Project INTEGRIS (INTElligent GRID Sensor communication)
The INTEGRIS project is one of the main projects sponsored by the European Union within the framework of the VII programme of financing activities of research and development of innovative solutions for the development and setting up of new Intelligent energy Networks.
A2A represents Italy in the consortium composed of the Spanish Endesa and other partners (research institutions and technological partners). With the distribution company A2a Reti Elettriche it will carry out an active role in the research, development and testing of this new technology – in particular new means of communication between plant in the field (stations, transformers etc) and new applications distributed for monitoring, command, regulating systems and protection of the electrical networks.
INTEGRIS, together with other attempts of research and development promoted by the European Union, promises to contribute to the making available of new technologies and new services, aimed at improving efficiency, sustainability of energy sources and new innovative functionality of the networks to serve the users.
The technical committee of the project carried out its work for two days at the Casa dell’Energia in Piazza Po in Milan, hosted and co-ordinated by A2A. This is the third meeting for co-ordination since the birth of the project in February of this year; the previous ones were held in Madrid at Endesa and in Paris at SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC. The work of research and experimentation will last thirty months.
The meeting in Milan saw the involvement of experts coming from various European countries, with the aim of ascertaining the state of development of the project and to agree upon the next steps, to reconfirm the objectives and to calibrate the efforts needed to achieve results by the end of 2010.
In particular the aim of the two days was to agree with all participants upon a common vision of the type and quality of the new functionality that had been requested in the development of intelligent networks, in particular to get the members of the consortium to agree on the specific requirements - quality and performance – of the utilities involved (A2A, ENDESA) and the ways with which the technological and academic partners should meet such requirements.
The synthesis of the recommendations and technical decisions will be available in a joint consortium document that will be delivered to the European Union Commission by the end of July, for analysis and approval.
The INTEGRIS project is composed of: ENDESA NF (ENF), A2A RETI ELETTRICHE, INDRA (ITC), CURRENT TECNOLOGIES, SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC, FONDACION UNIV. TEC. (FUNITEC) TAMPER UNIVERSITY TEC. (FINLAND), ILIGHT, DISENO SILICIO (DS2)
