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ISGAN Annex 5, Smart Grid International Research Facility Network (SIRFN) gives the participating countries the ability to evaluate pre-competitive technologies and systems approaches in a wide range of Smart Grids implementation use cases and geographies using common testing procedures. Research within each individual member country will derive the value of the unique capabilities and environments of the other partner nations. Data from these tests will be made publicly available to the Smart Grids community to accelerate the development of Smart Grids technologies and systems, and enabling policies.

Sophia provides European researchers with the opportunity to develop their own research projects through the Transnational Access (TNA) to the Sophia consortium’s Research Infrastructures (RI) – free-of-charge, supported by the European Commission.

In the project COTEVOS (Concepts, Capacities and Methods for Testing EV systems and their interoperability within smart grids), the interoperability of Electric Vehicles and their smart charging will be assessed in several laboratories below according to the new test procedures developed in COTEVOS.

The European Liaison on Electricity Committed Towards long-term Research Activities for Smart Grids Integrated Research Programme on Smart Grids (ELECTRA) brings together the partners of the EERA Joint Programme on Smart Grids (JP SG) to reinforce and accelerate Europe´s medium to long term research cooperation in this area and to drive a closer integration of the research programmes of the participating organisations and of the related national programmes. Powerful European Research Infrastructure is necessary to reach consensus on harmonized solutions that allow collaboration on the technical level and thereby accelerate the development and implementation of smart grids. ELECTRA aims at fostering the coordination and collaboration among the research infrastructures of the IRP participants.
ELECTRA has received funding from the European Union´s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No.: 609687.

DERlab is an association of leading laboratories and research institutes in the field of distributed energy resources equipment and systems. The association develops joint requirements and quality criteria for the connection and operation of distributed energy resources (DER) and strongly supports the consistent development of DER technologies. DERlab offers testing and consulting services for distributed generation (DG) to support the transition towards more decentralised power systems.

18 of Europe’s top research institutions have joined forces in order to pool together their know-how and improve research infrastructures within the smart grid sector. The EU-funded ERIGrid project (European Research Infrastructure supporting Smart Grid Systems Technology Development, Validation and Roll Out) aims to develop an integrated research infrastructure for smart grid systems. Intelligent power networks are urgently required to integrate the growing number of distributed energy sources and generators into our energy system. Researchers get assisted and free-of-charge access to the ERIGrid research infrastructure facilities in Europe through the provision of 21 different laboratories provided by the ERIGrid partners.

Project duration: 1 November 2015 – 30 April 2020