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Collaborating Smart Solar-powered Microgrids
FP7 Collaborative Project no 608806
Project duration: October 2013 – September 2016
Coodinator: Svein Hallsteinsen SINTEF Norway
Strategic objective: 6.4 Optimizing Energy Systems for Smart Cities
Website: www.cossmic.eu
D7.5 Interim report on Dissemination and use VERSION/STATUS
1.0/External proposed
DUE DATE
2015-09-30
DELIVERY DATE
2015-11-13
DELIVERABLE NATURE
R=Report
DISSEMINATION LEVEL
P=Public
NUMBER OF PAGES:
45
EDITOR
Otto Paans/BCC
CONTRIBUTING PARTNERS
All CoSSMic consortium partners
ABSTRACT
This document describes the status of dissemination and replication of the CoSSMic project. It describes the objectives, progress, status per task/deliverable, deviations from planning and future plans. In addition, appendixes with additional information on the project complete the status overview.
INTERNAL REVIEWER(S)
Svein Hallsteinsen
APPROVED BY
Shanshan Jiang
CITE AS
CoSSMic deliverable D7.5, interim report on Dissemination and Replication, 2015
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CoSSMic consortium
Stiftelsen SINTEF (SINTEF) NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway www.sintef.com
Svein Hallsteinsen [email protected] +47 93241907 Shanshan Jiang [email protected] +47 48027558
International Solar Energy Research Center Konstanz (ISC) Rudolf Diesel strasse 78467 Konstanz, Germany
Kristian Peter [email protected] +49 75313618365
Stadt Konstanz (Konstanz) Kanzleistrasse 15 78462 Konstanz, Germany
Andreas Baur [email protected] +49 7531900632
Seconda Universita Degli Studi di Napoli (SUN) Viale Beneduce 10 81100 Caserta, Italy
Prof. Beniamino Di Martino [email protected] +39 3470461656
Provincia di Caserta (Caserta) Viale Lamberti Area – ex Saint Gobain, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Giulio Salzillo [email protected] +39 3316686100
Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet (NTNU) Høgskoleringen 1 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Prof. Gabriella Tranell [email protected] +47 73592761
Sunny Solartechnik GmbH (SST) Gustav-Schwab-Strasse 14 78467 Konstanz, Germany
Michael Simon [email protected] +49 7531362850
Boukje.com Consulting BV (Boukje.com) Zwanendreef 2 2665 EM Bleiswijk, The Netherlands
Boukje Ehlen [email protected] +31 610647847
Universitetet i Oslo (UiO) Problemveien 5-7 0316 Oslo, Norway
Geir Horn [email protected] +47 93059335
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Document history VERSION DATE VERSION DESCRIPTION
0.1 2015-10-29 Ready for internal review
1.0 2015-11-13 External proposed
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Table of contents
CoSSMic consortium ............................................................................................................... 2
1. Introduction ................................................................................................................. 5 1.1. Role of the deliverable .................................................................................................. 5 1.2. Relationship to other CoSSMic deliverables ......................................................... 5 1.3. Relationship to other versions of this deliverable ............................................. 5 1.4. Structure of this document .......................................................................................... 5
2. Work progress and achievements during the project ................................... 6 2.1. Objectives .......................................................................................................................... 6 2.2. Progress.............................................................................................................................. 6 2.3. Knowledge Management (task 7.1) .......................................................................... 6 2.4. Public website (task 7.7) .............................................................................................. 6 2.5. Scientific Dissemination (Task/Deliverable 7.2) ....................................................... 7 2.6. Local workshops (Task7.3/Deliverable 7.3) ......................................................10 2.7. Summer school (Task 7.4/Deliverable 7.4) ........................................................10 2.8. Replication (Task 7.5) .................................................................................................11 2.9. Project results so far ....................................................................................................11 2.10. Deviations from plan ...............................................................................................11 2.11. Use of resources/contribution of partners .....................................................12 2.12. Future plans ................................................................................................................12
Appendix 1: Website screenshots .............................................................................. 13
Appendix 2: Selected project graphics ..................................................................... 25
Appendix 3: Selected outtakes from downloadable information ................... 27
Appendix 4: Communication plan ............................................................................. 34
Appendix 5: Programme of the CoSSMic workshop held 13-14 July 2015 in Konstanz (Germany) ...................................................................................................... 43
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1. Introduction
1.1. Role of the deliverable D7.5 describes the status of the dissemination and replication in the CoSSMic project. This is an interim version of this deliverable reporting the status and progress at the end of the reporting period 2. The full status can only be reported at the end of project (month 39) as by then all activities described in the DoW will have been carried out. By then, the full version of this report will be compiled and published.
1.2. Relationship to other CoSSMic deliverables Technically, this deliverable bears little relation to other CoSSMic deliverables in WPs 2-6. This is due to the fact that the content of WP7 is focused on communicating and spreading the project results and not on technical development. That being said, WP7 is dependent on input from all project partners. As such the whole consortium has been involved in the dissemination process and various activities related to it. We would like to mention here especially the local partners at the test region of Konstanz, with whom we closely collaborated in organizing a major project workshop.
1.3. Relationship to other versions of this deliverable This is the first version.
1.4. Structure of this document The structure of this document is fairly simple: it consists of a single chapter that describes the objectives, progress, the status of tasks and deliverables, followed by deviations from the original planning and a concise elaboration of future plans. In addition, we have added five appendixes: they contain graphic material from the website, the documents that can be downloaded from the website, project graphics used to explain the project to lay public, the original communication plan and the programme of the Konstanz workshop held in July 2015.
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2. Work progress and achievements during the project
2.1. Objectives Workpackage 7 (WP7) has as main responsibility to disseminate the knowledge that is being produced within the CoSSMic project. This entails not only the listing of articles, but also the management of the project website, contact with potential users and the European community and additional educational activities such as summer schools or workshops. Further goals are to share knowledge within the consortium, reinforce the connection between the scientific research and development of the project and the relevant economic, cultural and societal life of the European Community and enabling replication of the ICT solutions, by paving the way through involvement of target groups at an early stage.
