New Smart Energy Systems research projects announced

30 November 2010

The Smart Energy Systems (SES) subsidies have been awarded. A total of 29 research proposals were submitted, of which 13 will receive a subsidy. Six million euros has been made available for excellent research into energy savings using and within ICT. Between 210,000 en 750,000 euros have been awarded for each project.

The aim of the SES research programme is to investigate how ICT can contribute to further sustainability through a reduction in energy consumption. This can be achieved for example through better control of energy consumption in buildings, the development of efficient and stable systems for decentralised energy generation, or a reduction in energy consumption within the ICT sector itself.

The projects are divided into two ‘compartments’: application-oriented research (coordinated by the Technology Foundation STW) and curiosity-driven research (coordinated by NWO Physical Sciences). The applications were assessed by international scientists. The criteria were: scientific quality, innovative character, utilisation (compartment 1) and relevance (compartment 2). The subsidies were also partly financed by industry, a condition for the application-oriented research in compartment 1.

Award

The 13 subsidised projects (in alphabetical order by main applicant) are:

Compartment 1 (Technology Foundation STW):

Energy Optimization Framework for Embedded Systems
Prof. M. Aksit (UT)

Companies: Océ

Domestic Intelligent DC Grid
Prof. J. A. Ferreira (TUD)

Companies: Betronic, Exendis

Personalised Climate and Ambience Control for Zero-Energy Buildings
Prof. P. J. M. Havinga (UT)

Companies: Philips, Inatherm, Inteco

Optimal management of energy resources in greenhouse crop production systems
Prof. E. J. Van Henten (WUR)

Companies: Hortimax, Greenhouse horticulture

DREAM: Dynamic Real-Time control of Energy streams in buildings
Prof. G. J. M. Smit (UT)

Companies: Philips, NXP, Nedap, Homa

Smart Energy for Building Comfort
Prof. W. Zeiler (TUE)

Companies: Kropman building services

Compartment 2 (NWO-EW):

Energy Smart Offices (EnSO)
Prof. M. Aiello (RUG)

Companies: Philips, IBM

Energy-efficient cloud computing using hardware diversity and elastic scalability
Prof. H. E. Bal (UVA)

Companies: SURFnet, SARA

Increasing the Robustness of Smart Grids through distributed energy generation: a complex network approach
Prof. F. M. T. Brazier (TUD)

Mapping on Demand for EneRgy-efficient Computation (MODERN)
Prof. C. R. Jesshope (UT)

Companies: NXP, Intel

SOWICI - Smart Optical-Wireless In-Home Communication Infrastructure
Prof. A. M. J. Koonen (UT)

Companies: Genexis, SURFnet, Lionix, Xio photonics

Cross-layer Design Space Exploration for Energy-aware MP-SoC Design
Dr. A. D. Pimentel (UL)

Computational Capacity Planning in Electricity Networks
Prof. J. A. la Poutré (CWI)

Companies: KEMA