Project description
Simplifying integration of energy storage technologies
There is a wide range of solutions and technologies used to store energy. The list includes batteries, compressed air energy storage and thermal energy storage. Each technology has unique characteristics, such as cost and efficiency. As such, the challenge lies in integrating and managing diverse technologies in a way that maximises their benefits. In this context, the EU-funded INTERSTORE project will develop a middleware solution to simplify the use of storage technology in modern energy systems. It will be technology agnostic and enable the integration of different storage solutions. By doing so, the project seeks to facilitate the integration of different energy storage technologies and provide customers with more options.
Objective
Storage is becoming one of the most critical assets for modern energy systems. At the same time storage is a very diverse universe of solutions and technologies with very different characteristics. InterSTORE plans to address this complexity by developing an innovative middleware that, while virtualising the storage technology, will simplify its use from the point of view of integration platform thanks to a technology agnostic approach.The middleware will facilitate the integration of storage creating an independence from hardware solutions which are critical from customer perspectives to avoid vendor lock-in solutions. It will also facilitate its use from a monetisation perspective making sure that more investments in storage are enabled. InterSTORE middleware will be released as a full open-source product integrating a set of already available standards and protocols in a coherent and advanced architecture.The new InterSTORE solution will be tested and validated in a laboratory environment with the goal to develop testing software to be adopted in the future for interoperability certification. The middleware solution will also be integrated both in open source and commercial platforms that will be integrated in 4 real life demos to enhance the flexibility platforms and analyze the user acceptance and economic value of the new solution. Moreover, new and legacy systems will be taken into account. InterSTORE also has a strong focus towards impact. The solution will become part of existing commercial platforms ensuring that a real adoption will be deployed beyond the end of the project. The consortium will ensure that software maintenance will continue beyond the end of the project with the support of Linux Foundation Energy and that the work done will be considered by on-going standardization activities. SSH experts will perform an impact analysis to maximize the economic impact adopting innovative approaches to data monetization in the context of data spaces.
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinator
52062 Aachen
Germany