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ISGAN is the short name for the International Energy Agency (IEA) Technology Collaboration Programme (TCP) for a Co-operative Programme on Smart Grids (ISGAN – International Smart Grids Action Network). It is also an initiative of the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) and was formally established at CEM2 in Abu Dhabi, in 2011 as an Implementing Agreement under a framework of the International Energy Agency (IEA).

The International Smart Grid Action Network (ISGAN) creates a strategic platform to support high-level government attention and action for the accelerated development and deployment of smarter, cleaner electricity grids around the world.

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Flexibility Markets (WG9)
The scope of this Working Group is all aspects of market design for power system flexibility. This includes: the whole range of market timescales, from long term investment signals to second-to-second balancing and response; the whole physical system from large centralized generation to behind the meter sources of flexibility within domestic settings and interfaces with other vectors; all sources of value that flexibility conceivably could capture, going beyond MWh to include characteristics like voltage control, repeatability, inertia, locational constraint alleviation; and aspects of the market that go beyond the trading rules such as consumer support, or how obligations (such as with respect to grid stability) are understood and checked.

The objective of the combined impact of the Working Group’s activities will be:

  • To enrich and disseminate participant’s understanding of flexibility market design
  • To create and curate an evidence base all can draw upon to support decision making in the flexibility market space
  • To further the debate on best practice in market design

07/2016 - 06/2020

  • Annex 6 Power Transmission and Distribution Systems: The main objective of this Annex is to establish a long term vision for the development of “Smarter and Stronger Power Transmission and Distribution Systems”. The Annex shall consist of efforts to improve understanding of Smart Grid technologies applicable to or influencing power system performance, transmission capacities and operating practices; accelerate their development and deployment; and promote adoption of related enabling regulatory and government policies. Another aim is to focus to interactions between the transmission and distribution systems with new active electricity customers with own PV panels and electrical vehicles. The ambition is to map feasible smart and strong grid development according to different boundary conditions in different countries and also to create a case book over state-of-the-art and/or best practice Power T&D solutions for sharing of information.
  • Annex 8 Academy on Smart Grids: The objective of the ISGAN academy is to offer the ISGAN community of high level engineers and professionals and decision makers a means of rational and efficient continuous technical skills complement and update in the field of smart grids. The ACADEMY is proposed as a set of e-learning modules dealing with different smart grids aspects, where fundamentals and further reading material are considered as appendices. In addition the ACADEMY will contain structured information (public material) about recent developments, best practices, interesting methodologies, etc. on smart grids theory, application, deployment, events etc.

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Initial Working Group 9 Tasks

After discussion with interested countries, at this stage Tasks 1, 2 and 3 below have been selected to kick-start Annex 9 work and have country leads assigned:

  • Task 1: Flexibility Characteristics
  • Task 2: Interoperable Markets
  • Task 3: Consumer focused flexibility

07/2016 - 06/2020

Annex 6 - The work is carried out by a global network of experts and is managed in four Focus Areas:

  • Focus Area 1: Expansion Planning and Market Analysis
  • Focus Area 2: Technology Trends and Deployment
  • Focus Area 3: System Operation and Security
  • Focus Area 4: Transmission and Distribution System Interaction

FEN contributed to ISGAN reports and publications on the topics of TSO-DSO interaction, Flexibility and Power System Resilience. The main aim is to disseminate the Swiss perspective of these topics to a broad, interdisciplanary and global audience, using results from own research and other studies within Switzerland.

Annex 8 - The ISGAN Academy webinars are divided in five different areas:

  • Novel Smart Grids’ tools
  • ISGAN Award of Excellence
  • Flexibility in the Power Systems
  • ISGAN Knowledge Transfer Projects
  • New Challenges in Smart Grids
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