Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Supporting the development and deployment of advanced metering infrastructures in Europe (METER-ON)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Smart energy networks
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Italy,Spain,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-1STAGE, 2012)
Start date: 2012-07-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1884418.0
EU funding (EUR): 1622482.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Meter-ON is a coordination and support action to steer the implementation of smart metering solutions throughout Europe by effectively collecting the most successful experiences in the field and highlighting the conditions that enabled their development. On the basis of the lessons learned the goal of Meter-ON will be to provide to any stakeholder an open information platform with clear recommendations on how to tackle the technical barriers and the regulatory obstacles endangering the uptake of smart metering technologies and solutions in Europe. Meter-ON approach is based on the experience gained through completed, on-going or planned smart-metering projects. Meter-ON results will be delivered in a three-step approach consisting of: i) collection of smart metering projects, ii) per-project analysis according to the identified set of information domains, iii) recommendations on the way forward based on the lessons learned from the most successful smart metering experiences. Meter-ON Consortium is lead by the European Distribution System Operators for Smart- Grids, including 27 leading DSOs and association throughout the European Union and representing more than 70% of its electricity metering points. The Consortium comprises university-linked foundations (EnergyLab), applied research institutes (CEIT), technological institutions (RSE) and Communication Experts (ZABALA). The Consortium is differentiated in order to cover all the involved aspects of the above mentioned approach. The Meter-ON’s results will be disseminated among the smart-metering community, involving stakeholders of the whole smart-metering value chain (including distribution system operators, meter operators, meter manufacturer, technology suppliers, system integrators, policymakers and technical bodies) and will collect their feedbacks to tune the Meter-ON execution accordingly. These activities will allow to improve the overall project output and the quality of its results.

Keywords: smart metering,deployment,networking,smart grids
Bright Squeezed Vacuum and its Applications (BRISQ2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Russian Federation,Czechia,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-C, 2011)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2387060.0
EU funding (EUR): 1849760.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Quantum information technology (QIT) offers faster processing and more secure transfer of information based on the laws of quantum mechanics. It is a vital technology of the future as conventional methods reach their limits. Current QIT operates with microscopic objects: single atoms, ions, molecules, and especially photons. Few-photon states of light are used in commercial quantum key distribution (QKD) systems. However, as single photons do not have efficient non-destructive interactions with each other or with material objects, their usefulness is limited. It is tempting to extend QIT protocols to macroscopic states of light, enabling more efficient interactions, but it is widely believed that going to macroscopic scale degrades quantum features. In particular, squeezed coherent states of light contain classical excitation as their largest part and are therefore inapplicable in most QIT protocols. We challenge the accepted viewpoint that only few-photon states provide the optimal features required in QIT. Unlike squeezed coherent states, bright squeezed vacuum (BSV) has perfect photon-number correlations. It thus resembles two-photon entangled states but has macroscopic photon numbers. The 5 complementary teams of our consortium plan to perform proof-of-principle experiments and calculations showing that BSV can (1) manifest experimentally accessible non-separability; (2) violate Bell inequalities, including new ones, specific for such states, and thus manifest new non-classical correlations; (3) be prepared in a single Schmidt mode; (4) be used in QKD and (5) have new applications in quantum imaging. Achieving these results will foster QIT development in a new direction. Since BSV is macroscopic, it can be controlled by tapping a small portion and using almost non-invasive feedforward techniques. In QKD protocols based on entanglement this could result in practical device-independent schemes, as the macroscopic nature would remove the detection loophole problem.

