Integrid - Bridging the Gap

64 “… when I was home, I sometimes even made dates with friends to meet up and cook. It was just like ‘yeah, guys, it’s Pause Hour - we can still do it at my place, start cutting everything, light some candles at night, andwait until thePauseHour isover and then we start cooking.” - Luzie Gehrmann, KTHLive-In Lab resident and LocalLife user. Government From Lisbon: “InteGrid seemed very exciting from the beginning due to the fact that it allows us to have, locally, an innovativeEuropean project, sowemade every effort to publicise it. The project’s assumptions seem to have been fulfilled: Demonstration of the viability of smart distribution networks; Development, implementation and demonstration of integrated concepts; Demonstration of monitoring activities and smart automation; Development of savingsmechanisms in user invoices”- Vitor Manuel Calisto Marques - President of Union of Wards of Caldas da Rainha From Ljubljana: “We are in agreement that the active users in collaborationwith projectswhich are similar and related to InteGrid educate, inform, and test solutions that are in accordance with the current state of technology and consequently can identify greater flexibility potential. The tools and concepts presented work complementarily and based on the June 2019 and June 2020 workshops, meet the expectations of the InteGrid base project. Consequently, their results can helpdrive the further development of DSOservices. The so-called MPOPF testing results were very promising andmean that it would be possible to control predicted problems in the network before they actually appear.” - Agency for Energy, Ljubljana From Stockholm: “Yes, I really believe ... [that Sweden should lead efforts in smart homes and citizen engagement for InteGrid and the EU, and I think that we should be at the forefront. We know that we have a good technical knowledge base and extensive experience. We also have a population that is very positive towards technology and are eager to use new types of technological solutions. Therefore, I believe that Sweden can be a testbed for new technological solutions, and also see how this relates to how we behave as humans. Additionally, we have high environmental awareness that could help play a role in the necessary transitions to save the planet. So, I really believe that Sweden should be at the forefront when it comes to researching and developing new solutions”- Per Bolund, Minister for Financial Markets andHousing. Academia From Portugal: “on the InteGrid project I developed a machine learning algorithm which aimed to improve energy efficiency in one of the largest sewage treatment facilities in Portugal, by controlling several wastewater pumps. This project not only allowed me to learn and explore state-of-the-art algorithms in the Reinforcement Learning field, but it also provided me with an excellent environment to enhance my programming skills. The analytical and technical skills in the field of Data Analytics that I developed during this project together with the good practices in software development, required for the integration of the prototype, proved to be key aspects for my smooth transition to the industry.” – Jorge Filipe, former researcher at INESC TEC (working in industry now) “InteGridwas an excellent opportunity to test Eneida Deepgrid® operational Analytics LV Apps with a DSO and get feedback from user experience. Our participation in InteGrid addressed challenges proposedbyEDPDistribuição, namely LV fault detection and location, balancing energy flows, discovering grid topology and evaluating network power quality. For Eneida, it was amazing to be able to test in InteGrid pilots our new patent pending algorithms formapping Smartmeters in the LVgrid. At the beginning, we set our goal: to achieve 99%ormore of true positives. This goal was achieved so it contributed to the validation of our approachwhich is, to our knowledge, the best in the field.” - José Oliveira, Head of R&D at Eneida.io FromLjubljana:Webelieve that a stimulatingpricewould speed up flexibility identification. The cost of flexible energy for the operator on a local level would depend on the need for flexibility to be higher in one part of the grid, meaning that theprice shouldbehigher aswell. The oppositewouldhold for a lowneed for flexibility. Projects such as InteGrid are a unique opportunity for everyone. It allows users to identify their potential and for the operators to test their inclusion. It is an innovative approach that allows all actors to collaborate in the market in a newway.” - EIMv, Ljubljana From Stockholm: “The behavioural results in the InteGrid-project advance insights that the energy-behaviour community has identified as key areas for further research. The notion of Pause Hours to develop new habits is of particular interest - and is closely related to a similar habit-building concept of “Peacetime” in the smart grid.”- Cecilia Katzeff, Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, KTH.