Workshops

Spine modelling tools completed in September

The Spine webinars were held September 7-10, 2021.

Four years ago EU project Spine set out to build open-source tools to help modellers manage data and workflow for multiple models working at different scales across power and energy systems. The end result of that process is a set of three tools: Spine Toolbox to manage data, workflow and scenarios for multiple models; SpineOpt to go where no energy system modelling framework has gone before; and SpineInterface for quickly building up bespoke optimization models.

Webinar recordings available here.

 

Workshop 25th of May, 2018

Spine project held its first workshop together with the EERA ESI Joint Programme on Energy System Integration (ESI) on 25th of May, 2018. We were graciously hosted by Technical University of Denmark - DTU  / Professor Henrik Madsen during the Clean Energy Ministerial week in Denmark. The topic of the workshop was ‘Next Generation Energy System Models’. There were a dozen of interesting presentations that engaged the 30 workshop participants into thoughtful questions, comments and discussions. For the Spine project, the workshop was an opportunity to learn what kind of modelling capabilities Spine Toolbox and Spine Model should have. For example, we could try to enable following features:

• Systematic handling of uncertainty and the logical chain from the real world to the model
• Game theoretic modelling
• Enable control-based tools within the Toolbox to be part of the modelling chain
• Simple to use interface for users who have less time to learn new tools
• Tool to generate spatially and temporally correlated forecasts for all energy related time series
• Tool to generate electricity consumption profiles considering the evolution of consumer behavior
• Possibility to change temporal aggregation not just across the model horizon but also between model regions
• Presentation of power system reserves in a realistic manner. This can be very important especially in smaller systems.

In addition, the workshop discussed the following aspects:

• How to consider local scale phenomena like heating of buildings in large scale models
•  Planning model should be able to check the importance of different constraints and sources of flexibility easily
• Many constraints in models are presented as hard technical constraints when they in reality could be violated if a cost was accepted
• Consideration of how the Toolbox can help to produce results that are easy to communicate to the stakeholders
• Reserves in the planning phase need further exploration
• Controllable demand side systems are becoming available - their presentation needs to be well-thought
• Validation will be important to establish credibility  

The presentations [PDF] from the workshop can be downloaded below:

Chris Dent (University of Edinburgh / Alan Turing Institute): Why one should study the real world not models, and how to do this

Mel Devine (University College Dublin): Game Theory Optimisation for Energy Systems Integration

Solomon Asfaw (Lappeenranta University of Technology): Lessons from policy scenario modelling and questions of modelling requirements

Jos Sijm (ECN/TNO): Analyzing flexibility of the power system in the Netherlands

Pinrolinvic Manembu (Sam Ratulangi University Indonesia): Smart meter controlling system for dynamic and non-dynamic IP environments

Erik Delarue (KU Leuven): On model validation/calibration/data

Peder Bacher (Technical University of Denmark - DTU): Compute Forecast uncertainties

Angreine Kewo  (Technical University of Denmark - DTU): Temporal resolution approach of urban residential electricity consumption

Juha Kiviluoma (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland): Unequal time intervals within the optimization horizon

Arvydas Galinis (Lithuanian Energy Institute): Representation of reservation services while modelling long term power sector development

Henrik Madsen (Technical University of Denmark - DTU): Compute A Smart-Energy OS for enabling flexibility in the entire energy system

Kris Poncelet (KU Leuven): Using a high level of operational detail: relevance and pitfalls

Manuel Marin (KTH Sweden): Spatial aggregation of nodal systems in the Spine Toolbox

Emanuele Taibi (IRENA): Flexibility assessment of future generation mix using the IRENA FlexTool