Objective The Night Wind project proposes to design grid architectures for Wind Power Production combined with Energy Storage means of load management of Refrigerated Warehouses (Cold Stores). Distributed Renewable Energy Resources have a large potential for Energy supply in Europe with hindsight on reduction of CO2 emissions.However, renewables like Wind and Solar energy are difficult to integrate due to their intermittent contribution. Refrigerated Warehouses are constant power users, day and night. Electricity is converted by the refrigeration installation into thermal energy in refrigerated or frozen products. When the temperature of stored frozen products in the EU is allowed to vary by 1 degree Celcius, the warehouses can act as a 50.000MWh battery on the grid i.e. store over twice the projected 2010 EU average hourly wind power production.Balancing the wind power production with fossil fuel generation systems can lead to inefficient operation of those plants, balancing the wind power production with refrigerated warehouse load management promises to be a clean and cost effective method. For warehouse owners, it has the potential to lower operational (energy) costs.The Night Wind project will address the topics necessary to assess this option for demand side management:- potential, economic and trade aspects of Wind Power DER + Cold Store DSM- design and modelling infrastructures for island operation of Wind Energy + Cold Store DSM- control concepts and algorithms for Wind Energy + Cold Store DSM grid integration- quality preservation of frozen products during minor temperature fluctuations- legal issues- demonstration and introduction outline planThe project will conclude with a demonstration phase for islanded operation, on an existing (Dutch) cold store owned by one of the project partners. The Night Wind project is a medium term solution, a forerunner of long-term hydrogen storage. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysolar energyengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectrical engineeringpower engineeringelectric power distributionengineering and technologymechanical engineeringthermodynamic engineeringengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energycoalengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energywind power Programme(s) FP6-SUSTDEV - Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems: thematic priority 6 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SUSTDEV-1.2.3 - New technologies for energy carriers - Electricity Call for proposal FP6-2004-ENERGY-3 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK - TNO EU contribution No data Address Schoemakerstraat 97 6060 DELFT Netherlands See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET (TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK) Denmark EU contribution No data Address Anker Engelundsvej 1 KGS. LYNGBY See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data FUNDACION CENER-CIEMAT Spain EU contribution No data Address Calle Ciudad de la Innovacion 7 SARRIGUREN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TEHNICE UNIVERSITET SOFIA. Bulgaria EU contribution No data Address Kliment Ohridsky Bd 8 SOFIA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data RWE SUPPLY & TRADING NETHERLANDS B.V. Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Willemsplein 4 HERTOGENBOSCH See on map Total cost No data VERENIGING VAN NEDERLANDSE KOEL- EN VRIESHUIZEN Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Brussellaan 7A 0 EINDHOVEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data PARTNER LOGISTICS BERGEN OP ZOOM B.V. Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Blankenweg 2 BERGEN OP ZOOM See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data