EEGI Labelling: Project Application Form
Form to be filled in by projects applying for EEGI Label and undergo EEGI Labelling process.
Completed form should be sent to Gareth Bissell with copy to Carlos Costa Rausa
(To: GarethRobert.Bissell@enel.com, cc: carlosfrancisco.costarausa@enel.com)
Name of Project
Leading Organization
(Name + Country)
Project Partners
(Name + Country)
Contact person
(i.e. Project Leader)
Contact information of Project
Leader
(i.e. Email, Telephone)
Overall Project Objectives
 Transmission Network Project
Category of Project:
Type of project (please select one
or more)
Total Project Budget
Number of demonstration sites (if
applicable)
Physical Location of the demo
sites (if applicable)
Number of Transmission Network
Operators with significant
involvement in project
Number of Distribution Network
Operators with significant
involvement in project
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 Distribution Network Project
 DSO involved
 Demonstration project
 System studies / Simulation tools project
 Other (please specify)
 TSO involved
.
Project Features Questionnaire for EEGI Labelling
(in case information already provided in JRC Template, specify “Info provided in JRC Template”)
1. Please indicate clearly and concisely the main innovation provided by the project with respect to existing solutions and ongoing projects on the same topic in
Europe?
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2. Please specify whether the project is willing to contribute to the EEGI Knowledge Sharing Platform (KSP) by sharing knowledge acquired from the project?
 YES
 NO
The KSP is a tool currently under development by the GRID+ Project in support of the EEGI and aimed at enhancing the knowledge sharing potential by providing members of the
wider Smart Grids community with easy access to information coming out of Smart Grid related projects.
Furthermore, please indicate the type of innovation and knowledge from the project that the project intends to make available (examples could include: Project
results, details of different developed solutions (safeguarding IPR), details of adopted methodologies, main learning points from project, risk management issues
and solutions, etc…)
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3. Please indicate what standards/interoperability issues are intended to be tested by the project and how? If not addressed, why ?
If the R&I project is not a direct infrastructure development such as a large scale demonstration project (i.e. the R&I project is system studies related, development of software
tools etc.) then evidence should be provided to show that the project would support a pan-European/system wide scope and that the solution can easily be utilised universally by
all potential beneficiaries within the European SG community.
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4. Please indicate, how the project addresses issues related to cyber security and privacy of the tested solutions? If not addressed, why?
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5. Please indicate what are the environmental impacts and social acceptance issues that are addressed by the project in order to prepare its deployment? If not
addressed, why?
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6. Please describe how the project intends to study the scaling-up potential of the tested solutions in the area where the study was performed. And please specify
if there exists a Deployment Plan involving the scaling-up of the project solutions within the above mentioned network. If not addressed, why not?
The scalability study should address the extent to which a development tested in the project can be extended to a larger area within the same boundary conditions (same
regulatory framework).
In the case that scalability studies of the tested solutions in the demonstration project are addressed in another funded project, please specify this project (a typical example is a
National demonstration project that has approved funding for further scalability/replicability studies in another financing mechanism – i.e. European Project).
If the R&I project is not a direct infrastructure development such as a large scale demonstration project (i.e. the R&I project is system studies related) then evidence should be
provided to show that the project would support a pan-European/system wide scope and that the solution can easily be utilised universally by all potential beneficiaries within the
European SG arena
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7. Please describe how the project intends to push for replication of the solutions demonstrated in the Project in other EU27 Member States networks. And please
specify if there exists a Deployment Plan to ensure the replication of the project solutions in other EU27 Member States networks? If not addressed, why not?
Replicability of solutions is understood as the extension to which an experience is tested/analyzed in a different geographical region-i.e. other EU Member State with different
regulatory regime, customer conditions, network topology, etc.
In the case that replicability studies of the tested solutions in demonstration project are addressed in another funded project, please specify this project (a typical example is a
National demonstration project that has approved funding for further replicability studies in another financing mechanism – i.e. European Project)
If the R&I project is not a direct infrastructure development such as a large scale demonstration project (i.e. the R&I project is system studies related) then evidence should be
provided to show that the project would support a pan-European/system wide scope and that the solution can easily be utilised universally by all potential beneficiaries within the
European SG community.
