{"id":1648,"date":"2011-10-06T20:09:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T20:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2011-10-06T20:09:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T20:09:27","slug":"future-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/?p=1648","title":{"rendered":"Future generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How to adapt the power grid to the challenges of distributed generation  and fluctuating inputs from renewable sources? Professor Lou van der  Sluis presented his new book on smartgrid research last Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe research programme is a contribution to solving the problems we  identified eight years ago,\u201d Van der Sluis says. \u201cMoreover, the added  value is that researchers from different universities and research  institutes, like ECN and Kema, have grown into a research community.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe  problems that Van der Sluis refers to are technical as well as  economic. In the 1990s, the heavy electro-technical industry left the  Netherlands in search of cheaper labour. Dr Lout Jonkers, from the  Netherlands\u2019 Ministry of Science and Education, assembled electrical  power experts to think of new missions that could spawn innovation and  new industrial activities. The group &#8211; called EMVT (electro magnetic  power technology) &#8211; targeted technologies that could transform and  transport electrical energy in the right form at the right time.  Eventually, 18 million euros was assigned to the innovation research  programme (IOP-EMVT). This allowed ten PhD students to write their  theses on the transformation of the current hierarchical grid to the  future flat grid characterised by distributed generation and an  archipelago-like structure of connected semi-self-sufficient local power  networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe development of smartgrids works in two ways,\u201d Van  der Sluis explains. \u201cOne is the distributed small-scale generation; the  other is integration on a European level. Take for example the influx  from large offshore wind parks. Both Dr Georgios Papaefthymiou and Dr  Jody Verboomen have developed frontier insights on the international  exchange of renewable power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another main conclusion from the  report is that the future power grid can no longer be regarded as a  linear system. \u201cThis means that for its control, security and  protection, we need different tools. We can\u2019t achieve that without the  help of our colleagues from the information and communication  technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Professor Lou van der Sluis, \u2018Opgewekt door  de buurt \/ Future Generation\u2019, 68 pages, TU Delft Library, 2011.  Available in Dutch and English by request at <a href=\"mailto:geertwessel.boltje@agentschap.nl\">geertwessel.boltje@agentschapnl.nl<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to adapt the power grid to the challenges of distributed generation and fluctuating inputs from renewable sources? Professor Lou van der Sluis presented his new book on smartgrid research last Tuesday. \u201cThe research programme is a contribution to solving the problems we identified eight years ago,\u201d Van der Sluis says. \u201cMoreover, the added value [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[150,266,344,393],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-delta","tag-electricity","tag-lou-van-der-sluis","tag-power-transmission","tag-smartgrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}