Imagine trying to plug a giant, unpredictable wind farm into an old power grid without causing a blackout. This project builds a digital sandbox where planners can test different energy setups and storage options before spending money on construction. It's like a high-tech architectural planner for the entire energy network of a city or country.
Public authorities and grid operators struggle to plan the transition to renewables because they lack tools that combine detailed physics with large-scale regional data. This leads to inefficient investments and slower decarbonization.
A modular open-source toolbox including multi-physics component models, an assembly tool for multi-carrier energy analysis, and a cloud-hub platform for online simulation.
If you are a network operator dealing with unstable power loads from new wind farms — this project developed a multi-carrier grid planning tool that optimizes investment and operation. This allows you to plan infrastructure upgrades with higher precision.
If you are a public authority dealing with decarbonization targets for a region — this project developed a cloud-hub platform to run energy system models online. This helps you design renewable energy systems at a NUTS level 2 regional scale.
If you are an industrial cluster manager dealing with high carbon emissions in production — this project developed energy consumer models for industry and transport. This enables you to optimize how your plant integrates with low-emission energy sources.
Based on available project data, the toolboxes are developed as open-source, meaning the software itself is designed for openness and accessibility rather than a commercial price tag.
Yes, the project is designed for regional, national, and European scales, including specific industrial cluster cases in the Basque and Lombardy regions.
The project explicitly uses open-source models and open licenses to facilitate research collaboration and increase computational performance for average users.
It uses a harmonized data structure and a project database that collects and maps energy data at the NUTSL2 level.
The project period runs from 2023-10-01 to 2027-09-30, with some work packages like WP3 and WP5 scheduled to start later in the timeline.
The consortium is highly diversified with 22 partners across 12 countries, showing strong cross-border applicability. With an industry ratio of 36% (8 industrial partners), there is a significant bridge between academic research and practical application, though the presence of only 1 SME suggests the tools are currently geared toward larger enterprises and public entities.
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