Funded by the Belgian Federal Government
2020- 2024 (Energy Transition Fund)
ADABEL project
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Our role: leader
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2018- 2022 (Energy Transition Fund)
BEOWIND project
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2018-2022 (Energy Transition Fund)
EPOC project
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Funded by the Walloon Region
July 2018- July 2019
ZELDA project
General objectives: An E-Cloud is defined as an integrated power distribution grid feeding an existing area of economic activity, which distributes the energy to industrial and commercial sites that have agreed to be part of the E-Cloud community. Local consumers as well as local production are pooled to optimize the energy flows. Two pilot sites are targeted in the project, with real customers, solar energy sources and storage devices.
Partners: ORES (coordinator), RESA, IDETA, SPI, N-Side, NETHYS, WE Power Colruyt Group, ULg, UMONS
Our role: Provide micro and macro analyses of the E-Cloud, prediction of electrical quantities.
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October 2016- January 2020 (Plan Marshall GreenWin)
E-CLOUD project
General objectives: An E-Cloud is defined as an integrated power distribution grid feeding an existing area of economic activity, which distributes the energy to industrial and commercial sites that have agreed to be part of the E-Cloud community. Local consumers as well as local production are pooled to optimize the energy flows. Two pilot sites are targeted in the project, with real customers, solar energy sources and storage devices.
Partners: ORES (coordinator), RESA, IDETA, SPI, N-Side, NETHYS, WE Power Colruyt Group, ULg, UMONS
Our role: Provide micro and macro analyses of the E-Cloud, prediction of electrical quantities.
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2014-2017 (ENERGINSERE call)
SMARTWATER project: "Système de régulation des réseaux électriques par intégration de sites géologiques remarquables souterrains et carriers pour le stockage énergétique par turbinage-pompage hydroélectrique"
General objectives: investigate the potential of pumped hydroelectric storage on old quarrying sites, mines or natural slopes. Multi-disciplinary project: mining-geology, fluid mechanics and machines, power electrical engineering, legal, regulation.
Partners: Multitel (coordinator), COFELY, ECOREM, ELECTRABEL, IDETA, ISSEP, LABORELEC, UCL, ULB, ULg, University of Mons (Power Electrical Engineering and Mine-Geology)
Our role: medium-term (i.e. month ahead) planning of a portfolio manager with pumped hydro facilities under risk and uncertainty.
UMONS people: Jean-François TOUBEAU (PhD student)
2013- 2017 (RELIABLE call)
GREDOR project: "Gestion des Réseaux Electriques de Distribution Ouverts au Renouvelable"
General objectives: accommodate the variability of the renewable energy sources by demand flexibility or by storage in MV distribution networks.
Partners: University of Liège (coordinator), EDF Luminus, Elia, ORES, Tecteo-RESA, Tractebel Engineering, University of Mons.
Our role: stochastic modeling of electrical quantities (wind and PV production, residential and industrial electrical consumption), clustering of electrical data.
UMONS People: Lazaros EXIZIDIS (PhD student), Benjamin PICART (Post-Doc).
Private fundings
September 2015-(expected end in September 2019)
Titre : Contribution à la mise en place d'un système de stockage partagé dans le contexte d'un micro-réseau industriel
Title: Planning and designing shared storage devices in industrial microgrids
Supervisors : O. Deblecker and F. Vallée.
Funding: shared funding between UMONS, DCube Consult and IDEA
Researcher: Charline STEVANONI
ORES Chair - Since 2012
General objectives: with that chair, ORES, which is a major Distribution System Operator (DSO) for the electricity and gaz distribution grids in Wallonia, intends to support academic research on the topic of Smart Grids.
Coordinators: Prof. François Vallée (electrical power engineering unit) and Prof. Patrice Mégret (Electromagnetism and Telecommunications Unit)
Researchers: Vasiliki KLONARI and Martin HUPEZ (PhD students - electrical power engineering unit), Aurélien VAN LAERE (Electromagnetism and Telecommunications Unit)