Master Thesis
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, De
Title: Cost-sharing key development for Redispatch in the Core RegionMain goal: understand the financial effect to the TSO’s (particularly Germany/TransnetBW) of 3 different scenarios for cross-border Redispatch proposed by the working group. Develop an improved methodology based on findings from the study. Problem: Excess renewable energy causing “loop flows” which pressure the grid in other countries. Methodology focuses on how to financially “punish” the countries which produce flows above the maximum capacity of a line and have potential to cause congestion. Physically, loop flows are bound to happen in an interconnected grid like Europe’s. Therefore, another key task was to analyze the impact of a threshold to “allow” some smaller flows, and to only punish heavy burdening ones.Contributions: The in-depth understanding of the process gained during the thesis provided a basis to help the project to move forward due to an overall improved structure of the methodology. Clarity on sub-processes was a helpful advancement, as it was incredibly difficult to follow before the discussions ensued because of this study. The specifications were provided directly to the working group of the Core project, and the algorithm is utilized as a reference for testing and implementation.