Recording E-Lunch webinar dated 19-02-2025

"Results Project Go-e" by Prof Koen Kok

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Reasons Project Go-e

Electrification is an essential part of the energy transition in the built environment. This is visible in the growth in the number of heat pumps, electric cars and solar panels.
This presents major challenges for regional (and national) grid operators in preventing grid congestion.
It also offers opportunities. Grid reinforcement is the common solution, but is not always feasible and desirable due to limited resources (money, lead time and technical staff).
Large-scale deployment of smart flexibility services is an alternative to make best use of the available grid capacity.
In addition, flexibility (often abbreviated to flex) can ensure better local utilisation of decentralised, sustainably generated electricity.
The application of flex services and products can only succeed if they are developed from a systems thinking perspective: solutions must deliver value not only for flex suppliers, but also for consumers, business energy users and grid operators.
It also requires institutional adjustments. It requires cooperation, or at least coordination, between all stakeholders in the electricity system.

Go-e project objective

The GO-e consortium of regional grid operators, service and technology providers, consultants and knowledge institutes is fleshing out the goals of MMIP 5 with value for these parties and users. Specifically:
(1) Scalable flex services that contribute to better utilisation of local energy sources and reduce (the increase in) peak load of regional grids;
(2) Standardisation, interoperability and cybersecurity are an integral part of these services and products so that flexibility becomes available on a large scale in an affordable and secure way.
(3) Regional grid operators can make informed decisions on whether, when, where and how flexibility should be deployed to avoid grid congestion;
(4) To this end, grid operators and service providers have an understanding of the impact of electrification in the built environment and the potential of solutions such as flex services; and
(5) Consumers and business energy users are central to the design of flex services and products in GO-e by using the innovative 'participation by design'. GO-e solutions should be first deployed in the electricity system by 2025 at the latest.

GO-e Project results

All public final results of GO-e are now available at Final Results!

The results of GO-e are:

  • Prototypes of scalable and supported flex services for consumers and business energy users.
  • Protocols and architecture for open and scalable flexibility unlocking.
  • Supported strategy for successful deployment of flexibility unlocking.
  • Trade-off framework for deployment of flexibility for congestion management in the built environment.
  • Selection of flex call mechanisms for regional grid management.
  • 'Recommended practice' for mitigating potentially negative side effects of large-scale implementation of new optimisation or control algorithms.
  • Computational modelling chain for analyses of the impact of electrification and future flexibility needs and potential on medium- and low-voltage grids.
  • Practical application of computational models for underpinning grid operators' investment agenda.

The entire flex chain is represented in GO-e. By working together with end users, this forms a strong consortium with a large scope and customer base. This collaboration results in integrated and aligned system solutions. This enables GO-e to introduce high-impact results to the market.

The GO-e project is implemented with Top Sector Energy grant from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate and the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.

Bio Prof Koen Kok

Koen Kok (1969) successively studied Electrical Engineering at Hogeschool Alkmaar, Technical Computer Science at Rijkshogeschool Groningen and Computer Science at the University of Groningen.

In 1998, he started working at the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) in Petten, first as scientific programmer, later as Senior Researcher and Research Coordinator. From 2004, Kok has been closely involved in the development of the PowerMatcher, an intelligent coordination system that matches supply and demand in a local electricity system. In 2013, he received his PhD from the Free University on the theoretical foundations and validation of this system. Between 2011 and 2020, he is doing Smart Grid research at TNO, with a break from 2015 for a two-year period at the Danish Technical University (DTU). From April 2018, he joined TU/e's Electrical Energy Systems (EES) group part-time, with an appointment as part-time professor in November that year.

From 1 September 2020, he was appointed full-time professor in the same group. In his professorship, Koen Kok focuses on the impact of energy transition on the operation of the electricity system and the role intelligent software can play in it.

Programme

11:45 am - 12:00 pm Login to MS Teams

12:00 u. - 12:05 u. Welcome by KIVI Elektrotechniek

12:05 u. - 12:40 u. Presentation by Koen Kok TU/e

12:40 u. - 13:00 u. Q @ A with questions from the chat

13:00 h. Closing and end

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