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    Keep the Energy at the right place! (EnergyKeeper) [LEI coordinated]

    Project programme
    Horizon 2020
    Period
    01.01.2017 - 31.12.2019
    Project status
    Completed
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    Project website
    http://www.energykeeper.eu/
    Database link
    https://doi.org/10.3030/731239
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    The overall aim of the EnergyKeeper project is to design, develop and test a novel, scalable, sustainable and cost competitive flow battery based on organic redox active materials.

    A 100kW redox flow battery with a capacity of 350 kWh will be constructed and equipped with an interoperable Battery Management System enabling plug and play integration into a Smart Grid. Communications architecture, grid control and demand side management systems will be designed and implemented in order to demonstrate the added value of using energy storage systems to provide ancillary services to the distribution grid.

    The developed technologies will be integrated with real RES (Renewable Energy Sources), Electric Vehicle chargers and variable power consumption demonstrated at the ACRRES test site. Finally EnergyKeeper will develop several prosumer business models oriented to different types of communities in order to demonstrate that EnergyKeeper storage system will bring economic profit to end-users while providing stability to the electricity grid.

    The EnergyKeeper Project will pursue an innovative interplay of key partners’ technologies flexibility in order to achieve the development (TRL3), validation and demonstration (TRL7) of an efficient, low cost and environmental friendly Redox Flow Battery (RFB) based on organic redox-active materials and simple aqueous electrolyte solutions. This innovative EES system will be interoperable thanks to the development of a Battery Management System (BMS) and smart power electronics that will interact with a Central Grid Control System (CGCS) capable to (technically and economically) optimize the functioning mode of a Smart Grid. Intelligent hardware and software layers of the Smart Grid will be developed, validated, and demonstrated at Wageningen Reserach wind and solar test location at Lelystad.

    EnergyKeeper Intelligent and interoperable smart grid schematic
    EnergyKeeper Intelligent and interoperable smart grid

     

    Total cost: 3 995 255 EUR (LEI part: 192 287,50 EUR)

    Coordinator: LITHUANIAN ENERGY INSTITUTE, Lithuania

    Participants:

    • JENABATTERIES GMBH, Germany
    • ACONDICIONAMIENTO TARRASENSE ASSOCIACION, Spain
    • PISGA SOFTWARE AND COMMUNICATION LTD, Israel
    • ICM DIVISION INDUSTRIAL, Spain
    • ENERGY TEAM SPA, Italy
    • STICHTING ENERGIEONDERZOEK CENTRUM NEDERLAND, Netherlands
    • STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH, Netherlands
    • TECNOLOGIAS AVANZADAS INSPIRALIA SL, Spain
    • LITGRID AB, Lithuania
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    Name of legal entity Country Overall contract value (EUR) Proportion carried out by legal entity (%) No of staff provided Name of client Origin of funding Dates (start/end) Name of consortium members, if any
    Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI) Lithuania 3 995 255 4,8 13 European Commission European Commission 01.01.2017 / 31.12.2019

    LITHUANIAN ENERGY INSTITUTE, Lithuania.
    JENABATTERIES GMBH, Germany.
    ACONDICIONAMIENTO TARRASENSE ASSOCIACION, Spain.
    PISGA SOFTWARE AND COMMUNICATION LTD, Israel.
    ICM DIVISION INDUSTRIAL, Spain.
    ENERGY TEAM SPA, Italy.
    STICHTING ENERGIEONDERZOEK CENTRUM NEDERLAND, Netherlands.
    STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH, Netherlands.
    TECNOLOGIAS AVANZADAS INSPIRALIA SL, Spain.
    LITGRID AB, Lithuania.
    Detailed description of the project Type and scope of services provided

    Main idea is to allow individual users and urban communities in remote (isolated) areas to benefit from a local low carbon economy.
    The project will enable the communities and individual users to participate in the smart grid context, it will develop an intelligent storage solution optimizing the communities demand and supply. The solution will be scalable towards size of the community (30-10.000 households) and their capacity of renewable energy generation and available storage capacity (i.e. number of EV´s). It will:
    Scale up of cheap and more environmental friendly storage solution for medium/ low voltages.
    It will mitigate on electricity poverty related to the intermittent generation of renewable electricity.
    Development of the business model between community and local and national renewable energy generation.
    Flatten the peak demands to Distribution System Operators (DSO´s)/ Energy Service Companies (ESCo´s) network.
    Development of the local smart charging model (for the EV´s) for the community to reduce peak demands.
    (optional) Research on new needs of communication protocols between end users (smart meters, EV) with storage solution and / or retailer in line with Expert Group of the SMGT