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Alessandra Cuneo, MUSE GRIDS Coordinator from RINA Consulting provides an overview of what has happened within the project in the last months. How did the recent Covid-19 crisis impact the overall work of MUSE GRIDS? Even if the current COVID-19 outbreak has had a big impact in Europe, MUSE GRIDS project has not been affected consistently. The Consortium continued to work on MUSE GRIDS...

Leen Peeters from Th!nk-E provides updated on the progress in the demosite of Oud-Heverlee in the last months. How did the recent Covid-19 crisis impact your work in MUSE GRIDS? The engagement with the end consumers was substantially impacted by the lock down. Since mid-June, installation of devices is possible again and hence we are about to install the second hybrid heat pump in the...

We had a talk with Prof Johanna Hoffken and Natascha van Bommel, PhD student from the Technical University of Eindhoven. They are responsible for measuring the social impact of MUSE GRIDS in its physical and virtual demosites. How did the recent Covid-19 crisis impact your work in MUSE GRIDS? Some of our field research activities have changed slightly, and we have adjusted our planning...

Eva Jacques from Glen Dimplex updated us on the work of Glen Dimplex in Osimo and Oud-Heverlee. What have been the updates in your work since last December? We’ve been continuing to monitor the SETS (Smart Electric Thermal Storage) appliances which were installed earlier in Osimo towards the end of 2019.  Last month one of our engineers visited Oud Heverlee and, alongside the...

We had a talk with Sabrina Hastings Mela from the European Association for Storage of Energy, responsible for planning and implementing the communication and dissemination activities within MUSE GRIDS. What have been the updates in your work since last December? The year has started in full speed for EASE within MUSE GRIDS! In January we have started applying for participation in...

Leen Peeters from Th!nk-E explains what has happened in Oud-Heverlee since last December. What have been the updates in Osimo/Oud-Heverlee since last December? Meters have been installed and people have been invited to an event to explain the concepts that will be rolled out as of September. The event included a visit to a wind turbine in the morning and a barbeque in the evening, with...

We had a talk with Prof Johanna Hoffken and Natascha van Bommel, PhD student from the Technical University of Eindhoven. They are responsible for measuring the social impact of MUSE GRIDS in its physical and virtual demosites. What have been the updates in in your social impact work since last December? In February, we went to our virtual demonstration sites in Spain: Valladolid and San...

We had a talk with Prof Johanna Hoffken from the Technical University of Eindhoven. responsible for measuring the social impact of MUSE GRIDS in the two demosites of Osimo and Oud-Heverlee. What have been the updates in Osimo/Oud-Heverlee since last September? Since the last update, we have studied social key performance indicators in Osimo and Oud-Heverlee. The set of social key...

Matteo Lorenzetti from ASTEA gave us some news about what has been happening in Osimo since the last Newsletter. What have been the updates in Osimo since last September? First Installations of the components necessary to implement, test and validate the MUSE GRID control architecture are already started (smart water meters; advance metering and control infrastructure). The executive...

Leen Peeters from Th!nk-E explains what has happened in Oud-Heverlee since last September, underlining how important it is to involve people within energy communities. What have been the updates in Osimo/Oud-Heverlee since last September? Meters have been installed and people have been invited to an event to explain the concepts that will be rolled out as of September. The event...