AGISTIN (Horizon Europe project)

The AGISTIN project brings 14 organizations together to address urgent challenges for industrial grid users, grid operators, renewable developers, storage manufacturers by: ✓ Reducing pressure on grid connection capacity and grid reinforcement requirements for new renewables and industrial demand, beneficial to all grid users and grid operators. ✓ Enabling major classes of industrial grid users to economically integrate significantly more renewables on-site than traditional integration approaches, through DC coupling. ✓ Supporting the grid by providing advanced grid services such as grid forming control, fast frequency response and balancing flexibility that supports grid operators in operating low inertia grids and reducing curtailment of renewables within the emerging European market framework. ✓ Avoiding delay in the electrification and decarbonisation of society using increasingly sustainable approaches, resulting in Mt of CO2 avoided per annum. The project will: ✓ Demonstrate the performance and value of innovative energy storage technologies providing flexibility and grid services ✓ Design advanced grid interfaces to integrate energy storage with industrial grid users and on-site generation, resulting in potential for enhanced economic and technical performance ✓ Demonstrate the technical feasibility of the innovative coupling of multiple forms of energy storage, production and demands into innovative energy systems and novel grid topologies ✓ Enable innovative storage, coupled through the proposed advanced grid integration technologies, to provide the new grid services needed in the energy transition ✓ Reduce material use and embedded emissions by innovative approaches of energy storage integration with industrial grid users. ✓ Propose innovative business models to easily enable energy storage integration with significant grid users