The first annual session of the Advisory Board of the FlexPlan project took place on 29th October 2020. More than 30 people were connected in web conference during the three hours of the meeting. They were relevant stakeholders from many affiliations: European Commission (INEA, JRC), European stakeholders and organizations (ENTSO-E, E.DSO, T&D Europe, ISGAN), TSOs…
The Horizon2020 project INTERPRETER (https://www.interpreter-h2020.eu/) is putting up a modular grid management solution for an optimal design, planning, operation and maintenance of the electricity grid with a special focus on the distribution network. INTERPRETER organized a new ISGAN Academy webinar with the name “INTERPRETER – Flexibility needs at system level” aimed at providing an introduction…
The FlexPlan project is now one year old. Many activities have been carried out in this period and a lot of challenges have been tackled. The just published last issue of the project newsletter provides details on all the activities accomplished by the project during the last 6 months: View FlexPlan M12 Newsletter
Since 2002, Energetika.NET reports daily on current events and developments in the field of energy and trading as well as on some political and business related subjects for Slovenia and South-East Europe. On 15th September, Energetika.NET has published the article “FlexPlan: using storage and flexibility to avoid new grid investments”, reporting some highlights of the workshop…
The fourth conference of the Energy Modelling Platform for Europe (EMP-E) will take place on 6th– 8th October 2020 and will be hosted by the European Commission DG Research & Innovation in Brussels. The conference is organized in co-operation with a group of eight Horizon2020 projects. The EMP-E brings together scientists and policy makers working…
Mission of the ISGAN Academy on Smart Grids is to offer the ISGAN community of high-level engineers, decision makers, students and public in general, technical updates in the field of smart grids. One of the activities of the ISGAN Academy is to organize periodically webinars putting in the spotlight on-going significant activities (projects, studies, etc)…
Hot fall season for the FlexPlan project. Several dissemination events are scheduled in the months of September – October 2020: UPEC 2020 virtual Conference: 1-4 September 2020, http://upec2020.polito.it – Presentation of a paper on project layout and modelling approach by the Project Coordinator: Gianluigi Migliavacca (RSE) ISGAN Academy webinar: 9 September h14.00-15.00 (public event: no…
This year, due to the COVID-19 emergency, the customary InnoGrid conference organized by ENTSO-E and E.DSO will be replaced by two virtual sessions, on 18th and on 30th June (https://www.innogrid2020.eu/programme/). The project coordinator Gianluigi Migliavacca (RSE) was invited, along with other three Horizon2020 projects, to present an overview of the activities of the FlexPlan project…
On 22nd May, the FlexPlan project coordinating person Gianluigi Migliavacca held a virtual lecture for the Politecnico di Bari on the two H2020 projects SmartNet and FlexPlan. The two projects aim at analyizing the role of flexibility in the grid, the former with reference to system operation and the latter to grid planning. The lecture…
FlexPlan is going to organize a theme session in the frame of the ENLIT Conference (https://www.enlit-europe.com/, former: Energy Utility Week Europe), which will take place in October this year in Milan. In order to introduce the topics, Enlit Europe Content Director Florence Coullet joined Gianluigi Migliavacca (RSE, project coordinator) and Björn Matthes (TU Dortmund University)…