Mission | Objectives | Partners | Living Labs | Resources | Publications | Contact |
Mission
The ECOFLEX-project, where nine Belgian partners collaborate, aims to unlock the potential of electric cars and energy communities to balance the grid in a climate neutral way.
Objectives
- Development of intelligent energy management algorithms which can determine optimal setpoints for various controllable assets taking into account the behavioural uncertainty and variety of customer and community requirements
- Determine value propositions which will convince consumers to engage their asset(s) in flexibility services of the energy market
- Investigation of new market models (in contrast to the current central design of/and access rules) for the energy (flexibility) market and definition of the roles of stakeholders
- Demonstration of an user-centered and interoperable ecosystem with a level playing field for companies to enter a profitable supply chain for flexibility services
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Négundo 1
→ 2 000 m² of offices and meeting rooms
→ Air/water heat pumps of 230 kW
→ HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) module of 8 330 m³/h
→ Charging stations 3 x 22kW and 1 x 11kW
→ 103 PV solar panels 25,72 kWp
→ Micro turbine-pumping power plant (Pump as Turbine) 17 kWh
Negundo 2
→ 282 PV solar panels 68,4 kWp (on roof : 47,6 kWp and on carport : 20,8 kWp)
Négundo 3
→ Spaces for seminars, meetings and offices
→ Classrooms
→ Ground/water heat pump 60 kW
→ 2 HVAC modules of 12 300 and 9 000 m³/h
→ 4 small wind turbines 2,4 kW
→ Solar Flower Shadehouse with 12 PV solar panels 4,2 kWp
→ 49 PV solar panels 9,8 kWp on roof
Negundo Relay Halls
→ 160 PV solar panels 48 kWp on roof
→ 1 Vanadium-redox-flow battery with a capacity of 100 kWh, nominal power of 10 kW
→ Further battery sollution to be deployed for the project
Contact
- Address : IDETA - Quai Saint Brice 35 - 7500 Tournai (Hainaut)
- Website : www.ideta.be
WP1 Project management & dissemination
Report on the Advisory Board (AB) formulation
Report of the 1st Advisory Board meeting
Report on the Advisory Board (AB) meeting 2
Report on the Advisory Board (AB) meeting 3
Deliverable 1.3 Report on ECOFLEX website
Project Handbook
WP2 User centric, robust design of flexibility ecosystem
D2.1 Report on market schematic and stakeholder mapping
D2.2 Data system architecture for interoperable system solutions
D2.3 Market and Flexibility Forecast Algorithms
D2.4 Guidelines Legal Enabling Framework for Energy Management Service Providers
D2.5 A Cost-benefit Analysis of the Energy Management Service Provider’s Roles
WP3 Common system development
D3.1 Specification list for ledger
D3.2 Generic Energy Management System Interface
D3.4 Integration Access Register
WP4 Energy Management services for E-mobility
D4.1 Report on different smart charging management structure for electric Vehicles
D4.2 Front end applications for charge scheduling
D4.3 Digital twin model of public distribution network predicting maximum hosting capacity
WP5
D5.1 Report on Multi-Energy Flexibility Markets
D5.2 Multi-energy community energy management
D5.3 Power quality and local network model
WP6
D6.1 Implementation of flexibility ecosystem
D6.3.1 Determination of the optimal voltage level from efficiency aspect
D6.4 Analysis of feasibility of the developed solutions at UGent Testfield
WP7 Flexibility Market Analysis
D7.1 Stakeholder feedback analysis
D7.2 Life Cycle Assessment Data Provision
D7.2.2 Report on the Sustainability impact
D7.3 Replicability and feasibility of the massive roll-out of ECOFLEX solutions
Publications
List of Publications from the ECOFLEX project
Year | Type |
| Reference | Link/doi |
2023 | Conference | ISGT Europe | Cleenwerck, R., Parys, W., Putratama, M.A., Desmet, J. and Coosemans, T., 2023, October. Smart Meter-Based Re-Phasing for Voltage Imbalance Enhancement Through Topology Reconstruction. In 2023 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT EUROPE) (pp. 1-5). IEEE. | |
2023 | Conference | ISGT Europe | Putratama, M.A., Cleenwerck, R., Desmet, J., Messagie, M. and Coosemans, T., 2023, October. Flexibility Valorization in Energy Communities: Grid Constraints Impact and Mitigation. In 2023 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT EUROPE) (pp. 1-5). IEEE. | |
2024 | Conference | SETAC Europe | Huber, D., Philippot, M.L., Felice, A., Putratama, M.A., Coosemans, T. and Messagie, M., 2024, May. Life cycle assessment of future energy system flexibility–a methodological framework applied to Belgium. In SETAC Europe 34th Annual Meeting. | |
2024 | Journal | Energy and AI | Ruddick, J., Ceusters, G., Van Kriekinge, G., Genov, E., De Cauwer, C., Coosemans, T. and Messagie, M., 2024. Real-world validation of safe reinforcement learning, model predictive control and decision tree-based home energy management systems. Energy and AI, 18, p.100448. | |
2025 | Journal | Knowledge-Based Systems | Ruddick, J., Camargo, L.R., Putratama, M.A., Messagie, M. and Coosemans, T., 2025. TreeC: a method to generate interpretable energy management systems using a metaheuristic algorithm. Knowledge-Based Systems, 309, p.112756. | |
2025 | Conference | CIRED | Cleenwerck, R., Ruddick, J., Van Kriekinge, G., Naghdizadegan Jahromi, S., Putratama, M. A., Coosemans, T., Desmet, J., 2025. “ECOFLEX Project: Leveraging Flexibility From Low-voltage Assets”. In 28th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2025) (pp. 1-5). | 10.1049/icp.2025.1812 |
2025 | Conference | EVS | Naghdizadegan Jahromi, S., Van Kriekinge, G., De Cauwer, C. and Coosemans, T., 2025, June. Scheduling Electric Vehicle Charging for Participation in the Belgian Imbalance Market Using Model-Free Reinforcement Learning. In The 38th International Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exposition (pp. 1-12). EVS38. | https://www.researchportal.be/en/publication/scheduling-electric-vehicle-charging-participation-belgian-imbalance-market-using-model |
2025 | Journal | Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law | Chen, T. and Vandendriessche, F., 2025. Legal issues of developing local electricity markets: energy communities as an example. Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, pp.1-28. | |
2025 | Preprint | N/A | Cleenwerck, R., Claeys, R., Coosemans, T. and Desmet, J., 2025. The Low-Carbon Transition in European LV Distribution Networks: A Questionnaire-based survey on Power Quality and Digitalisation. | |
2025 | Preprint | N/A | Huber, D., Van Den Oever, A., Lavigne Philippot, M., Coosemans, T. and Messagie, M., Flexibility Services of Battery Electric Vehicles: A New Assessment Methodology Considering Different Scales. |