Towards a foundation for holistic power system validation and testing
For power system engineers and researchers, this work provides a conceptual foundation for multi-domain testing, but it is incremental as it only outlines early-stage methodology without concrete results.
The paper introduces the concept of holistic power system testing to address the increased complexity from renewable energy and smart grid technologies, and discusses initial steps toward a methodology being developed in the ERIGrid project.
Renewable energy sources and further electrificationof energy consumption are key enablers for decreasing green-house gas emissions, but also introduce increased complexitywithin the electric power system. The increased availability ofautomation, information and communication technology, andintelligent solutions for system operation have transformed thepower system into a smart grid. In order to support thedevelopment process of smart grid solutions on the system level,testing has to be done in a holistic manner, covering the multi-domain aspect of such complex systems. This paper introducesthe concept of holistic power system testing and discuss first stepstowards a corresponding methodology that is being developed inthe European ERIGrid research infrastructure project.