Based on its successful predecessor project of the same name, ERIGrid 2.0 expands the research services and instruments of its infrastructures, which are now also open to external users. The Center for Energy of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology leads the European consortium of innovative research and development laboratories that offers the ERIGrid partners' research infrastructure to young researchers and experts for developing, testing and validating modern power supply systems, the integration of renewable energies, the digitalization of the networks and intelligent energy systems. The project is based on holistic, cyber-physical validations of the energy system, which can also be carried out in virtual environments. Access is granted from 2020 to 2024.
“ERIGrid 2.0” opens the doors of Europe's best research infrastructures for young researchers to advance the development and validation of competitive concepts for the integrated energy system of the future, ”explains Thomas Strasser, senior scientist at the AIT Center for Energy and coordinator of ERIGrid 2.0.
AIT SmartEST laboratory is part of ERIGrid 2.0: With the SmartEST (Smart Electricity Systems and Technologies) laboratory, AIT has a development platform for smart grid technologies and system architectures that is unique in Europe. Of particular interest for the ERIGrid 2.0 project are applications like controllers and power hardware-in-the-loop (PHIL), and the simulation of smart grid and smart energy systems scenarios (sector coupling).