Smart Electric Lyon is an EDF initiative on the Grand Lyon area, and is one of the most important experimentation program on the evolution of uses of electric power. It tests innovations with almost 25 000 consumers – households, companies, local authorities – enabling them to know and understand their power consumption and to reduce it.

The project Web2Energy is directed to implement and approve all three pillars of 'Smart Distribution'. Smart Metering – the consumer participates in the energy market Smart Energy Management – Clustering of small power producers . Smart Distribution Automation – higher reliability of supply.

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”.

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 overall impact from SUSPLAN is contribution to a substantially increased share of renewable energy sources (RES) in Europe at an acceptable level of cost. thereby increasing security of supply and competitiveness of RES industry. The main objective is to develop guidelines for more efficient integration of RES into future infrastructures as a support for decision makers at regional as well as Pan-European level. The guidelines shall consist of strategies. recommendations. criteria and benchmarks for political.

The SmartHouse/SmartGrid project sets out to validate and test how ICT-enabled collaborative technical-commercial aggregations of Smart Houses provide an essential step to achieve the needed radically higher levels of energy efficiency in Europe.

The aim of this project is to design an intelligent 400 kVA. MV/LV distribution station (intDS) that will allow power flow fluctuations to be managed while maintaining power quality. reliability and security of supply. A full-scale prototype was assembled and extensively tested at the Flex Power Grid Lab (FPG Lab). It was then installed in a live test grid as a pilot.

The main goal of the field test was to demonstrate the ability of such a VPP to reduce the local peak load on the single low-voltage grid segment the micro-CHP units were connected to.

The large scale energy demonstration projects are required for the practical developmentand testing of smart energy concepts and networks. The project also need to ensure thesustainability of our energy supply and advance the speed of commercial productinnovation.

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.