GTD hosted last week the 6th month progress meeting of the HiPERDNO project. 24 researchers from all around Europe attended to GTDs headquarter’s facilities in Barcelona. HiPERDNO is a 6.5M€ research and development collaborative project funded by European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme. HiPERDNO aims at developing High Performance Computing Technologies for the future Smart Distribution Networks. It involves 11 partners from 6 European countries. It started 1st February 2010 and will end 31st January 2013. For more information about the HiPERDNO project, please check http://www.hiperdno.eu/ The meeting took place in GTD headquarters in Barcelona and focused on the current progress of the 3 Workpackages (WP1-WP3) active this first year. • WP1 focuses on research & development of High Performance Computing (HPC) and communications for large-scale data processing in distribution networks. • WP2 goal is the research and development of scalable real-time state estimation to support novel DMS functionality • WP3 aims at the integration of HPC architecture & communications to enable novel DMS functionality and to provide proof of concept GTD is actively involved in WP1 and WP2. Inside WP1 GTD is doing research and development in data mining algorithms and feature extraction methods mainly for condition based maintance (CBM) for distribution networks. On WP2 GTD is defining the hierarchical architecture for SCADA and ICT resources of the future distribution networks. Other than HiPERDNO, GTD is also playing in smart grids R&D projects like LASTBEG (Large Scale Tool for Power Balancing in Electric Grid; FP7 project lead by Nanotech SAS), GAD (Gestión Activa de la Demanda; Spanish CENIT project lead by IBERDROLA DISTRIBUCIÓN ELÉCTRICA, S.A.) and DER-22@ Microgrid (ACC1Ó project lead by GTD itself). GTD is member of Futured, the Spanish Electrical Grid Platform.
