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USE hosts kick-off meeting of MERGE project

USE hosts kick-off meeting of MERGE project

INESC Porto hosted the kick-off meeting of the project MERGE – Mobile Energy Resources for Grids of Electricity, a project with a 4.5 million Euro budget and two-year duration. This kick-off meeting was an opportunity to present an overview of the project, scientifically led by INESC Porto/Power Systems Unit (USE), and to define the tasks for the first semester.

This kick-off meeting, which took place on 18 and 19 January at INESC Porto’s Auditorium, welcomed João Dias, Adviser to the Portuguese Prime Minister, other than 14 of the 16 partners of the project’s Consortium. Besides INESC Porto/USE, the following partners were present at the meeting: the Power Public Corporation and Institute of Communication and Computer Systems of the National Technical University of Athens, both from Greece; the Technical University of Berlin, Germany; Iberdrola and Universidad Pontifícia Comillas, both from Spain; and the European Association for Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (AVERE), Belgium.

The MERGE project, highlighted in BIP 98, is the largest research project in Europe within the 7th Framework-Programme aiming to provide solutions for the challenges brought about by the progressive large-scale integration of electric plug-in vehicles in Europe. For this new future reality, it is necessary to identify and prepare solutions for operational problems, and to create generation subsystems and commercialise them. The MERGE project involves two synergetic pathways: a management and control concept that facilitates the current transition – the MERGE concept – and an integration scheme for electric vehicles and their charging infrastructures in the electric grid.