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.
Field of science
- /engineering and technology/environmental engineering/energy and fuels/renewable energy
- /engineering and technology/environmental engineering/air pollution engineering
Call for proposal
H2020-LC-SC3-2020-EC-ES-SCC
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Funding Scheme
IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
41092 Sevilla
Spain
Participants (10)
41300 La Rinconada Sevilla
70599 Stuttgart
26757 Borkum
01013 Vitoria Gasteiz Alava
01510 Miñano Mayor, Vitoria-gasteiz
69001 Lyon
3000 Leuven
KW16 3AW Stromness
11634 Athens
51000 Rijeka
