Until 2017, four smart grid demonstrators will be installed Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Poland. The goal is to develop and implement monitoring and control solutions, including new equipment and systems, which will promote the participation of the final consumers in the energy market.

Project UPGRID (Real proven solutions to enable active demand and distributed generation flexible integration, through a fully controllable Low Voltage and medium voltage distribution grid), which started in early 2015 as part of the H2020 programme, is being developed by a consortium composed of 19 partners from seven European countries: Portugal, Spain, Poland, Sweden, United Kingdom, France and Norway (the latter as an associate country).

The project features four demonstrators that will be installed in 2016 at Parque das Nações, in Lisbon, at Bidelek Sareak Smart Grid, in Bilbao (Spain), in Gdynia, Gdansk area, in Poland, and in the city of Åmål, in the south of Sweden.

The Portuguese demonstrator will be implemented by EDP Distribuição, the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), Withus and NOS in the parish of Parque das Nações in Lisbon, involving over 20 thousand residential consumers.

Representatives of the UPGRID met last week in Lisbon, at the facilities of EDP Distribuição, for the Consortium’s General Assembly. The goal was to discuss the implementation of the demonstrators in the four countries in question.

PC Guia, 11 February 2016