The important results impacts can be summarised per work-package as follows:
WP1: WP1 deals with effective governance and is therefore not directly related to the impact measurements. The work package has laid the fundations for effective project management and is based on the PRINCE2 project management methodlogy.
WP2: Power-to-gas technology allows for linking the electricity and gas networks. The development of this technology in WP2 therefore plays a key role in delivering the higher penetration rate of renewables aimed at in the PENTAGON project. The specific increase in conversion efficiency from power to gas, which is one of the key objectives in the Work Package 2, is furthermore essential for a cost efficient and environmentally sound integration of this technology in the PENTAGON concept. The work developed so far in this Work Package closely follows the objective of providing the necessary integration between the highly efficient SOE technology with the methanation section, feeding the waste heat from the latter as steam to the former. This step is essential to reach high system efficiencies. The TRL of the WP is currently at 4-5. SOE systems have been demonstrated in a laboratory environment and the present project aims at bringing the complete system to an industrially relevant environment.
WP3: The result of WP3 is the flexibility management platform that will be used for the scheduled technical and economic investigations in WP4 and WP5 for the project test sites. As such, the work of the WP3 team lays the software basis for the evaluation of the achievement of PENTAGON key impacts 1 (higher RES penetration and enhanced synergies among networks) and 2 (increase of revenues) and directly contributes to PENTAGON key impacts 3 (platform for development of aggregation business) and 4 (integration of power2gas). As no quantified results based on real test site data will be generated in WP3, the work package mainly contributes to the latter two key impacts (in line with the impacts stated in the grant agreement).
WP4: WP4 relates to the validation of the PENTAGON platform, and as such contributes to the evaluation of the different criteria used in the key impacts 1, 2 and 3 as stated in the grant agreement.
WP5: At the end of the project, the results obtained in WP5 will allows to evaluate the different criteria used in the key impacts 1, 2 and 3. Key impacts 4 and 5 are not related to WP5.
WP6: The WP6 is strongly connected with the Key Impact 3: Empowering European smart district managers to successfully implement local energy aggregation businesses, allowing for the generation of additional revenues from district flexibility trading and reduced energy costs for local consumers. The current status of the PENTAGON project does not allow the evaluation of the referred impact that directly depend on activities planned for the second part of the project. Therefore, at the moment is not possible evaluate the WP6 for the 3th impact point. WP6 is also connected with the impact point number 5: Contribute to a selection of standardization actions aimed at the design of future energy market, leveraging existing PENTAGON consortium and stakeholder community. As previously described this will be the result of the task 6.5 and at the moment is not possible evaluate the contribution for this impact level.
Further, the publications detailed in the attached technical report demonstrates that the work done in PENTAGON is beyond the current state of art.
