UPGRID Project results to be presented next February 21st in Madrid.

Project Website www.upgrid.eu _ FINAL EVENT: results presentation

The Spanish demonstrator has been carried out in Bilbao area (North of Spain) in a distribution grid operated by Iberdrola Distribución. I has been mainly focused on monitoring and control of LV network and network management methodologies for network operations, although it had to be underlined the selection of two sub-functionalities related to novel approaches to asset management.

1075

Secondary substations

800 

minimun number of LV Lines supervised

190000 

minimum number of customers

The demonstrator area is characterised by 1.075 Secondary Substations (SSs) (from which 100 SSs are equipped with Advanced LV supervision devices what means having more than 800 LV lines supervised) and more than 190.000 customers involved. The massive Advance Metering Infrastructure (AMI) deployment in the area was completed before UPGRID.

Partners Involved in Spain:

Iberdrola Distribución, GE, ZIV, Tecnalia & EVE. Download UPGRID_brochure-2017

ZIV was in charge of the part based on PRIME (LV Powerline communication) for telecontrol. Moreover, ZIV will be the vendor for the advanced LV supervisor and it is the manufacture of some of the SM already installed in the demo area.

The project

The UPGRID project started in the beginning of 2015 under the H2020 program and has been developed by a European consortium, composed of 19 partners from 7 European countries: Spain, Portugal, Poland, Sweden, United Kingdom, France and Norway.

The project included 4 demonstrators deployed from April 2015 to June 2017 at Bilbao area in the North of Spain, Parque das Nações in Lisbon (Portugal), Åmål in Dalsland in the South of Sweden, and Gdynia in Pomeranian Region (Poland).

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