The EcoGrid EUproject, an energy-market concept empowering households to manage renewables, has been nominated for the Sustainable Energy Award to be granted during the Sustainable Energy Week in Brussels from 13-17 June 2016.
From 2011-2015 the FP7 project EcoGrid EU has implemented a large-scale demonstration on the Danish island of Bornholm that supports active user participation to manage smart electricity distribution networks relying on renewable energy. The project aimed to allow small-scale and residential electricity consumers to participate in the power market and give a stronger voice to these customers.
The project’s concept can be applied generally. It reduces the need for production side flexibility, which is more expensive, and can compensate for traditional balancing power and services from replaced conventional generation. And for customers, it makes renewable energy more reliable, while helping them keep control of their bills.
AIT contributed to the project by developing concepts for flexible demand response and load management (peak load reduction) to guarantee grid safety and reliability. Another major contribution of AIT during the demonstration phase was the evaluation of the overall system performance on the basis of the smart meter data. By using advanced statistical analyses, the AIT experts tried to quantify the demand response achieved during the tests.
Contact AIT Project Leader: Benoît Bletterie
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