The main objective of the OPEN meter project is to specify a comprehensive set of open and public standards for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) supporting multi commodities (Electricity, Gas, Water and Heat), based on the agreement of the most relevant stakeholders in the area.

Our MISSION in NOBEL was to develop, integrate and validate ICT enabling a reduction of the currently spent energy, by providing a more efficient distributed monitoring and control system for local network operators and prosumers.The key to NOBEL’s efficiency improvement is that prosumers become sources of both energy and information. The information allows the energy system to better adapt the amount of electricity in the network to the real time demand.

The Night Wind project proposes to design grid architectures for Wind Power Production combined with Energy Storage means of load management of Refrigerated Warehouses (Cold Stores). Refrigerated Warehouses are constant power users. day and night.

This project aims to answer the question of whether and how it can be in terms of a multi-sector system solution. a number of vehicles with electrified drive components used both useful as a distributed energy storage in the electric network and the consumer side demand management. Conclusions will be drawn to the technical feasibility and potential barriers.

The aims of this Test Facility is to: • Test centralized and decentralized control strategies in grid interconnected mode; • Test communication protocols and components including aspects related to energy trading; • A control and monitoring system built around IEC 61850 standard designed and prototyped; • Control strategies resulting from agent software to make use of these control and monitoring functions; • Development of intelligent modules embedding the required functions to allow a full integration of each generating/load unit into the system.

The project concentrates on an urban conurbation with a high penetration rate in which renewable and decentralized sources of energy are used to a large extent. Within the framework of the E-Energy project. a representative large-scale trial is being conducted both in Manheim and in Dresden to demonstrate the project can be applied and translated to other regions. The trial uses new methods to improve energy efficiency. grid quality. and the integration of renewable and decentralized sources of energy into the urban distribution network.

The project’s main goal is to develop a concept for flex-offers that specify electricity demand and supply which is flexible in time and amount and an infrastructural approach to process lots of these flex-offers issued by small consumers and producers in near real-time.The possibility to shift demand within the mass of households developed within the MIRACLE project will allow for a higher share of fluctuating renewable energy sources in the energy mix on the grid and reduce the peak demand.

The functional demonstration MINI E Berlin powered by Vattenfall is a co-operation between Vattenfall and BMW. There are 50 MINI E (35 kWh. range ~ 180-200 km. max speed 152 km/h) mostly used by Berlin residents but also in fleet applications. Vattenfall delivers the required intelligent charging applications, the hardware for charging in private and public environments, and the electricity from RES keeping the whole project CO2-neutral. The EVs (MINI E) should function as energy storage capacity to help balancing the grid during periods of high energy feed-ins by RES.

MetaPV is the first project world-wide that will demonstrate the provision of electrical benefits from photovoltaics (PV) on a large scale. Additional benefits for active grid support from PV will be demonstrated at two sites: a residential area of 128 households with 4 kWp each, and an industrial zone of 31 PV systems with 200 kWp each. The enhanced control capacities to be implemented into PV inverters and demonstrated are active voltage control, fault ride-through capability, autonomous grid operation, and interaction of distribution system control with PV systems.

Electric power systems are facing a major new challeng: future massive integration in the electric grid of electric plug-in vehicles (EV). The project will address comprehensively the impact of electric plug-in vehicles (EV) presence regarding steady state operation. intermittent RES integration. system stability and dynamic behavior. system restoration. regulatory aspects and market arrangements.