Project description
Smart solutions for grid support and charging infrastructure
Rising energy demands coupled with the intermittent nature of renewable sources pose significant challenges to grid stability and sustainability. This gap hampers the integration of renewables and the widespread adoption of electric vehicles, hindering progress toward a greener future. In this context, the EU-funded HAVEN project takes a comprehensive approach to develop a cutting-edge, sustainable, and safe Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS). By integrating high-energy and high-power storage technologies with advanced cognitive functionalities and cyber-secured energy management tools, HAVEN aims to create a modular, scalable, and cost-efficient solution. Moreover, it pioneers the development of a flexible Digital Twin, ensuring predictive maintenance and performance optimisation. The focus is on grid support services and electric vehicle charging.
Objective
HAVEN features a systematic, collaborative, and integrated approach to the design and demonstration of a cutting-edge, sustainable, and safe HESS capable of long duration storage and provision of multiple services for supporting the electrical grid and EV charging infrastructure by coupling complementary technology assets, namely, next-generation high-energy (HE) and high-power (HP) storage technologies, optimised power converter devices with innovative cognitive functionalities, advanced and cyber-secured energy management and control tools and strategies in a novel system architecture. HAVEN seeks to achieve a modular, scalable and cost-efficient solution with the capability to efficiently manage power and energy shares while optimising the system in terms of sizing, CAPEX/OPEX, aging stress and store degradation depending on the specific application. In addition, the project will go a step further by developing a flexible Digital Twin (DT) of the system, valid regardless of the cell chemistry and application and adaptable for second life battery modules, that enables to predict the performance and management of the system over its lifetime, while easing its design and predictive maintenance. All this, leveraged by the first-hand experience of leading academic and industrial players (7 companies). HAVEN’s smart solution will be validated and demonstrated up to TRL 7 in 3 physical and 2 virtual Use-Cases (UCs), covering a wide range of grid support services and considering the specificities of multiple electricity and balancing markets, both in Europe and beyond. To pave the path towards a fast market uptake after the project, the work will also include the development of business models and industrial exploitation strategies, cementing HAVEN’s position as a game-changer in the field of energy storage systems.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectrical engineeringpower engineeringelectric power distribution
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energyhybrid energy
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinator
1831 Diegem
Belgium