E.ON SE: Digital technology increases grid efficiency

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*Digital technology increases grid efficiency* 
 
· Intelligent 'Smart Grid Hub' ensures 
improved management of feed-ins and 
consumption 
 
· EU InterFlex project enters implementation 
phase at E.ON subsidiary Avacon 
 
E.ON is using digital technology to increase network efficiency: as part of 
the EU InterFlex project, E.ON subsidiary Avacon has put the Smart Grid Hub 
into live operation. This intelligent device is able to control 
grid-connected systems such as PV installations or battery storage remotely. 
In this way, the Smart Grid Hub ensures that the grid remains stable even if 
far too much or too little energy is generated locally. Avacon has installed 
smart meters in around 200 private households in Lower Saxony that transmit 
their data to the Smart Grid Hub. 
 
Thorsten Gross, InterFlex project manager at Avacon, says: "The 
transformation of the energy sector must remain affordable. Solutions such 
as those now being tested in Lueneburg help to increase grid efficiency and 
thus reduce overall system costs." 
 
InterFlex is part of the EU's largest research and innovation program 
(Horizon 2020) and has a budget of around EUR23 million. As our energy world 
changes, it aims to apply smart grid technology on an industrial scale in 
order to increase the marketability of renewable energy. Around 1.7 million 
decentralized generating plants such as wind turbines and photovoltaic 
plants now feed energy into the German electricity grid. Around 95 percent 
of the plants are connected to the distribution grid. In order to meet these 
new challenges, 20 project partners have joined forces within the framework 
of InterFlex. In five countries, they are developing innovative solutions 
that are intended to show new ways of making the electricity supply more 
flexible and optimizing it at the local level. The focus is on the consumer 
and their use of renewable energy. The project started at the beginning of 
2017 and will run for three years. 
 
In addition to the Avacon subproject in the Lueneburg region, E.ON is 
represented at InterFlex with two other projects, both in Sweden: E.ON 
Sverige in Malmö is investigating the integration of different energy 
sources using the thermal inertia of buildings as a flexibility measure. The 
aim is to optimize generation in a decentralized energy system and make it 
more environmentally friendly. In the southern Swedish village of Simris, 
E.ON Sverige supplies the residents with 100 percent green electricity on an 
insular basis (= self-sufficient supply). The energy for around 140 
households is generated from wind turbines and photovoltaic systems. The 
system is completed with a battery system. On site, E.ON evaluates, among 
other things, the advantages of modern control of local energy systems for 
the distribution network operator. 
 
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does not assume any liability whatsoever, to update these forward-looking 
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Key word(s): Energy 
 
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