Project description
Power sector resilience solutions
As the backbone of society, electricity is currently delivered to consumers via complex networks or grids. Thus, smart grid and storage solutions are needed to ensure efficiency. The EU-funded ebalance-plus project will increase the energy flexibility of distribution grids, predict available flexibility and increase distribution grid resilience and design. It will test new ancillary models to promote new markets based on energy flexibility. The concept is based on the outcomes of a previous European FP7 R&D project (e-balance), which developed an energy balancing platform, tested in 43 neighbouring households with smart appliances and PV power inverters. The ebalance-plus project will introduce an energy balancing platform that will control a variety of technologies (developed during the project) with the goal of increasing energy flexibility.
Objective
The ebalance+ project applies to the ‘Flexibility and retail market options for the distribution grid’ by addressing flexibility solutions, smart-grids technologies to increase the distribution grid resilience and defining and testing market mechanisms and tools incentivising the energy flexibility. In this context, the ebalance+ project aims to increase energy flexibility of distribution grids, predict available flexibility, increase distribution grid resilience and design and test new ancillary models to promote new markets based on energy flexibility. These objectives allow unlocking the energy flexibility market in distribution grids to support energy prosumers and electric operators.
The ebalance+ proposal is an ICT platform that assure the integration and interoperability at any electricity domain, providing an effective market framework where electric operators and stakeholders benefit with new business models. The system is composed of units that implements algorithms to forecast and manage the available flexibility to incentivise demand response programmes and increase the distribution grid capacity to avoid congestions and advise optimization strategies. Besides, it allows integrating the flexibility solutions (developed and tested in the project): electric storage, V2G systems, SiC power inverters, power to heat, control of CHP and management of building devices with IoT-based systems. Smart-gird automation and control solutions will be integrated to enhance the grid observability and use the available flexibility to increase the resilience under critical events.
The consortium is composed of 15 entities from 8 EU countries, which the participation of research centres, SME and industry. The solutions are tested in 4 real-life pilots (Spain, Italy, France and Denmark) with specific scopes and objectives. In addition, and in-Lab demo is developed to test critical use cases. Innovative market models regarding flexibility market for DSO-TSO will be simulated
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectrical engineeringpower engineeringelectric power generationcombined heat and power
- social sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomation
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
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Funding Scheme
IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
29004 Malaga
Spain