Education

• Remote Testing & EIRIE Platform: On 8 March 2021, ERIGrid 2.0 together with DERlab WG4 and the PANTERA project, held a webinar on Remote Testing & EIRIE Platform. The webinar focused on Remote and Virtual Lab Access services in ERIGrid 2.0 and a presentation of the PANTERA approach. For more information, accessing the presentations and the recorded video of the webinar, please follow the link: Remote Testing & EIRIE Platform.
• Recent Research Trends in Engineering and Validating Cyber-Physical Energy Systems: On 29 June 2021, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society together with ERIGrid 2.0, held a webinar with focus on higher complexity in cyber-physical energy systems, engineering problems and needs, status quo in research and development, and validating controllers for cyber-physical energy systems. For more information, accessing the presentations and the recorded video of the webinar, please follow the link: Recent Research Trends in Engineering and Validating Cyber-Physical Energy Systems.
• Mosaik 3.0 – Open Source Smart Grid Co-simulation Framework: On 29 September 2021, ERIGrid 2.0 held a webinar with focus on types of co-simulation, Mosaik architecture, and scenario API and use cases. For more information, accessing the presentations and the recorded video of the webinar, please follow the link: Mosaik 3.0 – Open- Source Smart Grid Co-Simulation Framework.
• Addressing the Needs of Increasing Complex Power Systems: Advanced Laboratory Testing Methods: On 24 May 2022, ERIGrid 2.0 held a webinar on addressing the growing complexity of power and energy systems through the interconnection of geographically distributed research laboratories. The webinar focused on the following topics:
  •  Summary of modern power grid transformation and challenges
  • Introduction of geographically distributed simulations (GDS)
  • Taxonomy and examples of GDS
  • Demonstration of current developments

For more information and accessing the recorded video of the webinar, please follow the link: Interconnection of Geographically Distributed Research Laboratories

• First Webinar of RICH Europe on Transnational and Virtual access opportunities (TA/VA): On 23 November 2022, the first webinar of RICH Europe on Transnational and Virtual access opportunities (TA/VA) was held. The webinar focused on the following topics:
  • Higher complexity of future energy systems
  • Necessity of system-level design and validation approaches based on simulation and laboratory testing as well as the combination of it in a hardware-in-the-loop manner
  • Details about the access program and how to apply

For more information and accessing the presentations of the webinar, please follow the link: First Webinar of RICH Europe on Transnational and Virtual access opportunities (TA/VA)

• Design of smart grid test lab infrastructure: On 28 February 2023, ERIGrid 2.0 held a webinar on design of smart grid test lab infrastructure. The webinar focused on the following topics:
  • Why smart grid lab infrastructures need to be extended or upgraded
  • General criteria, which need to be considered during the design of a smart grid lab infrastructure
  • Differentiate between the two main application areas for smart grid lab infrastructures “Component Testing for Certification” and “System Testing and Demonstration”
  • Major lab infrastructure components for testing electrical power EUTs
  • Major Lab components necessary for HIL testing

For more information and accessing the presentations, please follow the link: Design of smart grid test lab infrastructure 