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8. Please indicate if the Project has performed a cost / benefit analysis of the deployed project solutions in local networks and/or in other EU27 Member States. If
not addressed, why not?
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STEP 4: EEGI Functionalities Table
*To address an EEGI Functional Objective the project must provide some of the functionalities defined by that Functional Objective. The list of functionalities provided
here are intended for guidance and are not intended to be a definitive list. Please refer to the EEGI Roadmap 2013-2022 for a more detailed description of the
objectives and specific tasks that define the functionalities of each EEGI Functional Objective.
Please mark with an ‘X’ the EEGI Functional Objectives that the project relates to and include supporting comments where
applicable.
TSO Projects
EEGI
Cluster
Cluster
Name
EEGI
Functional
Objective
Description
Functionalities
Definition of scenarios
for pan-European
network expansion
To define pan-European network expansion
scenarios; identify maximum volume of RES
and DER for pan-European network; analyze a
combination of electricity and gas.
To identify investments required to achieve the
2050 vision with different decarbonisation
scenarios of generation mix, storage and
demand mix.
To develop methods for integrating transmission
systems with growing amounts of RES-based
generation, considering optimal rates of storage
needed at the pan-European level.
Functionality Tested /
Demonstrated in
Project *
(mark with X)
C1
Grid
architecture
T1
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To provide offshore grid design: optimization
methods for grid capacity, technology and
topology taking into account wind power
characteristics, i.e., low capacity factor.
To investigate state-of-the-art planning
software, technology portfolios and different
regulatory frameworks.
To define input data requirements and data
interfaces (to/from cost-benefit simulators,
power flow tools etc.).
To develop new algorithms and database
functions for network simulation; enabling the
integration of new emerging technologies such
as HVDC, GIL, FACTS and storage.
To model embedded HVDC/HVAC grids for
planning simulation.
T2
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Planning methodology
for future pan-European
transmission
system
To develop software tools for cost-benefit
assessments of expansion options and
validating impact on grid planning for
coordinated design of architecture, power flow
control devices, and other technologies.
To provide coordinated grid design involving
new network architectures, power flow control
devices, storage and other technologies to
achieve sustainable and efficient networks.
To develop planning software to optimize
location, coordination, control and integration of
technologies within existing and future system
architecture and operation.
To develop long-term planning methods to
combine electricity market analyses, production
capacities (all types including RES) and
infrastructure in view of strengthening expected
weak points on the grid.
Proposal for network investment mechanisms at
EU level.
T14
C2
Power
technologies
T3
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Towards increasing
public acceptance of
transmission
infrastructure
Demonstration of power
technology to increase
network flexibility and
operation means
To investigate public perception of the power
infrastructure; to improve the relationship
between TSOs and the public with valuable
feedback and signals in both directions.
To contribute to developing and/or updating
European guidelines on good practice in
transparency and public engagement and
permitting process.
To produce guidelines for the construction of
overhead power lines with reduced visual and
environmental impact compared to existing
construction guidelines and to ensure these
guidelines are applicable across Europe.
To analyze new technologies with reduced
visibility of conductors, using coatings and
nano-technologies.
To propose new tower designs for overhead
power lines with less visual impact, audible
noise and EMF; in some cases also with
reduced sag of overhead lines.
To develop methodologies and software to
evaluate bird collisions, human and animal
exposure to EMF, audible noises, etc.; reduction
of impact.
To providing methods for physical protection of
the grid infrastructures against potential
dangers: natural catastrophes, terrorism, cyber
attacks etc.
To demonstrate the degree to which transfer
capacity can be increased at the cross-border
level and present new operating schemes
available through the implementation of different
approaches and technologies; to investigate all
possible technical solutions within the domain of
each application; to perform cost-benefit
analyses of different case studies.
