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24.05.2023

1st General Assembly-Workshop in Darmstadt

On 3-4 May 2023, the 11 partners of the Horizon Europe ACES research project met in Darmstadt for the first General Assembly-workshop of the project. During the 2 days of the workshop, the blueprint of the architecture, the core functions and the tools of the platform were discussed as well as the…

10.05.2023

Horizon Europe ENFLATE project, 1st Plenary Meeting, 22-23 March 2023, Granada, Spain

On the 22nd and 23rd of March 2023, the Horizon Europe approved project, ENFLATE, hosted a plenary event of the project. The event was held in Granada, Spain with the purpose to raise awareness of the objectives and activities of the project and provide information to project partners and…

Description

Europe's Electricity Transmission System Operators (TSOs) are being asked to respond to the most crucial challenge in their history, namely the Energy Transition of the Electricity System.

The shifting of societies' priorities towards a direction of sustainable development, as well as technological progress, constantly give impetus to the efforts to transform the energy sector from a system based on the production and consumption of fossil energy resources, to a system based on Renewable Energy Sources (RES). This social and technological trend is also the essence of the Energy Transition.

The main objective of this effort is to decarbonize and encourage renewable energy production, empowering consumers to become an active part of the energy system.

The new era of the Electrical System naturally creates the corresponding challenges for all parties involved. Initially, the production mix becomes more dispersed, stochastic and cleaner. This change mandates the development of more efficient transmission and storage technologies, while at the same time encouraging the creation of local energy communities and activation of prosumers. In addition, the Electrical System is gradually becoming more interconnected with other sectors. Due to this trend, the critical role of networks is highlighted, but also the need to optimize the cooperation of end consumers. The solutions to the above challenges should be achieved in a short time and with high precision. For this reason, the digitization of the Energy Sector is attracting more and more attention.

Therefore, TSOs need dedicated departments to manage the challenges of the Energy Transition. The Department of Research, Technology and Development (DRTD) of IPTO undertakes this mission. By providing qualified staff and specialized knowledge, DRTD can recommend state-of-the-art technologies, methods and services to the rest of the company. It supports and develops the innovation ecosystem of Greece, promoting collaborations with Universities, young researchers, other European Administrators and ENTSO-E, as well as research centers, startups, SMEs and the Industry in the context of European, National and Internal projects .

DRTD promotes projects in the following Pillars:

Incode - Intelligent Collaborative Deployments over Heterogeneous Edge-IoT Environment

INCODE envisions the design and development of an open platform for the deployment and dynamic management of end user applications, over distributed, heterogeneous and trusted IoT-Edge node infrastructures, with enhanced programmability features and tools at both the network infrastructure level and the service design and operational level.

Enorasis - Smart System for Automated Inspection

The purpose of ENORASIS system is to provide automated inspection on the key electrical elements of a substation, using an optical and thermal camera system on a moving robot and performing reliable periodic measurements.

FarCross - Enhancing Regional Cooperation and Interconnection of Power Flows with the use of Software and Transmission System Elements

FARCROSS aims to connect the major stakeholders of the energy value chain that will facilitate the “unlocking” of the resources for the cross-border electricity flows and regional cooperation.

FlexiTranStore - Exploiting Flexibility Services through Flexible Grid Development

FLEXITRANSTORE project shall develop a next generation of Flexible Energy Grid (FEG), which provides the technical basis to support the valorisation of flexibility services, enhancing the existing European Internal Energy Market (IEM). (Completed)

iDesignRES, Tool Development for the Energy Transition & RES Penetration

iDesignRES program aims to provide Agencies and energy system actors with open source toolkits for designing and improving systems at national to European level. It enables the design of renewable energy systems through a cloud-based platform, offering high-resolution modeling and detailed representation of the energy system.

ACES - Autopoietic Cognitive Edge-cloud Services

Aces develops a series of tools exploiting the various data generated from three pilots aiming to evolve cloud services into advanced, resilient and scalable edge services through hierarchical intelligence and autopoiesis in a geographical distributed environment.

Incode - Intelligent Collaborative Deployments over Heterogeneous Edge-IoT Environment

Smart5Grid - Usage of 5G networks for the development of web applications in the Energy Sector

Smart5Grid aims to revolutionize the Energy Vertical industry through the successful establishment of four demonstration pilots, introducing an open 5G experimental facility, supporting integration, testing and validation of existing and new 5G services and NetApps provided by third party SMEs.

