On the 5th of November the final event of EU-India RE-EMPOWERED project and its sister EU-India SUSTENANCE project, was organized in the framework of MEDPOWER24 conference that was held in Athens from 3rd to 6th of November!
The session entitled ‘EU-India collaboration for smarter energy systems: RE-EMPOWERED and SUSTENANCE projects’ was joined by more than 30 people coming from academia, system operators (DSO (HEDNO) and TSO(IPTO)), the Regulatory Authority for Energy Waste and Water (RAEWW), research centers, etc.
The session started with opening remarks from the president of CIGRE Konstantin Papailiou who is member of RE-EMPOWERED’s advisory board, Bikash Pal from partner Imperial College of London and Petros Markopoulos from DAFNI, representing the Clean Energy for EU islands secretariat.
In the main part, the results from the two projects were presented. A project overview was provided by EU project co-ordinator Panos Kotsampopoulos from ICCS-NTUA. The development of ecoMicrogrid, ecoEMS, ecoPlatform, ecoCommunity tools were elaborated by Athanasios Vasilakis and George Milionis from ICCS-NTUA and Aysegül Kahraman from DTU. Dr Srinivas Karanki from IIT-BBS provided an overview of the Keonjhar microgrid activities in a video presentation. Footage from the 2 videos for Indian and EU demosites were projected, highlighting the project results.
Furthermore, SUSTENANCE coordinator Birgitte Bak-Jensen from Aalborg university, presented the activities of the project and their application in the 6 project demosites. Moreover, Krzysztof Rafal from the Polish Academy of Sciences talked about the industrial implementation of energy management systems in local communities.
Despina Koukoula from HEDNO and member of the International Advisory Board shared her views on the project results highlighting their importance from an industrial point of view.
At the end of the session a lively discussion took place in which the participants exchanged views on issues faced in other isolated power systems (non-EU) similar to the RE-EMPOWERED demo sites and how these can be resolved in a replicable manner.
