The First Micro-grid Demonstration Project in Belgium

Prof. Damien Ernst

Huy’s swimming-pool

Ageing nuclear plant

Ageing swimming-pool High energy costs

Necessity to reduce energy costs by implementing a local and a short supply-chain solution

Compromised future

Micro-grid Demonstration Projects in Japan

Overview of grid connection demonstration projects of the new energy and industrial technology development organization (NEDO) :

S. Morozumi, Power Conversion Conference - Nagoya, 2007.

What Is Needed to Implement a Microgrid?

• Alternate energy sources

• Energy storage

• Equipment and controls toachieve:– automatic fault isolation andservice restoration and/or– automatic islanding

• Reliable, high-speedcommunication to enable thesefunctions

Project Key Steps

Phase I - Study : Technical characteristics of microgrid Parameters: energy cost, local economy, global

electricity network

Phase II – Building-up and validation of microgrid with Energy Management System

Phase III – Integration to global electricity network

Contacts

Prof. Damien Ernst, @DamienERNST1

Dr Leila Rebbouh, @leilarebbouh

Contacts

Prof. Damien Ernst, @DamienERNST1

Dr Leila Rebbouh, @leilarebbouh