CROSS BOrder management of variable renewable energies and storage units enabling a transnational Wholesale market

Period: 01/11/2017 – 31/10/2021

Project Coordinator: ETRA INVESTIGACION Y DEASARROLLO SA (Spain)

Project website: http://crossbowproject.eu/

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 773430.

Partners

ETRA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA (Spain) – Project Coordinator
CENTRUL ROMAN AL ENERGIEI - CRE (Romania)
COMPANIA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT ALENERGIEI ELECTRICE TRANSELECTRICA SA (Romania)
INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS (Greece)
INDEPENDENT POWER TRANSMISSION OPERATOR SA (Greece)
DIACHEIRISTIS ELLINIKOU DIKTYOU DIANOMIS ELEKTRIKIS ENERGEIAS AE (Greece)
PUBLIC POWER CORPORATION S.A. (Greece)
COBRA INSTALACIONES Y SERVICIOS S.A (Spain)
VARTA STORAGE GMBH (Germany)
ELEKTROENERGIEN SISTEMEN OPERATOR EAD (Bulgaria)
JOINT STOCK COMPANY ELEKTROMREZA SRBIJE BELGRADE (Serbia)
CENTAR ZA KOORDINACIJU SIGURNOSTI SCC DOO BEOGRAD-VOZDOVAC (Serbia)
NEZAVISNI OPERATOR SISTEMA U BOSNII HERZEGOVINI (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER (United Kingdom)
HRVATSKI OPERATOR PRIJENOSNOG SUSTAVA DOO (Croatia)
KONCAR - INZENJERING ZA ENERGETIKUI TRANSPORT DD (Coatia)
SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU FAKULTET ELEKTROTEHNIKE I RACUNARSTVA (Croatia)
UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI (Slovenia)
ELPROS ELEKTRONSKI IN PROGRAMSKI SISTEMI DOO (Slovenia)
CRNOGORSKI ELEKTROPRENOSNI SISTEM AD PODGORICA (Montenegro)
OPERATOR NA ELEKTROPRENOSNIOT SISTEM NA MAKEDONIJA AKCIONERSKO DRUSHTVO ZA PRENOS NA ELEKTRICHNA ENERGIJAI UPRAVUVANJE SO ELEKTROENERGETSKI (FYROM)
Ss. CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY IN SKOPJE (FYROM)
STATE OWNED JOINT STOCK COMPANY FOR PRODUCTION OF ELECTRICITY POWER PLANTS OF MACEDONIA SKOPJE (FYROM)
CYBERGRID GMBH & CO KG (Austria)

Objective

CROSSBOW will propose the shared use of resources to foster cross-border management of variable renewable energies and storage units, enabling a higher penetration of clean energies whilst reducing network operational costs and improving economic benefits of RES and storage units.

The objective is to demonstrate a number of different, though complementary, technologies, offering Transmission System Operators higher flexibility and robustness through:

  1. a better control of cross-border balancing energy at interconnection points
  2. new storage solutions, distributed and centralized, offering ancillary services to operate Virtual Storage Plants (VSP)
  3. better ICT and Communications, e.g. better network observability, enabling flexible generation and Demand Response schemas
  4. the definition of a transnational wholesale market, proposing fair and sustainable remuneration for clean energies though the definition of new business models supporting the participation of new players (e.g. aggregators) and the reduction of costs.

The CROSSBOW results will be evaluated by 8 TSOs in Eastern Europe, grouped to form clusters that will validate each of the projects outcomes in at least three different countries, demonstrating in all cases how CROSSBOW tackles the transnational challenges faced by these TSOs.