Description:

The Alliance for Energy Transition aims to strengthen the competitiveness and resilience of companies in the energy sector by creating innovative and export-oriented products and solutions, based on the technology and know-how developed and consolidated in the sector, placing Portugal at the forefront of decarbonisation and boosting the energy transition.

It will contribute to national strategic objectives, such as increasing exports (€443 million), increasing investment in R&D (€209.5 million), reducing emissions (3.4 MtonCO2) and changing the economy’s specialisation profile (€550 million in sales in 2027). It involves 52 companies, including 28 entities from the Research & Innovation System, which will create a structuring ecosystem for the Energy Transition, which in addition to the planned PPS – Products, Processes, Services, will create 420 skilled jobs.

Investment:

274,195,106.32 €

The project HORSE focuses on a holistic research approach aimed to design, develop and validate an autonomous, self-evolving and extendable 6G ready architecture providing a human-centric approach to security workflows, by enabling top-down, bottom-up and end-to-end security solution.

HORSE aims to demonstrate how applications can leverage the ongoing evolution of 6G architecture from the continuous evolution of its capabilities, with a view to providing omnipresent, intelligent and secure services in the future communications network landscape.

Description:

The SSTAR project aims to increase the operating voltage level of solid-state transformers (SST) to expand their applications in the energy power sector, improving their performance in a reliable, cost-optimised and sustainable way. To this end, three independent and complementary Lines of Research and Innovation will be developed. The combined effect of these innovations will be validated at TRL 4 on two certified testbeds in Spain and Portugal.

Hence, the SSTAR project seeks to pave the way for the development of new disruptive high-voltage SST devices that are more attractive for commercial purposes than the prototypes made so far, and capable of being used in distribution and transmission grids.

Description:

Green and affordable electrolysis at gigawatt scale is needed to reach the European Green Deal ambition to become climate-neutral by 2050. The GreenH2Atlantic project will develop a 100 MW alkaline electrolyser at technology readiness level 8, leveraging scale-up, standardisation and manufacturing automation. The project will demonstrate this electrolyser with scalable and fast-cycling 8-MW modules that overcome barriers related to capital expenditures, efficiency, size, lifetime, current density and flexibility. Clear exploitation and replication plans based on rigorous analyses are presented to reach 1 GW by 2030 in Sines and beyond.

Efacec, within the scope of the participation, will bring to the project its long dated and solid experience, know-how and technological skills within the electrical energy domain, namely in digital control and energy converters power electronics solutions.

Description:

IANOS brings together two Lighthouse islands – Terceira (Portugal) and Ameland (Netherlands), and three fellow islands – Lambedusa (Italy), Bora-Bora (French Polynesia) and Nisyros (Greece), all sharing a common vision of decarbonising their energy systems and be energy independent until 2050.

Thirty-four strongly experienced partners from nine European countries join forces to deliver smart technological, economic and social innovations, providing systemic optimisation starting from an Energy Community centric approach.

IANOS adopts an Island Energy Transition Strategy built around three Island Energy Transition Tracks that focus on energy efficiency and grid support for extremely high-RES penetration; decarbonisation through electrification and support from non-emitting fuels; and empowering Local Energy Communities (LEC).

Description:

The EU project TIGON will design a hybrid alternating and direct current microgrid system, decentralised and close to valuable sources of renewable energy. The technical, digital and business solutions will be developed at two demo sites located in France with emphasis on photovoltaics and in Spain with a focus on batteries. In addition, two use cases in the residential and urban railway sectors in Finland and Bulgaria will act as niche markets to increase replication potential.

Efacec will be in charge of manufacturing the STT to be deployed at CIEMAT and CEA demo-sites and will integrate the innovative AC/DC converters at CEA ensuring their compliance with grid codes. As a result, Efacec will be also in charge of developing CIEMAT converters and defining an exploitation and commercialisation strategy together with CIRCE and CEA.