Artelys Participates in the European HyNet Project to Optimize Hybrid AC/DC Power Grids

A Europe-Wide Consortium

HyNet brings together grid operators, market operators, and research entities around five key objectives:

• Developing innovative technologies for the cross-border design and planning of hybrid AC/DC power systems.
• Establishing standardized methodologies for multi-terminal and multi-vendor MVDC and LVDC systems, ensuring interoperability.
• Defining functional requirements for AC-DC grid-forming technologies.
• Designing solutions that promote the adoption of direct current systems across all voltage levels.
• Implementing HyNet innovations in existing and planned hybrid AC/DC grids in four European countries.

Artelys’ contribution

Artelys’ role in the project involves enhancing its Artelys Crystal software suite, with a particular focus on energy sector coupling studies and developing a security analysis tool for hybrid networks.

In the coming months, Artelys will develop solutions for planning and operating hybrid transmission grids, emphasizing the integration of a multi-energy perspective (electricity, gas, hydrogen) into European-scale planning using the Artelys Crystal Super Grid software. Additionally, a hybrid grid security analysis tool will be created using PowSyBl, incorporating a stochastic approach with a Monte Carlo scenario builder. A methodology for transitioning between scales will also be established.

During the demonstration phases of the HyNet project, Artelys will also be responsible for demonstrations in Norway. In this context, Artelys will carry out a cost-benefit analysis of a new HVDC interconnection linking the south of the country, an offshore wind farm and a neighboring country, using the tools developed in the first part of the project. This work will be carried out in collaboration with Stattnet, the Norwegian grid operator.

Artelys’ participation in this project underlines its commitment to developing innovative solutions to meet the challenges of energy transition, the integration of renewable energies and the proliferation of DC technologies in the European power grid. 

The HyNet project was officially launched at a meeting in Brussels on October 10 and 11, marking the start of a promising collaboration for the future of European power grids.