Sustainable Innovation conducted a Pilot Site Visit in June 2022 to perform interviews with the researchers and developers involved. The video interviews will be published on the BD4OPEM website and in social media channels after being edited allowing you to meet some of the key people at VUB within the BD4OPEM project. The pilot site in Belgium is a microgrid within a hospital – UZ Brussel – which needs to be able to function at all times even during a power outage. This is crucial in order to save lives during an on-going operation or just the day-to-day operations of medical staff. Data from the pilot site is used to test the following services developed by VUB within BD4OPEM: (1) grid congestion prediction, (2) predictive maintenance within power grids and (3) asset optimisation of microgrids.
BD4OPEM creates an open energy marketplace, that offers innovative AI-based services, to enable the efficient management of energy distribution grids and associated assets.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 872525.