2,7 miljoen voor ERA-Net Plus Smart Grids
22 januari 2016
In de eerste ronde van het Europese samenwerkingsprogramma ERA-Net Plus Smart Grids heeft NWO Exacte Wetenschappen drie projecten toegekend.
Er was ca. 2,7 miljoen euro beschikbaar voor het aanstellen van Nederlandse onderzoekers in transnationale projecten. De Nederlandse deelname aan ERA-Net Plus Smart Grids werd gefinancierd door NWO en het TKI Switch2SmartGrids (nu opgegaan in TKI Urban Energy). De verschillende onderzoeken
zullen zich richten op het ontwikkelen van slimme en duurzame energiesystemen, ook wel Smart Grids genoemd.
Hieronder de drie toegekende projecten:
Co-Evolution of Smart Energy Products and Services - hoofdaanvrager: prof. Angele Reinders (UT)
To develop a viable market for residential smart energy systems, the (re)design of innovative product-service combinations in smart grids must be more responsive to the demands of various stakeholders in terms of performance, costs, reliability, durability and comfort.
Therefore, our proposal focus on interdisciplinary research on stakeholders practices, users energy behavior, local trading of energy, customer driven products, demand side management, local production of sustainable electricity, e-mobility and forecasting techniques in the Netherlands and
Austria. We will look into existing and new smart grid pilots in these two countries. The existing pilots, more than 10, are typically residential smart grid pilots. The novel demonstration projects happen to be in the field of e-vehicles and their charging by solar power, fuel cells and
existing means from the grid. The findings will be compared at a transnational level to boost the innovation process across national boundaries.
DC Distribution Smart Grids - hoofdaanvrager: dr. Pavol Bauer (TUD)
The electrical power system is facing challenges due to the increasing amount of distributed energy resources with stochastic behaviour. While the distribution grid has traditionally operated with alternating current (ac), nowadays most devices operate with direct current (dc)
internally, and most distributed renewable resources generate power in dc. Moreover, storage components as batteries and supercapacitors have a dc character.
DC Distribution Smart Grids is an interdisciplinary project that aims at enabling a straightforward integration of smart grid system technologies, creation of market opportunities and stakeholders adoption through the development and implementation of dc distribution smart grids. The dc
distribution smart grids will be based on modular and scalable concepts and will be validated in two demonstration sites, one in the Netherlands and one in Switzerland. Innovative smart markets and smart grid applications such as active demand side management will be implemented.
Demand response for grid-friendly quasiautarkic energy cooperatives - hoofdaanvrager: dr. Michael Kaisers (CWI)
The energy transition towards (fluctuating) renewable electricity generation requires more flexible demand response. This demand response is possible, due to decreasing storage prices, flexible thermal loads, electric vehicle charging schedules etc., but it requires intelligent
coordination. Since centralized solutions are intractable due to privacy concerns, limited computational scalability and the individuals concern to maintain decisional autonomy, this project proposes decentralized coordination in quasi-autark energy cooperatives, striving for
operational energy balance. This German-Dutch research project develops and evaluates the coordination mechanisms and the technological platform for the energy cooperative, to achieve cost efficiency or maximum autarky by shared exploitation of storage and other flexible resources. A
transnational energy market aims to further push cost efficiency when the two pilot cooperatives are more widely replicated and adopted in future scenarios.
Meer informatie :
* NWO nieuwsbericht
* TKI Urban Energy
Meer informatie is ook te vinden op de website http://www.eranet-smartgridsplus.eu/research-calls/
Bron: NWO