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Indian and European Local Energy CommuniTies for Renewable Integration and the Energy Transition.

Project description

Efficient and replicable solutions for integration of renewable energy sources

Bringing together 16 partners in 9 countries (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India and Spain), the EU-funded IELECTRIX project will speed up the grid integration of renewable energy sources. Specifically, this multi-stakeholder project will enhance the role of distribution system operators in integrating local energy communities to the network. The project will pave the way for flexible and smart grids to overcome challenges posed by diverse geographical, technical and economic situations. By building solutions in a cooperative way, the project will help increase grid resilience and boost security of supply. The project is running pilot sites in Austria, Germany, Hungary and India.

Objective

An increasing role is foreseen in Europe for local energy communities (LECs) to speed up the grid integration of RES. To-day, the enabling role of DSOs in support of LECs is hampered by a lack of flexibility when planning cost-efficient LEC connections to their network at MV level, and by a lack of digitalization of the LV networks to make LEC’s smart prosumers benefit economically when serving the DSO flexibility needs. Four European DSOs (E.ON ENEDIS, E.DIS Güssing Stadtwerke) and an Indian DSO (TATA) have joined with IT-based, innovative product and solution providers, and technology and research centers, to demonstrate the combined roles of innovative functionalities serving the MV and LV networks, when implemented in 5 different regulatory regimes (Austria, France, Hungary, Germany, India- state of Delhi-).
For MV networks, a mobile storage concept at substation level is demonstrated in Hungary, Germany and Austria. It enables DSOs to reduce investment uncertainties, avoid hindering future renewables connection and foster the local use of flexibility with participating non-regulated market solutions (Demand Side Response-DR-).
For LV networks, 3 functional use cases served by ATOS and Schneider are tested simultaneously in Austria and India with prosumer support: i) Forecasting/scheduling of Distributed Energy Resources for the optimized energy management of Local Energy Systems, ii) Customized, human-centric prosumer participation in explicit DR programs using context-aware flexibility profiles, iii) Grid-forming/islanding capabilities in Local Energy Communities to optimize their energy system resilience.

The joint work of DSOS aims at accelerating scaling up and replication tested by HEDNO (Greece) and E.ON (Sweden). Dissemination towards players of the energy value chain recommends business models, possible regulatory adjustments and deployment roadmaps of the most promising use cases, in support of the implementation of the Clean Energy Package.

Call for proposal

H2020-LC-SC3-2018-2019-2020

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Sub call

H2020-LC-SC3-2018-ES-SCC

Coordinator

ENEDIS
Net EU contribution
€ 2 125 567,50
Address
34 PLACE DES COROLLES TOUR ERDF
92079 Paris
France

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Region
Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Hauts-de-Seine
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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Total cost
€ 3 036 525,00

Participants (25)