Project description
Securing the future of smart energy systems
In today’s fast-evolving world, our reliance on smart energy systems is growing rapidly, spanning multiple sectors like electricity, heating, cooling, industry, buildings, and transportation. However, the complexity and uncertainties associated with these systems pose a challenge to their dependability and trustworthiness. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the DENSE project aims to enhance the robustness of the smart energy systems and develop preventive and corrective actions, ensuring a sustainable and dependable energy future. The project will prioritise attributes like availability, reliability, safety, integrity and maintainability. With a firm commitment to operational robustness and dependability, this project aligns seamlessly with the European Green Deal and the opportunities presented by the digital age.
Objective
The DN DENSE is addressing individual research projects and training of Doctoral Candidates (DCs) in the innovative dependable
engineering of Smart Energy Systems (SESs) with the main focus on robustness as well as preventive and corrective actions under uncertainty.
Within this concept, the term Smart Energy Systems (SESs) refers to a holistic cross-sectoral approach (e.g. electricity, heating, cooling,
industry, buildings and transportation) aimed at excelling the transformation towards sustainable and achievable future energy systems. Hence, it both covers but also extends beyond the Smart Grid approach, which is mainly focused on the electricity sector. Consequently, SESs exhibit the following attributes:
(i) Complex interactions on sub-system and cross-sectoral systems-of-systems levels;
(ii) Cyber-physical characteristics with digital and physical network connections;
(iii) Ability to operate in non-stationary, uncertain and severe environments.
Dependability of complex networks, such as SESs, characterizes their ability to deliver service that can justifiably be trusted. Thus, dependability comprises system attributes, such as availability, reliability, safety, integrity and maintainability. A key requirement of dependability is the desire for providing justifiable trust in the system performance. Hence, rigorous systems engineering yielding provable performance guarantees throughout the systems life time is already required at the design stage. This challenge is tackled in DENSE with a focus on operational robustness as well as preventive and corrective actions in SESs. As a consequence, DENSE is well-aligned with the EU Commissions headline ambitions on the European Green Deal as well as the strive for grasping the opportunities from the digital age, while increasing social fairness and prosperity.
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Programme(s)
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Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral Networks
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Call for proposal
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