Project description
Storage and flexibility as an alternative to traditional grid designing
The rapid development of renewable energy sources (RES) poses new complex challenges for transmission and distribution network design. Network investments require a long building period and could even result in outdated infrastructures when works are completed. New technologies like storage and flexible use of existing demand could potentially reduce this risk and allow overall costs reduction. The EU-funded FlexPlan project aims to create a new instrument that will improve transmission and distribution grid design. It is based on a new approach that considers storage facilities and flexibility as an alternative to traditional grid designing. These technologies could help reducing operating costs as well as limit potential environmental impacts. The new instrument will be proven and then used in six regional frameworks to estimate the role that storage and flexible resources can play. Final product of the project will be the elaboration of regulatory guidelines destined to policymakers.
Field of science
- /engineering and technology/environmental engineering/air pollution engineering
Call for proposal
H2020-LC-SC3-2019-ES-SCC
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
20134 Milano
Italy
Participants (12)
00198 Roma
11040 Beograd
1000 Ljubljana
3000 Leuven
1348 Louvain-la-neuve
2685 038 Sacavem
1749 061 Lisboa
7465 Trondheim
20009 Donostia/san Sebastian (Gipuzkoa)
00156 Roma
44227 Dortmund
2400 Mol
