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Challenge 1
- High-Efficiency Power Converters for a Sustainable Energy Future
- Empowering Grids with Advanced Wide Band-Gap Technology
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Challenge 2
- Balancing Energy Flows with Multi-Modal Hubs
- Smart Storage Solutions for Peak Power Reduction
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Challenge 3
- Enhancing Reliability and Safety with Advanced Monitoring
- Resilient Control from Power Converters to Distribution Grids
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Challenge 4
- Fast, Reliable Connections for Seamless Energy Management
- Low-Latency Communication for Decentralized Power Control
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Challenge 5
- Real-World Testing for Smarter, Greener Microgrids
- Innovative Use Cases from Hydrogen Stations to Smart Buildings
Mission and Vision
The Vision of ECS4DRES is to build upon and take further previous research and development efforts in creating
an energy system that is sustainable, secure, and cost-effective, powered by distributed renewable energy sources. This distributed system would be based on a new generation of smarter power hardware, connected through secure and reliable digitalized networks and multi-modal energy hubs, allowing for the efficient management and coordination of energy production, storage, and consumption, and pursuing mostly local balance between demand and generation.
This energy system would also be low-latency and adaptive, allowing for quick response and adaptation to changing energy demands, and reliable, by monitoring its state-of-health and conditions to prevent failures.
To realize the aforementioned vision, ECS4DRES has the Mission to
deliver a set of interoperable mature solutions centred around energy conversion and management for DRES, by designing, developing, and implementing the necessary electronic hardware and software components and systems. This includes the development of hardware (including power converters and their control systems, sensor and monitoring systems and their integration), algorithms and software tools (including control techniques for DRES and at grid level, local balance between energy production and consumption in microgrids, by taking advantage from AI), communication techniques (including applications of 5G and wireless extensions of power line communications).
Most of all, ECS4DRES commits to perform a thorough validation of all the above with a set of relevant use cases and demonstrators. In general, the mission of ECS4DRES can be summarized in the pursuit of automated, aggregated, and efficient coordination of better-performing individual components and subsystems of DRES at different levels of abstraction.