Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SMARTGYsum (Research and Training Network for Smart and Green Energy Systems and Business Models)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2021-10-01 do 2023-09-30
The general objective of SMARTGYsum is to drive the evolution of European Electric Energy Systems by integrating the knowledge on PEL, ELE and ICT as well as their socioeconomical aspects with the creation of new businesses models to cover the green economy energy requirements (sustainability, efficiency, reliability and
manageability).
Specifically, SMARTGYsum establishes scientific and training objectives corresponding with all the stages of Electric Energy Systems to develop the knowledge and capacities required for:
1) The generation and storage of electric energy using Renewable Electric Energy Generation (REEG) sources and distributed energy resources (DER), and their integration in ESS.
2) The distribution of electric energy from generator to consumers, ensuring the optimal efficiency of the system through collaborative models and radial networks.
3) The analysis of the socioeconomic elements, among them the consumption patterns and behaviours, consumer engagement and other aspects that allow to understand and promote new business models to tackle with the
customer prosumption concept, as well as the market uptake of energy and ICT innovation.
4) Coordination of all sectors of Electric Energy Systems fusing smart grids, combining IoT, sensor networks, Big Data, AI and together with societal/social and behavioural aspects.
5) To perform knowledge networks and platforms to promote the required changes in the academia, industry, policy and society.
manageability).
Specifically, SMARTGYsum establishes scientific and training objectives corresponding with all the stages of Electric Energy Systems to develop the knowledge and capacities required for:
1) The generation and storage of electric energy using Renewable Electric Energy Generation (REEG) sources and distributed energy resources (DER), and their integration in ESS.
2) The distribution of electric energy from generator to consumers, ensuring the optimal efficiency of the system through collaborative models and radial networks.
3) The analysis of the socioeconomic elements, among them the consumption patterns and behaviours, consumer engagement and other aspects that allow to understand and promote new business models to tackle with the
customer prosumption concept, as well as the market uptake of energy and ICT innovation.
4) Coordination of all sectors of Electric Energy Systems fusing smart grids, combining IoT, sensor networks, Big Data, AI and together with societal/social and behavioural aspects.
5) To perform knowledge networks and platforms to promote the required changes in the academia, industry, policy and society.
The project execution aligns with the DoA plan.
Initial actions under WP1, "Management," involved committee selection, communication planning, recruitment execution, and progress monitoring through regular meetings. The accomplishments of WP1 include successfully recruiting 15 Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) and conducting Kick-off and Intermediate Meetings. Despite completing ESR recruitment, two positions were left vacant due to dismissal or withdrawal, leading to the initiation of new recruitment processes. Currently, 14 out of 15 ESRs are recruited.
Under WP2 “Green and Renewable distributed electric energy generation and storing” new topologies, control strategies, condition monitoring, and improvements in reliability have been investigated for inverters. A new energy management system has been simulated, involving renewable generation and storage, and the operation and control of a microgrid has been studied as the basic unit to perform Virtual Power Plants.
In WP3 “Smart energy distribution. Microgrids and grid of microgrids”, bidirectional energy chargers and their capability to provide ancillary services have been studied, as well as their connection to traction networks. The topology and performance of DC-DC converters for fast charging stations and smart transformers have been studied.
WP4 “End user of energy and prosumers” undertakes an analysis of new consumption models and prosumer trends, for initiating the design of the energy router supervisor. A modulation strategy for power converter topologies ushers in several noteworthy advantages. New methods have been formulated for Photovoltaic Module Parameter Identification. Appliance modelling and a simulation model is developed that generates realistic load profiles in different conditions.
WP5 centers around "Green economy models and Management Systems." Integrated strategies to manage energy flexibility in buildings and energy communities are under development. Also, a digital twin has been developed to design and simulate electric systems, prosumer activities, and grid operability. Policies frameworks and barriers for energy communities are under study, as well as business models.
WP6 is dedicated to "Network-wide trading" and has organized three doctoral schools with 16 courses for ESRs, covering technical and soft-skills topics. There is ongoing development of a novel course platform, and all ESRs have signed personal career development plans, recorded as deliverables. The continuous development anticipates reflecting the exploratory nature of research and emerging opportunities.
WP7, titled "Dissemination and Exploitation of Results," ensures project updates through a dedicated website (https://smartgysum.eu/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)). The website includes comprehensive project information, partner contact details, ESR profiles, network training activities, and ongoing research progress. A non-public section allows authorized access to the document repository and private information. Other dissemination activities have been performed in conference, scientific dissemination events for general public (like the European Researchers’ Night), and media.
Finally, WP8, known as "Ethics requirement," established the Research Ethics Committee (REC) during the Kick-off Meeting. REC is instrumental in ensuring the project's adherence to fundamental ethics principles in research, complying with H2020 guidelines and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. REC actively participated in fellows' recruitment during the project.
Initial actions under WP1, "Management," involved committee selection, communication planning, recruitment execution, and progress monitoring through regular meetings. The accomplishments of WP1 include successfully recruiting 15 Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) and conducting Kick-off and Intermediate Meetings. Despite completing ESR recruitment, two positions were left vacant due to dismissal or withdrawal, leading to the initiation of new recruitment processes. Currently, 14 out of 15 ESRs are recruited.