• Advanced real-time supervision and centralized control of distributed energy resources in smart grids: This training activity scopes to present the latest digitally-enhanced methods and technologies used to enable the necessary observability and centralized control of underlying DER assets in smart grids. The training specifically focuses on the application of edge computing programmable automation controllers (PACs) and high-speed cloud-based systems for enhanced real-time energy management interoperability in smart grids. To this end, the use of open communication interfaces and universal connectors to standard protocols (i.e., Modbus TCP) for interoperability is extensively described. To access the presentation please follow the link: Presentation
• Validating Smart Energy Systems: A driving force for the realization of a sustainable energy supply is the integration of renewable energy resources. Proper operational concepts and intelligent automation provide the basis to turn the existing power system into an intelligent entity, a smart grid. While reaping the benefits that come along with those intelligent behaviours, it is expected that system-level developments and testing will play a significantly larger role in realizing future solutions and technologies. Proper validation approaches, concepts, and tools are partly missing until now. This tutorial aims to tackle the above-mentioned requirements by introducing validation methods and tools for validating smart energy systems which are currently being developed in the European project ERIGrid 2.0. To access the presentation please follow the link: Presentation 
• Emerging skill needs and training tools for professionals and researchers in the field of smart energy systems: This tutorial initially introduces the need for upskilling professionals and researchers, driven by the ongoing energy transition. The emerging skill needs of the industry and resulting skill gaps will especially be highlighted based on the Blueprint Strategy for the Digitalisation of the Energy value chain, developed as part of the Erasmus+ EDDIE project, as well as the results of the IEEE PES Task Force on Innovative teaching methods for modern power and energy systems. To address those skills gaps, tools and procedures developed throughout the Horizon 2020 ERIGrid 2.0 project will be particularly highlighted, providing open-access advanced educational tools for both professionals and researchers. To access the presentation please follow the link: Presentation 

• Power Flow Jupyter Notebooks: Two Jupyter interactive notebooks were developed in the frame of ERIGrid 2.0 for power flow calculation in transmission networks, using MATLAB and Python programming languages. In these notebooks, each step of the power flow solution is analytically described, providing insight into the theory along with its programming language implementation. At the end of each step, the results are presented.
• Load Flow Tool in Python: An open-source load flow tool in Python was developed in the frame of ERIGrid 2.0 for load flow analysis of power systems. The package includes data for an example as well as the implementation of the same example in Matlab/Simulink for comparison. To access the files and for more information please follow the link: Load Flow Tool in Python.
• Flexxy: A tool that allows techno-economic analysis of microgrids and island power systems was developed in the frame of ERIGrid 2.0. Flexxy is a program for the hourly simulation of a small electrical system, like an electrical system of a small island or a small autonomous community. To access the files and for more information please follow the link: Energy Analysis Tool.
• Smart grid applications leveraging machine learning principles in R Studio: This tool was developed in the frame of ERIGrid 2.0 to demonstrate the use of data-driven machine learning principles for the implementation of solar-specific smart grid applications (digital twin predictive performance models and solar generation forecasting). To access the files and for more information please follow the link (login is required): Smart Grid ML Tool in R Studio.

If you ever used any of the ERIGrid 2.0’s Education Tools, don’t hesitate to let us know your thoughts. Take a few minutes of your time to complete the survey linked. Through this survey we aim to explore how our educational tools have been utilized by gathering valuable insights from users and implement improvements accordingly.

• Microgrid Power Balancing: In the frame of ERIGrid 2.0, the Microgrid Power Balancing was developed which is a Remote Lab application that allows the user to connect remotely to actual laboratory infrastructure (CRES’ experimental microgrid) and conduct online experiments.
   
  If you are interested in accessing the “Microgrid Power Balancing” remote lab, please contact Evangelos Rikos [at][.].

• Virtual access to UCY (University of Cyprus) microgrid real-time measurements: This Virtual Lab provides an overview of the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system of the University of Cyprus (UCY) microgrid. The specific Virtual Lab demonstrates to users the smart grid concepts of real-time observability and supervision at microgrid frequencies using a network of smart meters, PACs and cloud-based supervisory dashboards. To access the virtual lab please follow the link Virtual Lab of UCY’s Microgrid and see additional supportive documents for accessing the dashboard here.
• Virtual access to solar-plus-storage system environmental and performance measurements: This Virtual Lab provides an overview of the solar-plus-storage system supervisory dashboard at the UCY nanogrid. The specific Virtual Lab demonstrates to users the smart grid concepts of real-time DER observability and supervision using smart inverters and interoperability (Modbus TCP Vendor-specific and SunSpec protocols). To access the virtual lab please follow the link Virtual Lab of Solar & Storage Measurements and see additional supportive documents for accessing the dashboard here.
• Virtual access to environmental measurements and PV models: The specific tool provides access to a set of environmental and operational data from the PV systems located on the CRES premises in Pikermi, Greece. This tool familiarizes the user with the operating characteristics of PV systems in relation to the environmental conditions. Apart from the online access to data, the user can benefit from downloading time series data in *.csv format for post processing or use in other applications. The use of this tool is very relevant to the ERIGrid 2.0 activities, especially the activities under the VA work package as well as the JRA activities that address the Data-as-a-Service topic.  

