Smart Grids Co-Simulations: Survey & Research Directions

TL;DR

This paper surveys the current state of co-simulation techniques in Smart Grids, highlighting research areas, challenges, and future directions for integrating renewable energy, communication, and power networks.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive scoping review of co-simulation research in Smart Grids, identifying key focus areas and proposing future research directions.

Findings

Identified main research areas and problems in SG co-simulations.

Analyzed typical coupling methods of simulators in SG studies.

Discussed future research directions for SG co-simulation.

Abstract

The integration of renewable sources, communication and power networks with information and communication technologies is one of the main challenges in Smart Grids (SG) large-scale testing. For this reason, the coupling of simulators is commonly used to dynamically simulate several aspects of the SG infrastructure, in the so-called co-simulations. In this paper, we provide a scoping review of research of co-simulations in the context of Smart Grids: i) research areas and research problems addressed by co-simulations, ii) specific co-simulation aspects focus of research, iii) typical coupling of simulators in co-simulation studies. Based on the results, we discuss research directions of future SG co-simulation research in each of the identified areas.