CORDIS · INNO4GRID

Innovative Technologies for Massive Renewables Integration into The Grid

Code

INNO4GRID

Programme

HORIZON

Call

HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-17

Status

SIGNED

Period

2026-06-01 – 2029-05-31

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Participants

Description

Europe aims to become climate-neutral by 2050 under the European Green Deal, with legally binding 2030 targets of a 55% cut in greenhouse gas emissions and at least 42.5% renewable energy (aspiring to 45%). Towards this direction, the EU policies like the Clean Energy for All Europeans Package and the revised TEN-E Regulation are prescribing major integration of variable renewable energy into electricity grids, which can be enabled by the modernization of energy markets and the prioritization of renewable generation, storage and grid infrastructure. However, Europe’s electricity grids face major technical challenges in adapting to high shares of variable renewables. Built for centralized generation, many grids struggle with the volatility of distributed solar and wind, requiring upgraded control systems and flexible resource integration. Recent incidents — the 2025 Iberian Peninsula blackout and North Macedonia’s power system disturbance — revealed weaknesses in wide-area monitoring, real-time coordination, and voltage stability. These events highlight the urgent need for advanced tools enabling wide-area situational awareness, AI-based forecasting, and improved TSO–DSO cross-border coordination to anticipate and mitigate disturbances in increasingly renewable-based systems.The INNO4GRID project will address the decarbonisation challenges for resilient electricity networks through a cohesive architectural workbench that develops and demonstrates across Europe advanced grid technologies and RES control mechanisms, software tools and hardware assets, forecasting platforms, grid monitoring systems, TSO–DSO coordination schemes, flexibility dispatch systems, and Grid Enhancing Technologies (GET) – under one interoperable umbrella. The demonstrations will take place in Norway, Hungary, West Balkans, and Turkey engaging TSOs, DSOs, RCC, RES suppliers while collaboration is established with energy services providers from storage, aggregation and demand response.

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