The Shift2DC project reached a significant milestone as the project consortium successfully completed four days of intensive system integration testing at the EDF Living Lab in Paris, Saclay. The trials, which brought together experts from Eaton, EDF R&D, Schneider Electric, and CIRCE, focused on the project’s proprietary Energy Management System, known as EMS4DC. This system is a core component of the Horizon Europe-funded initiative, designed to modernize how electricity is managed in buildings, ports, and industrial sites.
The testing focused on the EMS4DC Energy Management System for DC which features:
- Traditional features: such as monitoring and operation optimization & control
- Adaptive Droop control: EMS4DC can adapt droop curves to the evolving DC system configuration to improve operation.
This week’s results in France are a critical achievement to the deployment of the Building Demonstrator, one of the project’s real-world pilot sites being implemented at Cegelec Nord Tertiaire, counting on the support of Romain Scolan and Mame Thiedel Thiongane.
By proving that the software can integrate seamlessly with hardware from multiple industrial leaders, the consortium is moving closer to creating stable, scalable DC grids that reduce energy conversion losses and facilitate easier integration of battery storage and solar power.
The collaborative effort featured a diverse technical team, including:
- Eaton: Leon Gritsyuk
- EDF R&D: Amel Addala Jullien, Ange Leonetti, Quentin Wohlschlegel, César Augusto Slongo, and Djawad HAMACHE
- Schneider Electric’s I DC Systems: Panos Kolios and Roukya Abdourahman
- CIRCE Technology Center
More about Shift2DC Building Demonstrator here.
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