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Objectives

Objectives

The SmILES proposal contributes to the “European Common Research and Innovation Agendas (ECRIAs) in support of the implementation of the SET Action Plan” (LCE 33). The objective of SmiLES is twofold:

  1. Obtaining fundamental knowledge about linking and optimising heterogeneous energy carriers and systems including storage and renewable energy technologies across geographical scales from local to national.
  2. For the European level: Development and dissemination of guidelines for modelling, simulating and optimising such systems. These guidelines will be derived from aggre­gated and merged knowledge of five different energy system configurations, which combine heat- and electrical power systems with storage capabilities (CHPS).

SmILES' objectives are compliant with ECRIA's, as national research efforts are largely integrated and still existing gaps in the deployment of hybrid energy systems can be identified. It creates synergies at EU and national levels and avoids duplication of efforts. Additionally SmILES will point out opportunities of joining the information, communication and physical technologies in the energy domain, especially in flexible thermal and electrical energy generation, demand side response and storage, as well as efficient heating and cooling technologies. It will depict synergies between energy vectors and demand analysis, including at least partially the exploitation of Big Data methods.

Project

Project

The project “Smart Integration of Energy Storages in Local Multi Energy Systems for maximising the Share of Renewables in Europe’s Energy Mix” (SmILES) is a joint project with AIT, DTU, EDF SA (and EIFER EWIV), Vito/EnergyVille and EERA AISBL. SmILES zooms in simulation and optimisation of smart storage in local energy systems for increasing the understanding and transparency of innovative multi-energy projects. Setting up a shared data and information platform and effective dissemination of related results will contribute to competence building. Supplementing the research activities, a long-lasting framework across EERA JP borders has been set up by the consortium for extending storage integration technologies by linking other EERA members, stakeholders, energy supplier and industry.

Work Packages

Work Packages

It is foreseen to build up i) a lean organisation and governance structure for sharing knowledge, to define synergies, needs and gaps for future research activities (WP1 Project Management). Furthermore it is planned to ii) establish a communication network with stakeholders energy supplier and industry (WP7 Dissemination and Communication) and iii) the set-up of a digital information and data platform on data sets and smart hybrid system configurations (WP6 Shared Data and Information Platform). In the framework of the project the variety of national specific knowledge on smart storage integration will be focussed on the five nations, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France and Germany, represented by the six partners. The chosen system configurations have been developed in context of either recently completed or ongoing national projects.

The WP structure distinguishes managing and disseminating actions (WP1, WP6 and WP7) and several research actions (WP2 to WP5). The coordination actions concentrate on the establishment of a project specific governance structure, management, regular communication processes, and the setup of a data and information platform. The research actions aim for collecting and exchanging knowledge gained from nationally funded projects by developing a rich format for describing different system configurations (WP2). Instrumentation and data processing guidelines (WP3) will be developed and selected system configurations will be modelled (WP5) according to the generated joint criteria (WP4), making a jointly analysis and evaluation of results and finally defining best practice guidelines.