ESTELAR: Effective substation technologies for advanced virtualization
| Date | January 2025 |
| Project website | Available soon |
| Leader | CIRCE – Center for Research on Energy Resources and Consumption |
| Funding entity | Estelar’s Project has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101192574.
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(Not definitive)Description
ESTELAR is positioned at the forefront on the transformation of robust and modernized energy infrastructures developing the digital substation of the future to facilitate and accelerate the digitalization of power grids. This project aims to advance the virtualization technologies for digital substations of the future in electrical power grids, overcoming current challenges and paving the way for their deploument in the energy sector, aligned with goals of transition to climate-neutral economies and strengthening the power grid resilience. To achieve it, ESTELAR leverages on three main pillars:
1. Advanced communication strategies: focuses on enhancing substation communication to support seamless integration and real-time interaction between physical and virtual components.
2. Computational framework: aims to optimize data handling and processing capabilities across cloud and Edge platforms, ensuring that substations can hadle increasing computaional loads efficienctly.
3. Digital substation of the future architecture: develops a scalable and modular architecture that integrates advanced monitoring, protection, and control through digital twining and vPAC systems.
Objectives
- To design and implement robust communication protocolsand backup solutions that ensure seamless and secure data flow from physical substations to their virtual counterparts.
- To establish a comprehensive computational platform that supports the emulation of grid data and the execution of sophisticated algorithms for the virtualization of substations.
- To transform traditional substation components into Smart, virtual-ready elements capable of advanced monitoring, protection and control.
- To create a dual-laboratory validation environment that allows for the rigorous testing and validation of VS technologies and algorithms.
- To develop a strategic frameworkfor the scalable deployment of VS technologies, focusing on enhancing computational efficiency, reducing hardware dependency, and addressing cybersecurity considerations throughout the system.
Cuerva´s role
Cuerva acts as DSO, providing system and communications architecture for virtual operation, definition and evaluation of communication channels.
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