This call focuses on developing a sophisticated, integrated cross-regional network and market model to optimize long-duration energy storage (LDES) in energy systems dominated by intermittent and stochastic renewable energy sources. The objective is to create a spatially and temporally detailed model capable of analyzing LDES performance and optimizing its strategic integration. Projects should aim to optimize LDES investment and operational costs, develop business cases for future energy markets, and assess marginal abatement costs of different technologies and their combinations within the involved regions.
The initiative seeks to increase knowledge on the cost-benefit of integrating low-cost long-duration storage in relevant grid locations to optimize cost and operation. It also aims to explore cross-regional approaches to long-term storage and cross-sector integration, focusing on balancing electrical grid infrastructure with technologies, buildings, and power management solutions, including thermal networks and storage. Additionally, the call encourages the development of clean flexibility long-term energy storage solutions that couple electricity with other energy carriers to optimize the integration of renewables and effectively increase grid hosting capacity. Supporting cost-effective decarbonization and improving LDES economics through market revenue streams, such as nodal and locational pricing, are also key objectives.
Projects should be based on a comprehensive understanding of existing systems in at least two adjacent regions, best represented in the form of a digital twin or similar. Consortia should include system operators, technology providers, and other relevant stakeholders. The scope includes improving the integration of long-duration (>12h) storage within the context of system-wide optimization of grid enhancement strategies in synergy with power plant infrastructure. This encompasses the use of relevant, validated historical data sets, visualization, scenario analysis, model sensitivity analysis, and data set optimization. The project is expected to identify technical and regulatory barriers and propose recommendations and policy actions to promote the best solutions and support their replication.
Opening Date: 06 May 2025
Deadline: 16 September 2025
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This funding opportunity represents a pre-agreed draft that has not yet been officially approved by the European Commission. The final, approved version is expected to be published in the first quarter of 2025. This draft is provided for informational purposes and may be used to preliminarily form consortia and develop project ideas, but it is offered without any guarantees or warranties.
