Project description
Digital management for renewable energy systems
The growing energy demand in various sectors and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions present significant challenges to the energy industry. The sector needs to adopt digitalisation as a critical driver for transformation in Europe and globally. In this context, the EU-funded INTEREST project aims to develop a hierarchical distributed Model Predictive Control system for real-time monitoring and energy management of renewable energy systems to improve sustainability, stability, reliability, and replicability. It seeks to bring intelligence to the system through innovative tools, enabling a proactive approach to improve energy flow control for greater efficiency. INTEREST will implement predictive maintenance and joint energy and health management, aligning with the EU’s policy framework for climate and energy.
Objective
The increase in energy demand in industry, buildings, services, and transportation together with the associated greenhouse gas emissions bring great challenges to the energy sector. To face them, this sector must aggressively look for more efficient ways of operations so as to support this growing consumption, avoid supply problems and, at the same time, reduce operating costs. The answer to these challenges lies in digitalization, which is one of the essential pillars for the transformation of this sector in Europe and worldwide. INTEREST goes beyond the state of the art, with the objective of developing a hierarchical distributed Model Predictive
Control for real-time monitoring and energy management of renewable energy systems with improved features such as sustainability, stability, reliability, and replicability. This objective will be addressed using innovative tools that will bring intelligence to the system, allowing a more preventive than reactive performance, which is fundamental to overcoming the challenges already presented. Such innovations are essential to increase the system's efficiency by improving the control of the energy flows. INTEREST will bring to practice the concepts of predictive maintenance and joint energy and health management by using data intelligence for a better understanding of demand, predicting, and anticipating undesirable faults in a self-healing operation. The ending status of INTEREST concept can be expressed by TRL5 aiming to boost the European outstanding position in global applied science. This way INTEREST solution presents a great potential of being a leading exporting technology focusing on the emergent markets worldwide and ensuring the political priorities of sustainable.
Strongly aligned with the EU policy framework for climate and energy, the outcomes are oriented towards the development of comprehensive, innovative, and evidence-based frameworks to move Europe into a technological leadership position in this field.
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility
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HORIZON.2.5.2 - Energy Supply
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-03
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7034 Trondheim
Norway
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