Background
For more informasjon on the Smart grids programme, please visit the programme's official website.
Projects (first call 2010-2012)
IMPROSUME
(The Impact of Prosumers in Smart Grid based Energy Market)
The project idea focuses on prosumer (combined producer and consumer) roles and behaviour in a market model for integration in power grids. Total Budget = 978.257 € / Total Funding = 708.633 €. Project leader: Bernt Bremdal, Inkubator Halden AS (Norway), bernt@xaliance.com. Project participants include:
- Aarhus School of Business, Denmark
- SEAS-NVE , Denmark
- NOE Net AS , Denmark
- GridManager AS, Denmark
- Inkubator Halden AS, Norway
- Uni of St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Bacher Energy Ltd., Switzerland
SMARTGEN
(Efficient identification of opportunities for distributed generation based on smart grid technology)
The project is developing a planning tool for finding optimal connection points for renewable distributed generation. Total Budget = 900.000 € / Total Funding = 637.500 €. Project leader: Kåre Borgund, Sweco Norge AS , Norway, kare.borgund@sweco.no. Project participants include:
- Balslav, Denmark
- Sweco Norge AS, Norway
- Institute for Physical Energetics, Latvia
- Bacher Energy Ltd., Switzerland
QUALITY AND SAFETY
(Power Quality and Safety Requirements for People and Electrical Equipment in Smart Grid Customer Domain)
The project idea focuses on power quality, protection of equipment and safety requirements for people working with smart grid technology. Total Budget = 516.860 € / Total Funding = 409.700 €. Project leader: Tõnu Lehtla, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, tlehtla@staff.ttu.ee. Project participants include:
- Graz University of Technology, Austria
- Tallin Univ. of Technology, Estonia
- Riga Technical University, Latvia
G(E)OGREEN
Optimizing green energy and grid load by geographical steering of energy consumption
The project studies the technological challenges and potential benefits of exploiting geographical load shifting in addition to time shifted energy consumption. Total Budget = 1.566.642 € / Total Funding = 482.525 €. Project leader: Raf Ponnette, VITO, Belgium, raf.ponnette@vito.be. Project participants include:
- Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
- Vienna University of Technolo, Austria
- Fundacion Labein, Basque country
- Semantics System, S.L, Basque country
- IBBT , Belgium
- VITO, Belgium
- Università della Swizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Projects (second call 2011-2014)
BPES
Optimal sizing and control of balancing power in the future European system considering transmission system constraints
The total budget of the project= 1.355.810 €. SmartGrids ERA-NET funding = 692.000 €. Project leader: Göran Andersson, ETH Zuerich, andersson@eeh.ee.ethz.ch. Project participants include:
- ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
- DTU, Denmark
- NTNU, Norway
- Swissgrid, Switzerland
IHSMAG
Integrating households in the smart grids
The total budget of the project= 1.148.810 €. SmartGrids ERA-NET funding = 685.160 €. Project leader: Dr. kirsten Gram-Hanseen, Danish Building Reesearch Institute, kgh@sbi.dk. Project participants include:
- Danish Building Research Institute, Denmark
- NTNU, Norway
- ZIV Metering Solutions , Basque Country
PRO-NET
Protection of power electronically interfaced LV distributed generation networks
The total budget of the project= 975.000 €. SmartGrids ERA-NET funding = 858.500 €. Project leader: Dr. Bülent Dag, TÜBITAK, bulent.dag@uzay.tubitak.gov.tr. Project participants include:
- TÜBITAK, Turkey
- Aalborg University , Denmark
- Simula Researc Laboratory, Norway