• General project introduction: A video was prepared in the frame of ERIGrid 2.0 that presents an overview of the ERIGrid 2.0 validation, testing and education services. To watch the video please follow the link: ERIGrid 2.0 – Connecting European Smart Grid Research Infrastructures.

• Remote Testing & EIRIE Platform: On 8 March 2021, ERIGrid 2.0 together with DERlab WG4 and the PANTERA project, held a webinar on Remote Testing & EIRIE Platform. The webinar focused on Remote and Virtual Lab Access services in ERIGrid 2.0 and a presentation of the PANTERA approach. For more information, accessing the presentations and the recorded video of the webinar, please follow the link: Remote Testing & EIRIE Platform.
• Recent Research Trends in Engineering and Validating Cyber-Physical Energy Systems: On 29 June 2021, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society together with ERIGrid 2.0, held a webinar with focus on higher complexity in cyber-physical energy systems, engineering problems and needs, status quo in research and development, and validating controllers for cyber-physical energy systems. For more information, accessing the presentations and the recorded video of the webinar, please follow the link: Recent Research Trends in Engineering and Validating Cyber-Physical Energy Systems.
• Mosaik 3.0 – Open Source Smart Grid Co-simulation Framework: On 29 September 2021, ERIGrid 2.0 held a webinar with focus on types of co-simulation, Mosaik architecture, and scenario API and use cases. For more information, accessing the presentations and the recorded video of the webinar, please follow the link: Mosaik 3.0 – Open- Source Smart Grid Co-Simulation Framework.

• Validating Smart Energy Systems: A driving force for the realization of a sustainable energy supply is the integration of renewable energy resources. Proper operational concepts and intelligent automation provide the basis to turn the existing power system into an intelligent entity, a smart grid. While reaping the benefits that come along with those intelligent behaviours, it is expected that system-level developments and testing will play a significantly larger role in realizing future solutions and technologies. Proper validation approaches, concepts, and tools are partly missing until now. This tutorial aims to tackle the above-mentioned requirements by introducing validation methods and tools for validating smart energy systems which are currently being developed in the European project ERIGrid 2.0. To access the presentation please follow the link: Presentation 
• Emerging skill needs and training tools for professionals and researchers in the field of smart energy systems: This tutorial initially introduces the need for upskilling professionals and researchers, driven by the ongoing energy transition. The emerging skill needs of the industry and resulting skill gaps will especially be highlighted based on the Blueprint Strategy for the Digitalisation of the Energy value chain, developed as part of the Erasmus+ EDDIE project, as well as the results of the IEEE PES Task Force on Innovative teaching methods for modern power and energy systems. To address those skills gaps, tools and procedures developed throughout the Horizon 2020 ERIGrid 2.0 project will be particularly highlighted, providing open-access advanced educational tools for both professionals and researchers. To access the presentation please follow the link: Presentation

