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Smart Grid Control - CyberPhysical Sandbox (SGC-CyPhySandbox) project partners include University College Dublin, Walton Institute at South East Technological University, and NovoGrid. The two year project co-ordinated by UCD and co-funded by Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)'s Research, Development and Demonstration Fund and ESB Networks aims to develop a platform for the real-time simulation of smart grid control architectures 💡 #smartgrid #smartenergy #sustainability #greentechnology

The Smart Grid Control – CyberPhysical Sandbox (SGC-CyPhySandbox) #smartenergy research project has now been added to the Walton Institute at South East Technological University's (SETU) website Projects page ⬇ Click the link below for a deep dive into the project, with info like the project's overview; research challenges; key objectives; benefit to society; and implementation. It's a great resource should you wish to learn more about SGC-CyPhySandbox. 💡 The SGC-CyPhySandbox project is working to develop a platform for the real-time simulation of smart grid control architectures, addressing challenges associated with deploying small scale renewable energy sources to the grid, helping increase their uptake, and thus reducing the effects of climate change. ⚡ The two-year project partners project lead University College Dublin (UCD), Walton Institute at South East Technological University (SETU) and NovoGrid. It is co-ordinated by UCD’s Terence O'Donnell and co-funded by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)'s Research, Development and Demonstration Fund and ESB Networks.

💡 Members of the Smart Grid Control – CyberPhysical Sandbox (SGC-CyPhySandbox) team were delighted to welcome a group from ESB Networks to the laboratory in UCD to see a demo of the project's test platform. The test platform makes use of real-time simulation with hardware-in-the-loop to test the control and interoperability of smart devices in the distribution network. ⚡ The SGC-CyPhySandbox project is a collaboration between University College Dublin Energy Institute (School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering), Walton Institute at South East Technological University, and NovoGrid, and is jointly funded by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) and ESB Networks under the SEAI RDD fund. Pictured L-R: Conor Murphy, NovoGrid; oliver kelly, ESB Networks; Edmund O'Carroll, ESB Networks; Terence O'Donnell, UCD; Sean McLoughlin, ESB Networks; Katie Kavanagh-Buckley, ESB Networks; Hamed Heydari-Doostabad, UCD. #smartenergy #smartgrid #decarbonisation #researchproject

Learn more about the Smart Grid Control – CyberPhysical Sandbox (SGC-CyPhySandbox) project by checking out our handy fact sheet 🔍 #smartgrids #interoperability #smartenergy #researchproject

Members of the project team were delighted to recently welcome Shane Prendergast, Programme Manager - EV Charging Infrastructure & Smart Networks, Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) to the Smart Grid Control – CyberPhysical Sandbox (SGC-CyPhySandbox) lab in University College Dublin. The team provided insights on the project since work began in the second half of 2023. Pictured L-R: Terence O'Donnell, UCD; Shane Prendergast, Programme Manager - EV Charging Infrastructure & Smart Networks, SEAI; David Ryan, Walton Institute; Jack Jackman, Walton Institute; Hamed Heydari, UCD; Ammar Malik, UCD. #smartenergy #smartgrid #researchproject

The aim of the Smart Grid Control – CyberPhysical Sandbox (SGC-CyPhySandbox) research project is to contribute to decarbonisation of the energy sector, by helping inform the development of systems to control DERs in the field and as a result increasing the level of RES penetration on the grid. The two-year project partners Walton Institute at South East Technological University with University College Dublin (UCD) and NovoGrid. It is co-ordinated by UCD’s Terence O'Donnell and co-funded by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)'s Research, Development and Demonstration Fund and ESB Networks. #smartenergy #smartgrid #decarbonisation #researchproject #WaltonInstitute

Get to know the Smart Grid Control – CyberPhysical Sandbox (SGC-CyPhySandbox) project💡 SGC-CyPhySandbox is a project partnering University College Dublin (UCD), Walton Institute at South East Technological University (SETU), and NovoGrid. The two-year project, co-ordinated by UCD and co-funded by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)'s Research, Development and Demonstration Fund and ESB Networks, aims to develop a platform for the real-time simulation of smart grid control architectures. The project's objective is to address challenges associated with deploying small scale renewable energy sources to the grid, helping increase their uptake, and thus reducing the effects of climate change. #SGCCyPhySandbox #climatechange #researchproject #renewableenergy

LEARN MORE ABOUT US💡 Smart Grid Control – CyberPhysical Sandbox (SGC-CyPhySandbox) is a #smartenergy research project, which aims to develop a platform for the real-time simulation of smart grid control architectures, addressing challenges associated with deploying small scale renewable energy sources to the grid, helping increase their uptake, and thus reducing the effects of climate change. The two-year project partners Walton Institute with University College Dublin (UCD) and NovoGrid. It is co-ordinated by UCD’s Terence O'Donnell and co-funded by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)'s Research, Development and Demonstration Fund and ESB Networks. Project leader Terence O'Donnell says, “I’m very excited to be leading this project, looking at some of the practical issues associated with ensuring that the green technologies employed in people’s houses can be controlled in a smart and flexible manner. The deployment of these technologies in a standardised way which allows interoperability between different vendor devices is going to be critical to their uptake.” Learn more about the project in the article below ⬇

The South East Technological University Arena was recently host to the AEE | Ireland Chapter Association of Energy Engineers Ireland Conference & Exhibition. This event brought together individuals from across the energy industry to discuss challenges faced by organisations in terms of energy efficiency, decarbonisation and the move towards a clean energy future. This one-day conference featured a number of speakers from industry, business and academic institutions to present to an audience of peers. Walton Institute at South East Technological University was represented by Darren Leniston, with a presentation titled, “A Distributed Edge Fault Mitigation Solution & Simulation Platform,” which outlined a solution for increasing the efficiency and operation of the energy distribution grid in response to network faults which are increasing in severity due to the effects of climate change. In addition, the presentation outlined the Smart Grid Control - CyberPhysical Sandbox (SGC-CyPhySandbox) project, co-funded by Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) and ESB Networks, with Walton Institute, University College Dublin, and NovoGrid as project partners. The aim of this two-year project, which commenced earlier this year, is to address the challenge of high renewable resource penetration, focusing on the stability of and interoperability of distributed energy resources. This will be achieved through the development of a test platform incorporating hardware in the loop capability, built to ESB Networks standards in terms of architecture, communication and data transfer which will enable sector actors to assess distributed energy resource capability. #smartgridcontrol #CyberPhysicalSandbox #energyefficiency #energyresearch #cleanenergy #energyIreland #climatechange Conor Murphy Terence O'Donnell David Ryan