2.2. Progress Below are the descriptions of the tasks and deliverables (some tasks are continuous, so their current status reported here).
2.3. Knowledge Management (task 7.1) With regards to Knowledge Management, measures to protect and distribute IP rights to contributing partners have been included in the Project Handbook that is available in the eRoom (operated by SINTEF) of the project. Procedures for IP distribution, voting, the raising of objections and guidelines for publication are in place and are being utilized on a regular basis by the whole consortium. The coordinator (SINTEF) updates the IP directory during the course of the project. Boukje.com will use this information as input in the discussions with local partners. Overall, the aim of this project is transparency and sharing of project results an research data, in accordance with EU guidelines. The software developed in this project will be open source and will be freely available.
2.4. Public website (task 7.7) In the revised DoW (date: 15 September 2015), a clause has been added under Task 1.4. It states that: “A public website will be set up by the coordinator for the dissemination of the project results and the outreach to the society. This public website will provide general information on the project and the partners, possibilities for exploitation, contact information, etc. This task covers the creation of the website. The consortium will update this website on a regular basis with publications and general descriptions of the work content carried out in the CoSSMic project, but this will be the responsibility of WP7.” The CoSSMic website (www.cossmic.eu) has been extensively renewed and adapted towards contemporary requirements, and is continuously being updated. The most recent updates have been made September 2015. The site contains the following topics:
• News: a selection of news items that reflect the actual state of the project. This includes short texts on the plenary meetings, participation in Summer schools etc.
• Results/publications: An overview of all scientific papers that the consortium has agreed to
publish and supporting presentations in PDF format that are available for download. Also available are general project overviews in PDF format that can be downloaded. Furthermore, a list of conferences where CoSSMic consortium members have presented material related to the project is available under this heading.
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• Connections: A list of conferences and websites of interest that are related to the content that CoSSMic is developing. In addition, we maintain an agenda of upcoming events that are related to the themes that the CoSSMic project addresses, such as PV, smart grids, agent systems etc.
• Project structure: An elaborate project description that gives an overview of the content,
scope and overall relationships within the project, as well as an outlook on the impact that we expect. Summary tailored to technical and layman audiences are currently being prepared and will also be uploaded in order to address a broader public. All project structure descriptions are available as PDF.
• Storyboard: a fully visual explanation to communicate the CoSSMic concepts, as well as the
sustainability issues it addresses to a lay audience. Since we experienced that written text does not communicate the core message we wish to impart as vividly as we would like, we opted for visual means to support our communication efforts.
• Partners and people: An overview of all consortium partners and the personnel involved. For
each partner, there is a short description on the organization, its experience and the expertise and role of its members that are contributing to CoSSMic.
• Contact: Contact details of the Coordinator and Technical Manager
• Video: based on the interviews that were conducted with stakeholders at the workshop in
Konstanz, we are currently preparing a video for the general public that gives an impression why development on smart grids and integrating renewable energy into the grid are important topics.
2.5. Scientific Dissemination (Task/Deliverable 7.2) The overall communication plan of the consortium has been described in a communication plan that is stored in the project eRoom under the WP7 directory. All consortium members have had the chance to give input, and as if now, this document serves a basis for the publication goals. The scientific dissemination is well underway and the results are being listed on the project website. The consortium expected to have at least 15 scientific publications at the end of the project, and this goal will be reached certainly if the current frequency of publishing is maintained. Attached is the list of publications as they appear now on the project website. Svein Hallsteinsen, Shanshan Jiang CoSSMic – Collaborating Smart Solar-powered Microgrids Presentation at RERC 2014, Oslo June 2014 Alba Amato, Beniamino Di Martino, Marco Scialdone, and Venticinque S An agent-based approach for smart energy grids In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, volume 2, pp. 164-171, Angers, France, March 4th-8th 2014, SciTePress Science and Technology Publications Alba Amato, Rocco Aversa, Beniamino Di Martino, Marco Scialdone, Salvatore Venticinque, Svein Hallsteinsen, Geir Horn Software Agents for Collaborating Smart Solar-Powered Micro-Grids In Smart Organizations and Smart Artifacts, Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, Volume 7, 2014, pp 125-133, Springer Luca Tasquier, Marco Scialdone, Rocco Aversa and Salvatore Venticinque Agent Based Negotiation of Decentralized Energy Production In Intelligent Distributed Computing, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Volume 570, 2014, pp. 59-67,
