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Expert workshop on how to address variable renewables in long-term energy planning (AVRIL)

System integration of high shares of renewable energy requires both long term techno-economic planning in the energy sector as well as short term network design in the power sector. In particular, long term scenario planning is key to enabling the transition to a renewables-based energy system, as experience from countries that are on the way to such a transition shows. There is a lack of established best practices on energy planning with high shares of renewables, which hinders countries’ efforts to establish credible long term energy plans to guide their policy decisions. The project AVRIL (Addressing the Variable Renewables in Long-term Planning) aims to collect methodologies and best practices for long term planning, particularly regarding how to integrate variable renewable energy (VRE) into such planning in the context of developing countries.

This workshop was the second in a series designed to prepare a catalogue of such methodologies (the link to the first workshop is here. IRENA convened 27 international energy experts from European institutions (mostly academic) as well as energy planners from selected North African countries. Active discussion was held on two themes: 1) VRE impacts on the power system that are relevant to long term planning; and 2) key pillars of a robust energy planning methodology that addresses such impacts, in order to increase the validity of future energy plans with higher VRE shares.

The finalized proceedings are available in PDF here.

Agenda

2nd March, 2015

9:30 – 9:40	Welcome address by Dolf Gielen (Director, IRENA IITC) [Download]
9:40 – 10:20	Objective and scope of the meeting by Asami Miketa (IRENA IITC) [Download]
10:20 – 10:50	Planning challenges for RE deployment: North African perspective [Download] Presentation by Ms. Boukchina (RCREEE) Discussion
11:10 – 12:00	What are the actual challenges of system planners in North Africa – experiences with variable renewables from a planner’s perspective Presentation by Ms. Bali (STEG, Tunisia) [Download] Presentation by Ms. Mellouki Filali (ONEE, Morocco) [Download]
12:00 – 13:00	Relevant system impacts of variable renewables on power system reliability that need to be considered in the long-term planning [Download] Brief input presentation by Francisco Gafaro (IRENA IITC) Group discussion
14:00 – 15:00	Tools to support planning with renewable energy and their time horizon Brief input presentation by Hannele Holttinen (VTT, IEA Wind Task 25) [Download] Brief input presentation by Falko Ueckerdt (IRENA IITC) [Download] Group discussion
15:00 – 17:50	Approaches to improve the representation of variable renewable impacts in long-term energy planning models Addressing flexibility in energy system models – Synthesis from a JRC workshop by Mr. Nijs (JRC Institute for Energy and Transport) [Download] Brief input presentation by Falko Ueckerdt (IRENA IITC) [Download] Input on the ADVANCE project results by Robert Pietzcker (PIK) [Download] Discussion
17:50 – 18:00	Wrap up

3rd March, 2015

9:30 – 10:00	Feedback from North African delegates on Day 1 discussion
10:00 – 12:15	Communication of the AVRIL project findings [Download] Brief input presentation by Asami Miketa (IRENA IITC) Group discussion
12:15 – 12:50	Next steps

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Expert workshop on how to address variable renewables in long-term energy planning (AVRIL)