REACT is a 4-year innovation project, funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the European Union. Its objective is to achieve energy independence for the islands by combining renewable energy sources and their storage, with an active demand management platform, promoting the participation of users in a local energy community….
GEOFIT partners identified the creation of a CEN workshop as a useful way to disseminate the GEOFIT project findings and results in accordance with the dissemination activities carried out to facilitate the acceptance and utilization by the market of the developed solutions through the interaction with the standardization system. Thanks…
Energy storage is vital for the successful decarbonisation of the energy systems, balancing the generation and demand of renewable resources. However, current energy storage systems present limited lifespan, cost, energy and power density, and dynamic response features. As a solution to this issue, smart hybridization schemes coupling two different battery…
Ireland’s Energy White Paper (December 2015) and National Mitigation Plan (June 2017) emphasise the role of citizens and communities in meeting energy targets for a low carbon future. The national Sustainable Energy Communities (SEC) Programme, run by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), is one of the main pillars for driving the growth…
Today SCENARIOS was presented at the kick off meeting from the Green Deal Chemicals Cluster that lasted all morning. The presentation of SCENARIOS was made by our project coordinator Francesco Dondero. Sister projects were also presented there too, and a very interesting morning there were many very lively discussions on…
The 1st HYPERGRYD General Assembly was held on October 7th and 8th in Barcelona. The meeting kicked-off with a review of the project’s vision and objectives, presented by the Project Coordinators, Àngel Font and Francesco Milani, from ARCbcn. Afterwards, partners did brief presentations of each company in order to get…
Ireland’s Electricity Network In Ireland, a national electricity network was first established in 1927 in conjunction with the building of the Shannon hydroelectric electricity scheme. Since then, Ireland has transformed from an underdeveloped country at the periphery of Europe to one with a modern economy. Development of the electricity networks…
On Thursday, 09th and Friday 10th December 2021 the Scenarios consortium held its kick-off meeting in a hybrid format in Alexandria, Italy where Prof. F. Dondero, Project Coordinator, acted as host from Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale. First all partners presented themselves and their organisations. Then we have the…
The GEOFIT project was recently presented at the World Geothermal Congress 2020+1 on 26th October in Reykjavík, Iceland. Around 300 people attended the conference across its 3-day duration (25-27 October), and there were 31 participating European-funded research projects (GEOFIT + 30 others) represented in the European Research & Innovation Pavilion…
Last October, Luxembourg was the place to be for everyone interested in R&D for digital solutions for the construction sector. The LIST (Luxembourg Institute for Science and Technology) was hosting two major events in the domain: CIB-W78, the long-standing yearly conference on digital technologies for the AEC domain; and LDAC,…
With the aim to establish the preliminary sustainability, energy storage and materials safety assessment of HYBRIS Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS), HYBRIS’ consortium is proud to share the report on the Levelized Cost of Storage (LCOS) analysis of the Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS), preliminarily proving its economic competitiveness. The deliverable D1.6, developed by the environmental engineering SME specialized in batteries LOMARTOV, with…
After two years, and the COVID_19 lockdown consequences, the HyCool consortium has met again in person, to hold the 7th General Assembly in Barcelona. The event has been organized by the Project Coordinator Veolia and IDP Ingeniería during the 9th and 10th of November 2021. The objective of the Assembly…
