Pilots:

The project partners ESG and SWW have already been developing a pilot project in the city of Wunsiedel in Germany. The SWW pilot covers a wide-spread field of activities starting with a continuous and safe provision of electricity using a substantial amount of Variable Renewable Energy sources (VRE) and other alternative sources. To that, the variety of energy sources allows SWW to sustain a flexible and reliable supply of energy. Besides energy supply, SWW is actively promoting initiatives for citizen participation and stakeholder engagements as well as new innovative actions, such as interactive governance applications, to gain social acceptance at the highest level. In Wunsiedel, there are also agricultural buildings connected to the energy grid, thus flexibility and potential sector coupling grid.

The test setup at UFSC is composed of a set of renewable energy sources, a pack of Li-batteries, an electrolyser unit, and a unit for NH3 production. The plant can be used to test different aspects of the production and use of green H2, such as the viability of renewable energy sources for isolated systems in the Brazilian context and the study of new control strategies for energy management systems in microgrids could be performed.

The test setup at UTS, Australia consists of renewable energy sources such as wind and PV, and 80 kW battery storage. The main objective of the test setup is to consider different combinations of cyber security setups. UTS hybrid microgrid is composed of a digital twin (run in a real-time simulator) with the ability to connect actual power hardware in it. This will allow us to connect this micro grid into the digital twin via a power amplifier.
The results of phase 1 will be the reference point for the other two phases at the development and validation level, but also for the analysis of the exploitation plan and business strategy for the project INTEREST deployment. Development of real-time monitoring of energy systems requires dealing with a large set of data consisting of component parameters (production, operational, …), energy production and consumption, control related parameters. Novel techniques to ensure data reliability, consistency, and completeness will be developed and the challenges including interoperability, heterogeneity, security, and privacy, demand new methodologies and architectures to support cost-effective instrumentation, processing, storage, management, and sharing of such data will be addressed in the first phase.