Under WP2 “Green and Renewable distributed electric energy generation and storing” new topologies, control strategies, condition monitoring, and improvements in reliability have been investigated for inverters. A new energy management system has been simulated, involving renewable generation and storage, and the operation and control of a microgrid has been studied as the basic unit to perform Virtual Power Plants.
In WP3 “Smart energy distribution. Microgrids and grid of microgrids”, bidirectional energy chargers and their capability to provide ancillary services have been studied, as well as their connection to traction networks. The topology and performance of DC-DC converters for fast charging stations and smart transformers have been studied.
WP4 “End user of energy and prosumers” undertakes an analysis of new consumption models and prosumer trends, for initiating the design of the energy router supervisor. A modulation strategy for power converter topologies ushers in several noteworthy advantages. New methods have been formulated for Photovoltaic Module Parameter Identification. Appliance modelling and a simulation model is developed that generates realistic load profiles in different conditions.
WP5 centers around "Green economy models and Management Systems." Integrated strategies to manage energy flexibility in buildings and energy communities are under development. Also, a digital twin has been developed to design and simulate electric systems, prosumer activities, and grid operability. Policies frameworks and barriers for energy communities are under study, as well as business models.
WP6 is dedicated to "Network-wide trading" and has organized three doctoral schools with 16 courses for ESRs, covering technical and soft-skills topics. There is ongoing development of a novel course platform, and all ESRs have signed personal career development plans, recorded as deliverables. The continuous development anticipates reflecting the exploratory nature of research and emerging opportunities.
WP7, titled "Dissemination and Exploitation of Results," ensures project updates through a dedicated website (https://smartgysum.eu/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)). The website includes comprehensive project information, partner contact details, ESR profiles, network training activities, and ongoing research progress. A non-public section allows authorized access to the document repository and private information. Other dissemination activities have been performed in conference, scientific dissemination events for general public (like the European Researchers’ Night), and media.
Finally, WP8, known as "Ethics requirement," established the Research Ethics Committee (REC) during the Kick-off Meeting. REC is instrumental in ensuring the project's adherence to fundamental ethics principles in research, complying with H2020 guidelines and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. REC actively participated in fellows' recruitment during the project.
The ground-breaking nature of SMARTGYsum lays on the integration of different technical and socioeconomical research dimensions to contribute to the transformation of the electric energy systems (EES) beyond the state of the art of green economy models and management systems. SMARTGYsum will bring together all stages of smart grids (generation, distribution and use of energy) through the research of innovative business models that tackle the existing challenges in the evolution of EES into collaborative smart grids (CSGs) in each of the mentioned stages, while covering the technological developments needed to meet the requirements of the green economy.
In SMARTGYsum, ESRs will research for the design and validation of business models that will boost the collaborative operation of distributed and renewable generation systems, distribution and microgrid and energy management and consumption control systems. SMARTGYsum will also contribute to the development of guidelines to create favourable conditions for the deployment of innovative business models, to help public authorities creating adequate framework conditions for innovation in REES. In addition, SMARTGYsum partners will research into materials, devices, applications, infrastructures, and societal aspects in a comprehensive and multidisciplinary manner involved in a consistent framework and consortium at a European dimension, developing devices, algorithms and procedures aimed at the different stakeholders within Renewable Electric Energy Systems (REES) to improve their sustainability, efficiency, reliability and manageability. Moreover, SMARTGYsum will also pursue the interoperability of the project results, ensuring the use of standards and interfaces that allow the integration and exchange of all the components and the information, to ensure the maintainability and sustainability of the project results and collaboration lines in the long term.
SMARTGYsum contributes to long-term structural challenges and also proposes an innovative programme for training ESRs following a collaborative, transferable, inter and multidisciplinary approach, aimed at raising the employability and career opportunities of ESRs within the public and the private sectors, as well as their potential for conducting innovation, entrepreneurship and for impacting in the European society at medium and long-term.
In SMARTGYsum, ESRs will research for the design and validation of business models that will boost the collaborative operation of distributed and renewable generation systems, distribution and microgrid and energy management and consumption control systems. SMARTGYsum will also contribute to the development of guidelines to create favourable conditions for the deployment of innovative business models, to help public authorities creating adequate framework conditions for innovation in REES. In addition, SMARTGYsum partners will research into materials, devices, applications, infrastructures, and societal aspects in a comprehensive and multidisciplinary manner involved in a consistent framework and consortium at a European dimension, developing devices, algorithms and procedures aimed at the different stakeholders within Renewable Electric Energy Systems (REES) to improve their sustainability, efficiency, reliability and manageability. Moreover, SMARTGYsum will also pursue the interoperability of the project results, ensuring the use of standards and interfaces that allow the integration and exchange of all the components and the information, to ensure the maintainability and sustainability of the project results and collaboration lines in the long term.
SMARTGYsum contributes to long-term structural challenges and also proposes an innovative programme for training ESRs following a collaborative, transferable, inter and multidisciplinary approach, aimed at raising the employability and career opportunities of ESRs within the public and the private sectors, as well as their potential for conducting innovation, entrepreneurship and for impacting in the European society at medium and long-term.