REACT is a 4-year research project funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 Programme. Its objective is to achieve island energy independence through renewable energy generation and storage, a demand response platform, and promoting user engagement in a local energy community.

REACT wants to help island communities achieve energy independency. Developing a technical and business model to demonstrate that the large scale deployment of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and storage assets coupled with an ICT platform to enable an integrated and digitalised smart grid can bring economic & environmental benefits to their local energy communities.

REACT will demonstrate the potential of large-scale deployment of RES and storage assets on geographical islands to bring economic benefits, contribute to the decarbonisation of local energy systems, reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and improve air quality. To do so, REACT will deliver a scalable and adaptable cloud-based ICT platform for RES and storage enabled infrastructures, supporting a holistic cooperative energy management strategy at the community level. 

REACT will combine an optimal control of community owned energy assets, both conventional and renewable, with cooperative demand response (DR) actions, both explicit and implicit, to maximally exploit the flexibility of energy demand. To achieve this, REACT will leverage on energy production and consumption modelling, grid operation fault detection and diagnostics, multi-carrier supply optimization and optimal energy dispatching, while enabling synergies between different energy networks and micro-grids of island. 

REACT will deliver effective business models making a synergy of grid- and community-centric approaches for sustainable RES solutions, increased renewable energy exploitation, integrated and digitalised smart grids, and DR programs. Moreover, REACT will provide a solution that is fully compliant with contemporary regulatory and legal aspects, while respecting the data security and applying suitable data protection measures. 

REACT will target to enhance the overall energy security of geographical island with an inherent possibility for scale-up and deliver at least 10% energy savings, energy costs savings and GHG emission reduction both by 60%, and at least 50% increase in RES generation and similar reduction in fossil fuel consumption. REACT solution will be validated in 3 demo islands, while replication plans will be made for 5 other “follower” islands across EU.

Partners

• VEOLIA SERVEIS CATALUNYA SOCIEDAD ANONIMA UNIPERSONAL
• NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND GALWAY
• ESB NETWORKS LTD
• The sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland
• UDARAS NA GAELTACHTA
• MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC R&D CENTRE EUROPE B.V.
• FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV
• AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH
• FENIE ENERGIA SA
• FUNDACION TEKNIKER
• SUMINISTROS ORDUNA SL
• ASOCIACION PROVINCIAL DE INDUSTRIALES DE ELECTRICIDAD Y TELECOMUNICACIONES DE LAS PALMAS AIE LAS PALMAS
• UPPSALA UNIVERSITET
• R2M SOLUTION SRL
• MIDAC SPA
• COMUNE DI CARLOFORTE
• ALBUFERA ENERGY STORAGE SL
• Electrochaea GmbH
• TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY
• University of the Aegean-Research Unit
• INSTITUT MIHAJLO PUPIN
• COMET GLOBAL INNOVATION, SL
• UNIVERSITE DE LA REUNION

Start date: 1 January 2019 - End date: 30 June 2023