SGIH

The Smart Grid Innovation Hub is a collaborative initiative between EirGrid, SONI and the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) to promote the development of innovative Smart Grid ideas on the island of Ireland. It has been established to create a facility to enable innovation in the Smart Grid arena in Ireland or Northern Ireland, with access to the people, systems and data necessary to test ideas and concepts and enable them to develop from ideas to reality.The Smart Grid Innovation Hub offers the following supports to companies, academics and entrepreneurs:• A facility - ‘the Sandbox’ to enable prototyping, test, integration and demonstration of Smart Grid systems and applications built on digital technologies.• Commercialisation support structures - people, funding, customers, know - how.• Access to data and systems with ability to test / trial products and applications• Project spaces: temporary / short term office facilities (desks) at the sponsor companies• Access to a network of experts across the sponsor companies encompassing technical and engineering domain expertise in electrical engineering, system operation and ICT.• Access to a wider network within the Smart Grid community, energy industry and supporting industries.