1. Economic Policy
Energy and the electrical system
Silvester van Koten
CERGE-EI, Prague
Florence School of Regulation
LEE, VŠE
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9. Florence School of regulation: Transparency award
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10. Economic Policy
Energy and the electrical system
Silvester van Koten
CERGE-EI, Prague
Florence School of Regulation
LEE, VŠE
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12. Transmission
Principles of Transmission, applied
to the EU transmission network
1. Line limits
2. Principles of dispatch
3. Role of frequency in ac lines and stability
requirements
4. Transmission shortage, the internal market
and the 2050 carbon targets
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23. Industrial
consumers
Transmission Other countries
Distributors
Power Plants
Residential consumers:
Households
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29. Sils-Soazza
Tree
flashover!
“Cross-border
transmission lines”
Mettlen- “Interconnectors”
Lavorgo
03:01
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30. Sils-Soazza
Tree
flashover!
Mettlen-
Lavorgo
03:01
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31. Sils-Soazza
Mettlen-
Lavorgo
03:01
03:01-03.16
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32. The Swiss TSO operator asks the
Italian TSO for countermeasures
TSO= Transmission System Operator
03:11
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33. Sils-Soazza
Tree
flashover!
Mettlen-
Italy reduces
Lavorgo import by -300 MW
03:25
03:21
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34. Sils-Soazza
Tree
flashover!
Mettlen-
Lavorgo
03:25
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35. All interconnectors are
automatically disconnected
03:26
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38. 1. Transmission lines limits
2. Dispatch
3. Frequency and synchronicity
4. Transmission shortage in the EU
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39. Transmission lines limits
Sils-Soazza
Tree
flashover!
Mettlen-
Lavorgo
03:01
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41. Transmission lines limits
High voltage
Dramatically lowers losses to resistance
1 KV-> 10KV
Loss falls to 1%
Factor 100
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42. Transmission lines limits
1 KV-> 100KV
Loss falls to 0.01%
Factor 10.000
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44. Line flashover
2 risk factors for line
flashover
Factor 1: high voltage
Factor 2: proximity to
other objects (trees)
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45. Transmission lines limits
High load
Sagging of the line
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46. Transmission lines limits
High load
Sagging of the line
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47. Clearance: Trees below transmission
lines must be kept short enough
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48. Clearance: Trees below transmission lines
must be kept short enough
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49. Thus limit of a line is dependent on
- The line itself
- air temperature & wind
- Maximum allowed sagging
- For example, Increase in temperature from 30C to
40C can lower the limit with 10%
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53. Dispatch
Net Injection:
Injection:
50MW
100MW Injection:
20MW
?
A B
Withdrawal: Net
Withdrawal:
50MW Withdrawal:
70MW
50MW
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54. Dispatch
Net Injection:
50MW
Physical flow: 50MW
A B
Net
Withdrawal:
50MW
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55. Dispatch
∆-10MW
Net Injection:
50MW
40MW ∆ -10MW
Physical flow: 50MW
40MW
A B
∆ -10MW
Net
Withdrawal:
40MW
50MW
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56. Dispatch
Net Injection:
40MW
Physical flow: 40MW
A B
Electricity cannot just be “send”
somewhere Net
Withdrawal:
Any flow is the RESULT of the 40MW
injection and withdrawals
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57. Net
Injection:
80MW 40MW
Limit: 50MW
A B
Limit: 50MW
40MW
Net
Withdraw:
80MW
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58. Net
Injection:
80MW
A B
40MW
Net
Withdraw:
80MW
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59. Net
Injection:
80MW
A B
Limit: 50MW
40MW
80MW
Net
Withdraw:
80MW
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60. Net Apply N-1 security standards
Injection:
50MW 40MW
25MW
Limit: 50MW
A B
Limit: 50MW
25MW
40MW
Net
Withdraw:
50MW
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61. Reserve
generation of
Apply N-1 security standards 30MW available
Net Injection:
80MW
40MW (within 15 min)
Limit: 50MW
A B
Limit: 50MW
Decrease of 40MW
25MW
Net Withdraw:
30MW is possible
80MW
(within 15 min) Both lines can
have 80MW
(15 minuts)
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62. Reserve
generation of
Apply N-1 security standards 30MW available
Net Injection: (within 15 min)
80MW
A B
Limit: 50MW
Decrease of 40MW
25MW
30MW is possible Net Withdraw:
(within 15 min) Both lines can 80MW
have 80MW
(15 minuts)
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63. Apply N-1 security standards
Net Injection:
50MW
A B
Limit: 50MW
50MW
25MW
Net Withdraw:
50MW
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64. Reserve
generation of
Apply N-1 security standards 30MW available
(within 15 min)
A B
Limit: 50MW
Decrease of 80MW
25MW
Both lines can
30MW is possible
have 80MW
(within 15 min)
(15 minuts)
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65. Net
Injection:
80MW
A B
Limit: 50MW
40MW
80MW
Net
Withdraw:
80MW
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66. The Swiss TSO operator asks the
Italian TSO for countermeasures
Dispatch is done by national TSOs
03:11
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68. Dispatch with 3
nodes Injection: 120MW
30$/MWh
A
80MW 40MW
С B
40MW
70$/MWh
Withdrawal: 120MW
30$/MWh
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69. Limits
Injection: 120MW
30$/MWh
A
80MW 40MW
Limit: 500MW
Limit: 20MW
С B
40MW
70$/MWh
Withdrawal: 120MW
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70. Solution 1: lower
injection Injection: 120MW
Injection: 60MW
30$/MWh
30$/MWh
A
40MW
80MW 30MW
20MW
Limit: 500MW
Limit: 20MW
С B
30MW
20MW
70$/MWh
Withdrawal: 120MW
60MW
30$/MWh 60MWh is shed!
