Electric Vehicles Management for carbon neutrality in Europe

Implementation period: 01/06/2022 – 30/11/2025

Project coordination: INESC ID - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIADE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES,
INVESTIGACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO EM LISBOA (Portugal)

Project website: https://ev4eu.eu/

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2021 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101056765.

 

Participants:

INESC ID - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIADE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES,
INVESTIGACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO EM LISBOA (Portugal) - coordinator

UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI (Slovenia)

DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET (Denmark)

SMART ENERGY LAB – ASSOCIATION (Portugal)

ELEKTRO CELJE D.D. (Slovenia)

BORNHOLMS ENERGI OG FORSYNING AS (Denmark)

HEDNO S.A. (Greece)

CNET CENTRE FOR NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES SA (Portugal)

GEN-I, TRGOVANJE IN PRODAJA ELEKTRICNE ENERGIJE, D.O.O. (Slovenia)

PPC S.A. (Greece)

CIRCLE CONSULT APS (Denmark)

EDA - ELECTRICIDADE DOS ACORES SA (Portugal)

SECRETARIA REGIONAL DOS TRANSPORTES TURISMO E ENERGIA (Portugal)

CAMPUS BORNHOLM (Denmark)

CITROEN HELLAS (Greece)

ABB INZENIRING DOO (Slovenia)

 

Objective:

The EV4EU project aims to develop innovative technologies for the smoother integration of large numbers of Electric Vehicles (EV), using smart and/or two-way charging, into the existing electricity system infrastructure. More specifically, public charging point management tools will be developed, taking into account the possibilities of V2X technology, and new models of demand response by EVs, such as flexible peak power contracts and "green" charging.

The project is coordinated by the Portuguese research institute INESC and partners from Portugal, Greece, Denmark and Slovenia participate. The core of the project is 4 ambitious pilots in Azores (Portugal), Bornholm (Denmark), Krško (Slovenia) and Mesogeia (Greece), where different operating scenarios of the electric chargers (in the V2X context) will be implemented and evaluated by the participants of each pilot, as well as new technologies will be utilized for their operation.

The Greek EV4EU pilot will take place in the Attica Mediterranean region. It is a semi-urban area crossed by medium voltage (MV) lines and serves MV and low voltage (LV) customers, some of which are telemetered. HEDNO has installed and operates a GIS system in the area, which gives increased possibilities to the Greek pilot. As part of the project, LV monitoring measuring systems will be installed in the MT/LV substations by HEDNO, while new public electric car chargers will be installed by PPC. Also, algorithms for optimal electric vehicle fleet management will be developed by DTU and HEDNO and, by PPC, a control and monitoring platform for a public network of chargers. The main objective of the pilot is the cooperation of the two infrastructures to better serve the public through innovative markets and services.