Energy storage to enable a resilient, electrified society – RESILIFY

The Interreg Aurora (IA) region, uniquely positioned in the green transition, faces challenges and opportunities in renewable energy adoption. Critical areas such as grid stability, renewable adoption, and electric vehicle infrastructure highlight the need for resilient solutions. Energy storage emerges as a solution to ensure reliability and enabling decentralization. The project overall objective is to develop and implement sustainable energy solutions in the IA Region. This is done by developing multi-energy and storage hybrid systems for identified needs including business opportunities, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and resilient energy infrastructure. 

The project start off with a work package performing in-depth investigation of the needs for energy storage solutions in the IA region and at the same time form an overview of the technical and supportive actors and networks that are available for the implementation of energy storage solutions. Also, some efforts goes into stakeholders engagement in the first work package. Based on this, the second work package develops a decision model for technology selection for the purpose of electric vehicle charging infrastructure and well as a site assessment for possible energy infrastructure needs and possibilities. In the following two work packages, applied research is performed wrt the identified needs and possibilities to advance the state of the art of multi-energy and storage hybrid systems within the IA region.

Overall, RESILIFY tackles common territorial challenges of renewable energy systems in rural electrification where grid expansion is limited or extremely time consuming - hindering expansion and investment opportunities.  The goal is to contribute to the development and implementation of sustainable energy solutions in the IA region. 

Contact pourya.pourhejazy@uit.no for more information.

Partners:

Luleå tekniska universitet
UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
REGION VÄSTERBOTTEN
Zpark Energy Systems AB
Åsele Elnät AB
ÅSELE NÄRINGSLIVSSTIFTELSE
Heliostorage Oy
Vaasan Yliopisto

Budget:

Total (UiT): 3 917 138 NOK
Interreg Aurora: 1 958 569 NOK + 500 000 NOK

Duration:

08/2024 – 07/2027

Members:

Pourya Pourhejazy (Principal investigator)
Wei Deng Solvang