Innovative microgrids for improved energy system integration and efficiency in urban contexts
Horyzont Europa · Temat konkursu
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Podsumowanie
Polska firma może skorzystać z tego naboru na B+R.
Supports innovative urban DC microgrids integrating renewables, storage and demand response while improving safety and efficiency; applicant eligibility is unspecified.
- Kto może złożyć wniosek
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- Kwota
- 7 mln € na projektBudżet całkowity 20 000 000 €
- Termin
- 07.10.2027 02:00 CESTza 348 dni
- Status
- Nadchodzącyotwarcie 9 lut 2027
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Opis
Expected Outcome:
Projects are expected to contribute to all the following outcomes:
• Improved awareness of the potential of Low Voltage Direct Current (LVDC) microgrids to support the goals of the European Green Deal and the Clean Industrial Deal, including as defined under the SET Plan[1] and the Solar Strategy[2].
• Increased acceptance of LVDC microgrids in Europe, with significant and measurable contributions to human and building safety (notably with respect to DC faults), energy and resource efficiency, integration of renewables & storage and demand response, peak power shaving, resilience, and (where applicable) established proof of concept on how LVDC microgrids can enable energy communities[3] to share energy assets and increase self-consumption of local renewables sources.
• Increased uptake in European cities, facilitated by technical guidelines for installation of LVDC microgrids and recommendations on regulatory alignment to European, national, regional and local authorities, as well as power distribution operators.
• Increased number of regulatory options and standards supporting EU industry leadership in the supply of LVDC solutions, in line with the Competitiveness Compass guidelines for fostering innovation and growth.
Scope:
Most electric appliances in buildings are based on Direct Current (DC): PV panels, stationary and e-vehicle batteries, LED lighting, IT equipment, heat pumps and other appliances. Their connection to a LVDC microgrid inside the building would significantly improve energy and materials efficiency (replacing AC/DC converters by simpler DC/DC converters) and optimise local electrical and/or thermal energy storage and self-consumption of local renewables, contribute to (AC) grids stability through demand response and ancillary services (incl. reactive power support), and increase resilience by enabling islanded operation. The required power capacity of the connection of the LVDC microgrid to the AC (Alternating Current) distribution grid via a central AC/DC converter would be significantly lower than a traditional AC installation, thereby reducing pressure on city grid.
The LVDC microgrid could also be implemented at small neighbourhood level (e.g. a street), possibly in parallel to an existing AC grid, enabling more efficient and easier sharing of common energy assets and self-consumption in an energy community.
In order to reach this goal, proposals are expected to address all of the following aspects:
• Develop innovative, safe and sustainable LVDC microgrids design methods and tools, ensuring notably grid monitoring, control and safe handling of DC faults at affordable cost; develop methodologies and assess the life-cycle costs/benefits of LVDC microgrids (compared to traditional AC installations), for the application itself and the overall energy system (including the impacts on the AC distribution grid, for example, due to the injection of harmonics, or contribution to grid stability through ancillary services and demand response over the current and next day), from technical, environmental, economic and social aspects (notably on vulnerable consumers energy bill).
• Demonstrate in real life an LVDC microgrid, connecting all electrical applications in at least one residential, office or commercial building, or in one neighbourhood. The proposal must already include a review of the local regulatory framework(s) and grid codes and a demonstration that the real-life implementation(s) of the LVDC microgrid will be possible in the local context(s) (possibly through pre-agreed regulatory relaxation or ‘innovation sandbox’).
• Beyond the real demonstration(s), the installation of LVDC microgrid must be demonstrated virtually in other types of buildings, including at least one building under renovation, in the environment of different cities and countries, including at least one vulnerable urban area if possible, by numerical simulation using digital twins[4], with the objective of assessing the regulatory feasibility and life-cycle costs/benefits (detailed in the first bullet) in these different environments. The total number of real and virtual demonstrations must be at least 3.
• Identify regulatory barriers at European, national and distribution system operator levels, and make suggestions to resolve them.
• Contribute to standardization (CEN-CENELEC, IEC), notably contributing use cases.
• Develop LVDC solutions awareness, education and training materials (respectively for public authorities and general public, for students, for urban planners, project developers and installers), in collaboration with local academia and research partners.
• Disseminate project results, engage all relevant stakeholders along the value chain, including residents, users, industry, and researchers, from the planning phase; organise at least one open workshop coupled with site visits.
This topic requires contributions from social sciences and humanities (SSH) disciplines and the involvement of SSH experts and institutions. Their contributions should enhance the societal relevance and impact of proposed activities from planning to implementation and especially related to the last two bullets.
