Fabrizio SOSSAN

Fonctions:
   - Responsable du Mastère Spécialisé Alternatives pour L'Energie du Futur (ALEF)
   - Enseignant chercheur

Centre: PERSEE - Centre Procédés, Énergies renouvelables et Systèmes énergétiques

Implantation: Sophia Antipolis

Email: [javascript protected email address]

Téléphone: 04.97.15.70.51

Bureau: A/R007

Domaines de compétence:
   - Integration of renewable generation and storage
   - Active distribution networks
   - Multienergy networks and systems
   - Forecasting of renewables and demand and high level of disaggregation

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Short bio

I am Associate Professor at the Centre for Processes, Renewable Energies and Energy Systems (PERSEE) of Mines ParisTech since 2019. I got my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 2014 and M.Eng. in computer engineering from the University of Genova in 2010.

Research: My research interests lie in the domain of integration of renewables in the grid and sustainable energy systems. My main areas of focus are grid-aware control of distributed energy resources (with a special focus on storage systems), planning of energy storage systems and network infrastructure in future sustainable power grids, and forecasting of renewables demand at a high level of disaggregation (e.g., PV generation by using all-sky images).

Teaching: renewable energy system. Deputy manager of post-master course ALEF in "International Energy Management".

Previous appointements: Post-doctoral fellow at EPFL (Switzerland, 2014-2017), Guest Scientist  at NREL (USA, 2018) and scientist at the supply of electricity program of ETHZ (Switzerland, 2018).

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Contact Information

Google Scholar https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=1VMWrxIAAAAJ&hl=en

Personal website https://www.fabriziosossan.com

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Shared Resources

1. The Matlab implementation of Method~C of the paper "Unsupervised algorithm for disaggregation of PV generation from composite power flow measurements of heterogeneous prosumers", Sossan et al., IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics, 2018. 
2. An implementation of the IEEE 39 bus system for Opal-RT in Matlab Simulink from the paper "Dispatch and primary frequency control with electrochemical storage: a system-wise verification", Zuo et al., IEEE ISGT Europe 2018. 

