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Energy storage: 1 million euro to innovate together with EU companies

Focus = energy storage

ERA-Net Smart Energy Systemslaunched a new call on 18/09/2019 to offer storage solutions for existing energy systems.

The call has a total budget of 22 million eur and focuses on challenge areas where different types of partners from different parts of society collaborate (e.g. SMEs can collaborate with organisations and communities) to offer solutions to existing energy systems. Examples: 

  1. Innovative storage systems and their application such as:
    1. balancing output from community scale renewables projects with community scale storage
    2. using vehicle to grid technology to create a virtual large-scale storage service at district level
    3. integrating thermal storage into individual buildings or district heating systems
    4. storage technologies for enhanced grid resilience
  2. Materials and systems engineering research to resolve key technology cost and performance challenges of known and emerging storage technologies.
  3. Validation of the safety, reliability, and performance focused on degradation and failure mechanisms and their mitigation, accelerated life testing and monitoring
  4. ‘First of a Kind’ innovative storage systems

Project requirements in a nutshell

  • Be transnational involving at least two independent, actively participating, partners from two different countries
  • Develop integrated energy storage solutions, as well as prepare or implement demonstration projects
  • Projects should address solutions within Technology Readiness Level 5 – 8

European call with VLAIO project procedure

  • Type of research funded: research projects and development projects
  • Application requirements:  The project quality will be evaluated by the ERANET but. the evaluation of the project valorisation in Flanders will require a regional application.
  • For all info contact Geert Carchon @VLAIO: E geert.carchon@vlaio.be,T +32 2 432 42 94

Dates to mark in your agenda

  • ERA-Net Smart Energy Systems conference: focus on the call and matchmaking: 7-8 October, Namur (BE) - Register
  • Registration of interest deadline: 12 November 2019, 14:00 CET
  • Proposal deadline:  22 January 2020, 14:00 CET
  • Deadline funding decision feedback: 5 May 2020
  • Expected project start: Before the end of  2020

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