Objective The DREAM project will lay the foundations for a novel heterarchical management approach of complex electrical power grids, providing new mechanisms for consumer involvement in economical and ecological electricity use as well as stable and cost effective integration of distributed renewable resources.Applying the principles of autonomous agent-based systems to the control and management of the electricity distribution grid will allow the system to constantly adjust to current operational conditions and make it robust to exogenous disturbances. In turn, this will allow for greater penetration of intermittent resources and will make the distribution grid more resilient to failures. DREAM will include several layers of controls for normal, congested and post-contingency situations that will use different coordination strategies ranging from market-based transactions to emergency demand response and create ad-hoc federations of agents that will flexibly adjust their hierarchy to current needs.The system will transition smoothly between control layers depending on local operational conditions, so that responses to disturbances will be sized precisely, margins will be used parsimoniously and full network flexibility will be tapped. The system will involve only limited data transfers and no centralized control, promoting extensibility, heterogeneity and easy deployment across countries with different network architectures and hardware manufacturers.DREAM will demonstrate the economic and technical feasibility of these novel control mechanisms thanks to several real-world small-scale pilots dedicated to different use-cases, and computer simulations will be used to study further scalability. Furthermore, economic viability will be model and examined for the various actors in the grid taking into account the unpredictability of consumer power production, market dynamics, novel regulation schemes and the adoption of DREAM mechanisms over time. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectrical engineeringpower engineeringelectric power transmission Programme(s) FP7-ENERGY - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Energy Topic(s) ENERGY.2013.7.1.1 - Development and validation of methods and tools for network integration of distributed renewable resources Call for proposal FP7-SMARTCITIES-2013 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE Address Avenue felix viallet 46 38031 Grenoble cedex 1 France See on map Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Rhône-Alpes Isère Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Sylvie Pitot (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 530 784,00 Participants (14) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all TELVENT ENERGIA SA Participation ended Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Calle valgrande 6 28108 Madrid See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Blanca De Cabo Maza (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window KEMA NEDERLAND BV Participation ended Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address Utrechtseweg 310 6812 AR Arnhem See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Han Lemmens (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window DIACHEIRISTIS ELLINIKOU DIKTYOU DIANOMIS ELEKTRIKIS ENERGEIAS AE Greece EU contribution € 91 200,00 Address Perraivou 20 kallirrois odos 5 117 43 Athina See on map Region Αττική Aττική Κεντρικός Τομέας Αθηνών Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Christos Katsanos (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITAET ST. 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