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The FlexControl concept – a vision, a concept<strong>and</strong> a product <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> future power systemPer Nørgaard, Risø DTU, Denmark, pern@risoe.dtu.dkAbstractFlexControl is a vision, a concept <strong>and</strong> a product – a vision <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> control of future powersystems based on renewable energy <strong>and</strong> distributed control, a generic concept <strong>for</strong> smartcontrol of many power units <strong>and</strong> ‘product’ implementations of <strong>the</strong> concept in differentapplications.The general development trends <strong>for</strong> power system towards more stochastic powergeneration from wind <strong>and</strong> solar, more distributed generation <strong>and</strong> control, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>introduction of dem<strong>and</strong> responses from a huge number of small, flexible loads, requirenew architecture, design <strong>and</strong> means of controlling of <strong>the</strong> power system in order tomaintain <strong>the</strong> power balances <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> high security of supply <strong>and</strong> power quality in allparts of <strong>the</strong> grid.FlexControl is a flexible, modular, scalable <strong>and</strong> generic control concept designed <strong>for</strong>smart control of a huge number of distributed, controllable power units (DERs) in <strong>the</strong>power system. FlexControl is based on aggregated, indirect <strong>and</strong> rule basedcommunication <strong>and</strong> control, <strong>and</strong> open st<strong>and</strong>ards. The indirect control is based onresponses to <strong>the</strong> frequency, <strong>the</strong> voltage <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> broadcasting of global or local pricesignals. The paper presents an overview of <strong>the</strong> FlexControl concept, with its elements,options <strong>and</strong> applications.1 IntroductionPower systems, less dependent on fossil fuels (<strong>and</strong> nuclear power) expect to becomemore dependent on distributed <strong>and</strong> stochastic generation (including wind <strong>and</strong> solar) <strong>and</strong>on flexible consumption – i.e. more, distributed active units, where also <strong>the</strong> consumptionto a certain degree automatic <strong>and</strong> dynamically will adapt to <strong>the</strong> actual, local generationavailable – <strong>the</strong> ‘smart grid’ concept. This development requires <strong>the</strong> development ofappropriate power system architectures, components <strong>and</strong> control mechanisms, includingnew power markets.In order to maintain <strong>the</strong> power quality <strong>and</strong> power supply in a power system, powerbalances must be maintained in all nodes of <strong>the</strong> power system at all time – see Figure 1: 0 0Figure 1: Power balance in a power system node.Risø International <strong>Energy</strong> Conference 2011 Proceedings Page 176

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