SiC4GRID is a 42-month innovation action project funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe programme. The project aims to optimise silicon carbide (SiC)-based technology for converter applications by driving threefold innovations across hardware, software, and IoT. Its objectives include reducing costs and size, as well as lowering CO2 emissions. Ultimately, SiC4GRID seeks to position Europe as a global leader in converter technology, facilitating the integration of renewable energy into the power grid.

SINNOGENES aims to transform energy storage for a greener future. It focuses on developing and showcasing the SINNO energy toolkit, a versatile suite of technologies like batteries, flywheels, and power-to-gas systems. These solutions will be applied across various sectors, boosting reliance on renewables and reducing carbon emissions. Additionally, SINNOGENES integrates these innovations into real-world scenarios, enhancing energy efficiency, resilience, and flexibility. Engaging diverse sectors, it offers practical, scalable, and economically viable models for energy storage adoption, crucial for sustainable energy systems.

The overarching objective of SMHYLES project is to design and demonstrate, at a relevant industrial scale, safe and sustainable HESS based on the smart combination of low-CRM and aqueous ESS (batteries and supercapacitors) capable of medium-to-long duration energy storage and provision of multiple services. The project will mainly deal with 1) the design of innovative storage components of the two different HESS, i.e., modular VRFB, aqueous hybrid supercapacitor module and smart ZEBRA battery, 2) their optimal integration and management into a HESS supported by digital tools and 3) the demonstration of HESS usage in three different demo sites.

STORE2HYDRO aims to retrofit reversible pump turbine technology into existing hydropower facilities to increase Europe’s electricity storage capacity by 22TWh/year. It involves developing innovative mechanical solutions for large-scale pumped storage, mapping untapped hydropower sources, implementing digital twin technologies, and conducting life cycle and cost assessments. The project will enhance the flexibility and efficiency of hydropower plants, supporting the European Green Deal goals.

The ambition of the STREAM project (STREAM) is the creation of an innovative and robust flexibility ecosystem on the low voltage (LV) grid side of existing power markets. The success of the STREAM ecosystem relies on the benefit realized through the new business models developed in project, built upon local LV flexibility markets and novel barter-like mechanism. STREAM will connect data, technologies, stakeholders and markets on the one hand, and will facilitate the flexibility provision through open data sharing to enable other citizen services designed through a User-centric Approach to improve their acceptance and uptake, providing a variety of energy services supporting power markets.

The mission of the SUstainable resilient Data-enabled Offshore wind farm and control CO-design (SUDOCO) project is to develop an open-source physics-informed data-enabled wind farm control platform which has its foundations in existing and new experimental datasets. This novel software platform will integrate: 1) multiple wind farm flow control techniques and structural health monitoring, 2) value functions able to account for both time-varying inflow and market conditions, 3) farm-wide system optimization, 4) a high level of (cyber)security.