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technological application, asset management, system operation and optimization, market facilitation, and integrated system
tools. These activities are mainly designed to support the security of supply of the system, to increase its ability to integrate
a generation mix based on a higher share of renewables, and
to enable the future development of the power system. Per the
EEGI road map for 2013-2022, the activities are grouped into
five clusters, as shown in Figure 1.

DSO R&D Priorities
As with TSOs, R&D activities performed by DSOs are not
so much related to technological developments but to system
design, technological application, asset management, system
operation and optimization, market facilitation, and the integration of new system tools. Because of the direct connection to
practically every energy consumer, however, and due to the fact
that significant RES generation is connected to distribution networks, the DSO cluster activities emphasize integrating customers and new generation. Figure 2 presents details about the R&D
topics that fall into each of the five DSO clusters.
This list of R&D topics organized into five clusters was
derived from a clear set of objectives for DSOs:
✔✔ a measurable reduction in peak demand and overall
consumption (expected to be 5-20%)

* A Toolbox for New Network
Architecture Assessment
* Tools to Analyze the Network
Expansion Options
* Innovative Approaches to
Improve Public Acceptance
of Overhead Lines

Cluster 1: Pan-European
Grid Architecture

✔✔ models for customer behavior and segmentation under

different conditions
✔✔ ways for customers to visualize and control their own
power consumption
✔✔ optimization of consumption based on distributed generation production (€30 savings per year, per customer)
✔✔ optimization of energy consumption, storage, and production across all "daily activities" (expected reduction in consumption of 10%, corresponding to €60
savings per year, per customer)
✔✔ integration of electric vehicles
✔✔ integration of heat pumps
✔✔ ways to avoid or defer investments in the LV network.
In turn, these objectives are expected to translate into:
✔✔ lower peak demand on distribution and transmission
systems
✔✔ reduced generation investment and cost from controlling peak energy use
✔✔ improved environmental performance from peak
reduction and overall energy conservation.

Next Steps
The next step for the electricity networks R&D road map, to
commence in 2015, is the integration of R&D on storage

* Demonstrations of Power
Technologies for More
Network Flexibility
* Demonstrations of Power
Technologies for New
Architectures

* Tools for Pan-European Network
Observability
* Tools for Coordinated Operations
with Stability Margin Evaluation
* Improved Training Tools for
Improved Coordination

* Demos of RES Integration

* Tools for Pan-EU Network
Reliability Assessment

Cluster 2: Power
Technologies

Cluster 3: Network
Management and
Control

* Tools for Pan-European Balancing
Markets
* Advanced Tools for Congestion
Management

* Developing Approaches to Determine and to
Maximize the Lifetime of Critical Power
Components for Existing and Future Networks

* Tools for Renewable Market Integration
of Active Demand

* Development and Validation of Tools Which
Optimize Asset Maintenance at the System Level,
Based on CBA

* Tools to Study Market Integration of
Active Demand

* Demonstrations of Potential at EU Level for
New Approaches to Asset Management

Cluster 4: Market Rules

Cluster 5: Asset Management

figure 1. The five TSO R&D activity clusters in the EEGI road map (source: EEGI).
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