Workshop on Ensuring Grid Stability

A workshop on “Ensuring Grid Stability” took place on 26 March. The workshop aimed to look at initiatives to ensure grid stability from various ankles. The Presentation of Friederike Berger, consultant of ef.Ruhr focused on the government plan to achieve the political targets of 100% RE by 2030.

The presentation explained the format and ambition of the System Stability Roadmap. The roadmap aims to assign all tasks to achieve secure and robust system operations with 100% renewable energy by 2030 to various stakeholders. 

The roadmap is very ambitious, as no other country so far has tried to fuel the entire electricity sector with 100% renewables (without waterpower). Thus, technical solutions to integrate the critical last 10% are not tested yet. Also, the electricity system in Germany is highly decentralized with 4 TSOs and over 800 DSOs, which needs a lot of coordination to have everyone enabled to progress. 

Besides explaining the general roadmap set-up with 41 processes, Ms. Berger also highlighted some achieved outcomes such as a market-based procurement of reactive power. One TSO has already tendered with the others following shortly.

​The workshop's focus on integrating grid-forming inverters and enhancing ancillary services to maintain grid stability amid high renewable energy penetration is highly pertinent to Israel's energy transition. Israel aims to increase its renewable energy share to 30% by 2030, primarily through solar power, and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Implementing grid-forming technologies and robust ancillary services can help Israel effectively manage the challenges associated with this transition, ensuring a stable and resilient electricity grid.