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B.4 The consortium and project resources
Participants’ adequacy, dedication & complementarity:
Previous collaboration:
The Scientific partners have already collaborated or exchanged their knowledge, in the past on bilateral or
trilateral level.
· One of the Professors of the UTBM, which is also the scientific coordinator of the project, has been for many
years a permanent researcher of ISSIA-CNR. Moreover, one reasercher of ISSIA-CNR has worked for some
months with a grant at the University of Nottingham, UK.
· One researcher of ISSIA-CNR has worked together with a researcher of the University of Maribor, Slovenia
during some months at the Institute of Automatic Control of the Technical University of Braunshweig, Germany.
· One researcher of ISSIA-CNR is organising the special session IPEED (Intelligent Power Electronics and
Electrical Drives) for the IEEE EPE -PEMC ( International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference),
Portorosa, Slovenia, August 30 - September 1, 2006, which has been organized by the University of Maribor,
Slovenia.
· Nottingham University collaborated with ISSIA and university of Palermo.
Nottingham has a joint PHD student working at Nottingham who is also pursuing is PHd in Palermo on
co-ordinated control of active power fiters for applications in distributed generation systems.
In November 2004 a few staff went also to Palermo for an exchange of knowledge about power
electronics converter interfaces for distributed generation.
· Slovenian partners have also done a number of bilateral and multilateral projects with Maribor Universityon the
basis of RES, Electrical grid and power production. TCPE has a widely extended cooperation with both.Maribor
University and Elektro power company on the basis of common research activities. Some of staff previously
employed at University of Maribor moved to the TCPE. (Spin off company)

An opportunity for cooperation on a complete technological chain: “green on grids”
The project idea has been developed about 2 years ago and the core partners have met several times to fine tune the
project proposal. During this process links have been developed to an good level so as to achieve a collaboration
scheme so as to take advantage of a good blend of both scientific knowledge and applied product technology.
The project vision was to give an opportunity to realise a complete technological chain with innovative
technologies, so the partners would give the best of their know-how in their own field, but would cross-fertilise
their knowledge and extend their perception in being involved into a real-scale case, facing the verdict of the
exploitation field.

The choice also of the experimental showcase locations was made so as to give an opportunity to learn and achieve
results in places that are not conventional with regard to the huge urban life models , and imposing the constraint of
success with a high level of ecological performance.
Although in their topology and typology both networks operators are different , offering a high contrast for
experimental purposes, they are similar in the way they want to serve ecologically highly demanding communities.
The partnership concept has been to mix both research laboratories with SMEs in the narrow field of power
electronics, renewable energy sources, network control and safety. Each SME would be able to draw from the
scientific teams, and SMEs would have to support each other to achieve the satisfactory prototypes requiring a lot
of innovative features. The non SME network partner will offer also its operational knowledge to the benefits of the
other consortium members.
The consortium has high expectations about of the induced benefits of such cooperation bound to boost their level
of knowledge and practice to a higher stage and offering a significant breakthrough in their technologies while
offering solution for the expansion of RE on the conventional grids.

The 4 Smes (one spin-off backed up by a pool of Slovenian public and private companies) and 4 University
Laboratories from 4 different countries (Italy, Slovenia, UK, France) will invest motivation and a great level of
resources to achieve the objectives of the project. They will be assisted by very qualified subcontractors who will
contribute to the operations on the experimental sites and their sustainable post-project activities.

The inventory of their existing know-how and available resources (as shown on the following tables) show a
sufficient level to achieve a critical mass of means to guarantee a successful outcome of the project.
Special equipments for the test-cases will be made available with in view to show the targeted communities that the
concept of “green on grid” is achievable.