The projects under this topic shall be open to cooperate with each other on relevant tasks such as joint workshops and dissemination events and joint policy briefs and contribution to standardisation process, to maximise the collective impact.
Proposals should build on previous projects, notably Horizon Europe project Shift2DC, as well as HYPERRIDE, TIGON, HYNET and THEUS. Collaboration with the Cities Mission Platform is essential. The collaboration with the Cities Mission Platform must be formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding to be concluded as soon as possible after the project starting date. Under the guidance of the Cities Mission Platform, the selected projects will engage in clustering activities with other relevant projects supported under the Cities Mission, such as the ones on PED digital twins, to promote synergies and complementarities. Proposals should ensure that appropriate provisions for activities and resources aimed at enforcing clustering activities and cooperation with the Cities Mission Platform are included in the work-plan.
Technology Readiness Level - Technology readiness level expected from completed projects
Activities are expected to achieve TRL 7-8 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.
[1] SET Plan LVDC Implementation Plan (europa.eu)
[2] COM(2022) 221 final, p14, The European Commission communication on the EU Solar Energy Strategy recognises that increasing the use of DC technologies could be beneficial to the electricity system: as renewable power from solar is produced in Direct Current (DC), conversion to Alternating Current (AC) to feed into the grid and then converting back to DC, e.g. to store energy, leads to energy losses; such conversion losses are currently growing because more devices and system, such as batteries, heat-pumps, data centres, electric vehicles or appliances, operate in DC.
[3] Energy communities – defined under the Renewable Energy Directive and the Electricity Market Directive, and further supported by the upcoming Citizens Energy Package are identified as a vehicle to empower citizens, small businesses and local authorities to produce, manage and consumer their own energy.
[4] https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-miss-2023-cit-01-02
Kto może złożyć wniosek – szczegóły
- Cel
- Badania i innowacje
- Znaczenie dla B+R
- 3 z 3
- Polska kwalifikuje się
- Tak
- Ograniczenie krajów
- —
- Region
- Dowolny
- Konsorcjum
- Niejasne
- Poziom gotowości (TRL)
- —
- Tematy
- Low-voltage DC microgrids
- Renewable energy integration
- Energy storage
- Demand response
- Electrical safety
Ocena maszynowa na podstawie tekstu naboru; warunki sprawdź u źródła. 23 paź 2026
Warunki
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- Ograniczenie wnioskodawcy
- China-established entities are generally barred from Innovation Actions in any capacity, subject to justified case-by-case exceptions. Chinese public universities administered or supervised by MIIT are ineligible for every action under this work programme. Other sanctions, capacity and funding-country conditions still apply.
- Ograniczenie wnioskodawcy
- The own-topic critical-technology IA rule also excludes eligible-country entities directly or indirectly controlled by China or a China-established legal entity. This is additional to the China-established-entity IA and universal MIIT-university restrictions.
- Ograniczenie wniosku
- Planned opening9February2027; deadline 7October2027 at17:00Brusselslocaltime. ResponsibleDirectorGeneral may move opening by up to one month earlier/later and delay deadlines up to two months; budget subject to appropriations.
- Ograniczenie wniosku
- Use Portal PartA, PartB and mandatory annexes. Coordinator mandate, declarations and applicant capacity/eligibility are required. The actual submission template controls the required documents.
- Zakres projektu
- Develop safe, sustainable, affordable LVDC microgrid design/monitoring/control and DC-fault handling. Assess life-cycle technical/environmental/economic/social costs and benefits against AC installations, including AC-grid harmonics/stability, storage/renewables/demand response and vulnerable consumers’ bills.
- Zakres projektu
- Demonstrate an LVDC microgrid connecting all electrical applications in at least one residential/office/commercial building or neighbourhood. Proposal must review local regulation/gridcodes and show feasible implementation, potentially under a pre-agreed sandbox. Add digital-twin virtual demonstrations in other building types/cities/countries, including at least one renovation building and, if possible, a vulnerable area. Total real+virtual demonstrations≥3.
- Zakres projektu
- Identify EU/national/DSO regulatory barriers and solutions; contribute CEN-CENELEC/IEC standards/usecases. Produce awareness/education/training for authorities/public, students, planners/developers/installers with academia. Engage residents, users, industry and researchers from planning; hold at least one open workshop with site visits. Build on Shift2DC/HYPERRIDE/TIGON/HYNET/THEUS and cooperate on workshops, policybriefs and standardisation.
