Papers by Frans Nieuwenhout
Sixteenth European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, 2020
In this paper the feasibility of an Interconnecting Link (IL) 1 between the Netherlands and the U... more In this paper the feasibility of an Interconnecting Link (IL) 1 between the Netherlands and the UK is studied for a specific case of two planned offshore wind power plants in the North Sea. First the most promising scenarios and conceptual designs for this combined utilization are presented. The feasibility of these scenarios is being assessed from a technical, socioeconomic and legal point of view. Finally an inventory of bottlenecks and required innovations is being performed, with regard to technology as well as on market and regulatory aspects. The paper shows that in 2020 it is technically possible to build an interconnecting link between the UK and Dutch grids via one or both of these WPPs, either by existing HVAC solutions or by HVDC solutions. Under international law it is possible to construct an IL, but EU law and national legislation do not facilitate the operation of an IL.
Data monitoring and evaluation of renewable energy systems, in particular energy storage systems,... more Data monitoring and evaluation of renewable energy systems, in particular energy storage systems, and definition of categories of similar use
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... Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Netherlands Competition authority (NMa) and the Dutch... more ... Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Netherlands Competition authority (NMa) and the Dutch Transmission System Operator (Ten-neT).Although the study benefited from comments by officials from the Dutch Ministry of Eco-nomic Affairs, NMa and TenneT the responsibility ...
GRB Coordinates Network, 2013
Solar Energy, 2006
In order to evaluate the performance of solar home systems (SHS), data on local insolation is a p... more In order to evaluate the performance of solar home systems (SHS), data on local insolation is a prerequisite. We present the outline of a new method to estimate insolation if direct measurements are unavailable. This method comprises estimation of daily irradiation by correlating photovoltaic (PV)-module currents from a number of solar home systems, located a few kilometres apart. The objective is to obtain reliable daily and monthly insolation figures that are representative for an area of a few square kilometres.
Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 2007
In order to evaluate the performance of solar home systems (SHSs), data on local insolation is a ... more In order to evaluate the performance of solar home systems (SHSs), data on local insolation is a prerequisite. We present a new method to estimate insolation if direct measurements are unavailable. This method comprises estimation of daily irradiation by correlating photovoltaic (PV) module currents from a number of SHSs, located a few kilometres apart. The method was tested with a 3-year time series for nine SHS in a remote area in Indonesia. Verification with reference cell measurements over a 2-month period showed that our method could determine average daily irradiation with a mean bias error of 1Á3%. Daily irradiation figures showed a standard error of 5%. The systematic error in this method is estimated to be around 10%. Especially if calibration with measurements during a short period is possible, the proposed method provides more accurate monthly insolation figures compared with the readily available satellite data from the NASA SSE database. An advantage of the proposed method over satellite data is that irradiation figures can be calculated on a daily basis, while the SSE database only provides monthly averages. It is concluded that the new method is a valuable tool to obtain information on insolation when long-term measurements are absent.
Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 2007
Long-term performance of PV stand-alone systems is analysed in this work in terms of dependabilit... more Long-term performance of PV stand-alone systems is analysed in this work in terms of dependability. On one side, the quality of a PV system, the energy service supplied to the users, depends on the initial design and sizing and on the component ageing that progressively decreases the availability of supply on demand (energy reliability). On the other side, technical failures lead to system stoppage until repairing is performed (technical reliability), which is crucial in real rural electrification applications. All those factors are analysed together with the basis of an extended field, laboratory and bibliographic review work.
IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 2011
Grid connected electrical storage has a high potential to support the transition towards a reliab... more Grid connected electrical storage has a high potential to support the transition towards a reliable decentralized and renewable energy supply. It is expected that lithium-ion batteries will play a major role in this transition, because of their high energy density and of the potential capacity that is offered by plug-in (hybrid) electric vehicles. The use of lithiumion batteries in grid support may result in additional degradation. Intelligent control of these batteries can assure that the additional degradation rate is minimized and their utilization is costeffective. It is, therefore, imperative that the intelligent control has an excellent understanding of the aging behavior of the battery, so it can maximize the benefits for the battery owner. Based on this logic, cycle life experiments were performed on lithium polymer cells in which the cell life dependence on the depth of discharge was investigated. Other cell characteristics that were studied include the equivalent series resistance and the efficiency.
