Project: Improvement of Renewables-based System Services Through Better Interaction of European Control Zones (FR-DE-PT)
This project addresses two important problems faced today by power systems with high penetration of renewable energy sources (RES): the provision of ancillary services by RES and the European-wide frequency containment reserve. This is done by demonstrating advanced solutions for a Virtual Power Plant. The benefits of these new solutions will be evaluated considering improved estimation of weather events and short-term prediction at EU-wide scale. The relevance of this project to the call lies on: 1) the sharing of previous experiences between the partners and across EU borders and 2) the increase of the TRL for the technologies previously developed by the partners. In a short time scale this will: 1) allow RES developers to add additional revenue streams to their existing and future power plants, 2) remove barriers to additional development in systems with a high penetration of renewables and 3) reduce the cost of the reserve for network operators.
| Acronym | REStable (Reference Number: 77872) |
| Duration | 01/04/2016 - 18/02/2019 |
| Project Topic | System Services, Renewable energies, Smart Grid, System stability, Virtual power plant, Frequency reserve, 100% renewables |
| Network | ERANet SmartGridPlus |
| Call | ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus - Joint Call for Proposals |
Project partner
| Number | Name | Role | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ARMINES | Coordinator | France |
| 2 | ARTELYS | Partner | France |
| 3 | ENERCON | Partner | Germany |
| 4 | FRAUNHOFER IWES | Partner | Germany |
| 5 | HESPUL | Partner | France |
| 6 | HYDRONEXT | Partner | France |
| 7 | MAIA EOLIS | France | |
| 8 | INESC TEC | Partner | Portugal |
| 9 | SOLAR WORLD | Partner | Germany |