Final Report of the 2019 CIGRE Symposium in Aalborg

The CIGRE Danish National Committee working with eight Study Committees hosted a symposium in Aalborg Culture and Congress Centre, Aalborg, Denmark. The symposium’s main focus was to provide a forum for recent research results and system operations experience related to the rapid transformation of power networks and markets and the challenges imposed on such networks by the introduction of increased amounts of renewable energy. A wide variety of papers, ranging from academia to industry and from conceptual to practical, implemented solutions were presented during the symposium. Moreover, a number of Northern European countries are at the forefront of introducing increasing amounts of renewables into their respective electric power systems and this large share is further increased by the introduction of offshore wind energy and interconnectors. This is necessitating a need to re-think how transmission and distribution networks are coupled and co-ordinated together from planning to operation while overcoming all the necessary technical, operational and environmental challenges.