• Remote Testing & EIRIE Platform: On 8 March 2021, ERIGrid 2.0 together with DERlab WG4 and the PANTERA project, held a webinar on Remote Testing & EIRIE Platform. The webinar focused on Remote and Virtual Lab Access services in ERIGrid 2.0 and a presentation of the PANTERA approach. For more information, accessing the presentations and the recorded video of the webinar, please follow the link: Remote Testing & EIRIE Platform.
• Recent Research Trends in Engineering and Validating Cyber-Physical Energy Systems: On 29 June 2021, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society together with ERIGrid 2.0, held a webinar with focus on higher complexity in cyber-physical energy systems, engineering problems and needs, status quo in research and development, and validating controllers for cyber-physical energy systems. For more information, accessing the presentations and the recorded video of the webinar, please follow the link: Recent Research Trends in Engineering and Validating Cyber-Physical Energy Systems.
• Addressing the Needs of Increasing Complex Power Systems: Advanced Laboratory Testing Methods: On 24 May 2022, ERIGrid 2.0 held a webinar on addressing the growing complexity of power and energy systems through the interconnection of geographically distributed research laboratories. The webinar focused on the following topics:
  • Summary of modern power grid transformation and challenges
  • Introduction of geographically distributed simulations (GDS)
  • Taxonomy and examples of GDS
  • Demonstration of current developments

For more information and accessing the recorded video of the webinar, please follow the link: Interconnection of Geographically Distributed Research Laboratories 

• Design of smart grid test lab infrastructure: On 28 February 2023, ERIGrid 2.0 held a webinar on design of smart grid test lab infrastructure. The webinar focused on the following topics:
  • Why smart grid lab infrastructures need to be extended or upgraded
  • General criteria, which need to be considered during the design of a smart grid lab infrastructure
  • Differentiate between the two main application areas for smart grid lab infrastructures “Component Testing for Certification” and “System Testing and Demonstration”
  • Major lab infrastructure components for testing electrical power EUTs
  • Major Lab components necessary for HIL testing

For more information and accessing the presentations, please follow the link: Design of smart grid test lab infrastructure

• Validating Smart Energy Systems: A driving force for the realization of a sustainable energy supply is the integration of renewable energy resources. Proper operational concepts and intelligent automation provide the basis to turn the existing power system into an intelligent entity, a smart grid. While reaping the benefits that come along with those intelligent behaviours, it is expected that system-level developments and testing will play a significantly larger role in realizing future solutions and technologies. Proper validation approaches, concepts, and tools are partly missing until now. This tutorial aims to tackle the above-mentioned requirements by introducing validation methods and tools for validating smart energy systems which are currently being developed in the European project ERIGrid 2.0. To access the presentation please follow the link: Presentation
• Emerging skill needs and training tools for professionals and researchers in the field of smart energy systems: This tutorial initially introduces the need for upskilling professionals and researchers, driven by the ongoing energy transition. The emerging skill needs of the industry and resulting skill gaps will especially be highlighted based on the Blueprint Strategy for the Digitalisation of the Energy value chain, developed as part of the Erasmus+ EDDIE project, as well as the results of the IEEE PES Task Force on Innovative teaching methods for modern power and energy systems. To address those skills gaps, tools and procedures developed throughout the Horizon 2020 ERIGrid 2.0 project will be particularly highlighted, providing open-access advanced educational tools for both professionals and researchers. To access the presentation please follow the link: Presentation

• Remote Testing & EIRIE Platform: On 8 March 2021, ERIGrid 2.0 together with DERlab WG4 and the PANTERA project, held a webinar on Remote Testing & EIRIE Platform. The webinar focused on Remote and Virtual Lab Access services in ERIGrid 2.0 and a presentation of the PANTERA approach. For more information, accessing the presentations and the recorded video of the webinar, please follow the link: Remote Testing & EIRIE Platform.
• Recent Research Trends in Engineering and Validating Cyber-Physical Energy Systems: On 29 June 2021, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society together with ERIGrid 2.0, held a webinar with focus on higher complexity in cyber-physical energy systems, engineering problems and needs, status quo in research and development, and validating controllers for cyber-physical energy systems. For more information, accessing the presentations and the recorded video of the webinar, please follow the link: Recent Research Trends in Engineering and Validating Cyber-Physical Energy Systems.