T4
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Demonstration of novel
network architectures
To demonstrate power flow control devices that
offer increased flexibility with respect to energy
flow across multiple transmission zones and
borders.
To demonstrate controllable off- and onshore
solutions for vendor-independent, HVDC multiterminal networks used to coordinate power
flow, frequency control as well as protection and
communications requirements.
To investigate the influence of parallel routing of
DC and AC lines on the same tower or parallel
paths in order to facilitate existing infrastructure
paths in an optimal manner.
To investigate the influence of parallel routing of
DC and AC lines on the same tower or parallel
paths in order to facilitate existing infrastructure
paths in an optimal manner.
To demonstrate on a large-scale new power
technologies (incl. new materials) such as
HVDC VSC, superconductivity, energy storage,
fault current limiters and other promising
technologies for joint management of on- and
offshore networks.
To validate various technology options to
increase transmission capacity through
selective reinforcement or implementation of an
ultra-high voltage transmission system (“Super
Grid”) or DC backbone.
To propose new schemes to extend
synchronous areas in the pan-European grid
and connect these with back-to-back HVDC to
increase their utilization and reduce the
complexity of balancing, planning and operation.
To do research on the devices and concepts
required to materialize multi-terminal DC grids
which are to cope with current system needs
and sources such as offshore generation
To coordinate offshore networks interconnected
with various control areas; methods for
coordinating load-frequency control, DC voltage
control; other technologies required for DC
(VSC) network.
To implement HVDC solutions to enhance
reliability – bi-polar or mono-polar DC schemes.
To determinate standard DC voltage; since VSC
technologies eliminate the need for
transformers, investment and maintenance
costs will be reduced significantly. Weight and
space are cost drivers particularly for offshore
installations.
To validate the contribution of RES to voltage
and frequency control, balancing using VPP.
T5
Interfaces for large-scale
demonstration of
renewable integration
To monitor and control the network in order to
avoid large-scale intra-zone oscillations.
To validate integration scenarios where the
network becomes more user-friendly and copes
with variable generation from RES.
To demonstrate with stakeholders various
technologies to deploy the energy mix from
conventional and renewable resources.
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To assess and validate the performance of
intelligent local sensors and data processing
equipment (with sensor manufacturers) against
the requirements of state estimation and
dynamic simulation.
To develop a toolbox to increase awareness of
pan-European operation/optimization vs. local
and regional approaches.
T6
C3
Innovative tools and
methods for panEuropean network
observability and
controllability
Network
operation
To develop local state models with a sufficient
level of intelligence at the substation level and
to use this valuable information with state
estimators and dynamic simulation tools. These
models will be aggregated for assessing the
observability and controllability at the panEuropean level.
To increase observability and improve state
estimation accuracy (both steady-state and
dynamic) through adequate modelling (including
not only modelling protection and system
automatic schemes to some extent, but also by
merging transmission and distribution models).
To exploit the information provided by forecasts
of variable generation and flexible demand for
observability and controllability purposes.
To increase network controllability by proposing
methods and tools for optimal and coordinated
use of flexible equipment such as FACTS, PSTs
and HVDC links, resulting in safe and costeffective system operations (e.g., maximizing
the global social welfare).
T7
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Innovative tools and
methods for coordinated
operation with stability
margin evaluation
To assess the effectiveness of control
actions that deliver the right level of
reliability while facing uncertainties from
the large-scale deployment of RES and
market integration.
To develop approaches for optimal provisioning,
dimensioning and sourcing of reserves together
with local and/or regional distribution in order to
maintain security of supply; to deliver dynamic
management of system reserves at regional and
pan-European levels.
To implement stochastic approaches to critical
optimization variables (larger dispersions
around the deterministic values obtained from
the current steady state simulation tools) in
order to cope adequately with uncertainties.
To facilitate converging policies for operational
planning and to support the harmonization of
operating rules across Europe.
To propose data exchange procedures for
adequate system simulation; to identify critical
contingencies and to assess residual risks while
taking into account effectiveness and availability
of control actions and automatic protection
schemes while identifying action paths to be
implemented.
