Erdi Saruhan
PhD
Risk-based operational models for hybrid offshore interconnectors
Host organisation
KU Leuven
Department of Electrical Engineering, ELECTA (Electrical Energy Systems and Applications)
Company
YUSO
Project Description
The European Union (EU) holds massive offshore wind energy potential in the North Sea. Offshore renewable energy is one of the fundamental pillars supporting the secure and reliable operation of the European grid, as well as the EU's ambitious energy and climate targets. Integrating offshore windfarms into the European energy markets is essential for grid balance.
Wind energy is intrinsically an intermittent source, and it possesses uncertainties in generation, creating challenges for generation forecasting and system integration. Battery storage technologies also play a crucial role to cope with the intermittency of offshore wind power.
In this project, we will design an optimization method to overcome the uncertainties in offshore wind energy generation and achieve their most efficient integration into the energy markets. Our goal is to determine the optimal bidding strategy for balancing services in different market zones connected via a hybrid interconnector with integrated storage systems.
Supervisors
Academic: Assoc. Prof. Hakan Ergun & Prof. Dr. Dirk Van Hertem.
Industrial: Jan Rosseau.
Background
I earned both my bachelor's and master's degrees from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University (Turkey). My master’s thesis focuses on substation-level state estimation and topology error processing.
I possess over seven years of experience in the field of power systems. After graduating, I worked as a research assistant at my university for more than two years. Subsequently, I served as a power systems analyst at the Energy Institute of TÜBİTAK in the Power Systems Analysis and Planning department for four and a half years. Finally, I worked at Siemens as a power systems software developer for less than a year.
In my spare time, I like reading novels, watching indie movies and hiking.
Motivation
After several years of industrial experience, I decided to proceed with my professional life with a doctoral program. This industrial PhD project provides the unique opportunity to obtain and improve my academic skills on the one hand, and to strengthen my industrial experience by partly being embedded in a commercial organization to apply my research skills. Additionally, the project will provide the opportunity to interact with researchers from other universities and industrial partners, working on complementary research topics in the framework of ADOreD. Furthermore, conducting academic studies in an international environment will also be a personally enriching and satisfying experience.