• Advanced real-time supervision and centralized control of distributed energy resources in smart grids: This training activity scopes to present the latest digitally-enhanced methods and technologies used to enable the necessary observability and centralized control of underlying DER assets in smart grids. The training specifically focuses on the application of edge computing programmable automation controllers (PACs) and high-speed cloud-based systems for enhanced real-time energy management interoperability in smart grids. To this end, the use of open communication interfaces and universal connectors to standard protocols (i.e., Modbus TCP) for interoperability is extensively described. To access the presentation please follow the link: Presentation
• Validating Smart Energy Systems: A driving force for the realization of a sustainable energy supply is the integration of renewable energy resources. Proper operational concepts and intelligent automation provide the basis to turn the existing power system into an intelligent entity, a smart grid. While reaping the benefits that come along with those intelligent behaviours, it is expected that system-level developments and testing will play a significantly larger role in realizing future solutions and technologies. Proper validation approaches, concepts, and tools are partly missing until now. This tutorial aims to tackle the above-mentioned requirements by introducing validation methods and tools for validating smart energy systems which are currently being developed in the European project ERIGrid 2.0. To access the presentation please follow the link: Presentation
• Emerging skill needs and training tools for professionals and researchers in the field of smart energy systems: This tutorial initially introduces the need for upskilling professionals and researchers, driven by the ongoing energy transition. The emerging skill needs of the industry and resulting skill gaps will especially be highlighted based on the Blueprint Strategy for the Digitalisation of the Energy value chain, developed as part of the Erasmus+ EDDIE project, as well as the results of the IEEE PES Task Force on Innovative teaching methods for modern power and energy systems. To address those skills gaps, tools and procedures developed throughout the Horizon 2020 ERIGrid 2.0 project will be particularly highlighted, providing open-access advanced educational tools for both professionals and researchers. To access the presentation please follow the link: Presentation 

• Power Flow Jupyter Notebooks: Two Jupyter interactive notebooks were developed in the frame of ERIGrid 2.0 for power flow calculation in transmission networks, using MATLAB and Python programming languages. In these notebooks, each step of the power flow solution is analytically described, providing insight into the theory along with its programming language implementation. At the end of each step, the results are presented.
• Load Flow Tool in Python: An open-source load flow tool in Python was developed in the frame of ERIGrid 2.0 for load flow analysis of power systems. The package includes data for an example as well as the implementation of the same example in Matlab/Simulink for comparison. To access the files and for more information please follow the link: Load Flow Tool in Python.
• Flexxy: A tool that allows techno-economic analysis of microgrids and island power systems was developed in the frame of ERIGrid 2.0. Flexxy is a program for the hourly simulation of a small electrical system, like an electrical system of a small island or a small autonomous community. To access the files and for more information please follow the link: Energy Analysis Tool.
• Smart grid applications leveraging machine learning principles in R Studio: This tool was developed in the frame of ERIGrid 2.0 to demonstrate the use of data-driven machine learning principles for the implementation of solar-specific smart grid applications (digital twin predictive performance models and solar generation forecasting). To access the files and for more information please follow the link (login is required): Smart Grid ML Tool in R Studio.

• Virtual access to UCY (University of Cyprus) microgrid real-time measurements:This Virtual Lab provides an overview of the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system of the University of Cyprus (UCY) microgrid. The specific Virtual Lab demonstrates to users the smart grid concepts of real-time observability and supervision at microgrid frequencies using a network of smart meters, PACs and cloud-based supervisory dashboards. To access the virtual lab please follow the link Virtual Lab of UCY’s Microgrid and see additional supportive documents for accessing the dashboard here.
• Virtual access to solar-plus-storage system environmental and performance measurements:This Virtual Lab provides an overview of the solar-plus-storage system supervisory dashboard at the UCY nanogrid. The specific Virtual Lab demonstrates to users the smart grid concepts of real-time DER observability and supervision using smart inverters and interoperability (Modbus TCP Vendor-specific and SunSpec protocols). To access the virtual lab please follow the link Virtual Lab of Solar & Storage Measurements and see additional supportive documents for accessing the dashboard here.
• Virtual access to environmental measurements and PV models:The specific tool provides access to a set of environmental and operational data from the PV systems located on the CRES premises in Pikermi, Greece. This tool familiarizes the user with the operating characteristics of PV systems in relation to the environmental conditions. Apart from the online access to data, the user can benefit from downloading time series data in *.csv format for post processing or use in other applications. The use of this tool is very relevant to the ERIGrid 2.0 activities, especially the activities under the VA work package as well as the JRA activities that address the Data-as-a-Service topic.