To enable real-time detection of instabilities and
prevent limit transgression in transmission
systems; to develop new approaches to
coordinate defense and restoration plans.
To deliver real-time simulation of the entire
interconnected European power system for
training purposes.
T8
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Improved training tools
and methods to ensure
better coordination at the
regional and panEuropean levels
To train dispatchers to reproduce and
understand large-scale incidents.
To provide training, but also certification, to
operators on a validated European power
system model and improve emergency
response procedures.
To make the dispatching training simulation
facility available to other operators such as
power plant operators and distribution network
operators; hence to improve the network
interfaces between transmission/generation and
transmission/distribution.
To develop and test common procedures for
emergency scenarios.
To enable operator training by specifying the
training simulator of the future, including the
validation of critical algorithms.
To enable experimentation on what future
training should include and who should be
involved in order to learn and test the benefits of
coordination mechanisms in stable and critical
situations.
To establish, validate and deliver default data to
fill all the gaps in such a way that simulations
are realistic enough for the targeted use.
T9
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Innovative tools and
approaches for panEuropean network
reliability assessment
To evaluate the current performance of the (N1) criteria security principles and the required
level of reliability from the customer’s
perspective.
To identify the possible options for replacing (or
complementing) the current reliability principles
using a system approach to be used in different
aspects of TSOs business: grid development,
markets, reserve planning, etc.
To define the additional information to be
exchanged and the additional coordination
needed to support the deployment and to
ensure effective and sufficient security margins
during operation and operational planning.
To provide an appropriate approach to risk
assessment for the evaluated criteria based on
probabilistic analyses which takes correlations
in the power system .
To develop indicators for the evaluated criteria
for network operators to help them make
decisions for preventive and curative actions.
C4
Market
designs
T10
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Advanced pan-European
market tools for ancillary
services and balancing,
including active demand
management
To model aggregated RES/DER, flexible
conventional generation, demand and storage
systems to be used for market design, market
mechanisms and simulation tools for planning
and operation purposes.
To design market mechanisms for incentivizing
both maximization of the provision of ancillary
services (including aggregated RES,
cogeneration and high-efficiency production,
demand, storage etc.) and the minimization of
the use of ancillary services; the aim is to
harmonize the requirements of provider licenses
with supervision, control and recording of
services provided.
To develop a new tool for detailed analyses of
various balancing market designs to identify
best practices and to perform large-scale
experiments with metered customers that
demonstrate the costs and benefits of demandside management required at the pan-European
level.
To design and develop mechanisms and
platforms for cross-border balancing and power
reserve services, moving towards possible
future development of regional/pan-regional
platforms and even markets based on economic
and technical analyses, all the while operating
within the required security margins.
To develop a set of data exchange templates
and ICT infrastructures to enable ancillary and
balancing services at the EU level.
To investigate interactions between system
operations and dynamic capacity and reserve
allocation methods at the regional and panEuropean levels to cope with uncertainties from
RES, load and system disturbances.
To model strategies in view of improved
congestion management and to analyze the
possibility of more efficient options, if any exist,
for the pan-European electricity market.
T11
Advanced tools for
capacity allocation and
congestion management
To expand flow-based market coupling in areas
with interdependent flows, based on successful
experience.
To develop an algorithm for computing potential
extra capacities in real time or as closely as
possible; taking into account security criteria
and without the need for counter-trading issues.
To perform risk-benefit analyses and develop an
interface using the Congestion Management
Module (CMM).
T12
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Tools and market
mechanisms for
ensuring system
adequacy and efficiency
in electric systems
integrating very large
amounts of RES
generation
To design market mechanisms that allow
participation of RES (active and reactive power
control), storage devices and conventional
generation shift to ensure system adequacy and
efficiency.
To design investment incentive regimes that
promote conventional and RES generation
flexibility, new transmission capacity and to
foster storage systems.
