Ulf Hager’s scientific contributions

The rising amount of distributed generation and new intelligent or controllable load as well as the implementation of active distribution network concepts change the resulting supply task in the distribution grids. For the development of future-oriented distribution grids, these challenges should already be considered in the planning process. Because the conventional planning process is hardly able to take these network participants into account, a new simulation system has been developed. Based on a multi-agent system, the system is able to include new active distribution grid control methods and model the specific users' behaviour. This allows for the evaluation of the impact of these methods on the grid loading situation in the planning process. The consideration of active distribution grid methods in the planning process, as well as an evaluation based on a benchmark grid will be outlined in this contribution.