UPGRID: Real proven solutions to enable active demand and distributed generation flexible integration, through a fully controllable low voltage and medium voltage distribution grid
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Project Summary
Adapted and lightly edited from: http://upgrid.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/UPGRID_Project-Poster_vdef.pdf
PROJECT MOTIVATION
The UPGRID project focuses on addressing the constraints and needs arisen from: poor observability of Low Voltage (LV) grid, local accumulation of distributed generation, risks and difficulties in managing the distribution network, aging infrastructure, and social and environmental restrictions that inhibit grid development. To be successful, UPGRID proposes an open, standardized, and integral improvement of the LV grid.
OBJECTIVES
- Economic
- Increase of LV infrastructure capabilities resulting in a boost of value provided by DSO to the electrical system
- Development of new LV products & services
- Social
- The creation of conscious behavior of efficient electrical energy use by consumers
- Improvement of the service provided to consumers (better restoration time, more accurate info, etc…)
- Technical
- Enhanced tools to operate the LV grid
- Improvement of LV power system observability
- Integration of active demand in the LV Network Management System
Project Team
- Project Lead
- Utilities
- Research Partners
- EDP Distribuicao
- Vattenfall
- Energa Operator SA
- Tecnalia
- Imperial College London
- Comillas Pontifical University
- INESC TEC
- ZIV Automation
- Withus - Innovation and Technology
- NOS Communications
- Powel AS
- Schneider Electric
- IGE Energy Services (UK) Limited
- Atende S.A.
- Gdansk University of Technology
- Institute of Power Engineering
- Technological Institute of Energy (ITE)
- Vendors
- N/A
- Other Participants or Stakeholders
- N/A
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Status
Beginning Date:
January 1, 2015
Ending Date:
December 30, 2017
Project Status:
Completed
Last Modified:
November 2, 2020
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