Platone’s cooperation activities – How Platone is working together with the University of Alberta in Canada

11.07.2022 | Platone has established a cooperation with the University of Alberta in Canada. Two joint workshops have already successfully been conducted. What is the idea behind the cooperation?

From the beginning of the Platone project, a cooperation with the Distributed Energy Management Initiative (DEMI) in Canada, a partnership between Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), ATCO, Siemens and the Future Energy Systems research programme at the University of Alberta has been established. The Canadians extend the set of Platone use case scenarios to microgrid flexibility. The uptake of data from the Canadians developed in Platone remains of key importance. So in general, thhe cooperation creates added value on both sides.
 
For this purpose, representatives of the Canadian research group were included in the Platone Advisory and Dissemination Board (ADB). Furthermore, Platone project coordinator RWTH University of Aachen and the University of Alberta defined a set of coordinated Ph.D. Theses on topics connected to the Platone project.
 
In November 2020, a first joint workshop between Platone and the University of Alberta was organised. Special focus was the role of the Platone architecture. The University of Alberta took an active role in this aspect from many perspectives:
  • replication of the platform on the Canadian site
  • networking with relevant stakeholders (particularly DSOs) for an adoption of the solution
  • direct involvement in the Linux Foundation Energy working group that is supervising the development of the platform for the long term.
Last week, in the beginning of July 2022, the second joint workshop took place. Insights from the Platone workpackage (WP) 7 on the topic of "Scalability, Replicability and Cost-Benefit-Analysis” were the focus this time. Ilaria Losa from Platone consortium partner RSE and Panagiotis Pediaditis from consortium partner NTUA presented their work within the WP 7. An insightful and interesting discussion followed. Together with Dr. Petr Musilek, the Canadian coordinator, Platone has now developed a questionnaire to share with all involved persons - both from Canadian and European side, to further pave the path for a replication of Platone data in the Canadian approach.
 
Closely before, Prof. Monti had also been invited to hold a presentation to the industrial partners of the University of Alberta, the Alberta Power Industry Consortium (APIC) in May 2022.


Platone’s cooperation activities – How Platone is working together with the University of Alberta in Canada

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