Publications

Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals

1. Sossan, F., Bindner, H., Madsen, H., Torregrossa, D., Chamorro, L. R., and Paolone, M., A model predictive control strategy for the space heating of a smart building including cogeneration of a fuel cell-electrolyzer system. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 62:879 – 889, 2014. Link 
2. Marinelli, M., Sossan, F., Costanzo, G. T., and Bindner, H. W., Testing of a predictive control strategy for balancing renewable sources in a microgrid. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 5(4):1426–1433, 2014. Link 
3. Sossan, F., Lakshmanan, V., Costanzo, G. T., Marinelli, M., Douglass, P. J., and Bindner, H. Grey-box modelling of a household refrigeration unit using time series data in application to demand side management. Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, 5, 2016. Link 
4. Sossan, F., Equivalent electricity storage capacity of domestic thermostatically controlled loads. Energy, 122, 2017. Link 
5. Sossan, F., Namor, E., Cherkaoui, R., and Paolone, M., Achieving the dispatchability of distribution feeders through prosumers data driven forecasting and model predictive control of electrochemical storage. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 7(4):1762–1777, 2016. Link 
6. Scolari, E., Sossan, F., and Paolone, M., Irradiance prediction intervals for PV stochastic generation in microgrid applications. Solar Energy, 139, 2016. Link 
7. Gao, X., Sossan, F., Christakou, K., Paolone, M., and Liserre, M., Concurrent voltage control and dispatch of active distribution networks by means of smart transformer and storage. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 65(8):6657–6666, 2018. Link 
8. Scolari, E., Sossan, F., and Paolone, M., Photovoltaic-model-based solar irradiance estimators: Performance comparison and application to maximum power forecasting. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 9(1):35–44, 2018. Link 
9. Stai, E., Reyes-Chamorro, L., Sossan, F., Boudec, J. Y. L., and Paolone, M., Dispatching stochastic heterogeneous resources accounting for grid and battery losses. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 9(6):6522–6539, 2018. Link 
10. Sossan, F., Nespoli, L., Medici, V., and Paolone, M., Unsupervised disaggregation of photovoltaic production from composite power flow measurements of heterogeneous prosumers. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 14(9):3904–3913, 2018. Link 
11. Mahmood, F., Vanfretti, L., Pignati, M., Sossan, F., and Paolone, M., Experimental validation of a steady state model synthesis method for a three-phase unbalanced active distribution network feeder. IEEE Access, 6:4042–4053, 2018. Link 
12. Scolari, E., Reyes, L., Sossan, F., and Paolone, M., A comprehensive assessment of the short-term uncertainty of grid-connected pv systems. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 9(3):1458–1467, 2018. Link 
13. Namor, E., Sossan, F., Cherkaoui, R., and Paolone, M., Control of battery storage systems for the simultaneous provision of multiple services. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 10(3):2799–2808, 2019. Link 
14. Fabietti, L., Gorecki, T. T., Namor, E., Sossan, F., Paolone, M., and Jones, C. N., Enhancing the dispatchability of distribution networks through utility-scale batteries and flexible demand. Energy and Buildings, 172:125 – 138, 2018. Link 
15. Bozorg, M., Sossan, F., Boudec, J.-Y. L., and Paolone, M., Influencing the bulk power system reserve by dispatching power distribution networks using local energy storage. Electric Power Systems Research, 163:270 – 279, 2018. Link 
16. Scolari, E., Sossan, F., Haure-Touze, M., and Paolone, M., Local estimation of the global horizontal irradiance using an all-sky camera. Solar Energy, 173:1225 – 1235, 2018. Link 
17. Sossan, F., Scolari, E., Gupta, R., and Paolone, M., Solar irradiance estimations for modeling the variability of photovoltaic generation and assessing violations of grid constraints: A comparison between satellite and pyranometers measurements with load flow simulations,. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy of American Institute of Physics, 11(5), 2019. Link 
18. Kalantar-Neyestanaki, M., Sossan, F., Bozorg, M., and Cherkaoui, R., Characterizing the reserve provision capability area of active distribution networks: a linear robust optimization method. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, pages 1–1, 2019. Link 
19. Zuo, Y., Sossan, F., and Paolone, M., Effect of voltage source converters with electrochemical storage systems on dynamics of reduced-inertia bulk power grids. Electric Power Systems Research (to appear in), Special Issue for PSCC 2020 (available online arXiv:1910.05801), 2020. Link 
20. Nespoli, L., Medici, V., Kristijan, L., and Sossan, F., Hierarchical demand forecasting benchmark for the distribution grid. Electric Power Systems Research (to appear in), Special Issue for PSCC 2020 (available online arXiv:1910.03976), 2020. Link 
21. Zecchino, A., Yuan, Z., Sossan, F., Cherkaoui, R., and Paolone, M., Optimal provision of concurrent primary frequency and local voltage control from a bess considering variable capability curves: Modelling and experimental assessment. Electric Power Systems Research (to appear in), Special Issue for PSCC 2020 (available online arXiv:1910.04052), 2020. Link 
22. Massucco, S., Paolone, M., Pongiglione, P., Silvestro, F., and Sossan, F., Siting and sizing of energy storage systems: Towards a unified approach for transmission and distribution system operators for reserve provision and grid support. Electric Power Systems Research (to appear in), Special Issue for PSCC 2020, 2020. 

