The overall Aim of MUSICA is to accelerate the roadmap to commercialisation of its Multi-Use Platform (MUP) and Multi-use of Space (MUS) combination for the small island market, and de-risk for future operators and investors, by validation to TRL7 and providing real plans to move to mass market commercialisation. The MUSICA solution will be a decarbonising one-stop shop for small islands, including their marine initiatives (Blue Growth) and ecosystems. The overall Aim of MUSICA will be achieved by developing a replicable smart MUP. MUSICA will advance the existing FP7 funded MUP concept developed by the University of the Aegean (UoAeg) and EcoWindWater (EWW), currently at TRL5, to TRL7. The EWW MUP was successfully trialled in Heraclea in 2010 for 2 years, funded by FP7 of €2.8M. MUSICA will provide a full suite of Blue Growth solutions for small island: • Three forms of renewable energy (RE) (wind, PV and wave) (total 870kW), providing high RES penetration and competitively affordable electricity. Three forms of RE provide non-correlated supply. • Innovative energy storage systems on the MUP, provide all required storage for power on the island and platform, as well as electrical output smoothening (compressed water/air storage and batteries). • Smart energy system for the island, including: demand response, modelling and forecasting based on high flexibility services from distributed generation. • Desalinated water made by desalination unit on the MUP powered by RES providing 1000m3 fresh water for a water stressed island. • The MUP will provide “green” support services for island’s aquaculture (pilot 200 tonnes production) This project will demonstrate that the MUSICA MUP is a viable enabling infrastructure for multiple RES, desalination and BG aquaculture services for small islands, that can share the same space and work synergistically together, sharing supply chains. reducing operating and maintenance costs and solving increasing demand for space.

Europe’s electricity sector is experiencing severe transformations: modernization of the electricity system is vital for achieving Europe’s energy targets, and smart grids and flexible electricity systems are essential for this modernization. On this respect, the SMILE project will demonstrate different innovative technological and non-technological solutions in large-scale smart grid demonstration projects in the Orkneys, Samsø and Madeira islands, paving the way for their introduction in the market in the near future. The technological solutions vary from: integration of battery technology, power to heat, power to fuel, pumped hydro, electric vehicles, electricity stored on board of boats, an aggregator approach to demand side management (DSM) and predictive algorithms. The pilots will demonstrate operation of the distribution grid under stable and secure conditions to implement solutions for demand response, intelligent control and automation of distribution networks; they have high shares of RES in the electricity grid or have planned increasing shares in the next years. All of them will demonstrate stable grid operation with use of storage solutions and smart integration of grid users from transport. Each pilot will test the most appropriate solutions for local specificities, and common lessons with cross-cutting valence will be derived. Involving projects on islands will ease engaging residents in SMILE. Indeed, islanders are usually sensible to provide availability to test solutions impacting their daily life. Finally, two of the pilots are not total energy islands, thus representing smart grids located on the mainland and not limiting replication potential to other island locations only. SMILE consortium is composed by 19 partners from 6 EU countries: all the value chain actors needed to efficiently implement the 3 projects have been involved and an innovation management approach will guarantee a wider exploitation and replication of technological solutions.

