Future Interdependent Gas and Electric Power Infrastructures

Contact: Prof. Giovanni Sansavini

The exploitation of a large amount of renewable power in the near future represents a challenge for the safe operations of the electric system. Furthermore, the need of balancing volatile and not dispatchable resources requires a technical effort that exceeds the boundaries of the electric infrastructure and impacts also other interconnected systems, i.e. the gas system. The subsequent increase of the interdependencies between gas and electric networks entails the necessity of dedicated studies that could provide insightful knowledge about the new dynamics of the future coupled infrastructures. Dynamics of interest comprise: the coordination of coupled operations under normal and abnormal conditions, the effects of sudden and unanticipated fluctuations of renewable generation, the mechanisms of failure propagation across the two infrastructures and the introduction of new storage technologies. Therefore, this set of projects aims at illustrating some of the technical and economic consequences stemming from the mutual interactions between gas and electric systems on future interdependent network operations, with focus on the mentioned joint dynamics.