InterSTORE

Storage is a very diverse universe of solutions and technologies with very different characteristics. InterSTORE plans to address this

complexity by developing an innovative middleware that, while virtualising the storage technology, will simplify its use

from the point of view of integration platform thanks to a technology agnostic approach. The middleware will facilitate the

integration of storage creating an independence from hardware solutions which are critical from customer perspectives to avoid vendor lock-in solutions and assure the compliance to the new IEEE 2030.5 standard. It will also facilitate its use from a monetisation perspective making sure that more investments in storage are enabled. The new InterSTORE solution will be tested and validated in a 4 real life with the goal to develop testing software to be adopted in the future for interoperability certification.

Key Exploitable Results

R1 Development of 4 Open-source interoperability toolkit and implementation of 4 EMS and flexibility products in 4 real pilots:

Interoperable client/server for Distributed Energy Storage

Legacy System protocol converter

Testing procedures and software tools

EMS for HESS across different applications

Open Data Space Connector (True Connector)

R2 Increase number of stakeholders interested in data space, promoting data valorization through public API of DES/DER SoF

R3 Development and testing of new business model for energy community, allowed by Flexibility Aggregation Platform

R4 Creation of synergies a among different interoperability standards (IEEE 2030,5,and similar,…) and facilitation of its implementation

Project partners

RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN (Germany) ; CYBERGRID GMBH & CO (Austria); ENEL X SRL (Italy); FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH (Germany); INESC TEC - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Tecnologia e Ciência (Portugal); HYBRID ENERGY STORAGE SOLUTIONS (Spain); EATON INDUSTRIES (Germany); SUNESIS, INOVATIVNE TEHNOLOGIJE IN STORITVE (Slovenia); VDE VDE VERBAND DER ELEKTROTECHNIK ELEKTRONIK INFORMATIONSTECHNIK (Germany) ; CAPWATT (Portugal); ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA (Italy); EASE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR STORAGE OF ENERGY (Belgium)

Project duration: 1/2023 - 12/2025

Scope: Horizon-EU
Project Focus Energy Data Spaces

IOP-Focus: technical

Area of activity: Provide 4 software open-source tools for assuring interoperability, flexibility and data standardization

Technical Readiness Level (TRL):