Modern power systems are prone to large disturbances due to their operation close to their physical limits and the high penetration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) that decrease the inertia of the power system. The GridGnosis project is built on the effective collaboration between academia and industry, aiming to develop a holistic solution for enhancing the resilience and security of the power systems.
This will be achieved by developing the GridGnosis platform that will encompass innovative monitoring methodologies for accurately estimating (1) the system states, (2) the line parameters, and (3) the system inertia, and adaptive protection and fault diagnosis schemes for enhancing the response for line distance protection, and underfrequency protection and enabling an automatic localization and classification of short circuit faults. The platform will be validated and demonstrated in an operational environment using measurements from the Cyprus power system.
GridGnosis results will address directly the current and future challenges of the power system operators. The application of the GridGnosis platform to the Cyprus power system will promote the unintermittent energy supply to the end users which directly impact the quality of life and the economic sustainability of the Cypriot citizens. Moreover, the project solution will enable higher RES penetration in a reliable manner resulting in less air pollution due to the decrease of CO2 emissions, bringing positive socio-economic side effects to the quality of life in Cyprus.
The GridGnosis consortium involves the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (Cyprus grid owner), a Cypriot Small Medium Enterprise, as partners, and the KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence at the University of Cyprus, as the coordinator of the project.
The project GridGnosis has received funding from the Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) of Cyprus through the Recovery and Resilience Facility (NextGenerationEU) under the grant agreement CODEVELOP-REPowerEU/1223/0091.
