13/06/2017
Within the CONDYNET project, Marc Timme, Benjamin Schaefer and Dirk Witthaut (now with Research Center Juelich) from the Max-Planck-Institute in Goettingen analyzed the stability of grid management by real time price based control. Real time in this context covers the range down to seconds (possible by advanced solutions like Easy Smart Grid). They specialize in methods that can be applied also to non-linear systems (as they occur in biology, climate or energy) such as "basin of attraction".
As a result of their stability analysis, they showed that such a system that enables and benefits from highly dynamic customer reactions of a few seconds will work in a stable way and can thus provide not only longer term demand side management, but also instantaneous demand response. The final project meeting of this German Federal Ministry of Research funded project took place at PIK, the renowned Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Foto: PIK).