Fostering innovation cooperative energy storage systems: The Storage4Grid project

Storage4Grid is a 36-months project funded by the European Commission under call LCE-01-2016, Area 1 (Storage). Storage4Grid aims at boosting the uptake of storage technologies between the distribution grid level and the end-user level, by developing a novel, holistic methodology for modeling, planning, integrating, operating and evaluating distributed Energy Storage Systems (ESS) including storage at user premises and storage at substation level, Electrical Vehicles (EVs), innovative energy metering and energy routing technologies. This paper shortly outlines the challenges tackled by the project, its goals, the chosen methodology and its reference scenarios and test sites.