A new research and innovation project aims to improve the interaction between the Nordic electricity grids and thus make it possible to utilize more renewable energy. The project Nordic-Sec – Closing the Loop in Nordic TSO Coordination for Enhanced Grid Security and Cost Efficiency – has received 8.6 million DKK in support from the Innovation Fund and will develop solutions that strengthen coordination across national borders. This is stated by the Innovation Fund in a press release.
As the share of renewable energy increases, the electricity system becomes more dependent on the weather, and electricity flows to a greater extent across countries. At the same time, errors and disruptions in one country can quickly have consequences in the rest of the region, and without better coordination, the costs of, among other things, reserves and emergency interventions are expected to increase significantly.
Nordic-Sec will develop a comprehensive coordination chain that includes calculating capacity between the countries, purchasing reserves and handling acute interventions in the electricity grid. The goal is to make existing tools work better together in an electricity system with an increasing share of renewable energy.
- The solution is not to replace what already works – but to make it work better, together. That is exactly what Nordic-Sec wants to achieve: to harmonize operating procedures so that we can jointly write the manual for how the Nordic and European countries can keep the lights on, the electricity bill down and the green transition on track, says Lesia Mitridati, assistant professor at the Department of Wind and Energy Systems at DTU.
Better calculations of capacity between countries can free up an additional 1.5 TWh of green energy across the Nordic region each quarter. At the same time, more harmonized reserve purchases and emergency interventions can reduce Energinet's costs by up to 250 million DKK annually.
The project is led by the Technical University of Denmark in collaboration with Energinet and Nordic RCC. The total budget is 11.5 million DKK. DKK, and the project will run for four years.
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