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Springer Alba Amato, Beniamino Di Martino, Marco Scialdone, and Salvatore Venticinque Multi-agent Negotiation of Decentralized Energy Production in Smart Micro-grid In Intelligent Distributed Computing, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Volume 570, 2014, pp. 155-160, Springer. Alba Amato, Beniamino Di Martino, Marco Scialdone, Salvatore Venticinque, Svein Hallsteinsen and Shanshan Jiang A Distributed System for Smart Energy Negotiation The 7th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 2014) September 22-24, 2014, Calabria, Italy Alba Amato, Beniamino Di Martino, Salvatore Venticinque, Geri Horn CoSSMic Service Level Agreement Based Negotiation 6-th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (IEEE CPS, INCoS-2014) Alba Amato, Marco Scialdone, Salvatore Venticinque: Reactive Optimization of Self-Consumption, FGCS 2014 L.W.M. Wienhofen, C. Lindkvist, M. Noebels: User-centered Design for Smart Solar-Powered Micro-Grid Communities, I4CS (IEEE, 2014) pp. 39-46 Joachim Glatz-Reichenbach, Thomas Vilharino, Giuseppina Cretella, Carmel Lindkvist, Adrian Minde, Leendert W. M. Wienhofen: End User Centred Interactive Software Architecture and Design: The Creation of Communities for a Smart Energy Use, I4CS (IEEE, 2015) Matthias Noebels, Joachim Glatz-Reichenbach, Adrian Minde, Kristian Peter: Developing and investigating a smart solar powered energy system for increased PV self-consumption, 31st PVSEC 2015 Geir Horn: Scheduling Time Variant Jobs on a Time Variant Resource, in Zdenek Hanzalek et al (ed.) Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference (schedulingconference.org, 2015) Geir Horn, Salvatore Venticinque, Alba Amato: Inferring Appliance Load Profiles From Measurements, in Giuseppe di Fatta (ed.), The 8th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (Springer LNCS, 2015) Simon Stastny, Babak A. Farshchian, Thomas Vilarinho Designing an Application Store for the Internet of Things: Requirements and Challenges AmI-15 (European Conference on Ambient Intelligence)
CoSSMic partners organizations and personnel have participated in the following (scientific) events:
Event Organizer Venue Dates Participant Motivation
RERC Conference 2014 UiO Energy
University of Oslo, Oslo (Norway)
16-18 June 2014 Svein Hallsteinsen, Shanshan Jiang
Project Presentation
2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing
SUN Vietri sul Mare (Italy)
18-20 December 2013 Rocco Aversa Paper Presentation
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Future Internet Assembly
European Commission
Athens (Greece) 17-18 March 2014 Beniamino Di
Martino Project Dissemination
Conference IDEM NREN GARR Palermo
(Italy) 2-3 April 2014 Beniamino Di Martino Project Dissemination
Meeting Agenzia per l' Italia Digitale
Rome (Italy) 17-Apr-14 Beniamino Di
Martino Project Presentation
Meeting IBM Rome (Italy) 23 June 2014 Beniamino Di
Martino Project Presentation
Conference CISIS'14
University of Birmingham
Birmingham (UK) 2-4 July 2014
Beniamino Di Martino, Salvatore Venticinque
Paper Presentation
Conference INCOS'14
University of Salerno
Salerno (Italy)
10-12 September 2014
Beniamino Di Martino, Salvatore Venticinque Luca Tasquier and Alba Amato
Paper Presentation
Conference IDCS'14
University of Calabria
Amantea (Italy)
22-24 September 2014
Beniamino Di Martino, Antonio Esposito
Paper Presentation
Conference ICART'14
ESEO Institute of Science and Technology
Angers (France) 6-8 March 2014 Salvatore
Venticinque Paper Presentation
Conference IDC 2014
DC'2014 - AIDA - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Madrid (Spain)
3-5 September 2014
Salvatore Venticinque, Massimo Ficco
Paper Presentations
Conference INCOS'14 – CCPI 2014
University of Salerno
Salerno (Italy)
10-12 September 2014
Salvatore Venticinque Paper Presentations
2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing
SUN Vietri sul Mare (Italy)
18-20 December 2013
Salvatore Venticinque Project Presentation
NorRen Summerschool 2014
NorRen/NTNU
Holmen Fjordhotell, Asker, (Norway)
11-15 August 2014
Gabriella Tranell, Kristian Peter, Joachim Glatz-Reichenbach
Workshops and Presentations
Workshop ‘Klimaschutz rentiert sich’
Consortium of local partners from Konstanz. Involved CoSSMic partners: SK, ISC, SST
Sunny Solar Technik, Konstanz (Germany)
4 November 2014
Andreas Baur, Nadja Metzler, Kristian Peter, Joachim Glatz-Reichenbach, Michael Simon, Boukje Ehlen, Otto Paans
Workshop and Presentations
The 8th International Conference on. Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 15)
N/A Windsor (UK)
2-4 September 2015
Geir Horn, Salvatore Venticinque, Alba Amato
Paper Presentation
Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference (MISTA 2015)
N/A Prague (Czech Republic)
25-28 August 2015 Geir Horn Paper Presentation
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2.6. Local workshops (Task7.3/Deliverable 7.3) The DoW states: “Adjacent to the kick-off meeting, ISC and SINTEF will jointly organize a training workshop, where the potential of solar electricity and its implementation supported by microgrids will be explained in more detail to the consortium. A similar but extended workshop will be organized twice, and will involve local government officials from different areas, and keeping them up to date with the progress in the trial areas. • At M18 by the Provence of Caserta, supported by SUN • At M33 by Konstanz, supported by ISC. Boukje.com as WP-leader will ensure and support that the content of these workshops will cover all aspects necessary for local governments to implement renewable energy and smart grid solutions, like potential of renewable energy applications, storage options, smart grid solutions and ICT-solutions. Specific attention will be given to how to download, install and run the CoSSMic platform in a local neighbourhood, which coincides with the motto for Open Source: “Release early, release often”, that gives the opportunity to gradually begin dissemination on this topic.” Since the trials and implementation in Konstanz has progressed further than in Caserta the consortium has decided to organize the workshop in Konstanz first. This task has been successfully completed in July 2015 by project partners Stadt Konstanz, Stadtwerke, ISC Konstanz, Sunny Solar Technik supported by BCC. Important stakeholders in the region, joined in the SmartGridsBW-Plattform have participated in the 2-day workshop. We have registered well over 150 participants. The first day has been dedicated to local public utility companies, smart grid component suppliers and Konstanz trial users and general talks about smart energy solutions in conjunction with photovoltaic systems and applications. To lower the threshold for the local stakeholders, this day was held mainly in German language. On the second day, the morning session was dedicated to the presentation of CoSSMic and other ongoing European projects. The afternoon focused on Smart Grids talks, considering topics like Big Data. At the workshop, innovative technologies and approaches used to integrate a high fraction of renewable energy were discussed. Moreover, interviews with stakeholders were conducted to on one hand gain insight in the relevance of the Cossmic project and EU-framework for the local stakeholders, while on the other hand providing video footage to make a short attractive video for the general public (under construction). The workshop also has led to a press release in the local media, and was attended by multiple local inhabitants, institutions and companies. The presentations and interviews recorded during this workshop are available from the project website.
