One Network for Europe

The project “OneNet” (One Network for Europe) is funded through the EU’s eighth Framework Programme Horizon 2020 titled “TSO – DSO Consumer: Large-scale demonstrations of innovative grid services through demand response, storage and small-scale (RES) generation” and responds to the call “Building a low-carbon, climate-resilient future (LC)”.  

The scope of OneNet is to create a fully replicable and scalable architecture that enables the whole European electrical system to operate as a single system in which a variety of markets allows the universal participation of stakeholders regardless of their physical location – at every level from small consumer to large producers. 

The project, led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, brings together a consortium of over 70 partners. Check out the full list here. In addition to a significant list of grid operators, the consortium also includes key IT players, leading research institutions and two European associations for grid operators, all of whom jointly provide unique expertise in support to these challenging tasks.  

Background

While the electrical grid is moving from being a fully centralized to a highly decentralized system, grid operators have to change their operative business to accommodate for faster reactions and adaptive exploitation of flexibility. 

The topic has been the subject of several research projects in the past and has reached a level of maturity that allows for some final considerations, and the proposal of an integrated view on grid operations. 

OneNet aims at performing this critical step by creating the conditions for a new generation of grid services able to fully exploit demand response, storage and distributed generation while creating fair, transparent and open conditions for the consumer.  

As a result, while creating “one network of Europe”, the project aims to build a customer-centric approach to grid operation. This ambitious vision is to be achieved by proposing new markets, products and services and by creating a unique IT architecture.  

The project has also very ambitious goals aiming at creating consensus on its proposed solution far beyond the limits of the consortium partners thanks to a variety of actions including a large-scale forum (namely “GRIFOn” for discussion with the European energy community) for discussion within the international energy community.

Partners

• FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
• E-REDES - DISTRIBUICAO DE ELETRICIDADE SA
• RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN
• UBITECH ENERGY
• GIOUMPITEK MELETI SCHEDIASMOS YLOPOIISI KAI POLISI ERGON PLIROFORIKIS ETAIREIA PERIORISMENIS EFTHYNIS
• VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V.
• ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA
• EUROPEAN DYNAMICS LUXEMBOURG SA
• EUROPEAN DYNAMICS ADVANCED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS SA
• ENERIM OY
• NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
• ELES DOO SISTEMSKI OPERATER PRENOSNEGA ELEKTROENERGETSKEGA OMREZJA
• UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA COMILLAS
• EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE
• EUROPEAN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OPERATORS FOR SMART GRIDS
• EUROPEAN NETWORK OF TRANSMISSION SYSTEM OPERATORS FOR ELECTRICITY AISBL
• AKCIJU SABIEDRIBA AUGSTSPRIEGUMA TIKLS
• ELEKTRILEVI OU
• ELENIA VERKKO OYJ 
• ELENIA PALVELUT OY 
• ELERING AS
• AB ENERGIJOS SKIRSTYMO OPERATORIUS
• FINGRID OYJ
• LITGRID AB
• NORD POOL AS
• OPEN UTILITY LTD
• AKCIJU SABIEDRIBA SADALES TIKLS
• AKCIJU SABIEDRIBA LATVENERGO
• VATTENFALL AB
• VATTENFALL OY
• CYBERNETICA AS
• DIACHEIRISTIS ELLINIKOU DIKTYOU DIANOMIS ELEKTRIKIS ENERGEIAS AE
• INDEPENDENT POWER TRANSMISSION OPERATOR SA
• MYTILINAIOS ANONIMI ETAIREIA
• ENERGOINFO GROUP-SCINET DOO BEOGRAD-RAKOVICA
• UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS
• DIACHEIRISTIS SYSTIMATOS METAFORAS
• ARCHI ILEKTRISMOU KYPROU
• CINTECH SOLUTIONS LTD
• I-DE REDES ELECTRICAS INTELIGENTESSA
• UFD DISTRIBUCION ELECTRICIDAD SA
• RTE RESEAU DE TRANSPORT D'ELECTRICITE
• ENEDIS
• REN - REDE ELECTRICA NACIONAL SA
• INESC TEC - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIADE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES, TECNOLOGIA E CIENCIA
• INSTITUTO PARA LA DIVERSIFICACION Y AHORRO DE LA ENERGIA
• OMI-POLO ESPANOL SA
• CENTRO DE INVESTIGACAO EM ENERGIA REN - STATE GRID SA
• CEPS AS
• ENERGA OPERATOR SA
• ENSPIRION SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA
• POLSKIE SIECI ELEKTROENERGETYCZNE SPOLKA AKCYJNA
• PSE INNOWACJE SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA
• NARODOWE CENTRUM BADAN JADROWYCH
• NKM ARAMHALOZATI KFT
• BUDAPESTI MUSZAKI ES GAZDASAGTUDOMANYI EGYETEM
• CEZ DISTRIBUCE AS
• CEZ ESCO AS
• ELEKTRO CELJE D.D.
• EG.D AS
• E.ON Energie, a.s.
• ELEKTRO GORENJSKA PODJETJE ZA DISTRIBUCIJO ELEKTRICNE ENERGIJE DD
• Elektroinstitut Milan Vidmar
• ELEKTRO LJUBLJANA PODJETJE ZADISTRIBUCIJO ELEKTRICNE ENERGIJE D.D.
• UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI
• GEN-I, TRGOVANJE IN PRODAJA ELEKTRICNE ENERGIJE, D.O.O.
• MAVIR MAGYAR VILLAMOSENERGIA-IPARI ATVITELI RENDSZERIRANYITO ZARTKORUEN MUKODO RESZVENYTARSASAG
• MOBILITY ENERGY INNOVATIONS KFT
• SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC CZ SRO
• UNICORN SYSTEMS AS
• VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V BRNE
• TRANSITION TECHNOLOGIES SA
• E.ON DEL-DUNANTULI ARAMHALOZATI ZARTKORUEN MUKODO RESZVENYTARSASAG
• EPRI EUROPE DAC
• RESCOOP EU ASBL
• ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES ASBL
• ENERCOUTIM - ASSOCIACAO EMPRESARIALDE ENERGIA SOLAR DE ALCOUTIM
• KYMENLAAKSON SAHKOVERKKO OY

Start date: 1 October 2020 - End date: 30 September 2023