D-HYDROFLEX

The D-HYDROFLEX project will advance excellence in research on digital technology for hydropower paving the way towards more efficient, more sustainable, and more competitive hydropower plants in modern power markets. D-HYDROFLEX will develop a toolkit for digitally ‘renovating’ the existing hydroelectric power plants based on sensors, digital twins, AI algorithms, hybridisation modelling (power-to-hydrogen), cloud-edge computing and image processing. The core pillars of the project will be: (i) digitalisation, (i.e., digital twins for hydro dams and machinery, weather and flow forecasts, cyberresilience), (ii) flexibility, (i.e., coordination with hydrogen, storage and VPP operation) and (iii) sustainability, (i.e., biodiversity environmental issues). Validation will take place in real hydro plants of EDF (France), TEE (Poland), PPC (Greece), TASGA (Spain) and INTEX (Romania), covering different geographical areas of Europe.

The standardisation objective of the project is practically to understand the standards landscape in the area of digitalisation, and link the developments of D-HYDROFLEX digital tools with the existing standards and related on-going activities. In this way, the project will be able to exploit better the results of the project.

Reason for applying to HSbooster.eu services

They would like to valorise the guidance and knowledge that Hsbooster can provide in the area of standardisation, in order to better link their work with the existing standards in a more systematic way.