Design and control of energy systems in Denmark - Challenges and opportunities

The Danish energy system has been a front-runner within integration of renewables for the last decades. Historically this has led to needs and new developments within design and control of production and supply systems, on individual plant level as well as on portfolio level. These developments include applications within adaptive control, multivariable control, portfolio balancing control and load planning systems. In future the needs for more detailed utilization of plant and system knowledge will grow further due to increased market and technology complexity. Improved utilization of hybrid knowledge, i.e. modeling on different timescales and modeling with diverse fidelity, contains large potential improvements in the design phase as well as in the operational phase. These challenges should be taken up in research and eventually be applied commercially.