REFLEXE

Led by Veolia Environnement Research and Innovation, the Réflexe project consists in implementing a Smart Grid pilot for three and a half years in France's Provence-Alpes-Côted'Azur region. Its technical feasibility and advantages in terms of energy management and economic and environmental benefits will be therefore assessed on a relatively large scale. The new electric grid will integrate many diverse and widespread sources of decentralized generation, storage and consumption. It will therefore have to manage considerable amounts of information in real time using a communication network in parallel. As the link between electricity producers and consumers, 'energy aggregators' will have the role of monitoring in real time all local installations in order to produce locally, store power and supply it to the grid as required..