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NEW DOCUMENT PUBLISHED UNDER DOCUMENTATION SECTION

Smart Grids Initiatives in Europe - Country Snapshots and Country Fact Sheets

The Smart Grids Country Snapshots have been composed together with the ‘Smart Grids Country Fact Sheets’ to a Brochure which has been published at the Smart Grids Week 2011 Conference in Linz, Austria (24.-27.05.2011).

NEW INFORMATION - 2ND SMARTGRIDS ERA-NET JOINT CALL RESULTS

The 2nd SmartGrids ERA-Net call was published 15 January 2011 as a collaboration between the following agencies: the Research Council of Norway, Energinet.dk, the Swiss Federal Office of Energy, the Basque Government and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. The Nordic Energy Research was in charge of the coordination of the call and the evaluation-procedure.

The first stage of the Joint Call received 7 pre-proposals. After the first evaluation, 5 applicants were invited to present a full proposal. The final decision was announced on July 7nd 2011 after an international peer review.

The ERA-Net will support a total of 3 projects with the participation from Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Basque Country and Turkey.

Projects selected for funding are shown in the tables below.

1. BPES - Optimal sizing and control of balancing power in the future European system considering transmission system constraints
Project leader: Göran Andersson - ETH Zuerich - andersson@eeh.ee.ethz.ch
The involved participants are:
Switzerland	ETH Zuerich
Denmark	DTU
Norway	NTNU
Switzerland	Swissgrid
The total budget of the project= 1.355.810 €. SmartGrids ERA-NET funding = 692.000 €

2. IHSMAG- Integrating households in the smart grids
Project leader: Dr. kirsten Gram-Hanseen - Danish Building Reesearch Institute - kgh@sbi.dk
The involved participants are:
Denmark	Danish Building Research Institute
Norway	NTNU
Basque Country	ZIV Metering Solutions
The total budget of the project= 1.148.810 €. SmartGrids ERA-NET funding = 685.160 €

3. PRO-NET - Protection of power electronically interfaced LV distributed generation networks
Project leader: Dr. Bülent Dag - TÜBITAK - bulent.dag@uzay.tubitak.gov.tr
The involved participants are:
Turkey	TÜBITAK
Denmark	Aalborg University
Norway	Simula Researc Laboratory
The total budget of the project= 975.000 €. SmartGrids ERA-NET funding = 858.500 €

RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FOR JOINT CALLS

The Smart Grids ERA-Net is actively cooperating with existing smart grids initiatives such as the SET-plan/EU Electricity Grid Initiative (EEGI) and the European Technology Platform (ETP). In the upcoming call, projects are encouraged to contribute to the fulfilment of the EEGI-roadmap or the ETP-strategic research agenda.