Presentation About State of Play of European SET-Plan Action 4 on Smart Networks for the Energy Transition at SET-Plan Conference in Bucharest, June 2019

1. Energy
SET-Plan Action 4:
Increase the resilience and
security of the energy system
“Smart Networks
for the Energy
Transition”
Activities of Member States

2. 1.
• Small: biogas, PV, solarthermal
• Medium: solar power plants, Wind on/off-shore,
CCGT
• Large, nuclear, CCGT
Variety of generation sources in size, both centralised and
decentralised, fully or largely circular
Transition of Energy Networks

3. Decentralized Energy Systems?
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4. IP vision and objectives
Flagship Initiative 1:
Develop an Optimised European Power Grid
enabling the appropriate level of reliability, resilience and economic efficiency, while integrating variable
renewables, such as wind and solar generation by providing increased flexibility thanks to innovative
technologies enhancing customer participation, integrating better storage, making the best use of
connections with other networks (e.g. heat&cold, transport) and optimizing the use of flexible sustainable
combined power and heat generation.
Flagship Initiative 2:
Develop Integrated Local and Regional Energy Systems
that make it possible to efficiently provide, host and utilise high shares of renewables, up to and beyond
100% in the local or regional supply by 2030, enabling regions and local communities to realise their high
sustainable energy ambitions.
Expected outcomes:
• Affordable system solutions and services enabling high shares of RES in
energy consumption
• Market ready technologies and business cases for integrated and smart
energy systems and networks
• sound knowledge base on upscaling and transferability of solutions, on
system architectures and their implications on security and resiliency, as well
as on enabling market and business models

5. IP execution
• Governance Structure with permanent dialogue between EC,
Industry (ETIP SNET), and national stakeholders established
• Joint Programming Platform established, 30 public funding
partners from 23 countries, ~100 Mio € funding spent,
5th (2019) and 6th (2020) joint call under preparation,
Koncept: Impact Network Approach, 3 Layer Research Model, 3
Pillars of Integration, Knowledge Community
• Project Monitoring and Knowledge Sharing Platform
established; First Joint Working Group with EU Projects
(BRIDGE) and ERA-Net Knowledge Community started
(„Energy Communities)
• Pilot: National Stakeholder Initiatives on Innovation Actions
• Pilot: linking national IPs

6. Joint Programming Platform Smart Energy Systems
A multilateral funding network of public funders
Public funding partners from 23
European countries and regions30
www.eranet-smartenergysystems.eu
Organize the learning to enable the
right technologies, market designs and
customer adoption to achieve the smart
energy system vision & goals of Europe
Goal
ERA-Net Smart Energy Systems has received funding from the
European Union’s Horizon2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 64603 and No. 775970.

7. Focus Initiatives
Michael Hübner, ERA-Net SES
Smart Grids Plus
(Start 2015)
 3 multilateral
calls
 > 30 projects
 > 80 mio € funds
Integrated Regional Energy Systems
(Start 2018)
 Extended scope
– Sector
Coupling
 Involvement of
Associated
Partners
 First multilateral
call May 2018
(> 30 mio €
funds)
Storage Systems
(Start 2019)
 Electrical,
chemical, thermal,
mechanical
 Multilateral call
Autumn 2019
 Together with
Mission Innovation
(MICall19)
Digitalisation
(Start 2019)
 tbd
 First multilateral
call 2020

8. General Principle 1:
Three Layer Research Model
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2019
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9. Focus Area: Smart Grids
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Results (TRL 8)
 Control algorithm for microgrid
operation
 Interactive design tool for multi-
criterial planning of energy
infrastructure in net zero
energy villages
 considering technical and
economic factors and social
acceptance, using virtual reality
and artificial intelligence
Runtime: 2016-2019
Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF (Germany) • Electrum Ltd (Poland) • Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
European Copper Institute (Poland) • Harz-Regenerativ-Druiberg e.V. (Germany) • Regenerativ Kraftwerke Harz GmbH (Germany)
Project Example

10. General Principle 2:
Three Dimensions of Integration
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cross sectoral integration:
• transport
• industry and trade
• municipal infrastructure
• agriculture
• …
local and regional innovation
ecosystem:
• governance
• planning
• innovation system
• SMEs and startups
• transnational knowledge base
• …
smart energy system:
• renewable energy
• distributed generation
• cross carrier synergies
• automation …

11. Flexi-Sync - RegSys Joint Call 2018
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 Concept development, demonstration and replication”
 combine flexibility through digital solutions, usage of storages,
increased share of RES and waste heat, designed into a flexibility
solution in line with SET-plan Action 4
 optimizing the flexibility of the heating/cooling sector while
strengthen local and regional energy systems
 new service to allow for optimized flexibility for local stakeholders,
based on an existing digital platform
 enable district energy systems to act as a component in balancing
the electrical grid
Partners: Austria, Germany, Spain, Sweden
Academic experts
need-owners (district energy companies, customers and city representatives)
Project Example

12. General Principle 3:
Impact Network Approach
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Grids Plus
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• organise co-creation on a
programme level in order to stimulate
and enable co-creation on project level
• involve intermediaries to approach
the need owners and potential
buyers such as regional development
agencies, governance and planning
entities, operators of public and private
infrastructure (energy networks,
buildings, etc.), ….
• involve intermediaries to solution
providers such as chambers,
incubators, Technology Platforms, local
and regional Energy Agencies,….
• involve financers and investors

13. Example: Actual Activity
Co-Creation workshop with SET-Plan Initiatives on
Energy Communities, PV Community Self Consumption,
Flexible and Energy Positive Districts
National Stakeholders Coordination Group SNET on 18 June 2019, Brussels
bring together the following SET-Plan Initiatives:
• Stakeholder Initiative on PV Community Self Consumption
(SET-Plan Action 4 / ETIP PV /Solar ERA-Net / JPP ERA-Net SES)
• Task Force on Energy Communities
(BRIDGE / SET-Plan Action 4 /JPP ERA-Net SES)
• Initiative on Flexible or Energy Positive Districts
(SET-Plan Action 3.2 / JPI Urban Europe)
• national and regional initiatives, living labs, demo projects
• Co-creation with need owners and solution providers

14. What’s next and how to finance it
• ETIP SNET working on a new
vision and roadmap
• MS WG improve governance and
responsibilities
• Joint Programming Platform
Smart Energy Systems going
global with Mission Innovation,
next focus areas on Storage
Systems and Digitalisation
• Associated Partners concept with
follow-up financers and need
owners
• to be transfered into Horizon
Europe co-funded partnership on
Energy Transition

15. Michael Hübner
Coordinator JPP SES
Co-chair MS WG Action 4
michael.huebner@bmvit.gv.at
Thanks for Listening!