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Presenting the partners: Nord Pool Consulting

Aiming to use the FLEXGRID achievements to identify new business opportunities, Nord Pool Consulting will play a key role in providing data from existing Nord Pool markets and support with identifying innovative business models. Nord Pool Consulting (NPC) offers services connected to market design, rulebook development and market regulation, power market systems and capacity building, and provide seminars based on its unrivalled knowledge of international power market development. NPC’s services are inherently linked to the...

FLEXGRID newsletter: Summary of first year

After its beginning in October 2019, the Horizon 2020 FLEXGRID project is well on its way. Six deliverables have been completed and the foundation of the project has been laid. In the following, we will sum up the work done so far. D2.1: Use case scenarios, requirements’ analysis and correlation with innovative models The first official deliverable of the FLEXGRID project deals with the detailed description of FLEXGRID use cases, system operation scenarios, and user/system...

Presenting the partners: Smart Innovation Norway

Aiming to develop smart and sustainable solutions through research-based innovation and business development, Smart Innovation Norway will spread the FLEXGRID results in the company’s vast network of clusters, startups and collaboration partners. Norwegian research company Smart Innovation Norway hosts both NCE Smart Energy Markets, Norway’s leading cluster of industries and academic institutions within Smart Grid and Smart Energy Market Research and Innovation, as well as the new Cluster for Applied AI, which leads the way...

Presenting the partners: ETRA

ETRA develops software to monitor and control advanced microgrids allowing different stakeholders to operate in an optimized fashion. ETRA Investigación y Desarrollo, S.A. (ETRA I+D) is the hi-tech unit within ETRA Group, one of the leading industrial groups in Spain. Aurelio Lazaro, ETRA ETRA’s mission is putting in the market the most advanced solutions and services either directly or through the 10 companies of the Group, says Aurelio Lazaro, Project Manager at ETRA. The main...

Presenting the partners: ICCS

The Institute of Communication and Computer Systems coordinates several Horizon 2020 projects relevant to the FLEXGRID objectives and will utilize its related background knowledge on software platforms to design, develop and evaluate novel mathematical models and algorithms. The FLEXGRID project coordinator, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), is a research organization associated with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). ICCS has rich experience in the...

FLEXGRID newsletter - Summary of first six months

After its beginning in October 2019, the Horizon 2020 FLEXGRID project is well on its way. Three deliverables have been completed and the foundation of the project has been laid. In the following, we will sum up the work done so far. D2.1: Use case scenarios, requirements’ analysis and correlation with innovative models The first official deliverable of the FLEXGRID project deals with the detailed description of FLEXGRID use cases, system operation scenarios, and user/system...

Six month wrap-up

FLEXGRID will develop a holistic energy market architecture aiming at maximizing social welfare The goal of the Horizon 2020 FLEXGRID project is to integrate more intelligence in existing software platforms and tools developed in the context of related EU energy flagship projects. The EU Horizon 2020 project FLEXXGRID has just wrapped up its first six months. The three-year project started in October 2019 with the purpose of creating a novel smart grid architecture that facilitates...

Kick off meeting

FLEXGRID Kick off meeting took place in ICCS premises in Athens on 14-15 October 2019.