To design grid tariff mechanisms for active
demand-side management to correlate the load
curve and RES integration.
To identify the parameters (climate conditions,
operating conditions, potential for hardware and
software, among others) that impact the life
span of components.
To establish evaluation/estimation protocols for
component statuses that are comparable across
TSOs, with in-depth analysis and shared
experiences.
To develop a methodology to determine and
expand the life span of components including
conventional components (conductor, insulator,
tower, breaker, etc.) and new components such
as power electronic devices and digital devices.
To propose dedicated, intelligent monitoring and
analysis of results from equipment operation.
C5
Asset
management
T15
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Objectives Developing
approaches to determine
and to maximize the
lifetime of critical power
components for existing
and future networks
If necessary, specify new measurement devices
and associated ICT system.
To assess the environmental impact (noise,
leakage, etc.) and safety for workers or nearby
inhabitants (especially in case of failure), taking
into account aging processes and technical
obsolescence.
To validate the added value of individual lifetime
assessment compared to an average
assessment of several similar components
based on generic parameters (age of
equipment, switching steps, etc.).
To assess the benefits of partially renewing
small components (joints, etc.) or adding new
protective layers (paint coating) to extend life
span. A methodology is to be developed that
assesses the capability of each component to
be partially repaired or where the coating is to
be replaced.
To develop new ways of detecting component
failure based on failure models.
T16
Development and
validation of tools which
optimize asset lifetime at
the system level, based
on quantitative
cost/benefit analysis
To define methods and tools to optimize asset
management at the system level. The proposed
methodology provides an assessment of the
costs and benefits of different asset
management strategies. The methodology
proposes a risk-based approach at the system
level, including interactions between equipment,
impacts on security and quality of supply and
also environmental and safety constraints. The
organization of maintenance work, availability of
spare parts (supply chain, quantity of spare
parts and location) are part of the global
optimization challenge.
Provide tools for dynamic management of
outage planning & maintenance schedules
T17
Demonstrations of
potential at EU level for
new approaches to asset
management
To utilize embedded ICT to monitor individual
assets and to define a method of supervision
based on this information at the system level for
several TSOs in parallel.
To implement robotics for problem detection as
well as to intervene in hostile environments and
avoid the need for human maintenance. These
include UAV to inspect overhead lines and
robots that move while “grabbing” the
conductors.
To implement maintenance activities with the
network “on”, especially for DC equipment.
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To propose scaling-up and replication rules for
new asset management approaches at the panEuropean level.
TSO/DSO Projects
EEGI
Cluster
Cluster
Name
EEGI
Functional
Objective
Description
Functionalities
Functionality Tested /
Demonstrated in
Project *
(mark with X)
To improve short-term (15’, 1h, 3h) and longterm (5-day) forecast engines for PV, wind, CHP
and loads.
To develop new modelling methods and tools for
steady-state (static parameters) and dynamic
analyses (capacities up to 1 MW).
TD
Joint
TSO/DSO
Activities
TD1
Increased observability
of the distribution
system for transmission
network management
and control
To deliver methods and tools for planning new
DER connections at the TSO/DSO boundary
(response to new connection requirements).
To develop new methodologies for data
processing at various system levels (DSO,
TSO).
To design new architecture, control systems and
communications (including GIS assistance) that
allow multiple new generators to be connected
and share information with TSOs.
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New integrated functions (scaling-up techniques)
and solutions for technical aggregation of DER
data acquisition capabilities for improved DER
production observability.
To define demand requirements and data
required by TSOs for the pan-European planning
tool.
TD2
The integration of
demand side
management at DSO
level into TSO
operations
To demonstrate active customer involvement
with “indirect” feedback (provided postconsumption) and “direct” feedback (real-time)
and suitable operations designed to achieve a
reduction in peak demand (10–15 %).
To model customer/load behaviour and
segmentation and quantify the degree of
flexibility provided by distribution networks, e.g.,
through reconfiguration or other methods.
