JTI ENIAC
The ERG project will develop innovative solutions to enhance the solar energy value-chain by means of a more efficient energy management from high performance PV cells to power conversion, intelligent drive control, power delivery and interface to smart-grid. The project targets the transversal Sub-Programme SP3: Energy Efficiency.
SP3 deals with the development of innovative technologies and components, which are the basis for new energy efficient products and intelligent power management to allow increased competence in these emerging lead markets in line with the 'sustainability' objective. Efficient generation, distribution and intelligent control of energy can reduce electrical energy consumption in Europe by 20% to 30% until 2020 and CO2 emission in the same order of magnitude in order to achieve the Kyoto protocol targets and to limit the energy cost increase.
By enforcing the guidelines of the ENIAC AWP 2010 and the MASP roadmap on "Energy Efficiency", the project's streamlines are intended to rely upon the relevant existing projects (i.e. SmartPM) by leveraging its synergy and complementarities. In particular, ERG will push forward the two Grand Challenges:
- "Sustainable and Efficient Energy Generation – CO2 Reduction", dealing with renewable solar energy.
- "Energy Distribution and Management – Smart Energy Grid", to achieve a reliable, flexible, accessible and yet cost-effective power supply.
- The energy generated by a Photo Voltaic facility is typically available on a non-continuous basis. This implies the need for power conversion (i.e. DC/DC, DC/AC) and sometime local storage buffering before being committed to delivery through the grid. The goal of the project is to further improve the efficiency of the whole supply chain, pushing the efficiency to exceed 20% and reach up to 25% for high performance photovoltaic cells; 20% losses reduction for the AC/DC and DC/DC; 90% battery (slow charge); 91% overall grid.
The future "smart energy grid" will be a combined management of incoming power, of distribution of power and of outgoing power at both local (i.e. Urban district, smart city) and global level (i.e. country or even continental wise). This could include also the future bunch of millions of electric batteries belonging to the electrical vehicles plugged-in at home's park lot. The project will develop innovative solution to optimize the local smart grid with regards to power management and co-generation, power consumption, efficiency, as well as real- time energy metering and billing control.
Coordinator:
STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Italy)
Other participants:
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
- Centro di Ricerca sui Sistemi Elettronici per l'Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni "Ercole De Castro" - ARCES
- Resp. Scientifico: Prof. Roberto Guerrieri
Applied Materials Italia (Italy)
Compel Electronics S.p.A. (Italy)
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per la Nanoelettronica-IUNET (Italy)
Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
Università della Calabria (Italy)
Università di Catania (Italy)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto per la Microelettronica e Microsistemi (Italy)
Elettra-Sincrotrone (Italy)
ON Semiconductor Belgium BVBA (Belgium)
Telefunken AG (Germany)
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V. (Germany)
RWTH Aachen (Germany)
Infineon technologies AG (Germany)
SMA Solar technology AG (Germany)
Technische Universität Chemnitz (Germany)
Leitat Technological Center - Acondicionamiento Tarrasense (Spain)
Slovak University of Technology Bratislava (Slovakia)
POWERTEC Limited (Slovakia)
SolarPrint Limited (Eire)
Tyndall National Institute (Eire)
NXP Semiconductors (The Netherlands)
Boschman Technologies (The Netherlands)
Enecsys (UK)
University of Sheffield (UK)
Elec-Con technology GmbH (Germany)
Start date 01/06/2011
End date 31/05/2014
Duration 36 months
Project Reference 270722
Project cost 25.711.684 EURO
Project Funding 12.432.379 EURO
Area FP7-JTI-ENIAC
Subprogramme Area
ENIAC –SP3 - Energy Efficiency - main priority of the project
ENIAC –SP4 - Design Methods and Tools
ENIAC –SP5 - Silicon process and integration
Contract type ENIAC Joint Undertaking