Cross-sectoral Provision of Ancillary Services in coupled Electricity and Gas Sectors on a Real-Time Simulator

Abstract

The coupling of the electricity and gas sectors can provide degrees of freedom in the provision of CO2 minimal flexibilities, but also increases the complexity of the investigation of maintaining system stability due to the different requirements. To investigate how the failure of generation power or load changes affect the compliance with the stability criteria in the respective grids, a cross-sectoral system model is implemented and evaluated on a real-time simulator. Real-time simulators enable the investigation of state changes in real time. By connecting hardware components such as generation units or loads, the effects on cross-sectoral system operation can be studied in real time in the event of fluctuations in generation or load changes. The cross-sectoral implementation is presented by numerical case studies using the example of a region in Germany for 2 developed scenarios on the real-time simulator OPAL-RT.