Platone midterm conference has gone beyond expectations
15.09.2021 | The Platone consortium is proud and happy of having experienced such a huge interest in our midterm conference „Growing the energy transition”. Above 300 participants joined our two-day fully virtual event on 14 and 15 September 2021.
First customer upgraded with technical equipment
03.09.2021 | Abbenhausen, Germany: The first household located in the field-test region of the German demonstrator in Abbenhausen has been upgraded with a state-of-the-art household battery storage system for an active involvement in the German trial of Platone.
OPEN DEI Energy Pilots Explorer published
21.06.2021 | European Joint RDI - Platone demonstrations portrayed as Large-Scale Pilots in OPEN DEI Energy Pilot Explorer
German demo successfully addressed households with open day
26.05.2021 | Avacon, the leader of the German demonstration of Platone invited several households to a two-day information event in Abbenhausen, a village in the municipality of the city Twistringen in the north of Germany.
Commission welcomes BRIDGE input to HEMRM coordinated by Platone
06.05.2021 | Under the leadership of areti, Platone has since April 2020 led the BRIDGE Action 7 to provide an update to the next Harmonised Electricity Market Role Model.
Successful first H2020 ES-1 call interproject workshop
26.04.2021 | How do you answer the challenge of your call? That was the question on which the 1st interproject workshop with all eight projects attending that were funded under the same H2020 call ES-1-2019 on "Flexibility and retail market options for the distribution grid" took place.
German Demo celebrates offical start into demonstration phase!
31.03.2021 | Red „Start“ button of demonstration phase pressed! The German Demo celebrates the offical start of the demonstration phase in the field test region of Abbenhausen.
Virtual booth and presentations at IEEE SG4SC
17.03.2021 | We presented Platone in the 2021 IEEE International virtual Forum on Smart Grid for Smart Cities (SG4SC) with a virtual booth and session presentations.
Insightful feedback from 2nd customer engagement workshop in Italy
02.03.2021 | The second workshop on customer engagement for the Italian demonstration under the slogan “Virtual workshop of the Italian Demo: Participating in the Platone project and supporting the network in becoming Greener” was a very worthwhile event.
First customer engagement workshop for Greek demonstration
18.02.2021 | The Greek consortium partners successfully addressed selected stakeholders with an online workshop discussing solutions proposed in the Greek demonstration of Platone.
SOGNO platform successfully accepted in LINUX Foundation Energy
04.12.2020 | "It is a great success!" The SOGNO platform has been accepted in the Linux Foundation Energy. Platone uses SOGNO architecture as reference for its own approach.
Horizon 2020 joint online event: kick-off for a closer collaboration
19.11.2020 | Maximising synergies between EU Horizon 2020 funded projects of Platone, DECIDE, FEVER and edgeFLEX on the topics of local flexibilities and energy communities.
First Platone Advisory and Dissemination Board Meeting
05.11.2020 | Platone has established a promising advisory and dissemination board (ADB). On November 5th, 2020 the first Platone advisory and dissemination board meeting took place.
Platone trial site set in Northern Germany
30.07.2020 | The German Demo takes place in the small village Abbenhausen, where an energy community will be established, producing, storing and sharing energy locally.
First stakeholder engagement virtual workshop of the Italian Demo
25.06.2020 | On 18th and 25th of June 2020, the Italian Demo partners held the first stakeholder-engagement virtual workshop with the title “Optimized grid management and flexibility market: the prosumer’s role”.
Platone leads new BRIDGE Action on Harmonised Electricity Market Role Model
01.05.2020 | The cooperation group of Smart Grid, Energy Storage,
Islands and Digitalisation H2020 projects BRIDGE initiates new activities to foster the harmonisation of the European energy sector.
Consortium shares project progress at first General Assembly
21.01.2020 | At our first General Assembly the Platone consortium discussed the work progress of the first six months, upcoming activities and officially launched the Italian demonstration with a media conference.
Co-creation process on user-oriented design kicks off
05.11.2019 | With our internal workshop on capacity building with representatives of all project partners we prepared the start of our series of co-creation events for a user and target group-oriented design process.
Project kick-off for Platone consortium in Brussels
01.10.2019 | In October, our new European project on energy flexibility "Platone - Platform for operation of distribution networks" started. With the kick-off meeting in Brussels we paved the ground for our four-year working process.
Managing the electricity system with blockchain
01.09.2019 | In the European project Platone, an international consortium of energy and IT experts jointly develops first-of-a-kind solutions to make flexible power generation and consumption a tradable good. Unlocking these flexibilities allows integrating more renewable energies while maintaining grid stability.
