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Innovative organisation
Large project that brings together the critical mass necessary to impact DER
penetration in Europe
Implements “demand-pull” rather than “technology-push” approach.
Lead by utilities : requires close collaboration (including sharing of market
data).
Management based on effectiveness (intellectual property share of more 100
results pre-defined).
Utilities :
Gaz de France (France), Tractebel (Belgium),
Iberdrola (Spain), RWE Energy (Germany),
Consortium
Lodz Rgn Power (Poland), Electricity Authority of
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Cyprus, EPA Attiki (Greece), Latvenergo (Latvia)
Utilities
Equipment manufacturers Manufacturers
and developers : Research Centres VTT
Bowman Power Systems (UK), TEDOM (Czech Professionals Lund University ,
Republic), MTU (Germany), SAFT (France), National Agencies STRI
Acknowledgement
Supported by the European Commission through the Sixth Framework
Programme for Research and Development with up to 15 M€ (out of a to-
tal budget of about 30 M€), the EU-DEEP project addresses the area “New
technologies for energy carriers / transport and storage” of the “Sustainable
development, Global change and ecosystems” thematic priority.
It has been running since January 1st 2004 to June 30th 2009 (66 months).
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www.eu-deep.com
Coordinator :
Gaz de France : Mr. Etienne GEHAIN, +33 1 49 22 59 65 - etienne.gehain@gazdefrance.com
with the support of :
ALMA Consulting Group : Ms. Fabienne BRUTIN, +33 4 72 35 80 30 - fbrutin@almacg.com
EU-DEEP management is operated with PRODIGE Internet platform : www.prodige.com
The birth of a EUropean Distributed EnErgy Partnership
that will help the large-scale implementation of distributed energy resources in Europe
A European Project supported within the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
Context
Distributed Energy Resources (DER) are already used in Europe (for instance
wind turbines or CHP in industry). DER comply with the European Directives
requiring to act on the demand side, improving efficiency, ensuring security of
supply of clean energy and completing the development of new sustainable
energy generation and transformation technologies, such as renewable
energies and fuel cells. However, there is a trade-off point between the benefits
of DER and the adverse grid effects at distribution and even transmission
levels that penalise today the wide penetration of DER in Europe.
As the diagram above shows, EU-DEEP wants to start from the present situation in Europe, and to provide solutions to dramatically change
the DER penetration in Europe to a new trade-off point, where benefits and drawbacks of DER have changed to a point favouring more DER
contribution.
EU-DEEP initiative
A group of eight leading European energy utilities have joined forces to
remove, in five years from January 2004, most of the technical and non-
technical barriers which prevent a massive deployment of distributed energy
resources (DER) in Europe.
WP2 WP3
WP1
WP4
WP2 WP3
Grid and market Local Trading WP8
integration Strategies ECG WP5
WP1
Demand WP4 WP1 - Demand description and modelling Demand segment 1
description Techno R&D
and modelling WP2 - Grid and market integration Demand segment 2
WP5 WP3 - Local Trading Strategies Demand segment 3
Techno validation
WP4 - Techno R&D Demand segment 4
On Technologies
Objective Impact
Foster focused development and The EU directives regarding
validation of DER technology (meeting various energy related policies
precise demands from the European have the corresponding
demand model) technologies to ensure proper field
implementation
Implementation
Objective Impact
Communication and training program- Intermediate actors (consultants,
me to disseminate knowledge and engineering and maintenance
competence to designers, engineering companies…) are ready to
and maintenance companies, consul- bring innovative solutions into
tants, equipment providers, utilities, operation.
academic players, end-users…