Recording of Wednesday, May 07, 2025 | The smarter E Europe Conferences 2025 | Conference Program | Language: English | Duration: 10:19 .

European Balancing Platforms Enhance Grid Efficiency and Economic Benefits Through Optimized Energy Activation Systems

The speech by Dr. Dominik Schlipf focuses on the European Balancing Platforms and their economic benefits, particularly in optimizing energy distribution across Europe without significant grid investment. The platforms standardize products like FCR (primary control), AFR (automatic frequency response), and MFR (manual frequency restoration) to stabilize electricity frequencies efficiently. Traditionally, each control block operated independently; however, with increasing renewable energies and slower grid investments, innovative software solutions are needed for optimization. Dr. Schlipf explains that these balancing platforms allow a demand from one country to be met by resources from another if it's economically viable due to transmission capacities being available—such as covering Spanish demands using Polish or Norwegian plants through interconnected systems named Mari for MFR and Picasso for AFR. These TSO-TSO systems involve local TSOs collecting bids from power sources capable of delivering required services while maintaining responsibility within their areas. A central platform called AOF optimizes this data every few seconds/minutes depending on service type ensuring cost-effective activation while preserving local accountability. Since 2022's implementation into full operation in 2023 showed promising results: achieving substantial economic surpluses/social welfare estimated at €100 million annually per platform—all achieved via intelligent bits rather than hardware upgrades—demonstrating both operational efficiency improvements alongside enhanced safety measures supporting LFCs throughout Europe's expansive network infrastructure under unified rules established since 2002.

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Speaker

Dr. Dominik Schlipf
Team Manager System Balance
TransnetBW GmbH
Germany

Talk of session: Tackling Transmission and High-Capacity Connection Challenges

Grid planners face the complex challenge of transmitting energy from emerging renewable generation hubs to demand centers, while also addressing the growing need for high-capacity connections for storage plants, electrolyzers, and data centers. These developments present significant challenges for grid planners, grid operators, service providers and project developers. This session will explore the technical, regulatory, and logistical hurdles involved in managing these demands and examine innovative solutions to ensure reliable, efficient grid integration and future-proof energy systems. It also discusses the importance of system planning and examines how different stakeholders can contribute to optimization efforts that enable better prioritization of investments and the achievement of European goals.

Further Talks of this session:

Welcome and Introduction

Speaker

Dr. Andrzej Ceglarz
Director Energy Systems
Renewables Grid Initiative
Germany

To Talk

No Transition Without Transmission

Speaker

Dr. Anser A. Shakoor
Executive Leader
GE Vernova
United Kingdom

To Talk

Grid Planning Optimization: How to Save Resources and Deliver on Targets

Speaker

Dr. Alexandre Oudalov
Manager Power Systems of the Future
Hitachi Energy Germany AG
Germany

To Talk

The Value of BESS as a Transmission Asset (SATA) for the Power System

Speaker

Dr. Sankara Subramanian
Utility Market Leader
Saft Batteries
France

To Talk

Advantages and Challenges of Balancing Power Cooperation With a Focus on Fcr Cooperation

Speaker

Matthias Kuring
Senior Expert Balancing Concepts
50Hertz Transmission
Germany

To Talk

Panel Discussion

Speaker

To Talk

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