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Energy Systems Integration International Activities

Mark O’Malley (UC Dublin)

ESI Technical Review Panel

September 17, 2013

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White Paper July 2012

• Universität Stuttgart, Sept 2012

• iPower, Denmark Nov 2012;

• IRED, Berlin Dec 2012

• EU Science, EU Parliament, Brussels, March 2013

• IET RPG, Beijing Sept 2013

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Building to the Grid Workshops

Two Coordinated Workshops • NREL, May 2012

• Attendees 18 (DOE, Intel, IBM, Berkeley, GPIC, CU, ISU, UC Dublin, Argonne, CSU, LBNL, EPRI)

• Dublin, June 2012

• Attendees 22 (Cylon, DTU, EirGrid, IWES, GE, HWU, IBM, UTRC, Oxford University, NREL, UC Dublin)

Vancouver, panel session at IEEE PES

meeting, July 2013.

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ESI Royal Irish Academy, Sept 2012

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• Geert Verbong, School of Innovation Sciences, TU Eindhoven Energy Institute

• Michael Milligan, NREL

• Jonathan O’Sullivan EirGrid

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ESI Courses Intensive one week course

Integration of Renewable Energy into Power Systems

• NREL, July 2013

• Attendees 35 (DOE, ERCOT, ABB, NEISO, B&V, 3 Tier, Tri State, SCE, NRECA, Cornell, CSU, CU, NAZU, Berkeley, NREL, etc.)

• Instructors: NREL, Xcel, UC Dublin • Beijing, Oct. 2012; Dublin January 2013; Paris

June 2013.

Energy Systems Integration

• Stanford, GCEP, 9th Annual Research Symposium, Energy Tutorial, Energy Systems Integration 101, Mark O’Malley, 8th Oct, 2013.

• Denmark, Spring 2014; NREL Summer 2014; Dublin Fall 2014; • Instructors: NREL, DTU, UCD Dublin

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IEEE Power & Energy Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2013

M. O’Malley and B. Kroposki Guest Editors

• Planning ESI – Jim McCalley et al., Iowa St.

• Hawaii ESI – Dave Corbus, et al., NREL

• EU ESI – John Holms, EASAC & Oxford

University

• Danish ESI – Peter Meibom et al., Dansk Energi, DTU

• Tools and modeling for ESI – Juan Van Roy et al. KU Leuven

• China ESI – Chongqing Kang et al., Tsinghua University

Panel session planned for IEEE PES Washington DC, July 2014

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European Energy Research Alliance

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Joint Research Proposals

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Joint Research Projects

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• Knowledge management and transfer prevents duplication of efforts

• Share lessons learned from emerging energy systems

• Repository for institutional capabilities, contacts, publications, data, and current research

• Hands-on research experiences for students; inspires projects/thesis topics

• Development of energy systems curricula and summer schools to train workforce

• Engage global community to leverage proposed ESI R&D

International Institute of Energy Systems Integration

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Purpose

• providing thought leadership, highlighting where the challenges exist, and helping form teams across disciplines to address the challenges.

• champion internationally the application of scientific disciplines to address the challenges of Energy Systems Integration (ESI).

– the scientific disciplines can range from simulation

science, optimisation, materials for new ESI devices, policy, human behavioural sciences, economic and business models, etc.

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Scope of activities

• workshops, conferences, summer schools

• running high level topical courses given by the best in the world

• becoming a central repository of data, models and benchmark problems in the area

• working with Universities to stimulate the correct human capital

• a few high profile post doc and PhD positions (funded by the institute but doing the detailed research in e.g. PNNL or NREL)

• identifying research that needs to be done to develop the energy system, in particular longer term basic sciences that could result in devices that can enhance the energy system

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Next Steps

• PNNL & NREL set up iIESI …….……

• October 24/25, 2013, Brussels meeting with European Energy Research Alliance to investigate a JP in ESI ………………

• Workshop on ESI in January 2014, Washington DC…………….