HiHELIOS aims to deliver a TRL 7 modular, scalable, circular-by-design and safe Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) that combines High-Power storage capabilities of LFP battery or supercapacitors, with High-Energy storage capabilities of second-life NMC batteries. To achieve this, HiHELIOS will adapt the modular, flexible and scalable HESS architecture developed in the EU project SEABAT to grid applications and EV charging support. HiHELIOS aims to design the HESS based on the shelf battery modules and components, and repurposing EV 2nd life battery modules. Supported by digital models, HiHELIOS will custom design and manufacture a HESS for 4 use-cases of problem owners to solve a real-life hybrid energy storage challenge. In HiHELIOS, the use-cases altogether cover storage services for supporting grid-connected microgrids and islanded grids; renewable energy uptake in weak and weak islanded grids; and EV charging, EV and E-boat fast-charging infrastructures, as well as ancillary services. The HiHELIOS HESS contains an innovative BMS and physics-based and data-driven PMS, EMS and cloud platform (based in the RED and Battery passport principles) enabling multiple (fast) services. HiHELIOS immediately achieves impact, because the 4 HiHELIOS demonstrators will stay in-use at the use-case owners after the project, until their end of life. HiHELIOS develops a roadmap to TRL 9 together with main stakeholders in the energy sector, and creates fertile soil for market application with replication studies. HiHELIOS will bring long durartion storage (>12 hours) within reach, against storage costs of less than €0.05/kWh/cycle by 2030, with a projected cycling life of >5,000 cycles. Via BRIDGE , ETIP-SNET and CEN-CENELEC , the experience emerging from HiHELIOS be used as input to national and EU-level standardization processes. HiHELIOS brings together a consortium of 12 partners from 6 countries, of which 4 partners are SMEs and 3 partners are from widening coutries.

Borkum is an island of about 30 km2 and 5,500 residents, located 20 miles from the north-western coast of Germany. Following concerns of the population regarding air quality due to a new coal fired power plant, Borkum started on a path towards renewable energy many years ago. Following several initiatives in that direction including a citizen dialogue, the island decided to become emission-free and fully decarbonized by 2030. Within this framework, the ISLANDER project will showcase the process of making Borkum a fully autonomous and decarbonised island energy system. Specifically, the project will focus on delivering: a) Distributed RESS systems (Renewable Energy + Small-scale Storage). b) Complementary short-to-seasonal, large-scale electricity storage. c) Seawater district heating coupled with heat storage and sized for 100 residential units, to make use of the heat of the North Sea water as a source of heating and cooling. d) Deployment of an EV charging network. e) A smart IT platform conceived to holistically perform the optimal aggregation of all these components while also implementing Demand Response (DR). f) An optimisation tool to optimally design zero-carbon island energy systems. To achieve such 2030 objectives of financing and maintaining the further roll-out of renewables and storage technologies across the island, the ISLANDER partners will facilitate the kick-start of a Renewable Energy Community in Borkum right during the project following a concrete roadmap. Additionally, and as part of an ambitious plan to replicate the project results, the partners have developed a 3-wave replication strategy including: Wave 1) Replication in the Follower islands, Wave 2) Replication in the related archipelagos. Wave 3) Further replication to the rest of EU islands.

Climate change is a human problem, caused by humans, affecting humans, and requiring a human-centric solution. CAMPAIGNers aims to make low-carbon lifestyles a major part of the solution by identifying lifestyle transformation potential, and associated barriers and enablers across 5 continents and 16 major cities with over 20 mil. residents. Feasible pathways to GHG mitigation are developed to include the empirically validated lifestyle changes, and are applied to the principal integrated modelling tools used in the EU to provide robust insights into the system-level impacts of large-scale lifestyle transformation. CAMPAIGNers builds on previous consortium-led projects that substantially improved the understanding of societal structures and interventions that encourage lifestyle shifts, and identified limitations to the existing evidence-base. Namely, current lifestyle transformation research is either limited to narrow, specific contexts or groups, or deals in hypothetical behaviours where most citizens do not have real experiences to draw on. CAMPAIGNers’ ground-breaking approach overcomes these drawbacks by implementing a ‘goal-setting network’, where over 100,000 citizens receive and create challenges to try out tailored adaptations to their daily routines via an engaging app. Their responses to these challenges, associated treatments, and short questionnaires will deliver unprecedented data of behavioural processes, (local) barriers to change, and motivators, allowing for empirically-based scientific support of cities in crafting policies to encourage low-carbon lifestyles. Together with local, national and EU policy makers insights are analysed regarding the ‘right-level-to-act’ and policy-ready recommendations are jointly derived. A workshop in the EU Parliament, hosted by First-Vice President Ms. McGuinness, and supported by 9 more MEPs from 6 countries and 4 political parties, will ensure high-level feedback and contribute to consensus building.