“Speaking ENDORSE fluently”
www.endorse-fp7.eu
GEO and GEOSS: “Group on Earth Observations” and the “Global Earth
Observation System of Systems”
ENDORSE
GA n°262892
ENergy DOwnstReam SErvices
The
A project funded by the Seventh
Framework Programme (FP7) of the EU
GEO is coordinating international efforts to build a GEOSS. This emerging public infrastructure is
interconnecting a diverse and growing array of instruments and systems for monitoring and forecasting changes in the
global environment. This “system of systems” supports policymakers, resource managers, science researchers and
many other experts and decision-makers. http://www.earthobservations.org/index.html
GMES: “Global Monitoring for Environment and Security”
The project ENDORSE “Energy Downstream Services” aims at developing the use of Earth Observation (EO)
GMES is the European Programme for the establishment of a European capacity for Earth Observation (EO). It
data: satellite images, large numerical models, and ground-based observations, in renewable energies.
consists in a complex set of systems which collects data from multiple sources (EO satellites and in situ sensors
The European Union (EU) has established the initiative GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and
such as ground stations, airborne and sea-borne sensors), processes these data and provides users with reliable
Security), together with the European Space Agency, to foster the European capacity for Earth Observation.
and up-to-date information through the services in the six following thematics: land, atmosphere, emergency,
security and climate change. http://www.gmes.info
ENDORSE contributes to GMES and exploits its data to realize services dedicated to companies.
FP7 is the short name for the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological
Development. It is the EU's main instrument for funding research in Europe and it will run from 2007 to 2013. FP7
provides funding to ENDORSE up to 2.4 M€.
Vocabulary and Acronyms
ENDORSE is coordinated by Armines (France) and will last from January 2011 to December 2013.
Product: a product is a piece of information that answers the needs of a user. It can take various forms: data sets,
ENDORSE comprises ten services dedicated to energy from sun, wind and biomass, management of electricity
audit reports, maps, etc. A product is generated by exploiting methods processing Core Services data and other
network, and energy savings in buildings. The methodology is user-driven: users are involved in the design of the
EO data. For example, the product generated by the service S1 “Local atlas generation” is a local atlas.
products, the acceptance of the services and the dissemination of the results of the ENDORSE project.
Service: a service is the ensemble of infrastructures –personnel, connection to users, legal, financial, administrative
and commercial affairs–, hardware –computers, networks, communications–, information –Core Services data, other
EO data, other data–, and operations –workflow, data provisioning, methods, monitoring, reporting, delivery–, that
should be assembled in order to generate a product in an operational way. When such a service is operated
permanently, whether on a commercial basis or not, it is called an operational service.
The development of a service begins with the development of a product. It is then completed by
setting up the various elements that permit its operation. Consequently, the project ENDORSE
comprises two successive and distinct parts: development of products, and development
Partners:
of services.
ARMINES
A pre-market service is defined here as a precursor of an innovative service, having a market potential and being
replicable. The pre-market service aims at demonstrating the benefits of the corresponding service if it were
operational to, on the one hand, end-users in renewable energies, and on the other hand, service industry. Compared to
operational services, the pre-market services do not include all the elements of a service. Nevertheless, all these elements
will be documented for each pre-market service.
University of Genova
Milestone: important step in the schedule of the project
CONTACT
Pr. Lucien Wald
Centre Energétique et Procédés
MINES ParisTech / ARMINES
1, rue Claude Daunesse, BP 207
F-06904 Sophia Antipolis Cedex
Phone: +33 (0)4 93 95 74 49
lucien.wald@mines-paristech.fr
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into coherent and well-organized units of activities named Workpackages.
Transvalor Innovation
Hochschule ULM
CSP: Concentrated Solar Power
WP: Workpackage, or group of activities. In the European research projects, the work is divided
iCons
Flyby
GIS: Geographical Information System
Deliverable: report or any kind of scheduled project achievement.
DLR
OBJECTIVES
10 Energy Downstream services in 5 energy domains
IMPORTANT
MILESTONES
The main objective is the development of pre-operational downstream GMES services in energy. The
Consortium proposes a coherent set of activities in connection to inter alia GMES and GEOSS aiming
SERVICE 1: LOCAL ATLAS GENERATION FOR PROVENCE
General
at providing energy components for GMES:
Assembly

"Generation of local atlases for decision-support in solar energy
To develop and validate pre-market downstream services in collaboration with well-
Meetings
defined end-users by performing R&D activities or to enhance existing services by the
policy planning and private investment"

capabilities of the new GMES Core Services and recent R&D results;
Kick-Off
To assess the conditions for self-sustainability of these new or improved services
meeting
through survey and workshops with end-users;

