Imagine a giant battery that can power a city for days instead of hours. This project is building a free digital toolkit and a shared data library to help engineers figure out exactly where to put these batteries and which type works best. It's like having a GPS and a calculator for the future of the power grid.
Energy planners and grid operators lack a standardized, free tool to calculate if long-duration storage is financially viable or technically reliable. This creates a barrier to deploying new storage technologies at scale.
A 'one-stop-shop' digital platform featuring an open-source tool suite and a free data hub for LDES techno-economic assessment.
If you are a grid operator dealing with unstable renewable energy flows — this project developed a digital platform that evaluates grid reliability and techno-economic viability. It helps you decide where to place long-duration storage to prevent blackouts.
If you are a manufacturer of Carnot batteries or hydrogen storage dealing with slow market adoption — this project developed a data hub that demonstrates your technology's performance in 4 real-world use cases. This provides the evidence needed to scale up production.
If you are a consultant dealing with complex regulatory requirements for new energy plants — this project developed a free, open-source tool suite that provides regulatory insights. This allows you to optimize energy system designs for your clients without paying for expensive proprietary software.
The project is developing a fully free, open-source tool suite and a free-to-access data hub.
The effectiveness is being demonstrated via a pan-EU campaign spanning 4 Use Cases involving local grid operators in Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, and Croatia.
All tools will be released under open-source licenses, specifically CC BY and MIT.
Based on available project data, the platform provides regulatory insights to support future EU policy development for energy storage.
The project period runs from 2026-06-01 to 2030-05-31, suggesting availability toward the end of this window.
The consortium is heavily weighted toward commercial application, with 18 industry partners representing 62% of the 29 total members. This high industry ratio, combined with 8 SMEs and a presence across 13 European countries, suggests the project is designed for immediate market relevance rather than pure academic research.
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