes this last subject matter head on. Since gas and electricity are interconnected, it will study both systems not as autonomous ones but in relation to each other. A first part of the research deals, from a business perspective, with the decentralized control of the gas grid. It models and design value networks of enterprises that provide information services in the future energy market supply. It will result in a set of requirements, from both organizational and technical aspects, for the architecture of intelligent grids of the future that will combine gas and electricity. A second part of the research concerns the architectural requirements for intelligent decentralized gas grids. A common view on the industrial organization of the energy industry holds that a central orchestrator, usually a transmission system operator, owns and manages the intelligent grid. This view can be challenged both from the supplier’s side, whereby comes local injection, and the consumer’s side, for which new information and data services are developed.

Theme: Future Energy Systems
Leader: Hans Wortmann (University of Groningen)
Partners: University of Groningen, Gasunie (research performed by DNV Kema)
Budget: 1.6 million euro

Participants

George Huitema (University of Groningen)
Ashwin Ittoo (University of Gronigen)
R. Mellema (DNV KEMA)
W.H. Mook (DNV KEMA)
V. Petraika (University of Groningen)
T. Sanberg (DNV KEMA)
Nick Szirbik (University of Groningen)
Jan Willem Turkstra (DNV KEMA)
Marcel Volkerts (DNV KEMA)
Hans Wortmann (University of Groningen)

Communications

Ittoo, Aswhinn, Nick Szirbik, George Huitema, Hans Wortmann. ‘Serious gaming augmented with natural language processing for learning on energy infrastructure investment decisions.’ 43rd International Simulation and Gaming Association Annual Conference, Cluj-Napoca, July 2012

Ittoo, Aswhinn. ‘Understanding energy infrastructure investments under uncertainty.’ GESP Research Meeting on Smart Grids, Groningen, June 2012.

Huitema, George, Nick Szirbik, Hans Wortmann, Ashwin Ittoo, Austin Dzousa. ‘Embedding flexibility in combined gas and electricity infrastructures.’ Fourth Research Day of the Energy Delta Gas Research, Hilversum, April, 2012.

Poster

Ittoo, Ashwin, Nick Szirbik. ‘Role of investments in gas infrastructure a assets in creating flexibility of energy supply.’ Poster at the Fourth Research Day of the Energy Delta Gas Research, Hilversum, April, 2012.