Keywords: quantum information,entangled states of light,parametric down-conversion,squeezed vacuum,photon-number correlations,quantum key distribution,bell inequality violation
The impact of the quality of CO2 on transport and storage behaviour (IMPACTS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: CO2 capture and storage technologies for zero emission power generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Germany,Spain,Netherlands,Germany,China,United Kingdom,Italy,Germany,Romania
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-2STAGE, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5573556.0
EU funding (EUR): 4000764.5
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

IMPACTS - The impact of the quality of CO2 on transport and storage behaviour will underpin the realisation of the EU CCS European Industrial Initiative implementation plan by developing knowledge and technology needed for Carbon Dioxide Capture, Transport and Storage (CCS) pilots and large-scale demonstrations. IMPACTS is linked to demonstration projects, and will therefore benefit from realistic data, adequate framework conditions and relevant cases provided by the projects. The objective of IMPACTS is to develop the CO2 quality knowledge base required for defining recommendations to ensure safe and reliable design, construction and operation of CO2 pipelines and injection equipment, and safe long-term geological storage of CO2. This will support the objectives of the Innovation Union and the competitiveness of the European CCS industry. The work will combine experimental and modelling work and, among others, the following scientific and technological objectives will be pursued: - To quantify fundamental properties of relevant CO2 mixtures. This includes phase behaviour, thermodynamics, fluid flow and chemical reactions. - To reveal the impacts of relevant impurities in the CO2 stream on the design and operation of the transport and storage infrastructure through techno-economic assessments. - To derive CO2 quality issues while considering integrity of the whole CCS chain. - To provide recommendations for optimized CO2 quality on a case-by-case basis in the form of tolerance levels, mixing protocols and material selection. - To build knowledge critical for implementation of optimized safe and cost-efficient transport and storage of CO2.

Keywords: co2 capture and storage,co2-mixtures,behaviour,thermodynamic properties,experimental data,property models,fluid-dynamical models,techno-economical models,safety,regulatory framework
Information, Fluctuations, and Energy Control in Small Systems (INFERNOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Sweden,Spain,Norway,Netherlands,France,United States
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-C, 2011)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3001209.0
EU funding (EUR): 2294426.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Strong statistical fluctuations in meso- and nano-scale structures make their thermodynamic properties extremely dependent on the information available about them. The most basic process illustrating the importance of information to statistical systems is the information-to-energy conversion in the famous Maxwell’s Demon (MD). Our primary goal is to study both experimentally and theoretically the statistics of fluctuations and the role of information in thermodynamics of the nano-scale systems. The first milestone will be the experimental realization of the nanoscale MD. We will create an experimental set-up and develop the corresponding theory of the monitored statistical evolution with feedback that optimizes the information-to-energy conversion. Our vision is to develop the nanoelectronic and bio-molecular devices that will allow us to systematically explore the limits of information-powered systems, in particular to test the Szilárd’s limit relating one bit of information to extracted energy. We will also study statistics of energy fluctuations as revealed via equilibrium and non-equilibrium fluctuations of temperature. Part of these fluctuations has a quantum mechanical origin, but identification of this contribution in practice poses a challenging problem. Another novel extension of the MD work will be the study of thermodynamic constraints on quantum detectors. The principal novelty of our project is that it brings a rigorous experimental component to the field presently dominated by theory. Though the concept of a MD is tremendously important for development of modern statistical mechanics, MD-type experiments are still at their infancy. Our experimental study of MD will naturally lead to further progress in the relevant theoretical concepts.
INNOVATIVE CONFIGURATION FOR A FULLY RENEWABLE HYBRID CSP PLANT (HYSOL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Denmark,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-2STAGE, 2012)
Start date: 2013-05-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9275982.6
EU funding (EUR): 6165259.9
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Renewable energies have often problems in order to provide a stable and reliable power supply, as they often depend on meteorological circumstances that have a variable or stochastic component. This fact is often used by their detractors to favour the use of other alternatives such as fossil fuels. The main added value of the hybridisation concept will be the achievement of the Europe Strategic Energy Technology plan (SET-Plan), which is the market, the industry and the European Union goal on energy matters: self producing firm renewable energy with an optimal cost-efficiency ratio. A new hybrid CSP system, fully renewable will be developed at the pre-industrial scale by including a new configuration in a conventional CSP plant with storage system. This solution includes an aeroderivative gas turbine (AGT) exhaust gases simulator with a heat recovery system (HRS) that will recover the heat from the exhaust gases in the storage system. The evaluation of biomass derived gas fuels (bio-gas and syngas) production and consumption in the hybrid CSP plant will be studied, simulated and evaluated at a commercial scale. Moreover, both economic costs and technology of the new elements developed and adapted to the needs of this hybrid technology will be assessed from an operating profitability perspective and totally orientated to market feasibility. The project will involve six main research lines according to the major investigation areas: development of a new Heat Recovery System (designing specially carefully the materials and the thermal areas of each HRS component); development of an Integrated Operation and Control Systems and Tools (evaluating critical operations); improvements on production, upgrading, distribution and utilization of BDGF adapted to the needs of the hybrid technology; development of an AGT Exhaust gases simulator adapted to the needs of the hybrid technology; integration of the previous developments in the proposed HYSOL power plant and environmental and economic assessment.

