Guest: Luis Maria Zamarreño
Organization: LF Energy (Twitter)
Show: State of Energy

The way we consume and produce energy is changing and although this allows more flexibility nowadays, it does not come without complexity. New analysis capabilities are needed to help cope with these complexities and to run scenarios for the changes that we are not yet able to see. Grupo AIA is working to provide solutions to these challenges and is actively involved in projects like the RTE PowSyBl (Power System Blocks) that helps with grid analysis and simulation.

In this episode of State of Energy, Luis Maria Zamarreño, Member of the Technical Steering Committee at Grupo AIA while at the LF Energy Summit in Paris, talks about their involvement in projects like iTesla and RTE PowSyBl and how they are helping develop tools to address the challenges of how we consume and produce electricity today. He goes on to talk about Grupo AIA’s involvement in the projects and some of the use cases they are seeing.

Key highlights from this video interview:

• Zamarreño talks about the origins of the project which focused on performing security analysis for the Continental Europe Synchronous Area (CESA). The iTesla project, which involved developing a set of modules capable of handling different analyses, environments, and scenarios was later entered under the LF Energy umbrella.
• Zamarreño discusses Grupo AIA’s involvement in the original iTesla project and others like the RTE PowSyBl Project and their collaborations with other organizations.
• The way we consume and produce electricity is changing, which affects how electricity is moved around. Zamarreño talks us through the challenges of energy and how the RTE PowSyBl Project helps agents model, analyze, and simulate the behavior of their networks so they can adapt to better deal with these complexities.
• Zamarreño tells us about the community around the project saying RTE is actively involved having initially created it internally before deciding to open it to the community. The project also has collaborations from different companies with commercial companies offering services on top of the project such as Artelys.
• Two key focuses for the project are providing support for a standard data exchange through the Common Grid Models Standard and multiple industrial standards in the market. Additionally, Zamarreño tells us they are also working on further optimization and an analysis function for integrating the remedial action optimizer tool.
• Zamarreño talks about some of the use cases saying it has recently been adopted by the CIMdesk product to offer power flow calculations to their users. Other users are using their building blocks to explore the interaction between the transmission part of the network and the distribution part of the network.
• Zamarreño discusses the wider implications of the project saying that complete electrification of all our energy needs could help reduce the impact of climate change. However, it does not come without its complexities such as changing the ways we distribute and engage with electricity. He talks about the need for tools to help progress this.

This summary was written by Emily Nicholls.