REALISEGRID: REseArch, methodoLogies and technologieS for the effective develompment of pan-European key GRiD infrastructures to support the achievement of the reliable, competitive and sustainable electricity sypply (from 2009 to 2011)

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

The objective of REALISEGRID project (7FP) was to develop a set of criteria, metrics, methods and tools to assess how the transmission infrastructure should be optimally developed to support the achievement of a reliable, competitive and sustainable electricity supply in the European Union (EU). The project idea stemmed from the consideration that the European electricity system faces major challenges to implement a strategy for a reliable, competitive and sustainable electricity supply. The development and the renewal of the transmission infrastructure are central and recognised issues in this strategy. Indeed the transmission system is a complex and strongly interconnected infrastructure that offers a wide range of benefits like reliability improvement, promotion of competitive electricity markets and of economic growth, support for development of new generation and for exploitation of renewable resources.

LAME ACTIVITIES

The Leading Team was CESI (Italy);
the LAME research group worked mainly in WP2 and it developed quantitative scenarios by means of TIMES energy system model, focusing on the energy systems of European Union, Norway, Switzerland and other Balkan Countries interested to pan-European energy infrastructure extensions. The Balkan Countries energy systems were detailed from scratch to enrich the description of the pan–European system.
It identified and adapted the modelling tool able to perform the scenario analyses, considering both electricity and natural gas infrastructures.
It analysed the impacts of different policy and socio-economic scenarios on future electricity and gas exchanges among European countries, modelling with particular care the aspects related to system reliability.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WORK PACKAGES

  • WP1:    dentification of performances and costs of novel technologies aimed at increasing capacity, reliability and flexibility of the transmission infrastructure;

  • WP2:  definition of long term scenarios for the EU power sector, characterized by different evolutions of demand and supply;

  • WP3:    implementation of a framework to facilitate harmonisation of pan-European approaches to electricity infrastructure evolution and to evaluate the overall benefits of transmission expansion investments.   

  • WP4:    coordination and dissemination

  • WP5:    administration management

 

 

 

 

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