Key words: flexibility solutions, KPIs, ASM
Key words: guidelines, replicability, key performance indicators, testing, modelling
What is flexibility, how does it apply it hydropower and how can we quantify its benefits?
Key words: pumped storage, full-size frequency converters, Grande Dixence, Alpiq
Key words: hydraulic short circuit, directly-fed induction machine, Frades, EDP
Key words: high head, pumped storage, hydraulic short circuit, Grand'Maison, EDF
Key words: variable speed, FSFC, CFD/FEA simulations
Key words: Full Size Frequency Converter, hydraulic transient simulations
This webinar presented an update on the XFLEX HYDRO project.
Frades 2 is a new 780 MW pumped storage hydropower plant in northern Portugal
Z’Mutt is a pumping station located in Canton Valais, Switzerland
Vogelgrun is a 142 MW run-of-river hydropower plant in France, situated near the border with Germany…
Sitting in the French Alps, Grand'Maison is Europe’s largest pumped storage plant at 1,800 MW…
Exploring the emerging opportunities for hydropower plants to provide new short-term flexibility…
The Vogelgrun demonstration involves adding a small-scale electro-chemical battery to work in hybrid with one of the plant’s turbines.
Key words: linearization strategies, Taylor expansion
Key words: KPI Matrix, Future scenarios, flexibility needs
Key words: Hydraulic transient, wear and tear, PFC
XFLEX HYDRO made seven key recommendations to policy makers