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European Research Infrastructure supporting Smart Grid and Smart Energy Systems Research, Technology Development, Validation and Roll Out – Second Edition

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DEENESFRITPL

Addressing Europe's energy transition challenges

What will Europe's energy system look like in 10 years? The 2030 targets for decarbonising the EU economy have been agreed. The transition is underway. The integration of renewable energy resources and turning the existing power system into a smart grid are among the top goals. The EU-funded ERIGrid 2.0 project will address the challenges of the energy transition by widening and advancing access to European research infrastructure. Serving as a single entry point for researchers active in smart grids and integration of renewables, the project will develop a broad spectrum of improved services, methods and tools. It is the third phase. The first was the DERIri project, which focused on the provision of access around distributed energy resources. The second phase was the ERIGrid project, which successfully broadened the services to the system level.

Objective

A driving force for the realization of a sustainable energy supply is the integration of renewable energy resources. Due to their stochastic generation behaviour, energy utilities are confronted with a more complex operation of the underlying power grids. Additionally, due to technology developments, controllable loads, integration with other energy sources, changing regulatory rules, and the market liberalization, the system’s operation needs adaptation. Proper operational concepts and intelligent automation provide the basis to turn the existing power system into an intelligent entity, a smart grid. While reaping the benefits that come along with those intelligent behaviours, it is expected that system-level developments and testing will play a significantly larger role in realizing future solutions and technologies. Proper validation approaches, concepts, and tools are partly missing until now.

In order to tackle the integration of renewables in a first phase the FP7 RI project DERri focused on the provision of access around distributed energy resources. In a second phase, the provided portfolio of services has been successfully enlarged in the H2020 RI project ERIGrid to the system-level covering mainly electric power system, information and communication issues. However, in order to fulfil the challenging goals of the European Union towards a clean, secure, and efficient energy transition to face climate and energy challenges, additional research services are required.

In a third phase ERIGrid 2.0 addresses these challenging energy transition aims by widening and advancing the provided RI access. As a single-entry point for researchers active in smart grids, smart energy systems, and integration of renewables, it offers a broad spectrum of improved services, methods, and tools. This will further strengthen the technical leadership of Europe in the energy domain and foster research and innovation to extend its leading role.

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Call for proposal

H2020-INFRAIA-2018-2020

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Sub call

H2020-INFRAIA-2019-1

Funding Scheme

RIA - Research and Innovation action

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AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH
Net EU contribution
€ 890 312,50
Address
GIEFINGGASSE 4
1210 Wien
Austria

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Ostösterreich Wien Wien
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Total cost
€ 890 312,50

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