Workshop: FlexBat meets FLEXINet - Adding intelligent flexibility to the distribution grid

On Oct. 18, the second FLEXINet Essentials workshop was held at The Green Village, TU Delft Campus. This meeting addressed the national System Integration learning community, to which FLEXINet's research contributes. In this learning community, we want to bring together all parties who have something to do with system integration. Whether that be a hardware supplier, a designer of a sustainable energy system, or an installer; everyone is welcome. We are working on a continuous line from science at TU Delft and practical application from The Hague University of Applied Sciences and ROC Mondriaan.

At the beginning of the meeting, Mart van Bracht, Director of System Integration at the Top Sector Energy, gave an overview of the opportunities and solutions on a system-level. Marco Stecca (TU Delft) then explained the research focus of FlexBat project, which is on how to improve the power electronics converter of battery storage systems, and on how to leverage this power electronics convert to enable new functionalities for the battery. After that Prof. Pavol Bauer (TU Delft) briefly explained the main research goals of FLEXINet project and illustrated them on animation. Next two researchers involved in FLEXINet project Joel Alpisar-Castillo and Siddhesh Shinde presented their preliminary results. Joel Alpizar-Castillo (TU Delft) presented on his research on multi carrier coupling and system aggregation and Siddhesh Shinde (TU Delft) about placing power electronic interfaces (e.g. charging technology and battery) underground and design of cooling solutions for the required applications.

After that, tours were offered along the ESP lab of TU Delft and the 24/7 Energy Lab and Borg heat buffer at The Green Village.