Grid Control Rooms for a Resilient Electricity System
Funds €9.5M projects that modernise electricity transmission control rooms for more observable, stable and renewable-ready grids.
Electricity transmission grids are becoming harder to operate: renewable generation is distributed, weather can trigger incidents, and control rooms need to coordinate across organisational and software boundaries. This topic funds practical innovation to make those control rooms more observable, stable and resilient.
A project can combine new hardware and software for real-time monitoring, forec…
Design, test and validate vendor-agnostic hardware, software and processes for next-generation electricity transmission system operator control rooms. Projects should combine real-time observability, forecasting, analytics, visualisation, automation and decision support to manage congestion, integrate more renewable generation, reduce curtailment and prepare for or recover from incidents. They may use wide-area monitoring systems, digital twins and artificial intelligence, with security-by-design, cyber protection and open-source components where possible. The work must improve interoperability between different TSOs and with connected distribution system operators, produce an operations manual and best practices, and demonstrate the results in at least two pilots in different eligible countries.
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