Cross-Atlantic Research Agenda for Scalable Grid Architectures and Distributed Flexibility

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Auteurs principaux: Almassalkhi, Mads R., Hamilton, Dakota, Oral, Hasan Giray, Dvorkin, Yury, Gayme, Dennice, Hodge, Bri-Mathias, Mathiesen, Brian Vad, Stoustrup, Jakob, Ritschel, Tobias, Junker, Rune G., Tohidi, Shahab, Ebrahimy, Razgar, Madsen, Henrik
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author Almassalkhi, Mads R.
Hamilton, Dakota
Oral, Hasan Giray
Dvorkin, Yury
Gayme, Dennice
Hodge, Bri-Mathias
Mathiesen, Brian Vad
Stoustrup, Jakob
Ritschel, Tobias
Junker, Rune G.
Tohidi, Shahab
Ebrahimy, Razgar
Madsen, Henrik
author_facet Almassalkhi, Mads R.
Hamilton, Dakota
Oral, Hasan Giray
Dvorkin, Yury
Gayme, Dennice
Hodge, Bri-Mathias
Mathiesen, Brian Vad
Stoustrup, Jakob
Ritschel, Tobias
Junker, Rune G.
Tohidi, Shahab
Ebrahimy, Razgar
Madsen, Henrik
contents Electric power systems are rapidly evolving into deeply digital, cyber-physical infrastructures in which large fleets of distributed energy resources must be coordinated as system-level flexibility across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Despite growing distributed energy resource deployment, existing grid and market architectures lack scalable, interoperable mechanisms to reliably translate device-level flexibility into grid-aware services, creating risks to reliability, affordability, and resilience at high penetration. We propose that scalable and reliable coordination of distributed energy resource-based flexibility in future power systems is fundamentally an architectural problem that can be addressed through laminar cyber-physical design using minimal, standardized interoperability interfaces that link device autonomy with system-level objectives. To assess this claim, we present and discuss a layered cyber-physical systems architecture and explicate its implementation through standards-based interfaces, Flexibility Functions, hierarchical control, and case studies spanning U.S. and Danish regulatory, market, and operational contexts. Empirical evidence from New York's Grid of the Future proceedings, Danish Smart Energy Operating System pilots, and operational aggregator deployments demonstrates that such architecture enables predictable, grid-aware flexibility while preserving device autonomy, interoperability, reliability, and quality of service. These results support a cross-Atlantic research agenda centered on joint testbeds, harmonized interoperability mechanisms, and coordinated policy experiments to accelerate the deployment of resilient, scalable, and flexible clean energy systems.
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spellingShingle Cross-Atlantic Research Agenda for Scalable Grid Architectures and Distributed Flexibility
Almassalkhi, Mads R.
Hamilton, Dakota
Oral, Hasan Giray
Dvorkin, Yury
Gayme, Dennice
Hodge, Bri-Mathias
Mathiesen, Brian Vad
Stoustrup, Jakob
Ritschel, Tobias
Junker, Rune G.
Tohidi, Shahab
Ebrahimy, Razgar
Madsen, Henrik
Systems and Control
Electric power systems are rapidly evolving into deeply digital, cyber-physical infrastructures in which large fleets of distributed energy resources must be coordinated as system-level flexibility across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Despite growing distributed energy resource deployment, existing grid and market architectures lack scalable, interoperable mechanisms to reliably translate device-level flexibility into grid-aware services, creating risks to reliability, affordability, and resilience at high penetration. We propose that scalable and reliable coordination of distributed energy resource-based flexibility in future power systems is fundamentally an architectural problem that can be addressed through laminar cyber-physical design using minimal, standardized interoperability interfaces that link device autonomy with system-level objectives. To assess this claim, we present and discuss a layered cyber-physical systems architecture and explicate its implementation through standards-based interfaces, Flexibility Functions, hierarchical control, and case studies spanning U.S. and Danish regulatory, market, and operational contexts. Empirical evidence from New York's Grid of the Future proceedings, Danish Smart Energy Operating System pilots, and operational aggregator deployments demonstrates that such architecture enables predictable, grid-aware flexibility while preserving device autonomy, interoperability, reliability, and quality of service. These results support a cross-Atlantic research agenda centered on joint testbeds, harmonized interoperability mechanisms, and coordinated policy experiments to accelerate the deployment of resilient, scalable, and flexible clean energy systems.
title Cross-Atlantic Research Agenda for Scalable Grid Architectures and Distributed Flexibility
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19933