Providing flexibility to the grid by enabling VPPs to offer both fast and slow dynamics control services

Project description

Towards a new era of energy flexibility

The increased share of renewable energy in the energy mix is causing the energy market to change. The shift towards decentralised and renewable energy production calls for revising the concept of virtual power plants (VPPs): cloud-based control centres that aggregate the capacities of heterogeneous distributed energy resources for the purposes of enhancing power generation and trading or selling power on the electricity market. VPPs need to be flexible to respond to day-ahead and intraday markets and react quickly when it comes to providing ancillary grid services. The EU-funded EdgeFLEX project will explore optimal architectures that will enable VPPs to offer both fast and slow dynamics control services. The proposed solutions could ultimately lead to greater market penetration as well as stable and secure supply of renewable energy sources.

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.3.3. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy
• H2020-EU.3.3.2. - Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply

Topic(s)

• LC-SC3-RES-16-2019 - Development of solutions based on renewable sources that provide flexibility to the energy system

Call for proposal

H2020-LC-SC3-2019-NZE-RES-CC
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Funding Scheme

RIA - Research and Innovation action

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Coordinator

ERICSSON GMBH

Address

Prinzenallee 21
40549 Dusseldorf
Germany

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

EU contribution

€ 1 022 812,50

Participants (9)

ALPIQ AG

Switzerland

EU contribution

€ 841 435

Address

Bahnhofquai 12
4600 Olten

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

B.A.U.M. CONSULT GMBH

Germany

EU contribution

€ 465 500

Address

Gotzinger Str. 48/50
81371 Munchen

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

CENTRUL ROMAN AL ENERGIEI - CRE

Romania

EU contribution

€ 276 000

Address

Strada Sofia 6 Etaj 1 Ap 1 Sector 1
011837 Bucuresti

Activity type

Other

INEA INFORMATIZACIJA ENERGETIKA AVTOMATIZACIJA DOO

Slovenia

EU contribution

€ 248 250

Address

Stegne 11
1000 Ljubljana

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN

Germany

EU contribution

€ 828 250

Address

Templergraben 55
52062 Aachen

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

SWW WUNSIEDEL GMBH

Germany

EU contribution

€ 295 000

Address

Rot Kreuz Strasse 6
95632 Wunsiedel

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN

Ireland

EU contribution

€ 348 750

Address

Belfield
4 Dublin

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA

Italy

EU contribution

€ 276 250

Address

Via Zamboni 33
40126 Bologna

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Ireland

EU contribution

€ 397 500

Address

Cork Road
X91 Waterford

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments