Keeping the expansion of wind and PV affordable - "EOM-Plus" project contributes to congestion management

The Energy Systems Engineering department of the Institute for New Energy Systems (InES) at THI, together with the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen Nuremberg (FAU) and the Environmental Energy Law Foundation (SUER), presented the results of three and a half years of research. In a final workshop, 30 experts from the energy industry and science discussed new concepts in the field of congestion management.

Tanja Mast, THI, (l.) and Lukas Lang, FAU, presented the results of three and a half years of project work (Photo: THI).

Tanja Mast, THI, (l.) and Lukas Lang, FAU, presented the results of three and a half years of project work (Photo: THI).

[Translate to English:] Abschlussveranstaltung EOM-Plus (Link auf Youtube)

Congestion in the electricity grid is steadily increasing in the course of the transformation of the energy system, causing the costs for congestion management to rise sharply. Flexibilisation potentials can counteract this but are not efficiently addressed in the current market design. This is where the "Smart Market" approach comes in, which the "EOM-Plus" final conference dealt with intensively. Smart markets" are market-based congestion management instruments that are limited to the duration of the congestion and the affected network area.

Tanja Mast (THI) and Lukas Lang (FAU) presented the basic methodology for modelling smart markets in the German electricity market at the workshop. The results of their modelling show that smart markets, if designed appropriately, offer advantages at the system and actor level: In addition to reducing CO2 emissions and system costs, smart markets also set regional price signals for the grid-serving operation of flexibilities.

The EOM-Plus research project was funded with a total volume of €740,000 as part of the seventh energy research programme with funds from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection. Project management was carried out by the project management organisation Jülich.

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