Enel Smart Info provides information on electricity consumption and informs customers on off-peak time slots in order to guide them towards more sustainable consumption behaviours. Enel Smart Info is the key element of future smart homes, where the information displayed by the electronic meter through Enel Smart Info is transmitted to domestic appliances to make them work when consuming energy costs less.

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.

The intent of the project is to experiment, in a real MV distribution grid, a meshed network operation by adopting an advanced control system that will be realized through: • use of sensors and fault detectors along the relevant points of the network; • a communication infrastructure based on optical fibers combined with MV overhead cables of the distribution line itself. The basic element of the project will be a MV junction (i.e. two facing feeders connected together, starting from the same MV busbar) that will be operated as a meshed scheme.

The objective of REALISEGRID is to develop a set of criteria. metrics. methods and tools to assess how the transmission infrastructure should be optimally developed to support the achievement of a reliable. competitive and sustainable electricity supply in the European Union (EU).

The Inter-regional Operative program (Programma Operativo Interregionale (POI)) , is composed of 4 regional projects (Progetto Campania, Progetto Puglia, Progetto Calabria, Progetto Sicilia) aiming at “increasing the share of renewable energy in the overall consumption, increasing the level of energy efficiency, promoting local development”.

The Smart Charging for Electric Mobility project will analyze the tools required for the growth of electric mobility, identifying the most appropriate incentives to promote the diffusion of electric vehicles in Italy. The research includes a study of the behaviour of customers who choose the electric car and the quantification of the benefits deriving from ‘green’ mobility.

The project aims at developing a numerical test platform to analyse and to validate new market designs which may allow integrating massive flexible generation dispersed in several regional power markets

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.

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.

Meter-ON is a coordination and support action to steer the implementation of smart metering solutions throughout Europe.