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71. Solution 1:
Counter flow Injection: 120MW
30$/MWh
W A
B:
M
20
20
B:
M
W
W
M
A:
80
4
0M
A:
W
Limit: 500MW
Limit: 20MW
С B
A: 40MW
70$/MWh
Withdrawal: 120MW B: 40MW
Inject 60 MW
Supply of A+B: 180MW
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72. Solution 1:
Counter flow & Injection: 120MW
Injection: 80MW
proportional 30$/MWh
downturning
MM
WW A
B:
B: 2
3
:1
20
10M
3M
B:B
WW
M
WW
M
A:
A:40
8503
27MW
A::
A
M
W
Limit: 500MW
Limit: 20MW
С B
A: 27 MW
A: 40MW
70$/MWh
Withdrawal: 120MW B: 40MW
B: 27 MW
Inject 60 MW
Inject 40 MW
Supply of A+B: 120MW
Supply of A+B: 180MW
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73. Up till 60MW from A no problem
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74. Limits
Injection: 60MW
30$/MWh
A
A:40MW A:20MW
Limit: 500MW
Limit: 20MW
С B
A: 20MW
70$/MWh
Withdrawal: 120MW
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75. Limits
Injection: 60MW +1 MW
30$/MWh
B: + ⅓ MW
A A: +⅓ MW
A: 40MW A: 20MW
Limit: 500MW
Limit: 20MW
С B
A: 20MW
70$/MWh
Withdrawal: 120MW
+1 MW
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76. Limits
Injection: 60MW +30 MW
30$/MWh
B: +10 MW
A A:+10 MW
A: 40MW A: 20MW
Limit: 500MW
Limit: 20MW
С B
A: 20MW
70$/MWh
Withdrawal: 120MW
+30 MW
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77. Limits
Injection: 90MW
30$/MWh
B: 10MW
A B: 10 MW
A: 60MW
A: 30MW
Limit: 500MW
Limit: 20MW
С B
A: 30MW
70$/MWh
Withdrawal: 120MW B: 20MW
+30 MW
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78. Dispatch
Sils-Soazza
Mettlen-
Italy reduces
Lavorgo import by -300 MW
03:25
03:21
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79. 1. Transmission lines limits
2. Dispatch
3. Frequency and synchronicity
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80. Frequency and Synchronicity
Direct Current (DC)
Alternating Current (AC)
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82. Frequency and Synchronicity
Does a lamp in your house receive zero energy 100 times a second
and is thus blinking?
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83. VID
Wednesday 1_ light bulb.divx
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Incompatible Power Grids . Incredibly, the southwestern half of Japan, which largely survived the earthquake and tsunami unscathed, cannot help the northeastern half of the nation, which took the brunt of the damage, because the two sections of the country operate on two separate power grids that are incompatible. As NPR reported on March 24, the southwestern section can actually produce surplus power, but the transmission and distribution system there operates at 60 Hertz, and the northeastern region's grid operates at 50 Hz. This awkward situation, seen clearly on the Japanese map above (blue is 60 Hz, red is 50 Hz), is the legacy of a historic oddity: the "east," as it's referred to in Japan, built its grid based on the German 50 Hz system, and the "west" followed the American 60 Hz system. (An English adaptation of a similar map is here.) Converting power from one system to the other is a complex task that requires enormous yet highly sensitive machinery. The country has only a few, meager "interconnect" facilities that can do the job, which have nowhere near the capacity to minimize the need for rolling blackouts. The U.S. has a less dramatic but similarly tenuous setup. The nation is divided into three grids. All three operate at 60 Hz, but again, only a few interconnects exist between the regions. Japan's electric infrastructure comprises two main power grids. One system, in the west of the country, operates at 60 hertz, like power in the U.S. The eastern parts of the country, where Tokyo and Fukushima are located, run on a 50-hertz system, like the one used in Germany. Ordinarily, this isn't a problem — there are enough power plants in each of the grids that electricity can be shifted around if there are spikes in power demand or outages at a plant. There are also ways to pass some power across the 50-hertz/60-hertz divide between the power systems, but this is only available for a limited amount of electricity. The trouble comes when there's a big, unplanned shortage of power, like what's going on now with the destruction of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Creating new linkages between the 50-hertz and 60-hertz systems is incredibly expensive and couldn't happen for years. So Tokyo Electric Power Co., or TEPCO, which operates the stricken plant, is rapidly trying to secure more power to make up for the loss in production. Until that happens, though, Tokyo could see more rolling blackouts or other measures introduced to reduce electrical demand.