2.7. Summer school (Task 7.4/Deliverable 7.4) In 2014, personnel from ISC Konstanz have been invited by NTNU to participate in the NorRen (Norwegian Research School of Renewable Energy) 2014 which had as theme: ‘Implementing And Integrating Renewables In The Energy System – Focusing On Consumer Behavior And Energy
EU PVSEC 2015 N/A Hamburg (Germany)
14-18 September 2015
Matthias Noebels, Joachim Glatz-Reichenbach, Adrian Minde, Kristian Peter
Paper Presentation
i4cs conference 2015 N/A Nuremberg
(Germany) 8-10 July 2015
Joachim Glatz-Reichenbach, Thomas Vilarinho, Giuseppina Cretella, Carmel Lindkvist, Adrian Minde, Leendert W. M. Wienhofen
Paper Presentation
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Storage’. This summer school took place from 11-15 august 2014 in the Holmen/Fjord hotel in Asker, Norway. A summary of the contents can be found at www.norren.no. For this summer school, all PhD students that are involved in the CoSSMic project have been invited, since the goal of NorRen is to provide education on PhD level. The CoSSMic partners delivered lectures and chaired a number of sessions during the SummerSchool, as well as supervising a project workgroup working on the theme of Collaboration of PV systems and supercapacitors as storage medium for the future. CoSSMic personnel has not been actively involved in NorRen 2015.
2.8. Replication (Task 7.5) At the workshops in Konstanz (Smart Energy Workshop in July 2015 and the ‘Klimaschutz rentiert sich’ in November 2014) promising contacts have been established with local industry partners and users, in order to disseminate the goals and preliminary results for Cossmic technology, and to pave the way for future replication at this trial site. Currently, we have contacts with the local mayor, multiple companies working in solar energy and academic institutions (University of Konstanz, DHBW, HWTG). See for a more comprehensive list the workshop programme enclosed in Appendix 5. The Cossmic consortium has decided to use the Emoncms software as a baseline component for storing and processing energy and sensor-monitored data on the project trial sites in Konstanz (Germany) and Caserta (Italy). Based on that, Mr. Vilarinho (SINTEF) has visited the Open Energy Monitor lab (the company driving the development of the Emoncms) in Bangor, Wales (UK). The software being developed in CoSSMic will be released as open source and some of it has been identified as very relevant for the Open Energy Monitor community.
2.9. Project results so far • Project website on-line and up to date. • Communication plan for the consortium has been written and uploaded. • Initial IP database has been compiled. • The NorRen SummerSchool 2014 has been organized within the project and CoSSMic
partners have actively participated. For NorRen 2015, CoSSMic personnel have been participating in the event.
• Scientific publications and papers have been written and presented (see list above under 7.3). • The Workshop in Konstanz has been successfully organized and executed. • CoSSMic has been listed in the EeB PPP Project Review 2014 - Issue IV of the E2BA annual
publication.
2.10. Deviations from plan The only deviation from the initial plans is that Boukje.com (BCC) has taken over the hosting and maintenance of the project website. This allows for a more efficient route from initial result to dissemination, since now only one project partner coordinates the website content. In the revised workplan, Boukje.com has been allocated some more time to spend on the website maintenance.
The Legal Assessment will be starting later than originally planned. Since the CoSSMic technology has taken quite some time to develop and since trials are still on-going, it was unclear what the precise legislative implication would be. Now that the trials are underway, the implications become more clear.
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After a preliminary assessment, we foresee the following challenges with regards to national and European laws:
• Currently, trading/sharing energy between neighbours is not allowed within most member states. Only with the DSO’s involved as the “middle man” for trading and storage, the Cossmic technology could be effectively implemented. Hence, currently the trials will calculate the theoretical gain for neighbourhoods collaborating and hopefully generate sufficient evidence for EC and national policy makers to reconsider this law.
• Some challenges have been experienced with the information delivered by the smart meters, and how this information is send and processed by the recipient (as it can be sensitive information when energy usage can be coupled to a house address, e.g. when someone is on holidays), though this seems to be able to solve with technology solutions.
2.11. Use of resources/contribution of partners The use of resources does not deviate from the initial plans. Since many tasks in this workpackage are linear (i.e. the amount of work and therefore use of resources is evenly spread over the project course) the planning is quite stable and predictable. In CoSSMic, all partners contributed to the overall goals of scientific dissemination. In practice, this means that partners freely cooperate in the preparation and publication of papers and presentations. NTNU has played a pivotal role in organizing the NorRen Summer school 2014. Stadt Konstanz, Stadtwerke, Sunny Solar Technik and ISC Konstanz fulfil an important role in maintaining contact with local stakeholders and interested audiences within the test region of Konstanz. SUN and the Province of Caserta fulfil a similar role in Italy. SINTEF keeps an IP database in preparation for the final report. Furthermore, SINTEF, NTNU and the University of Oslo disseminate CoSSMic results in Norway, while closely cooperating with SUN and ISC for the software development.
2.12. Future plans BCC intends on further developing the project website, which has become the central project platform for dissemination, in addition to scientific papers and articles. Especially the section on energy strategies and connections will be further developed. The project storyboard will be completed and will serve as graphical dissemination tool. We are currently investigating if we can include (a demonstration of) the CoSSMunity game developed in WP2 on the website. The second dissemination workshop in Caserta will conclude the project and BCC will support the Italian partners in disseminating the project result and encouraging replication of project results both in the region and beyond. This planning of this workshop will be a central topic on the first plenary meeting after the review. In addition, the consortium aims to organize a workshop specifically geared towards exploitation and legal assessment in 2016. These topics will be treated together since legal obstacles might in theory hamper possible exploitation and replication attempts.
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Appendix 1: Website screenshots
Screenshot 1: Cossmic homepage with project structure, partner overview, downloads section, publications, overview of CoSSMic strategies (to be developed), connections, storyboard and upcoming events.
Screenshot 2: Cossmic homepage with quick introduction of the project
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Screenshot 3: The website section with New and Announcements. In this section, recent posts, and results from the two dissemination workshops are listed. This allows easy entry in the substantial downloads section.
Screenshot 4: Mission statement and upcoming events. Project partner SUN regularly provides updates on upcoming events that are related to the project content. The Mission Statement can be read and downloaded as PDF from this location.
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Screenshot 5: The results of the dissemination workshop in Konstanz have been compiled on one location of the website. This overview contains the full workshop programme, video-interviews, videos of the presentations and PDFs of the PowerPoint presentations that were presented. All PDFs are downloadable.
