Project description
Planning electrical networks for emerging countries
Electrical distribution equipment maintenance is crucial to safe, cost-effective operations. The EU-funded AMPERE project is designed to engineer and commercialise a dedicated solution, to be used for electrical power network information gathering. AMPERE will support decision-making actors (e.g. institutions and public/private companies in charge of managing electrical networks) to collect all information needed to plan electrical network maintenance and upgrades. The project provides the European industry with a clear role to bring innovation and know-how to allow network intervention planning with a limited afforded financial risk, above all, for emerging non-European countries.
Objective
Asset Mapping Platform for Emerging CountRies Electrification
The purpose of the AMPERE (Asset Mapping Platform for Emerging countRies Electrification) project is to engineer and to start to commercialise a dedicated solution, to be used for electrical power network information gathering. AMPERE will support decision making actors (e.g. institutions and public/ private companies in charge to manage electrical network) to collect all needed info to plan electrical network maintenance and upgrade.
In particular, the need for such a solution comes in emerging countries (worldwide) where, despite global electrification rates are significantly progressing, the access to electricity is still far from being achieved in a reliable way. Indeed, the challenge facing such communities goes beyond the lack of infrastructure assets: what is needed is a mapping of already deployed infrastructure (not known!) in order to perform holistic assessment of the energy demand and its expected growth over time.
In such a context, Galileo is a key enabler -especially, considering its free-of-charge High Accuracy Service (HAS) and its highly precise E5 AltBOC code measurements- as a core component to map electric utilities, optimise decision making process about the network development and therefore increase time and cost efficiency, offering more convenient way to manage energy distribution.
These aspects confer to the AMPERE project a worldwide dimension, having European industry the clear role to bring innovation and know-how to allow network intervention planning with a limited afforded financial risk above all for emerging non-European countries.
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
00198 Roma
Italy