- Oczekiwana liczba grantów (szacunek planistyczny)Captured SEDIA planning estimate for exact topic HORIZON-MISS-2027-04-CIT-01
- 3 count
Expected funded-project/grant count in the exact provider topic budgetOverview. Indicative planning metadata, not guaranteed awards, maximum accepted projects, staffing or consortium size. It does not replace any differently expressed work-programme planning range.
- Inny warunek
- Innovation Action.
- Inny warunek
- Grant linked to HORIZON-MISS-2021-CIT-02-03. Essential CitiesMissionPlatform collaboration needs work-plan activities/resources and a MemorandumofUnderstanding concluded as soon as possible after project start. Budget clustering and cross-project collaboration.
- Inny warunek
- Full-stage criteria each score to5, individual threshold3 and total10. IA ranking gives Impact weight1.5. Passing thresholds enters budget-limited ranking, not a guaranteed award.
- Wymóg partnerstwa
- Three independent beneficiary legal entities in three different countries: at least one EU Member State entity and at least two others in different Member States or Associated Countries. Affiliates do not count towards this minimum. Topic-specific required actors are additional.
- Wymóg partnerstwa
- At least three cities must participate as beneficiaries, each from a different MemberState/AssociatedCountry, represented by a local authority or entity with explicit local-authority consent. At least one city must be among the112CitiesMission cities. This city requirement is additional to the independent-entity consortium baseline.
- Ograniczenie personelu
- SSH experts/institutions contribute from planning through implementation, especially education, stakeholder engagement and societal impact. No degree/headcount/FTE/salary is specified.
- Poziom gotowości technologicznej na koniec, maksimum
- 8 TRL
Expected technology readiness at project end, not an entry prerequisite or employment qualification.
- Poziom gotowości technologicznej na koniec, minimum
- 7 TRL
Expected technology readiness at project end, not an entry prerequisite or employment qualification.
Kwoty i koszty
- Budżet orientacyjny
- 20 000 000 €
Budżet tematu z tabeli budżetowej portalu. Limity na projekt i ryczałty są w warunkach konkursu.
- Koszt kwalifikowalny
- Eligible costs take lump-sum form. Detailed budget estimates follow basic cost eligibility and the embedded funding-rate method. Interim payments concern accepted completed packages; final balance may conditionally cover partial packages. No separate actual-payroll reimbursement rate or salary ceiling is prescribed.
- Koszt kwalifikowalny
- General indirect costs are a25% flat rate of eligible direct costs, excluding subcontracting, FSTP and unit/lump-sum amounts already including indirect costs. This is a project budget cost rule, not salary overhead or a wage rate.
- Intensywność wsparcia, maksimum
- 100 percent of eligible costs
Only nonprofit legal entities may receive up to100% for this IA; not a universal rate. For this lump-sum topic, the rate is applied in the amount-setting methodology, not as an additional actual-payroll reimbursement rate.
- Intensywność wsparcia, maksimum
- 70 percent of eligible costs
Ordinary IA maximum, subject to actual grant and eligible costs; nonprofit exception separate. For this lump-sum topic, the rate is applied in the amount-setting methodology, not as an additional actual-payroll reimbursement rate.
- Stawka ryczałtowa kosztów pośrednichGeneralAnnexG indirect costs for this Horizon action/grant methodology
- 25 percent of the named eligible-direct-cost base
Base: total eligible direct costs excluding subcontracting, financial support to third parties and any unit costs/lump sums already including indirect costs. Apply only within the relevant grant/budget methodology; for lump sums this contributes to amount-setting, not an extra actual-cost payment or wage rate.
- Oczekiwany wkład na projekt
- 7 000 000 €
Expected indicative contribution, different amounts may be selected. Not a hard cap.
- Alokacja tematu
- 20 000 000 €
Indicative total topic allocation, not a project cap or remaining balance.
Personel i usługi
Badacz
Wymagany personel
Required expertise, not advertised positions. No headcount, degree, employment duration, salary or FTE inferred.
Dokumenty źródłowe
Dane naboru
- Otwarcie
- 9 lut 2027
- Tryb terminów
- Single-stage
- Program
- Horyzont Europa · 2021 - 2027
- Konkurs
- HORIZON-MISS-2027-04 · Supporting the implementation of the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission
- Rodzaje działań
- HORIZON Innovation Actions
- Słowa kluczowe
- Climate change mitigation
- Demand response
- Electricity grid systems
- Energy Efficiency
- Low Voltage Direct Current
- Material efficiency
- Renewable energy sources
- SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities)
- Self-consumption
- Źródło
- ec.europa.eu
- Sprawdzono
- 23 paź 2026
- Aktualizacja portalu
- 7 paź 2026
- Status przeglądu
- Przegląd częściowy
- Przejrzano
- 23 paź 2026
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