Archives March 2020

Austria´s leading utility Verbund has created a new digital execution department to help different business units with digitalisation projects.  

The team is already examining which technologies are the best fit for various challenges in Verbund’s operations, from its more than 100 power plants to the retail supply group. Verbund has a demonstration power plant in Rabenstein, Styria under the Digital Hydropower Plant 4.0 project in conjunction with the European power plant association, the Graz University of Technology and with technology partners.  

It has a diving robot that can inspect the turbine and a digital twin to help ...

Date: 12th March 2020
SGI Response to CRU Discussion Paper on PR5

Dear Mr Lindsey

Smart Grid Ireland (SGI) with offices in Dublin City West and Belfast welcomes the opportunity to respond to the CRU discussion paper on the approach for Transmission and distribution Price Review 5 Electricity Networks 2021 – 2025. Smart Grid Ireland is an independent industry led networking cluster influencing government and regulation, promoting good corporate citizenship and actively driving technology solutions that accelerates the cultural and societal changes needed to achieve a digitalized, decentralized and decarbonised electricity network and improve the Island of Ireland’s international competitiveness ...

The BRIDGE General Assembly gathered in Brussels on the 11th-12th of February to create a better understanding of the BRIDGE projects, learn more about projects results and help to establish closer cooperation for European best practice standards.

On the 11th and 12th of February, the BRIDGE General Assembly 2020 took place in Brussels, organised by the European Commission in cooperation with DOWEL Management, Zabala and RSE. The event was well attended (around 150 participants) with a diverse audience composed of energy system stakeholders involved in BRIDGE projects, such as consumers, grid operators, regulators, local energy communities representatives, power technology providers ...

The EU Islands Facility NESOI is asking all Islands in Europe to help in the assessment of their needs regarding the implementation of Energy Transition solutions on their territory.

The EU Islands Facility – NESOI is an EU funded Horizon 2020 project that aims to unlock the potential of EU islands to become the locomotives of European Energy Transition by mobilising more than 100 M€ of investment in sustainable energy projects.

To do so, NESOI is developing a platform providing islands with training, technical support, cooperation opportunities and robust funding openings. The selected island projects will receive customised on-site support from ...

The European Technology and Innovation Platform Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIP SNET) is continuing its series of short stories on successful energy transition technologies to inform citizens and facilitate their involvement in the European energy system of the future, with 2 new stories on the Underground Sun Storage and 3D Decision Support System projects.

As reported previously, it is in everyone’s long-term interest to have a rapid transition towards a cleaner, more sustainable and less carbon-intensive energy future. Indeed, many projects across Europe are developing the necessary technologies to make Europe’s transition to greener energy as smooth ...

The ETIP SNET Working Group on Reliable, economic and efficient smart grid system (WG1) release White Paper on Sector Coupling: Concepts, State-of-the-art and Perspectives.

Sector coupling has recently gained increased attention, bringing new complexity into infrastructure investment decisions but also new opportunities for its smart operation. In a multi-energy system the benefits of an investment in one system may spread over other connected sectors, calling for new metrics when evaluating the cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and for widening scenarios of investment decisions to alternative solutions in the cross-energy system which can be more economical.

Sector coupling brings new challenges such as ...

The 13th Governing Board meeting of the European Technology and Innovation Platform for Smart Networks for the Energy Transition (ETIP SNET) on the 31th of January 2020 in Brussels presented an opportunity for key energy stakeholders to come together to reflect on last year’s achievements, appoint new Working Groups Chairs and co-chairs and discuss the 2020 action plan.

After an eventful and successful 2019 which included the nomination of Guido Guida chairman, a series of multistakeholder workshops and webinars, regional workshops in Petten and Paris, ETIP SNET continues 2020 with the same ambition of shaping the energy system of ...

This week the European Technology and Innovation Platform Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIP SNET) shares its mid-term key Research and Innovation priorities. Overall the roadmap estimates that 4 billion euros of investments are needed over the next 10 years to enable the transition towards a reliable and sustainable European electricity system with very high shares of renewables.

The 10 year ETIP SNET Research & Innovation (R&I) Roadmap 2020-2030 provides the system view to the entire energy transition by addressing a scope with smart electricity grids as its backbone, but going beyond: It also encompasses interactions with the gas and ...