KENTECH AGM Center Presents ‘Open Power System Modeling’ Ecosystem… Seeking Solutions for the Energy Transition Era

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Responding to System Complexity Amidst Renewable Energy Expansion… Need for Common Analysis Base and Open Platform Highlighted

The Advanced Grid Modeling Center (AGM Center) at the Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH) proposed a direction for building an open power system modeling ecosystem to cope with the rapidly complex power system environment due to the expansion of renewable energy and the increase in distributed generation.

On the 16th, the AGM Center held a workshop attended by power system experts in its international conference room, focusing the discussion on the need for a common analysis base usable across system planning, operation, and policy formulation. A shared awareness emerged that the existing closed, institution-specific system analysis methods are becoming increasingly difficult to use in effectively responding to system stability and market changes as the energy transition accelerates. As an alternative, the open system analysis model was presented as a key solution.

The AGM Center introduced the practical applicability of system stability analysis and simulation, centered around its self-developed open power system analysis platform, KPG (TestGrid·Run·View). This platform is designed to allow various analysis entities to review the system based on the same model and data, focusing on enhancing the reproducibility and reliability of analysis results.

The seminar shared the structure and utilization cases of the KPG platform along with the international trend toward open grid modeling, emphasizing that an analysis framework based on standardized system models could become the core infrastructure for future power system analysis.

A panel discussion followed, involving representatives from universities, public power companies, power exchange institutions, research institutes, and energy technology firms, to discuss strategies for disseminating open modeling. Panelists agreed that open power system modeling could be widely used not only as a simple technical tool but also for system planning, power market analysis, business model design, and policy proposals. A suggestion was specifically raised that the AGM Center should play the role of a ‘Discussion Hub,’ emphasizing the importance of an environment where the grid and market are analyzed together based on a single model and diverse stakeholders can discuss using the same information.

The AGM Center aims for open power system models and analysis tools to be established as a public infrastructure jointly utilized by academia, industry, and policy institutions. To this end, along with platform advancement, it plans to regularly operate tutorials and seminar series to expand the open discussion structure involving industry, academia, and research together. The Center’s plan is to enhance the precision and transparency of power system analysis through educational programs linking practice and research, and to strengthen its role in scientifically supporting domestic energy transition and carbon neutrality policy formulation.

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