Project description
Smarter energy on Borkum island
Years ago, a project for a new coal-fired power plant on the island of Borkum in Germany generated concerns over air quality, which led to the decision to make the island fully decarbonised by 2030. The EU-funded ISLANDER project will design a process to make Borkum a fully autonomous and decarbonised energy island system. The project will focus on the introduction of distributed renewable energy + small-scale storage (RESS) systems and complementary short-to-seasonal, large-scale electricity storage and seawater district heating. This will be coupled with heat storage to make use of the heat of the North Sea water as a heating and cooling source. ISLANDER will also demonstrate the deployment of an electric vehicle charging network, a smart IT platform and an optimisation tool to optimally design zero-carbon island energy systems.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringthermodynamic engineeringheat engineering
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energycoal
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineering
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
41092 Sevilla
Spain
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Participants (13)
41300 La Rinconada Sevilla
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70599 Stuttgart
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26757 Borkum
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01013 Vitoria Gasteiz Alava
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01015 Vitoria
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01510 Miñano Mayor, Vitoria-gasteiz
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69001 Lyon
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3000 Leuven
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KW16 3AW Stromness
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11634 Athens
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31100 Demos Leukadas
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37003 Demos Skopelou
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51000 Rijeka
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