Advanced TSO control rooms to enhance grid observability, stability and resilience
ENERGY · HORIZON-IA · TRL 6 to 8 · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds projects that design and test advanced control room technologies for electricity transmission system operators, aiming to improve grid observability, stability and resilience. It supports solutions combining hardware and software, wide area monitoring, forecasting tools, digital twins and AI, to help operators manage grid congestion, integrate more renewables and coordinate better across borders and with distribution grids. Three projects are expected to be funded, each demonstrating results in at least two pilot sites in different countries.
smart grids · renewable energy · digital twins · artificial intelligence · energy efficiency · cybersecurity
Who wins this
A consortium led by transmission system operators working with universities or research organisations to develop and pilot next generation control room technologies for electricity grids.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €9.5M
- Funding model
- Budget-based. Reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON Innovation Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: at least 4 partners, from 2 countries.
- Eligible applicants
- transmission system operator, research organisation, university
- Also required
- Projects must include at least two TSOs and two universities or research organisations, with demonstration in at least two pilots in different EU Member States or Associated Countries. Entities controlled by China or Chinese legal entities are not eligible to participate.
- Sectors
- CleanTech · Energy · Mobility
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Israel, Türkiye, Ukraine, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Tunisia, New Zealand
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
General conditions 1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible Countries described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. 3. Other Eligible Conditions If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used). In line with the “ restriction on control in innovation actions in critical technology areas ” delineated in General Annex B of the General Annexes, entities established in an eligible country but which are directly or indirectly controlled by China or by a legal entity established in China are not eligible to participate in the action. described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions
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