Summary

Adapted and lightly edited from: http://www.e-umbrella.eu/home

UMBRELLA is an EC FP7 project that has the goal of providing a toolbox prototype for Transmission System Operators (TSOs) to ensure secure grid operation in future electricity networks with high penetration of intermittent renewables. This toolbox enables TSOs to act in a coordinated European target system where regional strategies converge to ensure the best possible use of the European electricity infrastructure. The project consisted of partnerships across seven EU countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, and Switzerland.

Objectives

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1. Develop a dedicated innovative toolbox to support the grid security approach of transmission system operators (TSOs). The toolbox shall include:
   • simulation of uncertainties due to market activities and renewables on different time scales from day-ahead to real time
   • optimization of corrective actions in reaction to simulated risks on different time scales according to total costs
   • transmission capacities in the whole system development of risk-based assessment concepts for anticipated system states with and without corrective actions
2. Demonstrate the enhancement of existing and running procedures by utilization of the developed toolbox. Therefore, extensive tests are planned. The toolbox is embedded in the current information system and enables acting in the consistent target system based on a decentralized approach.
3. Provide a scientifically sound basis to support common TSO rules.