E3SoHo proposed service offers a holistic solution for ICT-enabled energy efficient social housing developments all across Europe.

The energy supply will need to evolve into a dynamic system to provide the smart energy infrastructure needed to support society in 2020 and beyond. Future Internet technologies will play a critical role in the development of Smart Energy infrastructures, enabling new functionality while reducing costs.In the FINSENY project, key actors from the ICT and energy sectors will team-up to identify the ICT requirements of Smart Energy Systems. This will lead to the definition of new solutions and standards, verified in a large scale pan-European Smart Energy trial.

As part of the ICT PSP programme of the European Commission Competitiveness and Innovation Programme, the eSESH project aimed to design, develop and pilot new solutions to enable sustained reductions in energy consumption across European social housing.

In Wallonia, Belgium, the political willingness to increase the capacity of renewable generation, the evolution of the consumption pattern (for example electrical vehicles), and the changes in the electricity markets sector will raise several challenges in distribution systems in a near future. Without re-thinking the system, issues such as congestion, under and over voltage, and renewable power curtailment are likely to appear more often than today.

ELECTRICA is implementing The Virtual Synchronous Generator (GSV). ELECTRICA, together with the Polytechnic University from Bucharest and another eight research and education institutions from Western Europe, are part of a project to implement the virtual synchronous machines stabilizing the frequency in the distribution networks where there is a high degree of decentralized power generation (VSYNC project). The VSYNC was installed at Cheia in Prahova county (Romania) within the Power Distribution Branch “Electrica Distribution North Muntenia”.

Volt-Air is mainly focused on the integration of electric vehicles in vehicle fleets and the integration of these fleets in the micro grid companies. The Volt-Air platform consists of three sublabs which are connected via a common data platform for data exchange. There is the micro-grid lab on the Siemens site in Huizingen. This consists of renewables (10,000 m² solar panels), a cogeneration system and electric vehicles. The EV (electric vehicles) lab of Volvo Cars Ghent consists of C30 electric cars, fitted with equipment for logging technical data.

TWENTIES Project aims to demonstrate through real-life. large-scale demonstrations. the benefits and impact of several critical types of technology required to improve the European transmission network. thus giving Europe the ability to increase the share of renewables in its energy mix by 2020 and beyond. while keeping its present reliability

The project aims at designing an active network solution based on the power systems analysis. It will define principles of access for generators to perform a curtailment assessment that will help to estimate how often limits are threatened. This will lead to the generators modulation necessary to keep power flows within limits. The project will provide guidelines for the active network solution deployment and a cost estimation as well.

The main objective of the Smart-A project is to identify and evaluate the potential synergies that arise from coordinating energy demand of domestic appliances with local sustainable energy generation but also with the requirements of regional load management in electricity networks.

The main objectives of SEESGEN-ICT consist in producing a harmonized set of priorities to accelerate the introduction of ICT into the Smart Distributed Power Generation Grids, investigating requirements, barriers and proposing solutions. SEESGEN-ICT will produce policy recommendations, identify best practices and draw scenarios and roadmaps for the next generation of electric distribution network.