Screenshot 6: The workshop programme, presenters, topics and downloadable presentations and videos
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Screenshot 7: The project publication overview. Many publications are downloadable.
Screenshot 8: The project results are easily accessible via the main menu. Both publications and conference presentations are listed.
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Screenshot 9: The project downloadables (project description, mission statement etc.) are also easily accessible via the main menu.
Screenshot 10: The project structure can be read on the website and gives a comprehensive, theoretical overview of the goals and approach of CoSSMic.
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Screenshot 11: The project structure is enlivened graphically, depicting the project structure in a graphically instead of textually.
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Screenshot 12: The project’s core values and outcomes are graphically depicted
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Screenshot 13: The project’s partners. For each partner, a full overview of the organisation, core competences and personnel involved is provided.
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Screenshot 14: For numerous meetings and workshops, we have added photo galleries to convey the atmosphere, topics discussed and societal relevance of the CoSSMic project.
Screenshot 15: If further questions about the project arise, we have provided a contact form that can be sent to a selected number of people within the consortium.
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Screenshot 16: In order to convey the (technical) content of the project more effectively and possibly to a broader audience, BCC developed a storyboard that guides the reader through the issues that CoSSMic reacts on and show how the project is innovative and relevant for contemporary questions about sustainability.
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Screenshot 17: The storyboard takes the form of a cartoon that explains all project steps and relevant background information step by step.
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Screenshot 18: The storyboard is still being further developed
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Appendix 2: Selected project graphics
Figure 1: Overall project structure, all scales that are being connected by CoSSMic (from individual user to public grid) and impacts
Figure 2: Connections between energy consumption, individual preferences and internet
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Figure 3: CoSSMic workpackage structure
Figure 4: CoSSMic control over preferences and connection to the grid
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Appendix 3: Selected outtakes from downloadable information
Outtake 1: CoSSMic mission statement, first page. This document can be downloaded from the website.
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Outtake 2: CoSSMic mission statement, second page. This document can be downloaded from the website.
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Outtake 3: CoSSMic technical description. This document can be downloaded from the website.
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Outtake 4: Konstanz region description and introduction, first page. This document can be downloaded from the website.
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Outtake 5: Konstanz region description and introduction, second page. This document can be downloaded from the website.
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Outtake 6: Konstanz region description and introduction, third page. This document can be downloaded from the website.
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Appendix 4: Communication plan
COllaborating Smart Solar-powered MICrogrids
CoSSMic
Communication Plan
February 2014
Version 1.2
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CoSSMic project summary CoSSMic (COllaborating Smart Solar-powered MICrogrids). aims to develop management and control systems for combining micro-grids, embedded with renewable energy production, storage capacity and consumption, with an ICT based solution for both peer-to-peer collaboration between micro-grids in a neighbourhood and for collaboration with the central power grid, that enables the reduction of variation of decentralized renewable energy production to the grid and a higher rate for self-consumption. First the research partners, together with the trial locations, Konstanz and the Provence of Caserta will develop a user centric concept in WP2, in order to design user interfaces that includes involvement of stakeholders from the start. In WP3, the technical architecture and technology baseline will be set-up, while in WP4, a computational grid of software agents, which are able to negotiate the optimal scheduling of power sources to energy storages on behalf of the users will be designed and developed. In WP5 the actual trials will take place in Caserta and Konstanz, including the implementation of equipment and installing of software, overseeing the collection of data during the trial in accordance with the evaluation plan provided by WP6, and coordinating necessary modifications if necessary. Furthermore it includes the recruitment of new users during the trial to evaluate the low threshold profile targeted by CoSSMic and the support for neighbourhood growth. WP6 evaluates the definition of the data to be collected, definition of procedures for collection the data, analysing the data and reporting the results and the user feedback. WP7 will be in charge of the outreach oriented activities of the project, including creating visibility of the project, disseminating the project results and planning and preparing the replication of results after the end of the project.
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Popular summary When considering renewable energy sources, like solar electricity, people often do not directly see the benefit of their investment. While the sun is shining and might be producing electricity in their homes, they are at their work and cannot use that energy directly, while when they need the energy at night (for laundry, lighting, computers) the solar panel is no longer producing. Indeed, research has shown that while in theory houses can be self-reliant on solar panels by the amount of electricity they produce, it would require considerable (and expensive) storage capacity to realize this.
With smart management and control systems, different types of buildings (for instance a mix of houses, companies and schools) could be connected in such a way that this neighborhood would use more, or even most, of its renewable energy within the community.
The CoSSMic project aims to develop the ICT tools needed to facilitate this sharing of renewable energy within a neighborhood, and will show the feasibility of its concept in two different areas: Konstanz in Germany and the Provence of Casserta in Italy. At these trial locations, CoSSMic will investigate how to motivate people to participate in acquiring (more) renewable energy, in the sharing of renewable energy in the neighborhood, and test methods for making money with these schemes.
Context and goal of this communication plan This communication plan has been written as part of the European project CoSSMic This project will run during the period 2013-2016. Its goal is to clarify the goal of the format and goals of the information that will be distributed as part of this project. Furthermore, it lists key persons, target groups, prioritized media, and types of output, stakeholders and responsible persons. Main goals of the communication The main goals of the communication taking place within the framework of the CoSSMic project has as its goal to disseminate the outcomes and results of the project work to a very varied audience, ranging from technicians, to entrepreneurs, scientists and the general public. (See also stakeholders). Since the results of the project will vary from ICT solutions to user models and policy guidelines, a number of specific media has been prioritized for dissemination of the results. By communicating the findings and results of the project, the CoSSMic project team hopes to serve the following stakeholders through the following objectives:
• Stimulate and accelerate further research and applications on ICT solutions that are being coupled to renewable energy and the development of Smart Cities.
• Inform the scientific community of the findings and innovations through regular publications and the preparation of talks at conferences in order stimulate and enhance research and development activities.
• Stimulate and inform entrepreneurs to investigate these types of technologies, in order to develop extensive networks of expertise, and skills with regard to developing, installing and creating innovations and value within sustainable technologies.