Novel ways of providing ancillary services
through loads and their impact on transmission
networks; the highly variable and unpredictable
nature of DER and RES places new constraints
on these ancillary services.
Simulation environments to demonstrate the
viability and options of ancillary services
provision by aggregated loads at DSO level.
TD3
Ancillary services
provided through DSOs
Technologies and tools for active and reactive
power control of DER, with TSO/DSO
coordination to provide extra power flow control,
load management and islanding.
New actors and market models that enable DER
to provide ancillary services.
New models that describe products and services
to be tested on selected segments of customers
and their impact on future ancillary services in
the presence of large-scale DER integration.
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New market models that account for the pricesensitive nature of loads and consequently their
increased flexibility.
Analysis of legal, contractual and regulatory
aspects of ancillary services provided by
distributed generation and/or loads, allowing for
more aggregated business models.
To develop simulation tools and methods that
detect weaknesses in the system with respect to
reconnecting DER and storage systems.
To develop simulation tools and methods of
assessing the risk of breakdowns during
reconnection.
To develop simulation tools for interactive
system restoration including advanced forecast
tools developed in TD1 for wind, solar PV and
other variable RES.
TD4
Improved defence and
restoration plan
To address regulatory and technical challenges
that implement restoration plans at the panEuropean level.
To investigate the contribution of DER for
system restoration and its contribution to
immediate power reserves; this is relevant from
the TSO perspective (e.g., black start capability
and coordination of wind turbine generators).
To investigate the impact of micro-grids and
islanding capabilities.
To train operators about the evolution of national
regulatory schemes in order to foster
coordination efforts.
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Tools for scaling-up
and replicating at EU
level
To investigate the acceptable levels of risk and
uncertainty in studies in order to adequately
assess the scaling-up and replication potentials
of solutions and their requirements.
To document the methodology for future project
participants so that they can assess the
experimental data requirements required to
design a smart grid demonstration.
To develop information models for the smart grid
security, taking into account business
interactions and the physical processes of
delivering electricity, and also the disruption of
business communications, or of the delivery of
electricity.
To analyze data exchange protocols that
reinforce interoperability constraints at the panEuropean level with an adequate level of
security.
To study appropriate confidentiality constraints
in the developed toolbox to ensure appropriate
sharing of results while at the same time
preserving stakeholder interests.
To define open standard data models that
ensure interoperability between different data
exchange protocols for smart grid applications
and to increase competitiveness.
DSO Projects
EEGI
Cluster
Cluster
Name
EEGI
Functional
Objective
Description
Functionalities
Functionality Tested /
Demonstrated in
Project *
(mark with X)
Systems that allow electricity users to visualize
and control own power consumption
Application of time-of use tariffs.
Application of real-time price signals
C1
Integration of
smart
customers
D1
Active demand for
increased flexibility
Provision of Energy Supply (VPP) services by
power system participants.
Provision of ancillary services in the form of
steady state voltage control, tertiary frequency
control and active tertiary reserve by power
system participants.
Provision of balancing services by power system
participants.
Provision of overload and congestion relief
services by power system participants.
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Provision of load shaping services (in particular
load shaving) by power system participants.
Automatic control of indoor appliances to reduce
peak demand and overall electricity
consumption.
D2
Energy Efficiency from
integration with Smart
Homes
Automatic control of indoor systems (heating,
cooling) to reduce peak demand and overall
electricity consumption
Two-way Communication systems between local
electricity Distribution Network and “Smart
Home”.
Voltage control and congestion management in
LV network by reactive and active power
management of SDER (local, centralized and a
combination of both)
D3
C2
Integration of DER at
low voltage
Integration of
DER and
new users
D4
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System integration of
medium DER
Innovative/Enhanced LV network planning and
operation strategies aimed at increasing DER
hosting capacity
LV network operating centres (with similar
options as for MV network SCADA systems) that
will enable connection of small-scaled distributed
generation (i.e. for example through use of data
collected by AMR equipment and new
equipment on “smart” secondary substation)
Active DER Control Functionalities (i.e. voltage
control, reactive power management at the local,
centralized and combined mode) aimed at
increasing MV network hosting capacity.
