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RESEARCH PROJECTS
HARMONISE aims to develop an end-to-end solution to transform neighbourhoods into Positive Energy Districts (PEDs). The project focuses on developing scalable, interoperable and user-oriented solutions to improve energy management and integrate renewable resources.
The aim is to drive the transition to smart and green cities by implementing hierarchical and flexible energy management systems that optimise resource use and promote sustainability.
- End-to-end solution: provide a complete system for the management and integration of PED, focusing on scalability and replicability.
- User engagement: Develop tools and applications that support stakeholder engagement and active business models.
- Innovation: Leveraging advanced technologies such as fog computing and blockchain for secure and efficient energy management.
HELIOS
The HELIOS Holistic Energy-efficient Living and Integrated Optimization System project aims to realise a prototype of the Digital Twin, an evolution of the current BIM management of a built, real-time and adaptable building, integrated with the external ecosystem (e.g. other actors/systems) and equipped with connected, interoperable and sustainable technologies that enable the monitoring and optimization of the use of energy resources.
The solution will enable the property manager to simulate the building’s energy profile, enrich it with real-world data (e.g. user behaviour), reconfigure processes for optimal building management, including maintenance, and ultimately improve the facility’s energy efficiency and performance in terms of living comfort and overall accelerate the data-driven and model-based approach to facility management. HELIOS also aims to contribute to achieving climate neutrality, using the standards of the EU “Fit For 55” package as a reference, which attributes 40% of final energy consumption to buildings and promotes energy efficiency improvements in 75% of the building stock.
HERO
The HERO project aims to develop innovative predictive algorithms based on artificial intelligence (AI) and optimization algorithms based on mixed integer linear programming (MILP) applied to the energy efficiency of large industrial systems and tertiary buildings.
In a legal and socio-economic context in which economic actors have incentives, if not obligations, to reduce their emissions and use energy more and more efficiently in general, the applicants intend to develop an innovative product in which a highly specialised IT system is able to autonomously and optimally manage the heating and cooling energy required for customers’ core business.
In particular, two very relevant use cases have been identified for the type of customers of the applicants: for the industrial sector, the energy consumed by the cooling process in the food industry; for the tertiary use case, the heating and cooling energy of commercial and mixed-use buildings (shopping centres, airports, offices).
Planned funding: € 271,150.00
MASTERPIECE aims to create a digital arena of coordination and cooperation to facilitate the creation and operation of energy communities across Europe. The tools made available to the members of the energy communities to contribute to the services foreseen by the new market dynamics and regulatory environment will be the distinguishing feature of the overall solution offered by the project, which is conceived as participatory from the outset.
The project follows a step-by-step implementation approach, using use cases with different levels of maturity and technological development to validate and evaluate the proposed innovations. It utilises the participation of four pilot sites in different geographical areas and within different operational/political frameworks (France, Italy, Sweden and Turkey).
The objectives of the project are:
- develop technical and social innovations to empower traditional energy consumers and make them active players in collaborative energy communities that pave the way to a new energy market paradigm;
- create user-centred solutions based on participatory approaches such as co-creation and, of course, encourage citizen participation;
- propose new business strategies and incentive mechanisms that trigger responses from market players looking for business opportunities in energy use and cost reduction;
- build a standardised and robust cybersecurity infrastructure so that active citizens are protected from cyber-attacks while defending privacy in compliance with the revised EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR);
- demonstrate the applicability and replicability of methodological, technical and business innovations in a variety of real-life pilot projects in different geographical locations with heterogeneous social and economic environments and different legal/administrative frameworks.
META
The META project will develop a new carbon-neutral microturbine based on the existing natural gas-powered AE-T100 and investigate its impact on hydrogen-based fuels. The performance frontier of the generation system will be characterised by maximising efficiency, longevity and speed of response, and advanced methods of integration into energy grids will be applied. Zero/negative emission combustion and flexi-fuel combustion will be evaluated, with emissions monitored to minimise pollutant emissions.
The three-year project involves the collaboration of eight leading European and Swiss institutes and companies in the development of energy management services for hybrid storage systems, i.e. systems in which several storage models (e.g. hydrogen batteries and hydroelectric storage systems) are present.
The aim is to define an information and communication architecture that can ensure an interoperable, reliable and secure exchange of data and instructions and which will be tested in two very different pilot projects, one in Austria and one in Sweden. The Austrian pilot project will deal specifically with energy communities.
With PROGRESS, we want to demonstrate how the use of smart digitalization logics can help an energy cooperative like CEIS achieve its goals of maximising self-regulation both locally and overall and ensuring maximum grid stability through innovative approaches to congestion management.
Digital grid modelling, the use of AI techniques to predict consumption and generation from non-programmable sources, the optimization of grid efficiency and balancing, and the simulation of virtual assets, such as distributed storage systems, will allow CEIS to explore and validate different scenarios to improve its energy efficiency. The results of PROGRESS will provide a reference model for other energy cooperatives in the region and contribute to a more sustainable energy future.
Planned funding: €99,171.98 (PNRR NextGenerationEU funds)
USES4HEAT aims to demonstrate innovative, large-scale, seasonal thermal energy storage solutions that enable a reliable and decarbonized future heat supply. USES4HEAT is presenting at TRL8 and for a one-year trial campaign two innovative and cost-effective large-scale, seasonal underground TES units to maximise the availability and resilience of heat supply while reducing energy losses and environmental impact.
USES4HEAT aims to demonstrate storage as fully integrated units in large-scale commercial district heating networks and in recovering industrial waste heat and meeting industrial heat demand. In doing so, USES4HEAT also demonstrates six innovative key components/technologies and their integration with seasonal storage: advanced drilling rigs and remote-controlled machines that cut drilling time in half, innovative high-temperature stratified drill pipes, efficient groundwater heat pumps with integrated groundwater storage, hybrid solar collector and solar thermal systems, and precise artificial intelligence-based energy management tools.
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