• Inform policy makers and planners of the possibilities that the couplings of ICT technology and renewable energy offer in the formulation of new policies, guidelines and legislation.
• Inform the general public of the development of new key technologies and the possibilities that these technologies offer in improving living conditions and enhancing the living environment.
• Develop extensive networks that connect scientific, entrepreneurial and political parties with end users, in order to share knowledge and experiences.
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Stakeholders for the communication strategy This paragraph outlines the stakeholders that have interests in the results of the communication: General public The general public will over the coming years be confronted with important changes in energy policies and new ways of interacting with their energy supply. This will have significant consequences for daily routines, costs and responsibilities. Therefore, easy-to-understand communication is necessary to make the general public the relevance of this project and the effects it will have. Local governments and policy makers Since the transition from traditional city layouts and technologies towards Smart Cities can only be accomplished through joined efforts, policies and guidelines are instrumental in facilitating a smooth and effective transition phase. Furthermore, urban planners might need tools to integrate new technological solutions into their planning methods. Scientific domain The parts of the scientific community that are working in the fields of renewable energy, ICT and policy making will profit from the results of CoSSMic, as well as the new possibilities towards further research that it opens. Entrepreneurs/EU target groups Multiple parties like energy providers, research institutes, equipment manufacturers and grid owners will be involved in any attempt to retrofit existing buildings, neighbourhoods, cities and regions towards more sustainable and energy-effective models. As such, they are important stakeholders in implementing and commercializing any results.
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Dissemination strategy and prioritized media The key messages and results from CoSSMic should target a broad range of recipients. Because the success of the project highly depends on high end-user participation there is a special need to raise consumer awareness towards the innovative solutions introduced by the CoSSMic project; both with respect to the potential of renewable energy and in combination with smart microgrid solutions that will influence the consumers and raise awareness of electricity pricing. Moreover, scientific, technical, business, institutional and governmental audiences will be targeted. It is also important that dissemination activities address the other key participants in a market for distributed energy resources such as the local and regional Distribution system operator (DSOs), producers, traders and retailers. Dissemination of results will be targeted to the perspective of each audience group. In a broader sense students, potential industry partners, clients, journalists, politicians at several levels and standardisation committees will be targeted as an audience for the results of this project. - awareness (making the project’s work known): to reach awareness of the CoSSMic motivation and reasoning behind the project objectives, concepts and the relevant results achieved; - understanding (entering discussions): when the target group addressed understands enough of the concepts and look for the results to be applied to their problems – a presentation of CoSSMic facilities is needed; - action (influencing practices, products and standards): to receive feedback towards the project in form of validation results, alternative approaches or new facility request. General public and public awareness The project website will be constructed and will present the project objectives, results, status, consortium publications and useful links to the topics related to the project. The results of the project will be disseminated through different mass marketing channels, such as newsletters and press releases to newspapers and magazines, television and radio to raise the public awareness to several communities. Media and press contacts and spokepersons will be appointed in WP7 to be responsible for good media relations in order to transmit key messages from CoSSMic with focus on the challenges, positive achievements, results and benefits. Local community-related activities are strategically important to target audience such as the citizens in the trial location, which will be targeted most in the first phase, while a broader audience will be targeted in the latter part of the project. A video aimed at the general public will be made at the beginning of the project, illustrating the projects intentions and the need for user participation. During the project, a video to disseminate the results from the trail locations will be created. In the first phase of the project participation of end-users, by means of creating awareness and dissemination of project intentions will take place in the two trial areas, where the City of Konstanz and Provence of Caserta will contribute to addressing the target groups. This activity, carried out in WP2, aims to reach potential stakeholders that should participate in the trial demonstrations, but that are not yet formally committed to the CoSSMic project. Electricity customers in Konstanz and Caserta are particularly important, in order to recruit sufficient participants for the demonstration planned in WP5. The website will also link to the open source repository where any interested party can find and try out the latest stable release of the CoSSMic code base, or have a view at the current status of the development code. Local governments and policy makers Training workshops will be organized and extended for 2 more times during the project, once by the City of Konstanz and once by SUN together with the Provence of Caserta, and will involve local government officials from different areas, and keeping them up to date with the progress in the trial areas. These workshops will cover all aspects necessary for local governments to implement renewable energy and smart grid solutions, like potential of renewable energy applications, storage
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options, smart grid solutions and ICT-solutions. Specific attention will be given to how to download, install and run the CoSSMic platform in a local neighbourhood, which coincides with the motto for Open Source: “Release early, release often”, that gives the opportunity to gradually begin dissemination on this topic. These training materials will become available on the project's website so that other neighbourhoods that do not have the opportunity to attend the training sessions, will also benefit from the project results. Methods for eLearning will be provided by the NTNU, that has vast experience in this area, and based on the training material, the best method will be chosen for the target groups. Boukje.com will develop specific spatial tools and strategies for urban planners. This will provide local governments with a vast array of tools to aid new and ongoing urban planning processes and to implement and replicate the results, technology, and insights of CoSSMic on a local scale. Scientific domain The scientific dissemination activities will be further detailed in the live registry of publication opportunities and scientific publication progress deliverable as described in WP7, and will be lined up with the plans for knowledge management and exploitation. Participation at the scientific events will allow to collect and to evaluate feedback from target scientific audience in order to improve the project impact. The publications of the consortium will be available on the Website of the project. Collaboration with academia, industry and other representative groups will guarantee that the challenges and achievements of the project will be disseminated to the scientific community. The goal will be achieved by: Scientific papers presenting the CoSSMic achievements in well-known journals are also envisioned – the targeted journals will be established according to the value of the results. The fact that several project keypersons are involved in editorial board of several international journals has its benefits in the selection of the targeted journals, as well as in the estimation of the paper level requirements, and tracking the status of the papers. The initial list of the targeted journals and conferences are journals and conferences in distributed computing and agent technology, renewable energy and physics such as:
• IEEE Transactions on Systems • Man, and Cybernetics • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems • The International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems • Applied Physics Letters • Journal of Applied Physics • IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics • Progress in Photovoltaics • Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells • International Journal of Distributed Energy Resources • IEEE Intelligent Systems • IEEE Transactions on Power Systems • IET Journal on Renewable Power Generation
CoSSMic contributors will participate in relevant European Seminars, Conferences and workshops, in order to present the project results, to interact with groups with similar activities, and to attract the scientific community interest. The intention is to contribute to already existing dissemination platforms in the (interdisciplinary) fields of smart grids and implementation of renewable energy. Within Europe, the project will, - due to the extensive academic network of SINTEF, ISC, NTNU and SUN -, connect with existing conferences, seminars and workshops in Europe like:
• Austria´s annual energy conference
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• CIGRE 2014 Paris (http://www.cigre.org/) • CIRED 2015 Frankfurt • IEEE General meeting • IEEE Power technology in 2015 for Smart Grids • European PVSEC and the European Silicon PV conference • ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) • IFIP International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Technologies (DisCoTec),
European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) • Internet of Things (IoT) Conference • International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC) • IEEE International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems
(CISIS) • IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid)
International Conference on Agent and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) • Agents for Cloud Workshop (A4C) • Architectural scientific publications (journals to be decided)
The academic curricula of the university departments involved in the project will be adapted to promote the CoSSMic results, to engage the young ICT and renewable energy specialists in CoSSMic activities and to create the need and the skills to use the CoSSMic facilities in their future professional carrier. Training materials will become freely available on the CoSSMic site. It is expected that these materials will be used not only in CoSSMic events, but also in the lectures of the partners’ academic programs. Summer school for PhD students: the NTNU, which is coordinating the SFFE (Centre For Renewable Energy) in Norway, and which is has a leading department in the field of Zero Emission Buildings and Neighbourhoods (ZEB), connected to the related research centre on ZEB, will ensure that the topic of smartgrids and microgrids’ potential in combination with renewable energy sources will be educated as part of a summer school, at least twice during the project duration. Collaborations with academic field through participation of partner representatives in co-located events of other EU-projects, such as project meetings and workshops, and building synergies; special attention will be devoted to European projects (NoEs and IPs) since they involve a large number of partners and address long-term research issues. As the partners are highly active in this field, both as scientists, but also as chief editors, members in editorial boards, steering committees, event organisers or member in program committees, there is a vast potential for disseminating the project results in different directions. Dissemination towards EU-target groups The CoSSMiC project will contribute to the EC goals to disseminate information about the project to a broader audience. The detailed dissemination plan will include a list of targeted events organized by other EU-projects and the EC. The project website will be set-up in a way that a broad target audience will be attracted to it. Target audiences as described above will be guided to the parts that are of most interest to them. In order to generate traffic to the website, general information with regular updates, a forum / discussion platform (by means of social media like Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn), publications and public deliverables will be incorporated. The CoSSMic project will contribute to the EC goals to disseminate information about the project to a broader audience. The detailed dissemination plan will include a list of targeted events organised by other EU-projects and the EC. As there is a standardisation potential for market-concepts in DER and home-automation communication, CoSSMic will look into if possibly contributions can become an extension to IEC 61850. The project team will develop cooperative relationships with EU projects and standardization groups so that the
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project results can be taken into account in standards development activities, such as CEER, ERGEG, TSO/DSOs via e.g. ENTSO-E/EDSO4SG, the energy and power industry via e.g. IRENA, Eurelectric, Cigré etc., the European power exchange association (EUROPEX), and European consumer associations like BEUC. Key persons and responsibilities Function Responsibilities Designated Person Project Coordinator - overall coordination of the
project
Svein Hallsteinsen (SINTEF)
Exploitation and Dissemination Manager (EDM)
- maintaining the database with published results
- updating and editing of communication plan
- providing feedback to the consortium on the monthly status meeting
- updating of the website
Otto Paans (Boukje.com)
Webmaster - technical construction of the website and updating of its content
Salvatore Ventricinque (SUN)
WP-leaders - contact EDM when dissemination item is ready and/or being disseminated for inclusion in the results databse
All WP-leaders
Regular actions
• The website (www.cossmic.eu) will be updated on a regular basis. The updates will include project results, scientific articles, overviews of recent actions, overviews of achieved results and information for the general public.
• At each 6-month meeting of the project, communication and dissemination will be discussed, and the results as well as future actions will be discussed, planned and reviewed among members of the consortium.
• The database with dissemination results will be uploaded in the eRoom and will be regularly updated during the course of the project, according to the output of results. The WP-leaders will coordinate this process with the EDM.
Procedures The standard procedure for dissemination has been outlined in the eRoom (under ‘Management’) and in the Consortium Agreement. According to Consortium Agreement, as stated in paragraph 8.4.1., the procedure should run as follows:
• Publication requested (Responsible: Publisher, i.e. the main author from (one of) the publishing partner(s)): Milestone reached when a request for publication is uploaded to the Project Publications database. The request for publication should contain an abstract and a table of contents. The publisher creates a Poll in the Project Publications database to give the
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partners the opportunity to accept (vote for) the publication, and thus speed up the process of consortium acceptance. The publisher informs the Official partner contacts via an eRoom alert that an Acceptance process has been initiated. Partners may choose to accept the publication at this stage by voting; if all partners vote in favour, milestone Accepted by consortium is reached. The publishing partner may choose to present the publication content at this stage, by uploading it to the Project Publications database (moving directly to milestone Presented to consortium).
• Presented to consortium (Responsible: Publisher): Milestone reached when the final publication content is presented to the partners by uploading the publication content to the Project Publications database. Publisher sets a 20-day Resolution deadline. Partners may choose to accept the publication at this stage by voting. 20 days is allowed for consortium partners to provide objections to the publication in writing, counting from and including the date of setting this milestone. If no objection is raised within 20 days, milestone Accepted by consortium is reached.
