Project: From local peak shaving to regional load shaping, a transnational demonstration initiative

Main scope of the project is to foster field experience, practicability and economic benefit of energy services solutions under a future energy market with an increasing importance of decentralised production within a smart grid. It will be applied in a transnational environment with selected partners from 3 utilities in the D-A-CH countries and accompanied with the relevant research institutions for 3 layers. The economic value shall be derived under direct and indirect benefits from local distribution grid with help of traffic light principle in the short and long run perspective. In fact the project will develop local peak shaving mechanism towards a regional load shaping in an adequate industrial application. The research targets are manifold: the acceptance of stakeholders, particularly discos and prosumers for the offered solutions and the models of impact control within smart distribution grid e.g. the traffic light principle, new flexible grid tariff solutions, network planning.

Acronym	Power Alliance (Reference Number: 77601)
Duration	07/04/2016 - 31/03/2019
Project Topic	Distributed grid load managment, traffic light system
Network	ERANet SmartGridPlus
Call	ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus - Joint Call for Proposals

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	Alpiq AG	Coordinator	Switzerland
2	Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften	Partner	Switzerland
3	Aski Industrieelektronik GmbH	Partner	Austria
4	FHNW University of Applied Sciences, School of Business	Partner	Switzerland
5	HSLU Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Institute of Business Information Management	Partner	Switzerland
6	Stadtwerke Crailsheim GmbH	Partner	Germany
8	EBM Netz AG	Partner	Switzerland
9	Xamax AG	Partner	Switzerland