Geographical Islands Flexibility: R&D Nester at the Consortium Meeting of the H2020 GIFT Project
The GIFT
consortium met for the seventh time on the 12th and 13th
of October at Sylfen premises, in France.
GIFT is an innovative project that aims to decarbonise the energy mix of European islands, making use of the flexibility available in distributed loads and storage, and involves 17 partners from 7 countries: INEA and ETREL from Slovenia, INTRACOM and CRES from Greece, Sylfen, Trialog, Odit-e, ARMINES and Euroquality from France, Elestor from the Netherlands, Hafenstrom, HLK, Harstad Kommune and NTNU from Norway, Sapienza University and Comune di Procida from Italy, and R&D Nester from Portugal.
R&D Nester's main responsibilities in this project are:
- Enhanced prediction system (nodal prediction of net load and demand response), and
- Procida grid simulation in closed loop with local measurements.
After a brief revision of the finished work by the project coordinator, the whole team dove in the project topics and the running work packages progress.
The Consortium reported the successful installation of metering equipment in the demonstration site of Procida (Italy). The installed smart meters will provide DMS data to the project and will enable the improvement of Procida grid estimations, performed by R&D Nester. Regarding the installation of the Smart Energy Hub in Procida, a new location (instead of the initially planned city-hall) able to satisfy all the safety and regulatory requirements was found, and the consortium announced that the installation will start in the upcoming weeks.
In what concerns to project exploitation and replicability of results, fruitful discussion take place during the meeting for the deployment of GIFT's solution in follower islands, namely the Greek island of Evia.
During the meeting, all participants were invited to visit Sylfen facilities where a hybrid hydrogen storage and CHP system "Smart Energy Hub" is being developed. The "Smart Energy Hub" aims to maximize the energy auto-consumption of a building or groups of buildings by using hydrogen as an energy vector to store the surplus electricity from renewable energy sources to re-inject it back into the grid when needed. As an innovative green energy technology, it relies on dynamics software that receive inputs from in-field monitoring to enhance its efficiency.
For more information:
GIFT project @ R&D Nester website