R&D NESTER IS DEVELOPING LARGE-SCALE AI TESTING AND EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES (TEF) FOR THE ENERGY SECTOR
The Test and Experimental Facility (TEF) is a technology infrastructure that has specific expertise and experience with testing in real conditions in the energy sector.
The TEF bridges the gap between lab and market due to lack of in-depth testing of AI technology in the real environment to fully validate them before the deployment.
The Energy AI TEF aims at testing AI-based technologies and solutions that have already been tested in the labs and have to be tested in operational environments. It aims at optimising the deployment of AI-based solutions for a greener, smarter, more resilient and more flexible energy system.
Currently there are 3 EU funded projects developing Energy AI TEF:
- EnergyGuard: Large-scale testing and experimentation facility (TEF) for assessing, validating, and enhacing AI-powered next generation solutions (link);
- AI-EFFECT: Artificial intelligence experimentation facility for the energy sector (link); and
- EnerTEF: Common European-scale energy artificial intelligence federated testing and experimental facility (link).
R&D Nester works together with 15 European partners in the project EnergyGuard.
The EnergyGuard project aims to create a disruptive enabler of AI-supported energy sector solutions with a cost-effective, open testing experimentation facility that leverages Europe's greenest high-performance computing infrastructure, Meluxina.
The project brings together five European large-scale testing and experimentation facilities covering a transmission network, a microgrid with distributed energy resources, hydrogen testing platforms, a digital twin of a city's apartment buildings and a renewable energy community.
It will enable AI testing of diverse renewable energy systems, energy storage systems, electrolysers, fuel cells and electric mobility via advanced digital twins along with assessment of cybersecurity and regulatory requirements.
The EnergyGuard project and its testing experimentation facility will conduct five pilots case studies
In the EnergyGuard project, R&D Nester coordinates the EnergyGuard TEF pilot experiments and operation. Also, R&D Nester leads the integration of the digital twin of large-scale transmission network and power simulations, as well as the pilot on testing, evaluation and validation of AI solutions to support the operation of smart grids.
In June 24-25, the EnergyGuard partners will meet in Lisbon to review the progress of the first 6 months of the project and coordinate the next semester. This meeting will be hosted by R&D Nester.
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information:
ENERGYGUARD Project @ R&D Nester
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