EV-OPTIMANAGER
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Description and objectives
The project will develop the products, hardware and software, and services necessary for any electric consumer, especially those offering electric vehicle recharging services, to optimize their electricity demand and reduce their electricity purchase costs.
The aim is to improve the competitiveness of these companies and reduce their impact on the Spanish electricity system. The solutions to be developed will have two main elements:
- A local system that, located at the customers' facilities, will be equipped with a local control center that will determine the optimal consumption curve (least cost for the customer-user) and, optionally, with a storage system.
- A main element, which will be the remote control center, to act as a link between customers (load managers and direct consumers) and the electricity market.
The main objective of the EV-OPTI MANAGER project is the development and demonstration of a portfolio of products and services related to electric vehicle charging, which will facilitate demand forecasting, consumption management, energy purchase and accumulation-delivery of electric energy applied to production processes.
The aim is to reduce electricity demand peaks, ensure supply, or install new EV charging points, such as the developments of the SIRVE project, in which CIRCE and URBENER have also participated.
These solutions will be flexible and customizable for each of the two types of customers:
- System load managers will be offered services and equipment for demand forecasting, consumption management, management of bids-purchases in the electricity market and electricity storage system.
- Direct consumers will be offered services and equipment for demand forecasting and management of bids-purchases in the electricity market.
Value proposition
In addition, as a further result of the project, it is expected to collaborate in the better management of the electrical system and the development of infrastructure for electric vehicle charging.
The result is a management and control system (physical products and software + services) that includes all the functionalities for efficient management of electrical energy and even support functions for the grid, helping to balance voltages and loads, filter harmonics or compensate reactive energy, among others.
CIRCE will provide the technical, scientific and innovative base on which all the work to be developed in the project will be based, in terms of power electronics, ICTs, etc.
The main demonstrator will be developed at the CIRCE facilities, which will be used to validate the models and prototypes achieved.
In addition, the CIRCE building has several charging points of various types for electric vehicles, where the different phases of the project will be tested experimentally.
CIRCE will be in charge of the development and implementation of the electricity consumption prediction models, the algorithms for predicting the price of energy in different time horizons, or the local storage system.
Project partners
URBENER, CIRCE