Project description
Boosting cross-border transmission of electricity
Electricity cannot be stored. This is why it makes sense for Europe to boost interconnections – so that electricity can be transmitted and sold immediately. Improving cross-border trade is important to ensure the integration of European electricity markets, which in turn will ensure secure, affordable and sustainable energy supplies. The EU-funded FARCROSS project will connect major stakeholders of the energy value chain and integrate hardware and software solutions to 'unlock' resources for cross-border electricity flows and regional cooperation. These solutions aim to increase grid observability to facilitate system operations at a regional level. It will also study the non-harmonisation of national regulations and measures to formulate recommendations on how to avoid distortions and maximise cross-border flows.
Objective
To achieve its energy goals EU needs to establish a geographically large market by initially improving its cross-border electricity interconnections. A geographically large market, based on imports and exports of electricity, could increase the level of competition, boost the EU’s security of electricity supply and integrate more renewables into energy markets. Electricity should, as far as possible, flow between Member States as easily as it currently flows within Member States, so as to increase sustainability potential and real competition as well as to drive economic efficiency of the energy system. To this end, FARCROSS aims to address this challenge by connecting major stakeholders of the energy value chain and demonstrating integrated hardware and software solutions that will facilitate the “unlocking” of the resources for the cross-border electricity flows and regional cooperation. The project will promote state-of-the-art technologies to enhance the exploitation/capacity/efficiency of transmission grid assets, either on the generation or the transmission level. The hardware and software solutions will increase grid observability to facilitate system operations at a regional level, exploit the full potential of transmission corridors for increased electricity flows that will facilitate transition to flow-based regional market coupling, consider cross-border connections and their specific ICT and grid infrastructure, planning to use a wide-area protection approach to ensure the safe integration of renewable energy sources into the grid, mitigate disturbances, increase power system stability. An innovative regional forecasting platform will be demonstrated for improved prognosis of renewable generation and demand response and a capacity reserves optimization tool will be tested to maximize cross-border flows. The non-harmonization of national regulation will be studied and measures will be recommended to avoid distortion of the technology benefits.
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1080 Bruxelles / Brussel
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10443 Athens
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1618 Sofia
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1031 Budapest
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1220 Wien
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030786 BUCURESTI SECTOR 3
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10000 Zagreb
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71000 Sarajevo
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1001 Tirana
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50018 Zaragoza
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1111 Budapest
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060042 Bucharest
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10000 Zagreb
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D10CA33 Dublin 10
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28046 Madrid
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51000 Rijeka
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1466 Luxembourg
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15125 Marousi Athina
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91126 Schwabach
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1061 Lefkosia
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1784 Sofia
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1784 Sofia
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7633 PECS
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1000 Ljubjana
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N1 7GU London
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WC1H 9BB London
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1000 Ljubljana
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1051 Budapest
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1527 Sofia
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1000 Ljubljana
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1134 Budapest
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