Keywords: csp combined cycle steam gas biogas biomass
Active Demand Value ANd Consumers Experiences Discovery (ADVANCED)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Smart energy networks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,France,Italy,Spain,Netherlands,Germany,Finland,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-2STAGE, 2012)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4143963.0
EU funding (EUR): 2720906.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Active Demand (AD) has the potential to contribute to solving the challenges of electricity systems and offers significant benefits to consumers. There are only few real AD programmes being implemented in Europe and the results of AD pilots are rather fragmented. AD is considered one of the largest untapped energy resources. The main reason behind it is insufficient consumer awareness regarding their own energy consumption and the benefits of altering it in line with the network constraints. This is aligned with the lack of insights into the AD related behavioral barriers and unavailability of best practices for AD design. ADVANCED will develop actionable frameworks enabling residential, commercial/industrial consumers to participate in AD, thus contributing to AD mass deployment in Europe. Also, the benefits of AD for key stakeholders and the inherent impacts on the electricity systems considering its potential contribution to system stability and efficiency will be quantified according to different scenarios. This will be achieved by comparing different AD solutions based on data from 4 AD pilots with ca. 9,500 residential and some commercial/industrial consumers matched with a database consisting of 100 AD pilots, the experience of a DR aggregator and data on further AD initiatives. The data will be extended within professional surveys incl. a quantitative one in 8 EU MS. On this basis and developing a conceptual model of active consumer participation and appropriate KPIs, key success factors of AD and recommendations for its future design will be derived taking privacy and security into account. The consortium of key European DSOs, scientific institutions, an energy consultancy, a market research company and a DR aggregator led by Enel is an ideal starting point for the 24-months project both in terms of the expertise and the data access. It will be supported by a Stakeholder Advisory Board composed of the main AD target groups incl. consumer representations.

Keywords: active demand,consumers,residential,commercial,industrial,energy efficiency,best practice solutions,socio-economic barriers,demand response,demand participation,eegi,data protection,kpi
Zero Emissions Platform supPORT secretariat (ZEPPORT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Cross-cutting actions between activities Energy-5 and Energy-6
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-1STAGE, 2012)
Start date: 2012-08-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1143828.0
EU funding (EUR): 500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

ZEPPORT (Zero Emission Platform supPORT secretariat) is the secretariat for the European Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants (ETP-ZEP). It is the continuation of the previous secretariat that operated between 2006 and 2009 under the name “ZEST" and between 2009 and 2011 under the name "ZEPPOS". The objective of ZEPPORT is to provide the level of support to ETP-ZEP that it needs for achieving its own goal: to enable commercial availability of technologies for CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage). Primarily ZEPPORT provides process support. This includes administrative activities but also organizational activities (initiate and structure ZEP-activities, networking activities and input for the discussions) and, if needed, fund raising and financial management. The process support is provided to the various bodies that make up the ZEP platform (the Advisory Council, Executive Committee, Coordination Group, Taskforces, Government Group and Temporary Working Groups). The increasingly important role of Member States, as a consequence of CCS (and ZEP-activities) moving into the demonstration and implementation phase, gets specific attention in our approach. ZEPPORT also provides communication activities for the intra-platform coordination of activities and the dissemination of information. Further, ZEPPORT manages and supports the recently established ZEP-C whose responsibility is the external communications. ZEPPORT is staffed by 3 people, all of which have worked for the ZEP secretariat during its first years of existence. ZEPPORT and its staff members are independent from participating organizations and constituent groups (industry, NGO’s, research) and is therefore without vested CCS-related interests. The home base of ZEPPOS is The Hague, Netherlands. Additionally it has facilities in Brussels. ZEPPORT uses advanced tools for its activities such as internet supported teleconferencing.

