Please find below selected joint research projects from EURAMET's European Metrology Research Programmes (EMRP and EMPIR) that are related to Smart Electricity Grids:


Current projects

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Metrology for electric vehicle charging systems

Met4EVCS

The European Commission strives to make Europe the first climate-neutral country by 2050. To support this goal, a competitive and sustainable transpor...

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Support for standardisation of sample-by-sample waveform uncertainty computation

SBS Uncert

Today’s key technologies for communications are based on the analysis of digitally modulated signals, used to describe, distribute and process informa...

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Completed projects

Measurement methods and test procedures for assessing accuracy of instrument transformers for power quality measurements

IT4PQ

Renewable electricity can cause grid-injected disturbances, damaging power quality (PQ). PQ represents the grids ability to supply constant, stable po...

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Metrology for future energy transmission

FutureEnergy

Electricity travels over transmission networks as alternating current (AC) at high voltages to help minimise energy losses, currently equivalent to 15...

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Standardisation of measurements for DC electricity grids

DC grids

Incumbent electricity grid infrastructures, designed when large thermal power generation, distributed by alternating current, was the norm, effectivel...

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Metrology for digital substation instrumentation

Digital-IT

As the use of decentralised renewable energy grows, so too does the need for real-time control and monitoring of energy networks. Renewable sources ar...

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