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24 Oct 2019
Technology
The European SHAR-Q project “Storage capacity over virtual neighbourhoods of energy ecosystems”, led by Atos and with the participation of the Basque Energy Cluster to coordinate the communication and dissemination activities, concluded its work after three years with an outstanding event in Brussels, having successfully met the objectives.
The event was held on 24 October in Brussels and was organised in collaboration with the Storage4Grid project. It presented the main results and achievements of both initiatives and involved the participation of leading European agents and entities in the energy field (REScoop.EU, AIOTI.eu, EASE, BDVA), representatives of H2020 European projects (PLANET, DOMINOES) and of the European Commission itself. They provided their views on the challenges and trends currently driving the transformation of the energy sector such as decentralisation, interoperability, digitisation and sharing of distributed storage resources, among others.
The main objective of SHAR-Q has been to optimise the sharing of energy storage capacities deployed on the electricity grid with the help of a system that connects local generation and storage capacities, guaranteeing interoperability and thus generating a collaborative framework that allows the use of renewable energy sources to be improved by reducing the total cost. To this end, the project has developed an innovative concept of a virtual platform that enables peer-to-peer collaboration in this new scenario that is presented due to the possibilities offered to users as energy generators and consumers.
The platform has been implemented and validated in three pilot demonstration scenarios: a solar laboratory in Portugal which focusses on distributed renewable production (photovoltaic solar) with shared storage capacities; a community of prosumers in Austria aimed at sharing energy resources (photovoltaic generation and storage) in order to optimise the energy profile of users with respect to their preferences; and a facility in Greece focusing on services related to electric mobility. The objective of the latter is to allow assets with different charging infrastructure technologies to be managed and to make the most out of the flexibility of electric vehicle charging for the consumer, the grid and for market purposes.
In addition to the technical developments, SHAR-Q has had the support of a large representation of European players in the energy sector, whose support has been key to ensuring the consistency of the project results in accordance with market expectations. This Advisory Committee has provided its assessment at critical moments in the development of the project, which has allowed the final results to be oriented towards a real environment. In addition, new collaboration processes between the different actors in the energy value chain have been analysed.
The Basque Energy Cluster has developed the communication and dissemination plan and has coordinated these activities throughout the project. They included the creation and coordination of the Advisory Committee involving IBIL, EVE, TECNALIA, EDP and ORMAZABAL, and the hosting of a workshop in Bilbao in 2017 to contrast the business potential of the developments proposed in the project. It was attended by 15 associates from the value chains of Electrical Grids, Storage and Electric Vehicles.
SHAR-Q was funded by Horizon 2020, the EU’s research and innovation programme, under grant agreement no. 731285. The project started on 1 November 2016 and was completed on 31 October 2019, coordinated by Atos, in collaboration with the Basque Energy Cluster (Spain), Bavenir (Slovakia), Energie Güssing (Austria), Europäisches Zentrum für Energie Güssing (Austria), Ubimet (Austria), the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (Greece), HEDNO (Greece), Enercoutim (Portugal) and Aachen University (Germany).
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