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MEAN4SG · Metrology Excellence Academic Network for Smart Grids

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2016-03-01 → 2020-02-29
EU contribution
€2,819,753
Participants
9
Scheme
MSCA-ITN

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Results in brief

Metrology Excellence Academic Network for Smart Grids

Smart electricity grids are needed for integrating the massive increase of intermittent energy sources while managing the complex interactions between suppliers and customers that are challenging our energy networks. The needs and tools to face the paradigm shift of the electrical system have materialized in MEAN4SG (Metrology Excellence Academic Network for Smart Grids), an H2020 project financed with 2.8 million euros by the European Commission in the framework of the Marie action Sklodowska-Curie and led by Fundación CIRCE. Thanks to MEAN4SG, eleven researchers from six nationalities have scientifically and technologically contributed to face the challenges in metrology of electrical networks, providing added value to the industry and the scientific community, this, by developing doctoral theses to represent the project results. Thus, MEAN4SG has managed to forge a collaboration network that has resulted in up to 50 publications in journals and conferences to date and in the design of innovative solutions in order to provide added value to the business fabric of the sector. The researchers have been trained within the project context while performing R&D projects, aiming to optimize the metrology of smart grids by means of and integrated research program focused in four scientific domains: - Determination and further analysis of Power Quality parameters affecting active customers. - Metrology for smart grids modelling and monitoring aiming to an accurate energy forecasting at low voltage levels. - Cost-effective use of Phasor Measurements Units (PMUs) for advanced monitoring. - Development of smart diagnosis tools for providing information about the state of the distribution grid infrastructure and its components.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

MEAN4SG network aims to educate 11 young researchers in the smart grids metrology field by constructing a training network gathering the whole innovation value chain. The main EU actors in the field of smart grids metrology have worked together, under the umbrella of the European Association of National Metrology Institutes (EURAMET), and relying on the support of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), in order to design a training program coping with the principal R&D challenges related to metrology for smart grids while tackling the shortage of highly-skilled professionals on this area that has been foreseen by the European Commission, the electricity grids industrial sector and the academia.The overall MEAN4SG research programme tackles the main research challenges in the smart grids metrology field identified by the European R&D community: (1) power quality analysis, (2) smart grids modelling and management, (3) advanced monitoring through Phasor Measurement Units applications and (4) smart cable diagnosis. These main goals have been divided into eleven specific objectives, which will be assigned to the fellows, for them to focus their R&D project, PhD Thesis and professional career.The established training plan answers the challenges identified by the SET Plan Education Roadmap. Personal Development Career Plans (PCDP) will be tuned up for every fellow, being their accomplishment controlled by a Personal Supervisory Team (PST), composed by a main supervisor from the beneficiary and two mentors from the institutions hosting the two fellows’ secondments. The training plan includes intra-network activities, like Specific Courses lectured by the project partners, as well as network-wide initiatives, like two secondments for every fellow, PhD Seminars organized in cooperation with EURAMET and Summer Schools. Internal agreements have been reached among the beneficiaries to ensure the access for all the fellows to the obtention of a PhD degree.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • FUNDACION CIRCE CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION DE RECURSOS Y CONSUMOS ENERGETICOS · ZaragozaCoordinatorSpain
  • ENEL GREEN POWER SPA · RomaItaly
  • ENEL PRODUZIONE SPA · RomaItaly
  • FUNDACION PARA EL FOMENTO DE LA INNOVACION INDUSTRIAL · MADRIDSpain
  • HAEFELY TEST AG · BaselSwitzerland
  • LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE METROLOGIE ET D'ESSAIS · PARISFrance
  • ORMAZABAL CORPORATE TECHNOLOGY AIE · AMOREBIETA ECHANO VIZCAYASpain
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · EindhovenNetherlands
  • UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE · GlasgowUnited Kingdom

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union