On September 1st, the preliminary demonstration stage for RES-DU product officially started at the ICCS Lab in Athens (Greece). During this stage, renewable assets (photovoltaic and wind farm) and a storage unit (lithium-ion battery) were managed according to the RES-DU instructions in order to demonstrate the proper operation of the
First steps in the RES-DU product demonstration
Helping to buffer extreme weather events
Extreme weather events have caused significant damages to power systems, leaving millions of customers without electricity. Expecting that the frequency and intensity of these events will increase within the next years due to climate change, CROSSBOW proposes a power system resilience enhancement software, as part of the Regional Operation Centre
CROSSBOW special session at the 15th SDEWES Conference
CROSSBOW project hosts a special session at the 15th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES), which this year is taking place online between 1-5 September. The session provides 4 papers for the project.
How has COVID-19 affected CROSSBOW?
COVID-19 crisis arrived just at the beginning of the first round of trials. When the project was concluding the first deployments and after the execution of the first experiments, we were forced to handle the unforeseen situation that has blocked activities across the world. In the case of CROSSBOW, the
CROSSBOW webinars
Do you want to learn in detail about the 9 products of CROSSBOW? CROSSBOW’s team has prepared nine webinars to explain at length each product.
CROSSBOW Wholesale and Ancillary Market toolset outcomes
During the last couple of months, University of Ljubljana has been finishing the development of the algorithms required for the operation of the CROSSBOW Wholesale and Ancillary Market toolset (AM). The main functionalities and features were demonstrated to the CROSSBOW Consortium and a decentralized demonstration will follow towards the end
Virtual Storage Plant outcomes
The Virtual Storage Plant (VSP) of CROSSBOW project provides a platform promoting the usage of a large number of distributed storage technologies, which can be regarded as a buck energy storage system to be dispatched by the transmission system operators (TSO). The algorithms and methodologies, which enables VSP to provide
Impact of the COVID 19 outbreak on the BRIDGE projects
During the European Sustainable Energy Week 2020 (EUSEW), CROSSBOW together with other BRIDGE projects participated in the session “Smart grids and flexibility markets: status of demonstrators and effect of COVID-19 on the demo operation and results”.
Preliminary test of the RES Dispatchable Unit first version
Over the last months CROSSBOW partner, Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios, S.A, fulfilled the first version of RES Dispatchable Unit (RES-DU) algorithms and carried out some preliminary test. With these first tests, COBRA demonstrates the main functionalities of the RES-DU tool and highlights its adaptability to different plant configurations and operation
CROSSBOW joins the new digital event EUSEW 2020
CROSSBOW project participates this year in the 15th edition of the EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW), which will be held as a digital event from 22 to 26 June 2020 and under a new theme “Beyond the crisis: clean energy for green recovery and growth”.