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Testing and Evaluating Sophisticated information and communication Technologies for enaBling scalablE smart griD Deployment

Project description

Modernisation of Europe’s electricity network infrastructure

Often taken for granted, Europe’s electricity networks provide vital links between electricity providers and consumers. Today’s grids have evolved over more than 100 years. The old electricity network infrastructure no longer meets today’s energy needs. This is why the grid continues to transform in order to respond to new challenges and opportunities. Smart grids can intelligently integrate generators, consumers and energy storage to efficiently deliver electricity. The EU-funded TESTBED2 project is a major interdisciplinary project (combining electronic and electrical engineering, computing sciences and macroeconomics) with the aim of preventing poor performance and increasing functionality. The overall objective of the project is to coordinate the action of 12 universities and five enterprises to develop and test various promising strategies to ensure the scalability of smart grid services.

Objective

Smart grids represent an electricity network that can intelligently integrate generators, consumers and energy storage in order to efficiently deliver electricity. There is a clear consensus that smart grids can provide many innovative services – to date the EC has devoted €360,413 million to support 527 projects on developing smart grid services. Decision-making plays a vital role in these services. But the computational complexity of decision-makings could grow explosively with the size of smart grid infrastructure, the number of devices/users, or the amount of data; If this scalability issue was underestimated, smart grid services can end up with poor performance or limited function, making these services impractical to meet the needs of real-life or industrial-scale deployment. Hence, there is an urgent need to solve the research problem: to what extent the performance and function of smart grids can be maintained without having significant increase of the computational complexity when its scale is changed in terms of smart grid infrastructure size or the number of devices/users? TESTBED2 is a major interdisciplinary project that combines wisdoms in three academic disciplines - Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Computing Sciences and Macroeconomics, to address the aforesaid problem. The main focus is on developing new techniques to improve the scalability of smart grid services, particularly considering the joint evolution of decarbonised power, heat and transport systems. Moreover, new experimental testbeds will be created to evaluate scalable smart grid solutions. Overall, the main objective of this project is to coordinate the action of 13 Universities (7 in EU, 3 in US, and 3 in China) and 5 enterprises (2 SMEs and 2 large enterprises) with complementary expertise to develop and test various promising strategies for ensuring the scalability of smart grid services, thereby facilitating successful deployment and full roll-out of smart grid technologies.

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MSCA-RISE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)

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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019

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Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
Net EU contribution

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€ 202 400,00
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STOCKTON ROAD THE PALATINE CENTRE
DH1 3LE DURHAM
United Kingdom

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Region
North East (England) Tees Valley and Durham Durham CC
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost

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€ 335 800,00

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