The project STORE&GO aims to investigate all the aspects regarding the integration of large-scale Power-to-Gas (PtG) at European level,
by exploiting it as means for long term storage. One of the aspects that should be properly addressed is the beneficial impact that the integration of PtG plants may have on the electricity system.

In the project framework, WP6 devoted its activities to investigate different aspects of the integration of PtG in the electricity grid, with the previous delivered reports.

This deliverable focused in particular on how integrate the information about the facilities replicating the real world condition into a simulation environment. For doing this, the concept of remote Physical Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) has been used and exploit.

Remote simulation with physical hardware appears to be an effective means for investigating new technologies for energy transition, with the purpose of solving the issues related to the introduction of new Renewable Energy Sources (RES) into the electricity system. These solutions are making the overall energy systems to be investigated much more complex than the traditional ones, introducing
new challenges to the research. In fact:

• the newly integrated technologies deal with different energy vectors and  sectors, thus

• requiring interoperability and multidisciplinary analysis;

• the systems to be implemented often are large-scale energy systems leading to enormously complicated simulation models;

• the facilities for carrying out the experiments require huge investments as well as suitable areas where to be properly installed.

This may lead to the fact that a single laboratory with limited expertise, hardware/software facilities and available data has not the ability to secure satisfactory outcomes. The solution is the share of existing research infrastructures, by virtually joining different distant laboratories or facilities.

This results in improvement of simulation capabilities for large-scale systems by decoupling into subsystems to be run on distant targets avoidance of replication of already existing facilities by exploiting remote hardware in the loop concept for testing of remote devices.

Also confidential information of one lab, whose sharing may be either not allowed or requiring long administrative authorization procedures, can be kept confidential by simulating models locally and exchanging with the partners only proper data and simulation results through the co-simulation medium.

Thanks to the realized method it is possible to real time analyse renewable devices at remote
power plants and place them in the loop of a local network simulation.
The results reported show that the architecture developed is strong enough for being applied also at
new renewable power plants. This opens the possibility to use the data for research purposed, but
also to act in remote on the infrastructure in case of particular test (for example the acceptance test).