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

Madrid, Spain, 12 May perhaps 2020

Atos, a world wide chief in electronic transformation, announces its participation in the FLEXIGRID project, which aims to boost the operation of the distribution grid – creating it a lot more flexible, reputable and value-effective, via the development of impressive remedies. Its aim is to lead to the reduction of CO2 emissions and to the 2030 EU weather aims when making ready the grid to the increase in renewable vitality. As aspect of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 method, FLEXIGRID was initiated mid-2019 and will very last for 4 decades. It brings collectively a consortium of 16 associates led by the Exploration Centre for Electricity Methods and Use (CIRCE) in Spain.

In purchase to make sure that the project is productive throughout all EU networks, 8 diverse use circumstances at 4 demo web pages (Spain, Greece, Italy and Croatia) have been selected, addressing the most popular EU distribution grid complications. Atos will offer and combine its open up resource Framework for Utilities and Providers (FUSE) for all project routines and demonstration web pages, connecting the info created by serious end users and teams with the impressive providers developed in the project for ideal adaptability.

Enabling adaptability for upcoming distribution grid

The vitality sector is presently transitioning from a centralized technique with passive end users into a flexible network of lively end users featuring vitality communities. FLEXIGRID will create a set of remedies to address the difficulties that the electricity grid is predicted to face as a final result of the increasing participation of variable renewable energies in the vitality technique.

The new equipment will allow the distribution network to operate securely and stably when a substantial aspect of variable renewable electricity sources is connected to small and medium voltage networks. Specifically, via the development of impressive components and software remedies, the project will get the job done on:

• Maximizing the grid web hosting capacity of renewables
• Expanding the observability, controllability and automation of the network techniques for the enhancement of the two the stability and resilience of the grid
• Mitigating brief and very long-term congestions in the dispersed grid
• Making certain the interoperability and compatibility of the developed remedies with diverse platforms applied by European Distributed Program Operators (DSOs)

In this context, the vitality system FUSE can make readily available the most recent technologies (Big Info, AI, IoT, Blockchain and FIWARE) to go one particular step even further to sustainability, when featuring a effective software system that presents network visibility and handle, procedure automation and small business collaboration for remedies throughout the vitality and utility value chain. Atos will use the system to facilitate the replicability of providers and remedies, integrating diverse components and software remedies to completely exploit the info provided by nearby and dispersed vitality means.

“The decentralization of the vitality sector produces a elaborate atmosphere with diverse actors concerned, in which anyone focuses on the identical aim, but has their own capabilities, needs and qualities on the way to a sustainable upcoming.” points out [name, operate] at Atos.  “Leveraging Atos’ considerable encounter in the vitality sector, FUSE integrates the most recent remedies and technologies to facilitate effectiveness and sustainability, paving the way to the digitalization of the sector and a a lot more sustainable upcoming”

For a lot more info, remember to take a look at http://www.flexigrid-h2020.eu/

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About Atos

Atos is a world wide chief in electronic transformation with 110,000 staff in seventy three international locations and once-a-year revenue of € 12 billion. European quantity one particular in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Substantial-General performance Computing, the Group presents stop-to-stop Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Info, Organization Apps and Electronic Workplace remedies. The Group is the All over the world Details Technological know-how Associate for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates under the manufacturers Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), mentioned on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The function of Atos is to assistance design and style the upcoming of the info house. Its knowledge and providers support the development of knowledge, schooling and research in a multicultural technique and lead to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the world, the Group permits its shoppers and staff, and users of societies at substantial to are living, get the job done and create sustainably, in a protected and safe info house.