Synergy - Big Data Architectures for Decision Driven Systems

SYNERGY introduces a novel reference big data architecture and platform that leverages data, primary or secondarily related to the electricity domain, coming from diverse sources(APIs, historical data, statistics, sensors/ IoT, weather, energy markets and various other open data sources).

5GVictori - Large-Scale Demonstration for the development of 5G Services

5G-VICTORI conducts large scale trials for advanced vertical use case verification focusing on Transportation, Energy, Media, Smart Factories, and cross-vertical use cases. It leverages 5G network technologies developed in 5G-PPP Phase-1 and Phase-2 and exploits extensively existing facilities interconnecting main sites of all ICT-17 testbeds in a Pan-European Infrastructure.

Synergies - Energy Data Spaces

SYNERGIES introduces a reference Energy Data Space Implementation that will attempt to unleash the data-driven innovation and sharing potential across the energy data value chain by leveraging on data and intelligence coming from diverse energy actors and effectively making them reachable and widely accessible.

Electron - Resilient and self-Repairing Power nano-Grids

ELECTRON aims at delivering a new-generation EPES platform, capable of empowering the resilience of energy systems against cyber, privacy, and data attacks

SDNMicroSense- Safe Architecture for Power Systems

SDN μSENSE SDN-microSENSE will develop a three-layer security architecture, by deploying and implementing risk assessment processes, self-healing capabilities, large-scale distributed detection and prevention mechanisms, as well as an overlay privacy protection framework. (Completed)

Opentunity - Decarbonisation through the Inclusion of Multiple Actors in the Energy Ecosystem

OPENTUNITY aims to support grid operators, prosumers, and other market players to create a flexible ecosystem and hence accelerate the grid’s decarbonization.

Enflate - Flexibility Solutions for net-zero Emissions

ENFLATE is targeting the shared use of renewable energy sources and higher penetration of clean energies in power systems, whilst reducing network operational costs and stimulating the sustainable development of new multi-sectoral business models with the participation of consumers/prosumers in energy markets.

OneNet - Prototype Architecture for the Development of Electricity Markets, Products and Services

OneNet aims at step creating the conditions for a new generation of grid services able to fully exploit demand response, storage and distributed generation, while creating fair, and transparent conditions for the consumers.

CrossBow - Cross-Border Energy Exchange in Market Environment

Crossbow CROSSBOW will propose the shared use of resources to foster cross-border management of variable renewable energies and storage units, enabling a higher penetration of clean energies whilst reducing network operational costs and improving economic benefits of RES and storage units. (Completed)

CoordiNet - TSO/DSO Cooperation through Large-Scale Demonstrations

CoordiNet aims to demonstrate how DSOs and TSOs shall act in a coordinated manner to procure grid services in the most reliable and efficient way .(Completed)

Sinnogenes - Innovative Energy Storage Solutions

SINNOGENES aims at designing and demonstrating the “Storage INNOvations (SINNO) energy toolkit”, a suite of innovative technologies and applications that render energy storage as the gamechanger for the acceleration of the successful energy transition and sectors decarbonization.

Electron - Resilient and self-Repairing Power nano-Grids

ELECTRON aims at delivering a new-generation EPES platform, capable of empowering the resilience of energy systems against cyber, privacy, and data attacks

Smart5Grid - Usage of 5G networks for the development of web applications in the Energy Sector

FarCross - Enhancing Regional Cooperation and Interconnection of Power Flows with the use of Software and Transmission System Elements

FARCROSS aims to connect the major stakeholders of the energy value chain that will facilitate the “unlocking” of the resources for the cross-border electricity flows and regional cooperation.

SDNMicroSense- Safe Architecture for Power Systems

CrossBow - Cross-Border Energy Exchange in Market Environment

CoordiNet - TSO/DSO Cooperation through Large-Scale Demonstrations

CoordiNet aims to demonstrate how DSOs and TSOs shall act in a coordinated manner to procure grid services in the most reliable and efficient way .(Completed)

FlexiTranStore - Exploiting Flexibility Services through Flexible Grid Development

The services and contribution of DRTD, however, are not simply focused around the IPTO and the needs of the Transmission System, but also benefit the entire Electric System in terms of energy efficiency, faster and safer integration of RES, promoting environmental protection, optimising the use of infrastructure, safeguarding system resilience, enriching energy policies and enhancing consumer participation, and improving services to them.

For us, innovation means expanding the horizons for cooperation and development with the outside world thanks to our communication with the participants in the innovation ecosystem to achieve added value for the Company, the Electric System and the whole of Greek society.