1. Project Title
Smart integRation Of local energy sources and innovative storage for flexiBle, secure and cost-efficIent eNergy Supply ON industrialized islands (ROBINSON)
H2020
Period: 01/10/2020 – 30/06/2025
2. Project Description
ROBINSON aims to develop an integrated energy system to help decarbonise (industrialised) islands. For this purpose, the project will develop and deploy an integrated, smart and cost-efficient energy system that couples thermal, electrical and gas networks, which will optimise the utilisation of local renewable energy sources.
3. Project Objectives
- Develop and validate a modular and flexible Energy Management System (EMS).
- Develop, integrate and demonstrate a renewable fuel-based CHP unit.
- Develop, integrate and demonstrate an AD+BES.
- Demonstrate the large-scale applicability of the ROBINSON system.
- Reduction fossil fuel consumption.
- Demonstrate a significant positive impact on human health and environment.
- Reduction energy costs.
- Demonstrate the replicability of the system.
4. Partners and Stakeholders Involved
Coordinator:
- EUROPEAN TURBINE NETWORK
Academics:
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA, NORTH HIGHLAND COLLEGE, POLYTECHNEIO KRITIS
Industrialists:
- ACONDICIONAMIENTO TARRASENSE ASSOCIACION, NORCE NORWEGIAN RESEARCH CENTRE AS, EIGERSUND NAERING OG HAVN KF, AURELIA TURBINES OY, PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUT, ENERGY INNOVATION AS , DALANE ENERGI AS , REST UG, PRIMA PROTEIN AS, FUNDACION PARA EL DESARROLLO Y LA INNOVACION TECNOLOGICA, HYSYTECH SRL, COMHAIRLE NAN EILEAN SIAR, KRITI, STRATAGEM ENERGY LTD
External stakeholders:
- SIT Technologies srl
5. Budget and Financing
Budget: 7,0 M€
Financing institution: Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA)
Call: H2020-LC-SC3-2018-2019-2020 / H2020-LC-SC3-2020-EC-ES-SCC
6. Expected Impacts and Benefits
- ROBINSON will help achieve a faster decarbonisation, enabled by reduction of fossil fuel consumption, increased efficiency, better RES integration, and waste valorisation on the island of Eigerøy, Norway.
- The combination of local energy generation and longer-term storage in the form of hydrogen, bio-methane and heat developed in ROBINSON will stabilize the local grid.
- The system will enhance the diversification of the energy mix by enabling to switch between different energy sources, to couple different energy vectors, and to optimise operations’ efficiency, so increasing security of energy supply.
- ROBINSON aims to be replicable on energy islands that have similar needs to Eigerøy, as well as on islands with different characteristics and needs. It shows potential for further replication on other islands, and in remote areas of poor countries, especially considering cost decrease solutions/opportunities. Replicability will be facilitated by the high flexibility and modularity of ROBINSON.
- The ROBINSON system is expected to be cost-competitive compared to other variable RES and electrochemical storage (i.e. batteries). The lower cost will be achieved by a combination of storage and buffer capacity for the different energy vectors, but mostly by making use of hydrogen as a storage medium.
7. Contacts and References
Prof. Ferrari Mario Luigi
mario.ferrari@unige.it
UNIGE - DIME
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