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

1. Grillo, S., Marinelli, M., Silvestro, F., Sossan, F., Anaya-Lara, O., and Burt, G., Transient support to frequency control from wind turbine with synchronous generator and full converter. 2010 46th International Universities’ Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), Cardiff, 2010. 
2. Sossan, F. and Bindner, H., A comparison of algorithms for controlling DSRs in a control by price context using hardware-in-the-loop simulation. 2012 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2012. Link 
3. Sossan, F. and Bindner, H., Evaluation of the performance of indirect control of many DSRs using hardware-in-the-loop simulations. 2012 IEEE 51st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Maui, HI, 2012. Link 
4. Sossan, F., Marinelli, M., Costanzo, G. T., and Bindner, H., Indirect control of DSRs for regulating power provision and solving local congestions. In IEEE International Youth Conference on Energy (IYCE). 2013 IEEE International Youth Conference on Energy (IYCE), Siofok, 2013. Link 
5. Costanzo, G. T., Sossan, F., Marinelli, M., Bacher, P., and Madsen, H., Grey-box modeling for system identification of household refrigerators: A step toward smart appliances. 2013 IEEE International Youth Conference on Energy (IYCE), Siofok, 2013. Link 
6. Douglass, P. J., Garcia-Valle, R., Sossan, F., Ostergaard, J., and Nyeng, P., Design and evaluation of autonomous hybrid frequency-voltage sensitive load controller. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), Lyngby, 2013. 
7. Costanzo, G. T., Gehrke, O., Bondy, D. E. M., Sossan, F., Bindner, H., Parvizi, J., and Madsen, H., A coordination scheme for distributed model predictive control: Integration of flexible DERs. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), Lyngby, 2013. Link 
8. Sossan, F., Kosek, A. M., Martinenas, S., Marinelli, M., and Bindner, H. W., Scheduling of domestic water heater power demand for maximizing PV self-consumption using model predictive control. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), Lyngby, 2013. Link 
9. Lakshmanan, V., Marinelli, M., Kosek, A. M., Sossan, F., and Nørgård, P. B., Domestic refrigerators temperature prediction strategy for the evaluation of the expected power consumption. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), Lyngby, 2013. 
10. Marinelli, M., Sossan, F., Isleifsson, F. R., Costanzo, G. T., and Bindner, H., Day-ahead scheduling of a photovoltaic plant by the energy management of a storage system. 2013 48th International Universities’ Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), Dublin, 2013. 
11. Sossan, F. and Marinelli, M., An auto tuning substation peak shaving controller for congestion management using flexible demand. 2013 48th International Universities’ Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), Dublin, 2013. Link 
12. Sossan, F., Han, X., and Bindner, H., Dynamic behaviour of a population of controlled-by-price demand side resources. 2014 IEEE PES General Meeting, National Harbor, MD, 2014. Link 
13. Han, X., Sossan, F., Bindner, H., You, S., Hansen, H., and Cajar, P., Load kick-back effects due to activation of demand. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), Istanbul, 2014. 
14. Sossan, F., Torregrossa, D., Namor, E., Cherkaoui, R., and Paolone, M., Control of a battery energy storage system accounting for the charge redistribution effect to dispatch the operation of a medium voltage feeder. 2015 IEEE Eindhoven PowerTech, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2015. Link 
15. Namor, E., Torregrossa, D., Sossan, F., Cherkaoui, R., and Paolone, M., Assessment of battery ageing and implementation of an ageing aware control strategy for a load leveling application of a lithium titanate battery energy storage system. 2016 IEEE 17th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Trondheim, 2016. Link 
16. Sossan, F., Darulova, J., Paolone, M., Kahl, A., Bartlett, S. J., and Lehning, M., Large scale deployment of pv units in existing distribution networks: Optimization of the installation layout. 2016 Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), Genoa, Italy, 2016. Link 
17. Namor, E., Sossan, F., Cherkaoui, R., and Paolone, M., Load leveling and dispatchability of a medium voltage active feeder through battery energy storage systems: Formulation of the control problem and experimental validation. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2016. Link 
18. Sossan, F. and Paolone, M., Integration and operation of utility-scale battery energy storage systems: the EPFL’s experience. 2016 IFAC Workshop on Control of Transmission and Distribution Smart Grids (CTDSG), Prague, 2016. Link 
19. Magnone, L., Sossan, F., Scolari, E., and Paolone, M., Cloud Motion Identification Algorithms Based on All-Sky Images to Support Solar Irradiance Forecast. 2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), Washington, DC, 2017. Link 
20. Fabietti, L., Gorecki, T. T., Namor, E., Sossan, F., Paolone, M., and Jones, C. N., Dispatching active distribution networks through electrochemical storage systems and demand side management. 2017 1st IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), Mauna Lani, HI, 2017. 
21. Sossan, F., Christakou, K., Paolone, M., Gao, X., and Liserre, M., Enhancing the provision of ancillary services from storage systems using smart transformer and smart meters. 2017 IEEE 26th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), Edinburgh, 2017. Link 
22. Scolari, E., Sossan, F., and Paolone, M., A model-based filtering strategy to reconstruct the maximum power generation of curtailed photovoltaic installations: application to forecasting. 2017 IEEE Manchester PowerTech, Manchester, 2017. 
23. Namor, E., Sossan, F., Torregrossa, D., Cherkaoui, R., and Paolone, M., Battery storage system optimal exploitation through physics-based model predictive control. 2017 IEEE Manchester PowerTech, Manchester, 2017. 
24. Gupta, R., Sossan, F., Scolari, E., Namor, E., Fabietti, L., Jones, C., and Paolone, M., An ADMM-based coordination and control strategy for PV and storage to dispatch stochastic prosumers: Theory and experimental validation. 2018 Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), Dublin, 2018. Link 
25. Kalantar-Neyestanaki, M., Bozorg, M., Sossan, F., and Cherkaoui, R., Allocation of frequency control reserve from aggregated resources of active distribution systems. 2018 Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), Dublin, 2018. 
26. Schiapparelli, G.-P., Massucco, S., Namor, E., Sossan, F., Cherkaoui, R., and Paolone, M., Quantification of primary frequency control provision from battery energy storage systems connected to active distribution networks. 2018 Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), Dublin, 2018. 
27. Valenciano López, A., Bozorg, M., Sossan, F., and Paolone, M., An econometric model of the regulating power price for interconnected power systems: the case of the nord pool market. 2018 15th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), Lodz, 2018. Best paper award. 
28. Namor, E., Sossan, F., Scolari, E., Cherkaoui, R., and Paolone, M., Experimental assessment of the prediction performance of dynamic equivalent circuit models of grid-connected battery energy storage systems. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), Sarajevo, 2018. Link 
29. Zuo, Y., Sossan, F., Bozorg, M., and Paolone, M., Dispatch and primary frequency control with electrochemical storage: a system-wise verification. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), Sarajevo, 2018. Link 
30. Kalantar-Neyestanaki, M., Bozorg, M., Sossan, F., and Cherkaoui, R., Allocation of active power reserve from active distribution networks using a cost-benefit approach: Application to Swissgrid network. 2019 IEEE Manchester PowerTech, Milano, 2019. 
31. Gupta, R., Sossan, F., and Paolone, M., Performance assessment of linearized OPF-based distributed real-time predictive control. 2019 IEEE Manchester PowerTech, Milano, 2019. 

