Digital twins Era for Coordinating Energy Network inTegration (DECENT)

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Title
Digital twins Era for Coordinating Energy Network inTegration (DECENT)

CoPED ID
76546f64-249b-438f-ab53-f48b40962b91

Status
Active

Funders

Value
No funds listed.

Start Date
Sept. 30, 2021

End Date
Sept. 29, 2024

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In smart grids, grid inertia (typically provided by gas/steam turbine based synchronous generators) is a very important measure of power networks' stability. Low grid inertia will make power networks suffer from poor power quality and increased risk of blackouts. Massive offshore wind turbines however don't provide grid inertia due to the use of frequency converters between wind turbines and power networks. This becomes one of the most challenging barriers for integrating more offshore wind energy sources into power networks in the research field of smart grids. There are some existing works aiming for creating virtual grid inertia by using control strategies and wind turbine models. But these works didn't study virtual-physical systems' coupling/twinning, thus couldn't guarantee the convergence and the synchronisation of virtual and physical systems. Digital twin technologies aim to solve these problems by using seamless and real-time connections for enabling real-time data flow from physical systems to virtual models, and information flow from virtual models to physical systems, thus tightly twinning virtual and physical systems. This project aims to develop digital twin technologies for better coordinating wind turbines and energy storage units to provide virtual grid inertia, thus facilitating greater penetration of offshore wind in power networks.

Hongjian SUN SUPER_PER
Emily Settle STUDENT_PER

Subjects by relevance
  1. Wind energy
  2. Electrical power networks
  3. Wind power stations
  4. Smart grids
  5. Renewable energy sources
  6. Turbines

Extracted key phrases
  1. Virtual grid inertia
  2. Digital twin technology
  3. Low grid inertia
  4. Massive offshore wind turbine
  5. Wind turbine model
  6. Coordinating Energy Network inTegration
  7. Smart grid
  8. Offshore wind energy source
  9. Physical system
  10. Power network
  11. Virtual model
  12. Poor power quality
  13. Steam turbine
  14. Time datum flow
  15. Energy storage unit

Related Pages

UKRI project entry

UK Project Locations