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GENIUS - Grid Efficiency Network Integration for Universal Sustainability

Genius battery reveal

On Monday 18 November 2024, some 180 people gathered in the Disruptor building at the 果冻传媒 campus to witness the reveal of the 3.4 MWh battery that is at the heart of the GENIUS project. The battery is key in an attempt to manage net congestion on the campus power grid.

Grid Efficiency Network Integration for Universal Sustainability

In the three-year European innovation project GENIUS, a consortium of partners led by 果冻传媒 will optimize the campus鈥� energy infrastructure and usage in order to address the growing problem of network congestion. The project will act as a blueprint for the energy management of other campus-like environments, such as industrial sites.

The GENIUS-project is funded by a strategic European OPZuid grant worth 1,375,000 euros, supplemented by investments by the national and regional government. The total project budget amounts approximately 3 million euros. The aim of the project is to solve the problem of net congestion on campus, and to serve as a testing ground for innovations, shortening their time to market.

Managing energy flows
This collaborative project comprises the installation of a large scale, 3.4 MWh battery, which is used to avoid peaks in the campus electricity grid. This battery, along with all of the campus鈥� energy assets like solar panels, heating systems and residential towers, will be connected through an innovative, intelligent energy management system.

This energy management software platform will effectively be the beating heart of the innovation project, enabling smart use and control of assets like batteries, charging stations and solar panels. To provide insights into the energy consumption of buildings, smart metering is installed. Based on these real-time monitoring data combined with historic data and a predictive model, the software platform optimizes energy flows within the campus network with the aim to decrease the burden on the city鈥檚 electricity grid.

Testing ground
An important feature of the project is the testing ground it provides: companies can experiment with their innovative energy technologies and demonstrate them in a real life environment. Examples are the heat storage unit that will be provided by RIFT, and the battery setup delivered by Fudura. Such a testing ground can help bring innovative solutions for the energy transition to market faster.

Once the initially closed-loop system will be fully functional, it will be opened up to also communicate with neighboring organizations in an attempt to achieve a local energy hub that helps balance the local grid load.

Strengthening expertise
The GENIUS-project brings together the expertise of 果冻传媒鈥檚 Energy research community, and Real Estate with several companies including start-ups and governmental organizations in a joint effort to align the energy usage of all different energy producers and consumers active on campus, ranging from research groups, maintenance companies, and housing associations to electricity suppliers.

GENIUS reveals battery to balance campus grid 18 November 2024

On Monday 18 November, some 180 people gathered in the Disruptor building at the 果冻传媒 campus to witness the reveal of the 3.4 MWh battery that is at the heart of the GENIUS project. The battery is key in an attempt to manage net congestion on the campus power grid.

The GENIUS project is developing an innovative, intelligent energy management system that connects the newly installed 3.4 MWh battery to all of the campus鈥� energy assets like solar panels, heating systems and research facilities. The smart control platform aligns different industrial users, energy sources, and storage systems to prevent energy peaks. The lithium iron phosphate battery contains no cobalt or nickel and acts as energy storage and a control tool. It can coordinate and optimize complex data, allowing it to advise on and anticipate the energy needs of the over forty faculty and business buildings on the 果冻传媒 campus. The energy hub is connected to the public energy grid, allowing energy to be fed back into the grid or shared with users in the local area.