Digital Solutions for Improving the Sustainability Performance and Flexibility Potential of Hydropower Assets

提高水电资产可持续性绩效和灵活性潜力的数字解决方案

• 批准号: 10097932
• 金额: $ 25.52万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10097932
• 关键词: Digital; Solutions; Improving; Sustainability; Performance

The European energy system is undergoing a significant transformation: decarbonization, security of supply, deployment of renewables and their integration into the market, generating significant opportunities and challenges for energy stakeholders. Despite all energy efficiency efforts, overall demand for decarbonized electricity is set to be significantly higher in 2050 than today due to the decarbonization of the heating, cooling, transport and many industrial sectors, which can only be achieved via efficient and smart electrification. Hydropower is a key technology in supporting the European pathway to a decarbonized energy system and to achieve global leadership in renewable energy generation. It consists a renewable and highly sustainable electricity resource and can supply the European power system with stability and valuable flexibility. In addition, hydropower reduces EU’s dependency on fossil imports and renders multiple extra benefits for society in the river basins such as support to irrigation, water supply and flood control. The D HYDROFLEX project will advance excellence in research on digital technology for hydropower paving the way towards more efficient, more sustainable, and more competitive hydropower plants in modern power markets. D-HYDROFLEX will develop a toolkit for digitally ‘renovating’ the existing hydroelectric power plants based on sensors, digital twins, AI algorithms, hybridization modelling (power-to-hydrogen), cloud-edge computing and image processing. The core pillars of the project will be: (i) digitalization, (i.e., digital twins for hydro dams and machinery, weather and flow forecasts, cyber-resilience), (ii) flexibility, (i.e., coordination with hydrogen, storage and VPP operation) and (iii) sustainability, (i.e., biodiversity environmental issues). Validation will take place in real hydro plants of EDF (France), TEE (Poland), PPC (Greece), TASGA (Spain) and INTEX (Romania), covering different geographical areas of Europe.

欧洲能源系统正在经历重大的转变：脱碳，供应安全性，可再生能源的部署及其在市场中的集成，为能源利益相关者带来了巨大的机会和挑战。尽管所有能源效率的努力，但由于加热，冷却，运输和许多工业部门的脱碳化，对2050年脱碳电力的总体需求将显着高于今天，这只能通过有效且智能电气化来实现。水力发电是支持欧洲通往脱碳能源系统并在可再生能源生成方面的全球领导力的关键技术。它由可再生和高度可持续的电资源组成，可以为欧洲电力系统提供稳定和有价值的灵活性。此外，水力发电降低了欧盟对化石进口的依赖，并为河贝司的社会带来了多种额外好处，例如支持灌溉，供水和防洪。 D HydroFlex项目将在现代电力市场中的水力发电铺平道路方面促进水力发电的数字技术研究卓越。 D-HydroFlex将开发一个工具包，用于通过传感器，数字双胞胎，AI算法，杂交建模（功率到水），云边缘计算和图像处理来数字地“翻新”现有的水力发电厂。该项目的核心支柱将是：（i）数字化，（即用于水坝和机械，天气和流动森林的数字双胞胎，网络弥补），（ii）灵活性，（即与氢，存储和VPP操作）和（iii）可持续性（即生物多样性环境问题）。验证将在EDF（法国），Tee（波兰），PPC（希腊），塔斯加（Tasga）（西班牙）和INTEX（罗马尼亚）（罗马尼亚）的真实水力发电植物中进行，涵盖了欧洲的不同地理区域。