Identifying challenges in the demonstration sites – Use Cases

These use cases are interesting research questions comprising issues and targets of various market participants in a hybrid energy distribution network, which are planned to be tackled within the OrPHEuS project. The use cases presented here shall help to identify the primary principles of energy processes in different energy distribution grids.

Altogether five use cases have been defined. They are motivated by actual challenges in the OrPHEuS demonstration sites and each of these use cases focuses on a special problem or objective of a particular market participant. Special attention has been paid to the hybrid and cooperative character of each use case as well as its relevance for the test sites. In this way it can be ensured that each market participant is represented properly in the OrPHEuS project and by highlighting the hybrid aspects and possible cooperative control strategies the relevance of each use case for the project can be justified. Furthermore, a sixth ‘special use case’ has been elaborated that examines the performance of the entire hybrid energy distribution system subject to extreme weather conditions.