Ecosystem

BRIDGE Initiative

BRIDGE is a European Commission initiative which unites Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe Smart Grid, Energy Storage, Islands, and Digitalisation Projects to create a structured view of cross-cutting issues which are encountered in the demonstration projects and may constitute an obstacle to innovation.

By participating in the different Working Groups,
i-STENTORE is actively contributing to BRIDGE activities.

EU ENERGY STORAGE INNOVATORS

i-STENTORE was funded under the Horizon Europe Cluster 5, Destination 3 Call HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-01-11 – Demonstration of innovative forms of storage and their successful operation and integration into innovative energy systems and grid architectures, alongside with AGISTIN, SINNOGENES and 2LIPP.

These projects focus on demonstrating innovative storage solutions and their successful integration into advanced energy systems and grid architectures.

AGISTIN

AGISTIN

Advanced Grid Interface for Innovative Storage Integration

AGISTIN will design advanced grid interface for energy storage solutions that minimise the impact of new, large demands on the grid and reduce costs for large grid users through innovative storage integration. The project will carry out two demonstrations and three test activities on renewable hydrogen electrolysis, irrigation pumping and fast electric vehicle charging.

SINNOGENES

SINNOGENES

Storage INNOvations for Green ENErgy Systems

SINNOGENES project aims to develop the Storage INNOvations (SINNO) energy toolkit, a complete framework of methodologies, tools and technologies that will enable the grid integration of innovative storage solutions beyond the state-of-the art, while demonstrating sustainability, technical performance, lifetime, non-dependency on location geographical particularities and cost. It will develop successful energy storage business cases and systems and deploy them in innovative and ‘green’ energy systems at different scales and timeframes. 

2lipp

2Lipp

2nd Life to Power Plants

In the 2LIPP project on the Energy Island of Bornholm, cutting-edge energy storage technologies and an innovative energy management system will be demonstrated side-by-side inside an operating combined heat and power plant. The purpose is to showcase a scalable, hybrid energy storage solution utilizing existing plant infrastructure, thereby achieving lower cost to deploy energy storage.

COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVES

i-STENTORE, AGISTIN, SINNOGENES and 2LIPP have joined forces to launch a series of collaborative Energy Talks, poised to revolutionise knowledge exchange and networking within the energy landscape.

Through these joint Energy Talks, they aim to create dynamic platforms for stakeholders to engage, interact, and share insights, thereby fostering a culture of collaboration and cross-pollination of ideas.

  • Energy Talk #1: Unlocking the potential of innovative energy storage solutions
  • Energy Talk #2: Innovative storage integration: bridging the gap between industrial needs and grid codes
  • Energy Talk #3: Advancing Energy Resilience: The Critical Role of Battery Storage in Modern Grids
  • Energy Talk #4: Transitioning to Green Technologies Using Existing Infrastructure – Watch now!

Stay tuned for Energy Talk #5!

Watch the 1st Energy Talk!

OTHER COMMUNITY PROJECTS

6G-PATH

6G-PATH will build an extensive B5G/6G infrastructure where a set of core architectures and domain-specific capabilities will be brought together and made available for integration of applications and use cases of relevance within the four addressed verticals, to conduct large-scale pilots and trials. The results of these pilots and trials will be collected and analysed in detail, to generate appropriate lessons and requirements for future 6G communications, as well as to identify, characterise and refine leading-edge business models towards the commercialisations and exploitation of 6G use cases and technologies.

WeForming

Buildings as Efficient Interoperable Formers of Clean Energy Ecosystems

WeForming is a EU project that aims to revolutionize energy management and transform buildings from passive consumers into strategic players in forming the energy networks of the future, putting them at the forefront of Europe’s decarbonisation journey.

The pioneering approach focuses on Intelligent Grid-Forming Buildings (iGFBs), structures equipped with smart technologies and designed to actively contribute to an interoperable greener energy ecosystem, encompassing networks and markets.

WeForming’s methodology and digital solutions will be validated in six real-life demos, targeting different systems, building types, consumer needs, economic conditions and climates: Luxembourg, Portugal, Croatia, Belgium, Spain and Germany.

DigiWind

Supporting Europe’s digital and green transition, DigiWind will deliver the interdisciplinary Specialised Education Programmes (SEP) needed to future-proof the careers of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) professionals in wind and energy systems through their acquisition of advanced digital skills including the Digital Europe Programme’s (DEP) key capacity areas of High- Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cybersecurity, and other emerging technologies.

HEDGE

HEDGE-IoT proposes a novel Digital Framework which aims to deploy IoT assets at different levels of the energy system (from behind-the-meter, up to the TSO level), to add intelligence to the edge and cloud layers through advanced AI/ML tools and to bridge the cloud/edge continuum introducing federated applications governed by advanced computational orchestration solutions. The HEDGE-IoT Framework will upgrade the RES-hosting capacity of the energy systems and will unleash a previously untapped flexibility potential. It will increase the resilience of the grid, create new market opportunities and promote advances in IoT standardization, by introducing and managing a plethora of diversified, interoperable energy services over scalable and highly distributed data platforms and infrastructure.

EXIGENCE

EXIGENCE is committed to reducing ICT service delivery’s overall energy consumption and carbon footprint. The project will conceive a system and define suitable metrics and interdomain data exposure means for assessing end-to-end ICT service delivery. The insights from this work will be formulated as pivotal sustainability requirements and brought into authoritative standardization bodies (3GPP and ETSI) to shape the emerging next-generation mobile system (6G). We conceive a functional architecture encompassing all stakeholders and translate this into suitable interfaces, metrics and mechanisms to enable energy metering during service delivery at each tenant level and aggregate these readings into an overall ICT service energy metric, which we make available to all participants. We provide suitable optimisation techniques for each individual tenant. To further improve energy efficiency during the end-to-end ICT service delivery, we devise incentive-compatible user involvement mechanisms. 

SNUG

SNUG aspires to contribute to a world where buildings seamlessly integrate with the environment by reshaping the construction industry and fostering the transition to Zero-Energy Buildings (ZEBs).

TWAIN

TWAIN is dedicated to ensuring the reliable and cost-effective design and operation of wind power plants, with a specific emphasis on system stability, security, and environmental considerations. This involves the pivotal role of coordinated solutions for wind farm control and asset management.

The project aligns with ambitious decarbonization goals, acknowledging the transformative influence of powerful catalysts such as artificial intelligence (AI) and digitalization, driving the energy transition, and enabling the integration of wind farm control technology processes into the operation and design of future energy systems.

INFERNO

INFERNO aims to develop a system to turn industrial waste heat into electricity. This system will use three advanced technologies: thermophotovoltaics (TPV),  metasurface collector (a heat-capturing surface), and thermoelectrics generators (TEG). With an innovative design strategy, these components will be integrated to develop a modular hybrid energy harvesting system that can be easily integrated into the production lines for converting industrial waste heat into usable electricity. The project’s ultimate goal is to create an efficient and easy-to-install system that helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To help accomplish this goal, expertise in materials research, modelling, cell fabrication, thermoelectricity, and electronics is merged on a pan-European scale, and INFERNO’s integrated hybrid system and its components will be tested in 3 pilot demonstrations in 3 countries (France, Germany and Ireland).