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Power demand forecasting using space-based data

30/10/2024

8 min read

Feature

AI generated image of rows of pylons with electricity lighting up along the transmission lines, set against a sunset sky Photo: (AI generated): Adobe Stock/Nisit
A new space-based initiative is looking to make electricity grids smarter and more resilient

Photo: (AI generated): Adobe Stock/Nisit

Ensuring that our energy systems can adapt to new challenges, shift demand patterns, produce efficiently and maintain stability is becoming increasingly important, writes Ben Moore, Senior EU Project Manager with Carr Communications. Enter the Respondent project, a European Union (EU) funded space-based initiative that is paving the way towards smarter and more resilient energy infrastructure through projects in power generation forecasting, predicting power demand, and smart grid timing and synchronisation.

Managed by the EU Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) on behalf of the European Commission, the multi-year project is only six months away from completing development of cutting-edge solutions to address energy challenges that confront the EU. Respondent and its modules integrate renewable energy sources while both safeguarding grid stability and improving efficiency.

 

Partners in the €2.7mn project are Spanish distribution systems operator Aněll, Carr Communications of Ireland, Spanish renewables developer Euskabea, Greenesco Energy of Greece, Spanish research institution IREC, Greek construction company Kiefer Tek and computer research centre Vicomtech. The project coordinator is Future Intelligence of Greece.

 

Power generation forecasting  
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