Periodic Reporting for period 3 - FARCROSS (FAcilitating Regional CROSS-border Electricity Transmission through Innovation)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2022-04-01 do 2023-09-30
The "Clean Energy for All Europeans" package identifies inadequate cross-zonal capacity as a significant obstacle to integrating electricity markets. According to ENTSO-e, an additional 93 GW of cross-border capacity is needed in Europe by 2040.
The FARCROSS project aimed to overcome this challenge, focusing particularly on Southeast Europe. This included forming a wide-ranging market through better cross-border electricity connections. A market of this scale, reliant on electricity imports and exports, could heighten competition, enhance the EU's electricity supply security, and allow for greater integration of RES into the energy markets. The project envisioned electricity flowing between Member States as seamlessly as within them, enhancing sustainability, competition, and the economic efficiency of the energy system. FARCROSS tackled this by linking key energy value chain stakeholders and showcasing integrated hardware and software solutions to enable cross-border electricity flow and regional collaboration.
The project's goals included developing advanced software solutions to boost cross-border capacity and grid services potential, creating a comprehensive set of technical and market codes to harmonize network codes, and devising a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) for planning cross-border infrastructure investments. It also aimed to demonstrate hardware and software technologies in realistic settings, thereby encouraging further research and new market opportunities. This was supported by efficiently disseminating FARCROSS results to essential stakeholders.
In its final phase, FARCROSS evaluated technologies that reached a TRL of 8. This evaluation established a solid base for their use in improving cross-border electricity trade efficiency. An extensive review across 18 key categories confirmed these technologies' suitability for real-world application, promising benefits like cost reduction, enhanced efficiency, and lower environmental impact.
The FARCROSS project aimed to overcome this challenge, focusing particularly on Southeast Europe. This included forming a wide-ranging market through better cross-border electricity connections. A market of this scale, reliant on electricity imports and exports, could heighten competition, enhance the EU's electricity supply security, and allow for greater integration of RES into the energy markets. The project envisioned electricity flowing between Member States as seamlessly as within them, enhancing sustainability, competition, and the economic efficiency of the energy system. FARCROSS tackled this by linking key energy value chain stakeholders and showcasing integrated hardware and software solutions to enable cross-border electricity flow and regional collaboration.
The project's goals included developing advanced software solutions to boost cross-border capacity and grid services potential, creating a comprehensive set of technical and market codes to harmonize network codes, and devising a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) for planning cross-border infrastructure investments. It also aimed to demonstrate hardware and software technologies in realistic settings, thereby encouraging further research and new market opportunities. This was supported by efficiently disseminating FARCROSS results to essential stakeholders.
In its final phase, FARCROSS evaluated technologies that reached a TRL of 8. This evaluation established a solid base for their use in improving cross-border electricity trade efficiency. An extensive review across 18 key categories confirmed these technologies' suitability for real-world application, promising benefits like cost reduction, enhanced efficiency, and lower environmental impact.
At its five demonstration sites, the FARCROSS consortium showcased a variety of hardware and software innovations. These included modular power flow control, dynamic line rating, wide area monitoring and control systems, and optimization tools tailored for cross-border electricity transmission.
The development of 30 KPIs enabled us to quantify the success of our solutions. The outcomes of the Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) for the FARCROSS project present a convincing case for the financial soundness of all the proposed initiatives. This economic strength highlights the project's capability to make significant positive changes to the energy sectors of the involved countries.
The leaders of the various demonstrations developed bespoke business models, calculating the costs and benefits for potential users of their KERs. These models were refined based on the final results, offering a more accurate view of the potential for exploiting FARCROSS’s innovations.
The development of 30 KPIs enabled us to quantify the success of our solutions. The outcomes of the Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) for the FARCROSS project present a convincing case for the financial soundness of all the proposed initiatives. This economic strength highlights the project's capability to make significant positive changes to the energy sectors of the involved countries.
The leaders of the various demonstrations developed bespoke business models, calculating the costs and benefits for potential users of their KERs. These models were refined based on the final results, offering a more accurate view of the potential for exploiting FARCROSS’s innovations.
The project promoted state-of-the-art technologies to enhance the exploitation/capacity/efficiency of transmission grid assets, either on the generation or the transmission level. The hardware and software solutions increased grid observability to facilitate system operations at a regional level, exploited the full potential of transmission corridors for increased electricity flows that facilitated transition to flow-based regional market coupling, considered cross-border connections and their specific ICT and grid infrastructure, planning to use a wide-area protection approach to ensure the safe integration of renewable energy sources into the grid, mitigated disturbances, increased power system stability. An innovative regional forecasting platform was demonstrated for improved prognosis of renewable generation and demand response, and a capacity reserves optimization tool was tested to maximize cross-border flows. The non-harmonization of national regulation was studied and measures were recommended to avoid distortion of the technology benefits.
The FARCROSS consortium focused on a comprehensive assessment of the five technologies within the FARCROSS project, i.e. MPFC, DLR-H, WAMPAC, EUROPAN, and OPTIM-CAP. This evaluation was accompanied by recommendations based on key criteria including technical benefits, economic viability, environmental impact, regulatory compliance, interoperability, scalability potential, replicability potential, cybersecurity, social acceptance, knowledge transfer, market integration, sustainability index, operational efficiency, further innovation and research potential, cross-border collaboration, adaptability, and long-term impact.
The FARCROSS consortium focused on a comprehensive assessment of the five technologies within the FARCROSS project, i.e. MPFC, DLR-H, WAMPAC, EUROPAN, and OPTIM-CAP. This evaluation was accompanied by recommendations based on key criteria including technical benefits, economic viability, environmental impact, regulatory compliance, interoperability, scalability potential, replicability potential, cybersecurity, social acceptance, knowledge transfer, market integration, sustainability index, operational efficiency, further innovation and research potential, cross-border collaboration, adaptability, and long-term impact.