Atos paves the way for flexible and sustainable energy flow in Europe

Madrid, Spain, twelve May perhaps 2020

Atos, a worldwide chief in electronic transformation, announces its participation in the FLEXIGRID job, which aims to make improvements to the operation of the distribution grid – generating it extra flexible, reputable and value-productive, by means of the enhancement of revolutionary remedies. Its goal is to lead to the reduction of CO2 emissions and to the 2030 EU local weather targets while preparing the grid to the boost in renewable energy. As portion of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 system, FLEXIGRID was initiated mid-2019 and will final for four several years. It provides with each other a consortium of 16 partners led by the Investigate Centre for Energy Sources and Consumption (CIRCE) in Spain.

In purchase to ensure that the job is productive throughout all EU networks, eight distinctive use conditions at four demo web-sites (Spain, Greece, Italy and Croatia) have been selected, addressing the most typical EU distribution grid troubles. Atos will deliver and integrate its open up source Framework for Utilities and Providers (FUSE) for all job things to do and demonstration web-sites, connecting the facts generated by genuine users and teams with the revolutionary providers designed in the job for ideal versatility.

Enabling versatility for long run distribution grid

The energy market is now transitioning from a centralized method with passive users into a flexible community of lively users featuring energy communities. FLEXIGRID will establish a established of remedies to deal with the issues that the electrical energy grid is envisioned to face as a consequence of the growing participation of variable renewable energies in the energy method.

The new resources will permit the distribution community to operate properly and stably when a large portion of variable renewable electrical energy sources is connected to small and medium voltage networks. Precisely, by means of the enhancement of revolutionary hardware and software package remedies, the job will function on:

  • Maximizing the grid internet hosting ability of renewables
  • Expanding the observability, controllability and automation of the community programs for the enhancement of each the security and resilience of the grid
  • Mitigating brief and very long-expression congestions in the distributed grid
  • Making certain the interoperability and compatibility of the designed remedies with distinctive platforms employed by European Dispersed System Operators (DSOs)

In this context, the energy system FUSE can make accessible the latest technologies (Major Info, AI, IoT, Blockchain and FIWARE) to go just one phase further more in direction of sustainability, while featuring a strong software package system that supplies community visibility and command, system automation and small business collaboration for remedies throughout the energy and utility worth chain. Atos will use the system to facilitate the replicability of providers and remedies, integrating distinctive hardware and software package remedies to absolutely exploit the facts delivered by regional and distributed energy means.

“The decentralization of the energy market makes a elaborate natural environment with distinctive actors concerned, where by every person focuses on the exact same goal, but has their possess capabilities, requirements and characteristics on the way in direction of a sustainable long run.” points out [identify, operate] at Atos.  “Leveraging Atos’ extensive expertise in the energy sector, FUSE integrates the latest remedies and technologies to facilitate effectiveness and sustainability, paving the way to the digitalization of the sector and a extra sustainable long run”

For extra details, be sure to stop by http://www.flexigrid-h2020.eu/

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About Atos

Atos is a worldwide chief in electronic transformation with a hundred and ten,000 employees in 73 countries and annual earnings of € twelve billion. European quantity just one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Significant-Efficiency Computing, the Group supplies stop-to-stop Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Major Info, Organization Programs and Digital Workplace remedies. The Group is the Around the globe Information Technology Companion for the Olympic & Paralympic Video games and operates below the brand names Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), outlined on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The reason of Atos is to assistance design and style the long run of the details house. Its expertise and providers assist the enhancement of knowledge, education and learning and investigate in a multicultural tactic and lead to the enhancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the world, the Group allows its prospects and employees, and members of societies at large to stay, function and establish sustainably, in a risk-free and protected details house.