Demand Response by DER connected to MV
network (i.e. controllable loads and storage)
aimed at increasing MV network hosting
capacity.
Congestion management, dispatching and
balancing of DER at MV level.
Innovative/Enhanced MV network planning and
operation strategies aimed at increasing DER
hosting capacity
Storage systems that address issue of variability
of power availability associated with
unpredictable renewable sources (i.e. wind,
solar)
Storage systems that maintain power flow
through all branches within admissible range
fixed by technical standards
D5
Integration of storage in
network management
Storage systems that maintain voltage of all grid
points (local, centralized and/ or a combination
of both) within admissible range fixed by
technical standards
Storage systems that address issue of islanding
and micro grid operation in order to improve
network availability and reliability.
Optimal allocation of storage system on grid (i.e.
close to generation, close to usage, in-line, at
customer premises)
D6
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Infrastructure to host
EV/PHEV
Electric Vehicle charging infrastructure (private
and public) providing recharging services to
electric vehicles.
Development of solutions for EVs/PHEV to
provide services to network (i.e. voltage and
load-frequency control)
Central control systems that collect all relevant
data (measurements) for use by relevant
energy/service supplier, allowing them to provide
common services across EU and in particular
enabling roaming services.
Smart charging solutions through optimized
algorithms and interaction between aggregators
and system operators (DSO and TSO).
Improved planning methodologies for LV
networks based on AMM data
Use of AMM data for improved quality of supply
management (losses, load characteristics and
power quality).
D7
C3
Monitoring and control
of LV network
Use of AMM communication channel for load
control, allowing better use of existing network,
and reducing outages.
Use of AMM data for outage and fault
management
Network
Operations
Development of remote control systems for LV
network monitoring.
Systems that are able to implement network
monitoring in an efficient and effective way
D8
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Automation and control
of MV network
Network remote control and network automation
that allow DSOs to ensure better security of
supply and optimize workforce management in
case of grid failures.
New systems for self-healing grid, based on fault
detection at an early stage and with automatic
fault clearing procedures that include automatic
power restoration of healthy grid sections.
Advanced systems for fault localization
Provides opportunities for local DC networks
Develops tools for increasing observability of the
DSO network such as real time appraisal status.
D9
Network management
methodologies for
network operation
Uses improved forecasting (e.g. PV) or
technology innovation (e.g. IT solutions for cost
effective and reliable real time simulation tools)
to optimise scheduling of renewable and thermal
generation in the DSO network.
Addresses training for emergency management
Develops innovative capacity building methods
to enable the mission shift of DSOs
D10
Smart metering data
utilisation
Systems tools for analyzing and processing
meter data, to achieve detailed information on
LV network performance (e.g. power quality,
power outages, losses estimation, load
characteristics, etc.)
Systems tools for analyzing and processing
meter data, to detect electricity thefts and locate
meter faults.
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Systems tools for analyzing and processing
meter data, to detect meter tampering.
System tools managing meter data, that
optimize system and energy management.
Develops new tools and methods for network
planning to incorporate new system capabilities
and needs presented by the deployment of
smart grid technologies.
D11
New planning
approaches for
distribution networks
Contributes to streamlining the
application/acceptance process with local
authorities to reduce time to construct new lines.
Provides new power technologies streamlining
the regulatory procedures.
C4
Network
Planning and
asset
management
Facilitates maintenance strategies and training
requirements following deployment of new
technologies.
Implements more effective conditional
maintenance strategies
D12
Asset management
Provides analysis and dissemination of results
and impact assessment
Introduces improvements in predictive
maintenance for reduced costs of corrective
actions
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Provides a cost-benefit analysis accounting for
new players in energy market and demand
response under different market designs
C5
Market
Design
D13
Novel approaches for
market design analysis
Develops recommendations for innovative
market designs allowing an increased flexibility
of the network
Recommends regulation to enable network
operators to implement new technological
solutions.
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