... Final Report Frans Nieuwenhout, Jaap Jansen, Adriaan van der Welle (ECN) Luis Olmos, Rafael C... more ... Final Report Frans Nieuwenhout, Jaap Jansen, Adriaan van der Welle (ECN) Luis Olmos, Rafael Cossent, Tomás Gómez (Comillas) Jos Poot, Martijn Bongaerts (Liander) ... Hans Auer, Lukas Weissensteiner, Wolfgang Prüggler, Carlo Obersteiner, Karl Zach, (EEG) ...
The role of Active Distribution Grids 3 Active Network Management 3.1 Definition 3.2 ANM in grids... more The role of Active Distribution Grids 3 Active Network Management 3.1 Definition 3.2 ANM in grids with small numbers of actors: the case of the Netherlands 4 ECONOMIC SIGNALS FOR IMPROVED NETWORK INTEGRATION OF DG 4.1 Network cost recovery 4.2 Network innovation 4.3 Network planning 4.4 Network charging (network cost allocation) 4.5 Demand response
Abstract— The development of transnational offshore grids will play a major part in the grid inte... more Abstract— The development of transnational offshore grids will play a major part in the grid integration of large-scale offshore wind power. Up to now, such an infrastructure has never been built and, when finished, it will probably consist of a combination of different transmission technologies. Therefore, the effects of these grids on the power system must be studied thoroughly The North Sea transnational grid research project intends to study technical and economic aspects regarding the development of an electrical network in the North Sea. It aims to provide a comprehensive technical reference for policy makers in the Netherlands. This paper describes the objectives of the North Sea transnational grid research project and the approaches to be used. Moreover, an overview of other ongoing or recently finished research projects regarding transnational offshore grids in Europe will be provided. These are compared to the North Sea transnational grid project by assessing where the tec...
Abstract--This paper describes a general method on how to monitor renewable energy systems (RES) ... more Abstract--This paper describes a general method on how to monitor renewable energy systems (RES) and evaluate the data in such a way that the operating conditions and performance of individual components and the system as a whole can be analysed and compared. The enormous variation between RES, which is the result of user requirements and local climatic conditions, makes it necessary to classify different installations into catego-ries of similar use. Only installations belonging to the same cate-gory of use can be compared in a meaningful manner. First re-sults in the development of a similarity index and in identifying and describing categories of similar use are presented. The pro-ject results will make it possible to match any installation to a category which resembles its operating conditions most closely.
This report has been prepared as part of the study ‘Towards a Streamlined CDM approach for
The development of transnational offshore grids will play a major part in the grid integration of... more The development of transnational offshore grids will play a major part in the grid integration of large-scale offshore wind power. Up to now, such an infrastructure has never been built and, when finished, it will probably consist of a combination of different transmission technologies. Therefore, the effects of these grids on the power system must be studied thoroughly The North Sea transnational grid research project intends to study technical and economic aspects regarding the development of an electrical network in the North Sea. It aims to provide a comprehensive technical reference for policy makers in the Netherlands. This paper describes the objectives of the North Sea transnational grid research project and the approaches to be used. Moreover, an overview of other ongoing or recently finished research projects regarding transnational offshore grids in Europe will be provided. These are compared to the North Sea transnational grid project by assessing where the technicaleconomic focus lies, the time horizons and methods used.
Research Project supported by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy and Transpo... more Research Project supported by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy and Transport, under the Energy Intelligent Europe (EIE) programme
In supporting development of wind generation, its impact on distribution networks has not yet rec... more In supporting development of wind generation, its impact on distribution networks has not yet received sufficient attention. With growing shares of distributed generation (DG) in distribution networks, DG integration is likely to become more important and network connection problems and congestion might even result in barriers for further development. The EU-funded IMPROGRES project (Improvement of the Social Optimal Outcome of Market Integration of DG/RES in European Electricity Markets) has analysed the impact of large-scale deployment of distributed generation and demand response for the whole electricity supply system. The IMPROGRES project is supported by the EU in the Altener programme of Intelligent Energy Europe, and was conducted between September 2007 and March 2010. The Energy research Centre of the Netherlands is coordinator of the project, and cooperates with 3 network companies: Union Fenosa (ES), MVV (DE), Liander (NL), and 4 research institutes: Risoe (DK), EEG (AU),...
It does not represent the opinion of the European Commission. The European Commission is not resp... more It does not represent the opinion of the European Commission. The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained in this report. Project objectives The IMPROGRES project aims to identify possible improvements in the direction of a socially optimal outcome of market and network integration of distributed generation (DG) and electricity production from renewable energy sources (RES-E) in Europe with a focus on efficient interactions between distribution networks and embedded DG, fossilbased and from renewable energy sources (RES). To that effect the project sets out to:
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