Summary

To facilitate the integration of distributed energy resources (DER) into the French grid, primarily at the distribution level, we have designed a zonal control system to manage congestion at the sub-transmission level. These controllers use the existing telecontrol network to retrieve real-time information and send curtailment orders.

Two questions arose during the project:

• Is the current information and communication infrastructure suitable for these systems?

Would other architectures provide better resilience? To address these questions, we developed two co-simulation platforms incorporating an electric network simulator, a telecontrol network simulator, and a controller simulator.

This paper describes the developed platforms and the obtained results. It also discusses the extension of the domain of use to other controllers and the creation of a common framework.

Additional informations

Publication type Session Materials
Reference D2_10935_2026
Publication year
Publisher CIGRE
Country France
Study committees
File size 994 KB
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Authors

GIRAUD Guillaume - RTE France; BONHOMME Anne-Cecile - RTE France; RAHMOUN Akli - RTE France

Keywords

Cosimulation platform, zonal control, RES (renewable energy sources), resilience, telecommunication hazards, stress test

Use of co-simulation for zonal congestion management systems to assess the resiliency of the associated ICT infrastructure and validate their performances under communications hazards