Patents and Licenses

1. (Patent) Fabrizio Sossan, Emil Namor, and Mario Paolone. System and method for dispatching an operation of a distribution feeder with heterogeneous prosumers, Dec 2017. US Patent App. 15/633,788. 
2. (License) Licensing agreement of the above-mentioned patented algorithm to Eaton Corporation from 2018. This licensing agreement is managed by the Technological Transfer Office of EPFL.

Invited talks

1. Sossan, F., Large Scale Deployment of PV Units in Existing Distribution Networks: Optimization of the Installation Layout, 2015 SCCER FURIES Annual Conference, Lausanne, 2015. 
2. Paolone, M. and Sossan, F., Aggregation of Power Capabilities of Heterogeneous Resources for the Real-Time Optimal Control of Active Distribution Networks, 2017 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Panel on ”Modern Heuristic Optimization Techniques for Renewable Energy Sources Integration with Energy Storage Devices: Optimization Under Uncertainty” hosted by Dr. Grillo (Politecnico di Milano), Chicago, IL, 2017. 
3. Sossan, F., Provision of Multiple Ancillary Services from Active Distribution Networks, 2018 SCCER FURIES Annual Conference, Lausanne, 2018. 
4. Sossan, F., Dispatch and clustering of ancillary services from distributed storage, 20th Power System Computation Conference (PSCC), Tutorial session on modeling and applications of energy storage systems in power grids hosted by Dr. Howey (University of Oxford), Dublin, 2018. 
5. Sossan, F., Dispatch and Primary Frequency Control with Distributed Electrochemical Storage Sys- tems: a System-wise Validation via Real-Time Simulation, 2017 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Panel on ”Real-Time Simulation and Testing of Multi-Domain Systems using Detailed Modeling and Experimental Validation” hosted by Dr. Omar Faruque (University of California), Portland, OR, 2018. 
6. Sossan, F., PV Hosting Capacity of Swiss Distribution Networks, First national scenario benchmarking workshop, SCCER JASM, Zurich, 2019. 
7. Sossan, F., Leveraging autonomous driving of electric vehicles to provide ancillary services to the distribution grids, 2020 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Panel on ”Electric Vehicles as Flexible Demand-side Resources: Research Progress, Obstacles and Pilot Projects” hosted by Dr. Zechun Hu (Tsinghua University), Montreal, Quebec, 2020.