AN EFFICIENT
“Generation of highly spatially-resolved typical meteorological year (TMY) data sets for the design
WORKFLOW FOR THE
and the performance assessment of complex solar energy based systems for electricity production”
BEST ACHIEVEMENT
SERVICE 5: CSP-GIS FOR MOROCCO
“Load balancing within electricity distribution grids enabling high penetration of photovoltaic power
systems"
LOAD WIND
SERVICE 7: LOAD BALANCING
“Definition and development of a service for certifying the sustainable production of bioenergy products”
objectives of the project
Interface to GMES Core Services
ENDORSE, the Consortium
investment"
WP4: 2nd version
WP 40X - For each product
• Product description
• Plan for scientific validation
• Product development
• Validation
• Feedback from prime-users (WP 5)
• Feedback to Core Services
WP 4
Product development
Development of products and validation
been logically gathered and
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organized into nine WP and
WP 5
Users assessment. Task 5001: prime-users assessment – Task 5002: extended panel assessment
associated tasks (Fig. 1).
STRATEGY
The
requirements
of
a
WP 60X- For each service
• Service description
• Service development
• Quality management concept
• Validation
• Feedback from users (WP 5)
• Feedback to Core Services
WP 6
Pre-market service
development/improvement
Development of services and validation
drive the development of
the
products
activity
(WP3).
As
well,
these
requirements
will
to
the
key
elements for the design of
the
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requirements for
services
WP7: workshops
WP5: the extended
panel of Users is
WP 7
Users‘ workshops
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established
WP 8
Towards the market. Sustainability analysis, implementation roadmap and business plan
panel
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WP7: workshops
WP 9
Dissemination of scientific results.
Publications, conferences, Web services, communicate with
other initiatives
WP6: services and
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final version of
pre-market services
extended
WP2: Prime-Users
(WP4)
resulting from the research
contribute
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of the products
Figure 1: Graph of the Workpackages
products available
“X” (40X and 60X) stands for the index of each service
of
Users (WP5) will enable a
refinement in the services
BUILDINGS
design and retrofit, energy regulation policy planning, and private
of
(WP6). The interactions with
SERVICE 10: LIGHTING ENERGY SAVINGS
the control of blinds and artificial lights by daylight, for building
activities
various nature. They have
an
"Computation of the annual lighting energy savings resulting from
WP7: workshops
defined Users (WP2) will
BIOENERGY
SERVICE 9: CERTIFICATION OF SUSTAINABLE BIOENERGY USE
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Task 2001: products -- Task 2002: services
WP 3
Common research activities. Joint R&D on methods for supporting product development.
undertakes
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of the products
WP 2
Refinements and consolidation of users requirements
To achieve the above-listed
limited number of well-
SERVICE 8: MAPPING BIOMASS POTENTIAL
“Mapping biomass potential for forested areas"
WP4: 1st version
WP 1
Project management. WP 101: Scientific & Technical Management. WP 102:
Administrative, Financial and Legal Management
OF THE PROJECT
“A Web-based GIS for concentrating solar systems”
planning and private investment”
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Users community, and the development of such services by SMEs and other self-oriented
WORKPACKAGES
(WP)
SERVICE 4: TYPICAL METEOROLOGICAL YEAR
“Generation of annual energy output (AEO) for decision-support in on-shore wind energy policy
for products
Stimulate the market of downstream services in renewable energies towards the endcompanies by demonstrating precursors with documented conditions of sustainability.
“Irradiance forecasts for electricity production”
SERVICE 6: WIND AEO
requirements
The
development.
IMPORTANT
MILESTONES
(right)
show
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the
important dates in the schedule. Thematic workshops will
Activities
related
sustainability
market
of
services
interactions
stakeholders
in
to
the
demonstrate products and services to Users and service
pre-
industry (WP7). The management of ENDORSE (WP1) as
and
well as the activities of dissemination of the scientific
with
results (WP9) will be carried out during the three years of
energy
community will take place in
WP7 and WP8.
the project.
WP7: workshops
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PROJECT
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SERVICE 3: IRRADIANCE FORECASTS

3
Users
Services and connection to other GMES projects relating to energy, such as EnerGEO;
SUN
“Design and performance analyses of concentrating solar power systems (CSPS)”
1
WP2: Prime-
Disseminate the achievements of the project to foster the use of Core Services data and
other EO data by the renewable energies community. This includes feedbacks to Core
SERVICE 2: DESIGN CSPS
Months