Smart Community Neighbourhoods

The existing power grid is not calibrated to handle sudden large or concentrated power demands. This pattern of consumption has become much more common in recent years, especially because of the large number of electric cars in Norway that often need to be charged at the same time and place.

The goal

To study and describe an information technology-driven, decentralised grid structure where local renewable energy sources, such as solar cells, produce electricity and contribute to balance in both the transmission and distribution grids.

The project

In Smart Community Neighbourhoods (micro-grids), the project partners will implement several sub-projects to investigate issues related to managing a micro-grid, examine incentive schemes that encourage local producers to sell surplus power in their “neighbourhood”, describe possible solutions to secure user data, and consider the use of machine learning in the process of predicting the level of future power generation.

Project team members

Statnett
Lyse
IRIS
University of Oslo (UiO)
University of Stavanger (UiS)

Funding

The Research Council of Norway (RCN)

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