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SMart IsLand Energy systems – every story has an end…
Every story has an end. This is also the case for the H2020 SMILE project. The project started in May 2017 in Brussels. Now, four and a half years later, the project finished but it is only the beginning of another story: actually, the SMILE results are expected to be...
The SMILE Catalogue
New on the SMILE website: The SMILE Catalogue! The catalogue gives an overview of the innovative solutions in the framework of the H2020 SMILE Project . Thanks to DAFNI Network for the help on the catalogue! DAFNI’s role in the project is to disseminate the knowledge...
How is the battery on Samsø doing?
The SMILE battery doubles the worth of the photovoltaic plant. A sailor arriving in the Ballen marina plugs the boat into a new electricity post with sockets. The sailor checks in by self-service over the mobile telephone. Then the socket turns on. Those sailors, who...
Final event on Madeira
On the 20th of October, Madeira's partners of SMILE Project - SMart IsLand Energy systems organized the closing session of the project, in Funchal. At this event, after the opening session in which representatives of the four regional partners took part, there was an...
SMILE at Sustainable Places
On September 30th, the SMILE coordinator RINA Consulting S.p.A (RINA) organised a workshop at Sustainable Places 2021 conference by involving two other key SMILE partners: Centre for Research & Technology of Hellas (CERTH) and University of Groningen (RUG)...
SMILE at the OMC B2B Energy Business Meetings
On October 5 & 6, H2020 SMILE was participating at the B2B event Energy Business Meetings at OMC 2021. This event is approaching, among others, renewables, energy efficiency, low carbon economy to circular economy, in order to increase the awareness about the...
SMILE presentation at Sustainable Places 2021 Workshop
SMILE H2020 will be present during the Sustainable Places 2021 Workshop on the 30th of September. SMILE will be represented by Romain Mauger from University of Groningen, who will present the lesson learnt of other sister projects in the field of regulatory framework...
Energy Business Meetings at OMC 2021
On October 5 & 6, H2020 SMILE is participating at the B2B event Energy Business Meetings at OMC 2021. This event is approaching, among others, renewables, energy efficiency, low carbon economy to circular economy, in order to increase the awareness about the...
Islands Energy Transition: Experience in H2020 Projects
RINA Consulting S.p.A. is glad to announce a series of webinars focused on clean energy transition on islands by grouping sister projects funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme together in four separate events. The projects involved...
SMILE – Success Story!
SMILE has been included in the successful stories collection of research and innovation projects funded from EU! The project coordinator, Giannicola Loriga from RINA, released an interview and provided an overview of the project objectives and achievements.
Electric bicycles on Samsø
If visiting sailors wish to see more of the Samsø island - more than what lies within walking distance from the boat - they can now rent an electric bicycle right on the Ballen marina. The new Samsø rental company takes care of punctures and repairs, if misfortune...
Clean Energy for EU Islands initiative visits Madeira
Solutions, projects, and ambitions of islands, such as Madeira, need to be shared to inspire other islands to start their own energy transition. Here, the Clean energy for EU islands initiative comes in. Launched in 2017, as part of the Clean energy for all Europeans...
SMILE Online Workshop & EEN Matchmaking Event
On the July 8th 2020, H2020 SMILE organized an online workshop and matchmaking event together with Enterprise Europe Network. During this event participants had the possibility to learn about the different Smart Grid technologies demonstrated on islands of Samsø,...
Smart Islands Energy System: Online Workshop & Matchmaking Event
On the 8th of July, H2020 SMILE will organize an online workshop and matchmaking event. During this event participants can learn about the different Smart Grid technologies demonstrated on Samsø, Madeira and Orkney, and best practices. The SMILE project is focusing...
Anthropocentric demand response on Samsø
Samsø applies a human-centered approach to match power consumption and production. The photovoltaic (PV) production rarely matches the consumption at the Ballen marina, Samsø. The public grid acts as a storage buffer in cases of excess PV or PV shortage. The local...
Lectures from Jan Jantzen
Jan Jantzen from the Samsø Energy Academy was one of the lecturers during the 12-week virtual course about “Computational Methods for Decision Making”! This ten-lectures course started March 1st and introduced students to algorithms and techniques for computational...
Call of Interest for Sustainable Greek Islands
DAFNI Network has prepared a catalogue with the contribution of other SMILE partners. It describes the integrated technological solutions applied on the SMILE demonstrators. In the catalogue, it is highlighted how the solutions implemented are tailored to the specific...
Modelling Renewable Energy Islands: The experiences of a PhD in the SMILE-project
Hannah Mareike Marczinkowsk is a researcher at the Aalborg University in Denmark at the Department of Planning. Hannah handed in her PhD thesis earlier this year and with success! She was willing to share her experiences during the project. Hannah Mareike...
Samsø receives its first performance data and the results are very positive!
From April 2020 the SMILE performance measurements started pouring in. Over a period of seven months, which included the busy summer period, the photovoltaic panels supplied 47% of the energy demand in the Ballen marina Today in Samsø when the photovoltaic panels...
Clean Energy Transition on Greek Islands: a dream coming true
During the conference "Promoting Clean Energy Transition on the Greek Islands", organized by DAFNI in the framework of the online forum of the Initiative "Clean Energy for European Islands" on Friday October 30th 2020, innovative solutions and best practices developed...
First SMILE PhD thesis – modelling renewable energy islands
The PhD thesis was funded and greatly supported by the SMILE project, and team. Appreciation was received from the research and local partners in Samsø, Orkney and Madeira. In January 2021, SMILE researcher H. M. Marczinkowski, from the Aalborg University Department...
First automated battery capacity test completed
The first automated capacity test on the SMILE battery systems is completed and it seemed successful with regard to the automatic process! All the SMILE Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) will be operating according to planned smart grid control for the remainder...
What’s happening on the Orkney islands?
For the last couple of months, the progress in the Orkney demonstrator has been predominantly weighted towards the data collection and control logic implementation and refinement. At the end of 2020, almost all equipment specific to the heating installation has...
EnergiasMadeira-platform has officially been launched!
Within the scope of the SMILE project, financed by the European Commission, through the Horizon 2020 program, the EnergiasMadeira-platform was publicly presented on the 3rd of November. EnergiasMaderia is a platform that aims to be an interactive information source...
Opportunities for the Replication of Innovative Smart Grid Solutions for the Greek Archipelago
The Network of Sustainable Greek Islands invites you to an informative online day entitled "Promoting the clean energy transition in the Greek islands". Emmanouil Kamilakis from DAFNI will present the replicability of the innovative smart grid technologies...
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731249.