NEDO Project – the objective of the project is to gain expertise and experience on the possibility of using the energy storage technology to increase the flexibility of operation of the National Power Sys-tem (NPS), their impact on improving the operating reliability of the NPS and identification of the energy storage warehouse operating scenarios which stand an opportunity to develop in Poland with the existing and future legal and economic regulations. The final project deliverable is the construction of a battery energy store in the Bystra Wind Farm. The construction of the energy store is part of the Smart Grid Demonstration Project in Poland executed by the Japanese governmental organization NEDO. An Energa group company is responsible for building the infrastructure required to erect the store elements, integration of the store with the NPS and operation of the store in the demonstration period. The planned completion date is 31 December 2020.
Upgrid Project, i.e. municipal grid of the future – project subsidized by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 program. The purpose of the project is to analyze selected technologies for their potential to improve reliability and optimize operation of the MV and LV grids on a selected portion of the grid, with special focus on developing new IT solutions and utilization of data from IT systems, in particular the AMI system.
Energa Living Lab – the aim of the Energa Living Lab project implemented by Enspirion is to demonstrate the effectiveness and to popularize demand-side response tools, using the formula of tests in a live laboratory consisting of 300 households in Gdynia. The project is co-financed by the European Commission and the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management within the LIFE+ Instrument. In 2017 the test was continued in households, applications for gamification and view of the current electricity consumption were developed and a tariff simulator was devised.
Construction of a Local Balancing Area as an element enhancing security and energy efficiency of the operation of the distribution system – the project is aimed at developing and implementing the Local Balancing Area technology which, in a specified area of the electrical power system, allows for integrated management of its power resources. Implementation of the solution developed in the pro-ject will make it possible to increase the capability of connection to the distributed generation network based on RES, improve the efficiency of the use of electricity, reduce the costs of operation of the electrical power system and improve reliability and security of energy supplies, leading as a result to an environmental effect in the form of reduction of national CO2 emissions. In 2017 work was conduct-ed to prepare the hardware for installation of the software for controlling the energy store.
Implementation of a heating grid telemetry and telemechanics systems – the essence of the project was to improve the efficiency of the heating infrastructure of the City of Kalisz and increase its efficiency and functionality. The project was completed in 2017
The main areas determining the development of the ENERGA Group also include R&D efforts focusing on the following areas:
smart grid, active customers, RES and balancing clusters;
energy storage;
improvement of reliability and continuity of supply;
customer service and marketing actions;
production and sale of energy;
system services for network operators;
development of diagnostic systems;
improvement of energy efficiency.
