RESOLVD: ICT services and energy storage for increasing renewable hosting capacity in LV distribution grids

© 2020 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works This article presents the H2020 project RESOLVD (Renewable Penetration Levered by Efficient Low Voltage Distribution Grids). The purpose of this project is to improve the efficiency of distribution networks at the same time while increasing the hosting capacity of distributed renewable generation by introducing flexibility by storage management and control in the low voltage grid. This paper collects the most significant insights from the RESOLVD project by summarizing the needs and expectations of the involved stakeholders to give a complete understanding of the context of the project. Subsequently, the RESOLVD technology is presented, both the software as well as the hardware solutions. Next, the existing and upcoming regulation initiatives are presented and analyzed. Finally, the conclusions of the project and recommendations to standardizing and regulatory bodies are provided.