• Design of smart grid test lab infrastructure: On 28 February 2023, ERIGrid 2.0 held a webinar on design of smart grid test lab infrastructure. The webinar focused on the following topics:
  • Why smart grid lab infrastructures need to be extended or upgraded
  • General criteria, which need to be considered during the design of a smart grid lab infrastructure
  • Differentiate between the two main application areas for smart grid lab infrastructures “Component Testing for Certification” and “System Testing and Demonstration”
  • Major lab infrastructure components for testing electrical power EUTs
  • Major Lab components necessary for HIL testing 

For more information and accessing the presentations, please follow the link: Design of smart grid test lab infrastructure

• Advanced real-time supervision and centralized control of distributed energy resources in smart grids: This training activity scopes to present the latest digitally-enhanced methods and technologies used to enable the necessary observability and centralized control of underlying DER assets in smart grids. The training specifically focuses on the application of edge computing programmable automation controllers (PACs) and high-speed cloud-based systems for enhanced real-time energy management interoperability in smart grids. To this end, the use of open communication interfaces and universal connectors to standard protocols (i.e., Modbus TCP) for interoperability is extensively described.
• Validating Smart Energy Systems: A driving force for the realization of a sustainable energy supply is the integration of renewable energy resources. Proper operational concepts and intelligent automation provide the basis to turn the existing power system into an intelligent entity, a smart grid. While reaping the benefits that come along with those intelligent behaviours, it is expected that system-level developments and testing will play a significantly larger role in realizing future solutions and technologies. Proper validation approaches, concepts, and tools are partly missing until now. This tutorial aims to tackle the above-mentioned requirements by introducing validation methods and tools for validating smart energy systems which are currently being developed in the European project ERIGrid 2.0.

• Flexxy: A tool that allows techno-economic analysis of microgrids and island power systems was developed in the frame of ERIGrid 2.0. Flexxy is a program for the hourly simulation of a small electrical system, like an electrical system of a small island or a small autonomous community. To access the files and for more information please follow the link: Energy Analysis Tool.

• Virtual access to UCY (University of Cyprus) microgrid real-time measurements: This Virtual Lab provides an overview of the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system of the University of Cyprus (UCY) microgrid. The specific Virtual Lab demonstrates to users the smart grid concepts of real-time observability and supervision at microgrid frequencies using a network of smart meters, PACs and cloud-based supervisory dashboards.  To access the virtual lab please follow the link Virtual Lab of UCY’s Microgrid and see additional supportive documents for accessing the dashboard here.
• Virtual access to solar-plus-storage system environmental and performance measurements: This Virtual Lab provides an overview of the solar-plus-storage system supervisory dashboard at the UCY nanogrid. The specific Virtual Lab demonstrates to users the smart grid concepts of real-time DER observability and supervision using smart inverters and interoperability (Modbus TCP Vendor-specific and SunSpec protocols). To access the virtual lab please follow the link Virtual Lab of Solar & Storage Measurements and see additional supportive documents for accessing the dashboard here.
• Virtual access to environmental measurements and PV models:The specific tool provides access to a set of environmental and operational data from the PV systems located on the CRES premises in Pikermi, Greece. This tool familiarizes the user with the operating characteristics of PV systems in relation to the environmental conditions. Apart from the online access to data, the user can benefit from downloading time series data in *.csv format for post processing or use in other applications. The use of this tool is very relevant to the ERIGrid 2.0 activities, especially the activities under the VA work package as well as the JRA activities that address the Data-as-a-Service topic.