CoMs 72, May 2025, Cyprus

On 20 and 21 May, the EUREC College of Members was held in Cyprus, hosted by EUREC members University of Cyprus / PHAETHON Centre of Excellence.

AGENDA

Day 1: Masters Steering Committee and Internal Affairs

Internal Affairs session video recording

 Introduction of new members

Result of the CERBUX vs EUREC court case: implications for EUREC

The case relates to a 2016 rental contract dispute. EUREC and other parties won. CERBUX appealed. The result of the appeal will be known before the College of Members and communicated. Opportunity now to discuss the implications.

Board Elections: elected Board members

  • Chong Ng, ORE Catapult
  • Kaining Ding, FZ Jülich
  • Karina Veum, TNO
  • Michael Kreuz, DLR
  • Monica Axell, RISE
  • Simon Camal, PERSEE

Policy & projects session

Intel & lobby

Presentation (Greg, Nicolas)

  • Space in the market for innovative renewables campaign (Greg)
  • Data sharing campaign (Greg)
  • Latest on Horizon Europe, FP10 / Competitiveness Fund (Nicolas, Greg)

Status on brokerages (Greg)

Presentation Masters & related work (Nathalie)

Presentation Looking back on 3 years of support to ETIP and IWG secretariats and forward to the last two years of Horizon Europe (Andrej, Nicolas, and Anna (slide for SET4H2)

Day 2: EUREC & EERA Joint Programme Smart Grids – Common Workshops hosted by PHAETHON CoE

Welcoming messages

Energy transition objectives of EU

  • The strategic objectives for energy of Cyprus for 2030, Yerasimos Yerasimou, Officer of Energy Service, Ministry of Energy, Commerce and Industry of Cyprus – presentation
  • The strategic importance of meeting the EU 2030 energy targets – Luciano Martini, Chair of EERA JP SG and RSE Italy – presentation

Discussing the energy transition strategic objectives for 2030 on energy with the stakeholders of Cyprus

Coordinator: Wolfram Sparber, President, EUREC; Head of Institute for Renewable Energy, Eurac Research – presentation

Steps taken towards the opening of the competitive market of Cyprus – Stavros Stavrinos – Executive Director of the Transmission System Operator Cyprus (TSOC), Dr. Constantinos Varnava – Electricity Market Manager of TSOC) – presentation 1 & presentation 2

Lessons learned from grid operation and electricity markets studies in the EU, and identified challenges to be adhered to – Irina Oleinikova of EERA JP SG and NTNU – presentation

Discussing the lessons learned from the operation of the electricity market in EU and how these can help Cyprus to initiate operation smoothly.

Coordinator: Tara Esterl, Vice-President, EUREC; Head of Competence Unit Integrated Energy Systems, AIT

Managing the reliability of the grid in Cyprus during high penetration of RES – Antonis Lazari, Network Engineer of Transmission System Operator of Cyprus – presentation

Adaption of technologies and systems to achieve optimal use of resources on the onset of high-RES penetration – Graeme Burt – University of Strathclyde – presentation

Discussing the high-RES integrated system of the island of Cyprus

Coordinators: Jorge Joven, CIRCE and Venizelos Efthymiou, PHAETHON

Using valuable flexibility resources such as storage systems for managing effectively the onset of high RES in the interconnected system – Ioannis Papageorgiou, DSO, Cyprus – presentation

Challenges and solutions to make Smart Grids the enabler of the energy transition in the EU: key insights from the EERA JP SG White Paper presented by Mattia Cabiati (RSE), Venizelos Efthymiou (PHAETHON CoE) and Kari Maki (VTT). – presentation

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