Increase the Synergy among different Energy Networks

The SENERGY NETS project will highlight the benefits arising from integrating electricity, gas, heating and cooling systems.

Project Brief

SENERGY NETS aims at demonstrating the technical and economic capability of existing multi-energy systems to decarbonise the heating and cooling, electricity and gas sectors.
These multi-energy systems will integrate as much as possible renewable energy sources produced locally and will be structured according to a sector integration approach, focusing also on promising infrastructure and business models.

4 Elements

Four elements are central to the aim, scope and everyday work in this project. We offer here a brief description:

Energy Networks

Energy Networks are the networks for delivering energy from producers to consumers. This project focuses on the networks delivering electricity, natural gas and heating & cooling (district energy systems).

Multi-Energy Systems

The key benefits from MES lie in their capability to provide flexibility to the power system, which is inherent in their virtual storage options coming from thermo-chemical features, e.g., thermal inertia in heat networks, linepack flexibility from gas networks, and so on.

Sector Integration

Sector integration involves planning and operating the energy system across multiple energy carriers and consumption sectors. This interlinks electricity, heat, cold, gas, solid and liquid fuels with buildings, transport, and industry.

SENERGY NETS Solutions

A set of high TRL tools that includes Multi-Energy Systems design and simulation, a long-term planning tool for flexibility and an operational planning tool for DSOs, energy management system for flexibility provision, and flexibility trading optimiser.

Sector Integration

Sector integration involves planning and operating the energy system across multiple energy carriers and consumption sectors. This interlinks electricity, heat, cold, gas, solid and liquid fuels with buildings, transport, and industry.

SENERGY NETS Solutions

A set of high TRL tools including Multi-Energy Systems design and simulation, a long-term planning tool for flexibility and an operational planning tool for DSOs, an energy management system for flexibility provision, and a flexibility trading optimiser.

Energy Networks

Energy Networks are the networks for delivering energy from producers to consumers. This project focuses on the networks delivering electricity, natural gas and heating & cooling (district energy systems).

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Multi Energy Systems

MES is a system that produces heat, electricity, and cooling power, combining both traditional and renewable energy sources. The system's flexibility benefits the power system through virtual storage options such as thermal inertia and linepack flexibility.