Soft-link between a multi-energy optimization tool and an electrical adequacy assessment tool

The current context of major energy changes is leading to increasingly decentralized systems, with renewable energies taking on a new role in the energy mix. The aim of this work is therefore to establish a potential future energy system based on the literature. This system revolves around changes that are directly visible to the individual consumer. Indeed, consumers can see changes in the way they heat their homes or get around. What's more, the consumer can now play the role of producer by generating his or her own energy end also store energy. In order to analyze such energy systems, a soft-link is used and presented in this work. This allows EnergyScope results to be used as input for subsequent optimization via a adequacy tool. The main purpose of this soft-link is to make it easy to integrate the notion of energy network into a system optimized by EnergyScope. To establish this soft-link, a series of assumptions and approximations are made in order to distribute the optimized system on the Belgian high-voltage network and on a future hydrogen network. These approximations and assumptions are presented throughout this work. After using these two tools on the energy systems presented, several observations are made. The first finding highlights the nodes most affected by curtailment and loss of energy. Based on this observation, it is noted that for several hundred hours a year, some nodes experience curtailment while others lack energy. This leads to the conclusion that there is a series of weak points in the network, resulting in an inability to transport energy correctly between areas of excess and shortage.