Keywords: ccs carbon capture and storage zero emission european technology platform secretariat
Optimised Microturbine Solar Power system (OMSOP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,Sweden,Spain,Italy,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-2STAGE, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5842929.02
EU funding (EUR): 4422818.8
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of this project is to provide and demonstrate technical solutions for the use of state-of-the-art concentrated solar power system (CSP) coupled to micro-gas turbines (MGT) to produce electricity. The intended system will be modular and capable of producing electricity in the range of 3-10 kW. The aim is to make such a system available to provide energy needs for domestic and small commercial applications. For larger energy needs, the units can be stacked by virtue of their modular nature. It can be integrated with medium and long term energy storage and/or co-firing with conventional fuels. The primary technical challenge is to enable the production of small scale cost effective, efficient, reliable and easy to maintain units. To achieve these objectives, research and development will be conducted in all aspects of the system leading to a full scale demonstration. The parabolic dish concentrator technology will be improved to reduce weight, improve tracking system and increase concentration ratio. A receiver suitable for this application will be optimised. This requires the development of absorption materials and improving heat transfer and cooling technology. A novel feature of this project is the replacement of the Stirling engine which is typically used in this size of application, to convert thermal energy to mechanical power, with an MGT. Stirling engines suffer from problems such as high cost, complexity and poor reliability. A recently developed MGT will be optimised in conjunction with the CSP system. The demonstration activity will focus testing on the primary components. Although thermal storage and hybridisation with other fuels are beyond the scope of this project in terms of demonstration, they will be considered in the overall system optimisation from both technical and economic points of view.

Keywords: concentrated solar power,micro-gas turbine,optimised small scale solar power dish system,distributed power supply system
Epistemic Utility Theory: Foundations and Applications (EUT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111124, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 972672.0
EU funding (EUR): 972672.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to develop a new and extremely promising approach that has recently been introduced in epistemology, where it is used to provide rigorous justifications of epistemic norms based on mathematical theorems. I will call it epistemic utility theory. The central claim of this approach is that epistemic norms can be justified using the apparatus and techniques of decision theory, which is normally used to justify norms of action. On this approach, we treat the possible epistemic states of an agent as if they were epistemic actions between which that agent must choose; and we use so-called epistemic utility functions to measure the epistemic virtues that a particular epistemic state enjoys relative to a possible state of the world. We then appeal to the general norms of decision theory, together with facts about the epistemic utility functions, in order to deduce epistemic norms. We thereby provide, often for the first time, rigorous justifications of epistemic norms that appeal to purely epistemic considerations, not pragmatic ones. The approach has enjoyed some significant successes so far, providing justifications for the following putative epistemic norms: Probabilism and its variants; Conditionalization; the Principal Principleand norms governing epistemic disagreement. Nonetheless, there remains a great deal of work still to do: the existing arguments often make strong assumptions, so it is hoped that we can improve them significantly by deriving the same results from weaker premises; the foundations for the whole project have yet to be considered in depth, and there are important philosophical issues that must be addressed before its results have philosophical weight; furthermore, there is a vast array of epistemic norms for which no justification has yet been attempted in epistemic utility theory. This project will strengthen epistemic utility theory considerably by carrying out work in each of these directions.

Keywords: formal epistemology,degrees of belief,epistemic utility,epistemic value,epistemic norms,bayesian epistemology,probabilism,conditionalization,scoring rules.