• Written objections posted (Responsible: Objecting partner(s)): Milestone reached when at least one written objection is posted in the Project Publications database (Vote and Objection comments/attachments). Objections can be raised on any of the following grounds: (i) that they consider that the protection of the objecting partner's Foreground would be adversely affected by the proposed publication, (ii) that the proposed publication includes the Confidential Information of the objecting partner, or (iii) the publication of such information would be contrary to the legitimate interests of the objecting partner. In the event that an objection is raised, either on the abstract and table of contents or on the final publication content, on any of the above defined grounds, the Publisher and the Objecting partner(s) shall seek in good faith to agree on a solution on a timely basis whereby such objection is resolved.
• Accepted by consortium (Responsible: Publisher): Milestone reached when EITHER: 20 days has passed since milestone Presented to consortium and no written objections have been raised, OR: An agreement has been reached by the consortium. This may be the result of partner voting, and/or due to resolution of conflict between Publisher and Objecting partner(s). The Project Publications database should contain the submitted version.
• Rejected by consortium (Responsible: Publisher): Milestone reached when the Publisher and the Objecting partner(s) do not reach an agreement.
• Upon agreement, the Coordinator will run the last check and upload the deliverable at the
Participant Portal.
• After uploading, the deliverable will be published on the website and/or through other media.
• Deliverables that have not yet been reviewed by the EU will have an ‘under review’ marking in the internal database in the eRoom, since feedback from the EC (if any) is no sooner to be expected than 105 days after periodic reporting. This delay is in conflict with the CoSSMic goal of ‘releasing early, releasing often’.
• When changes in a deliverable are requested by the EC, a new version of the deliverable will
be uploaded
In addition: always keep the EDM in cc of all matters regarding publication and ensure he has access to the last version of the publication via the eRoom. This is important with regards to keeping the publication/IP-database up-to-date.
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Appendix 5: Programme of the CoSSMic workshop held 13-14 July 2015 in Konstanz (Germany)
Monday 13 July 2015 Session 1, 9:00-11:00 Alte Netze – Neue Netze – Was ist “Smart” Gunter Voigt (HTWG Konstanz) Mieterstrommodell der Stadtwerke Konstanz Gordon Appel (Stadtwerke Konstanz) Dezentrale Energieerzeugung Udo Woble (Stadtwerke am See) e-home Energieprojekt 2020 Jan Ahmels (Energie- und Forschungszentrum Niedersachsen) Session 2, 11:30-13:00 Energiekonzepte der Insel Mainau Carsten Theodor Straub (Insel Mainau) PLC-Technologien für die effiziente Realisierung des intelligenten Energienetzes Tobias Pletzer (devolo) Funkkommunikation in Smart Energy/Smart Grid Amit Shah (E-Senza Technologies) Session 3, 14:00-15:30 Mit intelligenten Stromspeichern Netze entlasten Christof Wiedmann (FENECON) Stationäre Stromspeicher als Element der Energiewende Johannes Kostka (Bosch Energy Storage Solutions) Die Sonnenbatterie in virtuellen Kraftwerken Chistian Oertel (Sonnenbatterie) Das System E3DC in Siedlungsprojekten Ingo Martin (E3DC) Energie: Management, Produktion, Speicherung, Einsparung Roland Burkhardt (Energy Depot) Session 4, 16:00-18:00
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Smart Campus Fallenbrunnen Gunnar Schubert (DHBW Ravensburg) Stromnetze mit sehr hohen PV Anteilen Franz Baumgartner (ZHAW Winterthur) Photovoltaik und Wirtschaftlichkeit Sebastian Joos (Universität Konstanz) Solare Eigenstromnutzung rechnet sich – eine einfache Rentabilitätsrechnung für Betriebe Bene Müller (Solarcomplex) Session 5, 19:00-20:30 SolarLake Eröffnung Was erwarten Städte von der Forschung Karl Langensteiner-Schönborn (Bürgermeister Stadt Konstanz) Energiebedarf der Region Konstanz Sven Simon, Markus Szaguhn (Kompetenzzentr. Energiewende) Energieeffizienz und Eigenproduktion im priv. Wohnen Titus Zahn (Zahn Solar Technik) Durch Verbrauchsoptimierung wird Ihre Solarstromanlage zum wirtschaftlichen Erfolg Michael Simon (Sunny Solartechnik) Wasserstoff und Mobilität Richard Leiner, Udo Schelling (HTWG Konstanz) Tuesday 14 July 2015 Session 1, 9:00-10:30 Concepts and overall architecture Shanshan Jiang (SINTEF ICT) Agent based auton. energy negotiation & managem. Salvatore Venticinque (Second University of Naples) Konstanz Trial overview Joachim Glatz-Reichenbach (ISC Konstanz) EU project INCREASE: Daniel Steiner Daniel Steiner (JOANNEUM RESEARCH) Session 2, 11:00-13:00 EU project IDE4L: Distribution automation and functionalities for active network management Sami Repo (Tampere University of Technology)
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EU project evolvDSO: Future roles of distribution system operators Reinhilde D’Hulst (Vito) EU project ELECTRA: Web-of-cells architecture Reinhilde D’Hulst (Vito) Private partnerships & public-private partnerships (PPPs) for microgrids, smart grids and e-mobility Mary Jean Bürer (EPFL-École polyt. fédérale de Lausanne) Innovative financing schemes for RES: from yieldcos to community finance Anna Ebers (University of St. Gallen) Session 3, 14:30-16:00 SmartGridsBW Opening Albrecht Reuter (SmartGridsBW) Kristian Peter (ISC Konstanz) Welcome Friedhelm Schaal (City of Konstanz, Departm. of economic development) Keynote on Big Data: Challenges and Solutions for the Energy Sector Frank Schwammberger (IBM) Big Data: Three short inputs Michael Wilfer (Fichtner IT Consulting) Hamzeh Alavirad (AMA-SYSTEMS) Detlef Schumann (BridgingIT) Session 4, 16:30-18:00 Data security and privacy Jörn Müller-Quade (KIT) Panel discussion From Big to Smart to Secure Data!? Moderation: Albrecht Reuter (Smart Grids BW) Frank Schwammberger (IBM), Jörn Müller-Quade (KIT), Uwe Rühling (Rühling und Partner), Detlef Schumann (BridgingIT), Michael Wilfer (Fichtner IT Consulting) End