European Distributed Energy Partnership

European Distributed Energy Partnership (EU-DEEP) is a large research project supported by the European Union (EU) and coordinated by GDF Suez. Started in 2004, the project gathers 41 organizations around the common objective of removing the main barriers to massive deployment of distributed energy resources (DER).

Background

DER are small grid connecting devices that enable decentralized energy to be stored or generated close to the load they serve with the capacity of 10 megawatts (MW) or less. Centralized power plants use energy to transmit power over long distance, so decentralizing the system uses less energy and encompasses a wide variety of different advancing renewable technologies such as Wind power, Solar power, Geothermal power, Biomass, and Biogas into the system.

“European cities are the most advanced in terms of the transition to new energies”, Denis Simonneau, Head of International and European Relations at GDF SUEZ.[1]

The EU-DEEP project, developed by eight different European energy companies, was designed so that most of the technical and non-technical issues which halt a massive deployment of distributed energy resources (DER) in Europe could be eliminated.[2]

To address the wide range of challenges associated with operating the electricity system of the future, the leading Transmission system operator (TSOs) and Distribution System Operators (DSOs), manufacturers and research establishments in the EU have formed a consortium of 18 partners to undertake a 4-year project code named FENIX whose overall aim is: "To conceptualize, design and demonstrate a technical architecture and commercial framework that would enable DER based systems to become the solution for the future cost efficient, secure and sustainable EU electricity supply system." [2]

"The main concern is to provide answers to tackle the different types of barrier to DER deployment." There is three main types of barriers to the DER deployment which are technology barriers, market barriers, and regulatory barriers.[3] Feem was one of the EU-DEEP partner that was responsible for developing Regulatory Models for the integration of DER. Focusing on FEEM's research, they had work on Demand Response. The main point of the work was to show "how to correlate price patterns to different generation technologies and validation of the three Business Models."[3]


EU-DEEP Partners

The EU-DEEP is made up of forty-two partners from sixteen countries. The partners are different from one another as they include energy operators, industrial manufacturers, research centers, academics, professionals and national agencies. Each partner also has different capabilities from the development of electric equipments to the analysis of the energy markets mechanisms.[4]

Utilities [4]
CountryPartner
FranceGDF SUEZ
SpainIberdrola
Cyprus EAC
LatviaLatvenergo
BelgiumTractebel
Germany RWE Energy
GreeceEPA Attiki
GermanyGASAG
Research Centers [4]
CountryPartner
Sweden IEA/LTH
Italy FEEM
HungaryVEIKI
LatviaRTU
BelgiumLaborelec
TurkeyTUBITAK
GreeceAUTh
SpainCENTER
SwedenEnersearch
FranceSEAES
SpainIIE-UPV
GreeceICCS/NTUA
FinlandVTT
SpainLabein
SwedenSTRI
BelgiumKULeuven
CyprusFIT
GreeceCRES
EnglandImperial College


Manufacturers [4]
CountryPartner
EnglandBowman
GermanyMTU
GermanySiemens PTD
GreeceHeletel
Czech RepublicTEDOM
FranceSAFT
AustriaSiemens PSE
GreeceANCO


Professionals [4]
CountryPartner
FranceTechnofi
FranceTransénergie
GermanyAxiom
PolandEnergoProjekt
GermanyENPROM


Regulators [4]
CountryPartner
PolandKAPE
GreeceRAE

References
  1. "How is the Transfer to New Energies going in Europe Today?". http://gdfsuez.com. GDF Suez. Retrieved 17 November 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  2. http://fenix.iwes.fraunhofer.de/html/objectives.htm. Missing or empty |title= (help); External link in |website= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  3. "Integrated Project: The birth of a EUropean Distributed EnErgy Partnership - EU-DEEP". FEEM - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. FEEM. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
  4. "Work Description". eu-deep. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
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