News & Events

New STORY highlight paper on Energy Storage

The brandnew STORY whitepaper / highlight report  “Energy Storage  – Our take on business models and regulation”, published in May 2019 – is now ready to download in the RESULTS / DISSEMINATION MATERIAL area of the STORY webpage.

Webinar on Regulation for Storage

On May 16th 2019 Vlerick Business School proposed a webinar on Regulation for Storage as part of their work as  work package leaders in ‘WP8: Business Preconditions’. The aim of the webinar was to provide an overview of the main regulatory issues that affect the roll-out of storage. The topics treated in the webinar were: […]

Presidential visit to STORY demo site in Slovenia

The STORY demo in the residential area in Suha, Slovenia had the honour to receive very high level visitors on Friday 24th May, when the Slovenian and Finnish Presidents visited the site as part of the official visit of the Finnish President to Slovenia. STORY had a role as a shining example of the co-operation […]

Visualized interview with STORY WP leaders

Minimizing the energy grid exchange in a neighbourhood via Model Predictive Control of heat pumps and batteries: First insights for PV expansion scenarios

In the STORY project, a pilot in Belgium is investigating the smart control of flexible devices, including storage, in a residential neighbourhood. The STORY partner ACTILITY has developed several use cases within the pilot, including the minimization of the electricity exchange between the neighbourhood, supplied by a single low voltage (LV) distribution grid feeder, and […]

New STORY highlight paper on community batteries

The brandnew STORY highlight paper – the report on community batteries – is now ready to download in the RESULTS / DISSEMINATION MATERIAL area of the STORY webpage.

STORY: First results of boiler and ORC at wood processing company Beneens

At our demonstration site in Olen, Belgium, Beneens in cooperation with VITO has installed a new wood fired boiler (1.6 MW) with a planned heat delivery of 145°C. This boiler uses waste wood from the company and from other companies in the neighborhood and is connected to an ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle) to produce electricity […]

Short- and long-term thermal energy storage in a residential setting, new blog by VITO

The energy system of the residential demonstrator in Oud-Heverlee is equipped with different types of hot-water vessels used for thermal energy storage. These storage units offer, combined with the solar collectors, the possibility to increase the production and the self-consumption of locally produced renewable energy. It is evident that mismatches between generation by solar collectors […]

Seminar: Business Models and Regulation for Storage, organized by Vlerick

  The H2020 STORY project demonstrates how energy storage can be used and integrated into current power systems. In a framework where different actors can use storage assets it is essential to identify the business models and regulation that make storage sustainable. How can users at a residential, industrial and network level make use of […]

In-depth interoperability through embedded connected digital twins, new blog by UCL

A digital twin refers to a digital replica of physical assets (physical twin), processes, people, places, systems and devices that can be used for various purposes. In STORY, its in-depth interoperability architecture positions embedded digital twins between reality and service-providing IT such as the actual controls, monitoring, diagnostics, etc. The digital twin is the sole access […]

Energy savings with model predictive control – The STORY Approach

Energy management is a challenging task. The use of model predictive control (MPC) as a control strategy for energy management has proven to be an effective mechanism and is described as an approach that is based on predictions and is able to provide the most desirable future outcome while taking into account the given constraints […]

STORY at Energy Days 2018 in Vienna

Heribert Vallant from STORY spoke at the “Stationary Energy Storage” conference during the imh Energy Days 2018 in Vienna about measures to protect the energy storage components in the distribution grid against cyber-attacks.The increasing digitization of the energy grid allows criminal hackers to attack the energy system at different levels and to exploit weak points […]