Press invitation: Simulation will safeguard disturbance-free grid for ESS
Time: Thursday 23 February 11:15
Place: Auditorium in the ESS premises at Stora Algatan 4 in Lund
With world-leading simulation technology, a team of researchers from the university in Aachen, Germany, will secure the energy systems at European Spallation Source (ESS). The team will develop a simulation model in which the overall 130 kV grid and ESS are integrated. This technology will then make it possible to simulate different disturbances in real time and study how any impact on the grid and ESS can be avoided. The team will also investigate what opportunities exist for energy efficiency enhancement at ESS.
ESS, E.ON and Lunds Energi are now continuing the preliminary study on a sustainable energy solution by signing an agreement with RWTH Aachen University in Germany.
Please come to the ESS premises at Stora Algatan 4 in Lund on Thursday, 23 February at 11:15 to hear more about the partnership with RWTH Aachen University and the research assignment. The press meeting will be held in English.
The partnership agreement will also be signed by Professor Rik De Doncker from RWTH Aachen University, Colin Carlile, ESS Director General, Anders Olsson, vice MD of E.ON Nordic, and Sylvia Michel, CEO and MD of Lunds Energikoncernen.
If you are interested in visiting the area where ESS will be built, transportation will be arranged after the meeting and photo opportunities will be given.
Sandwiches and coffee will be served.
Welcome!
For more information, please contact: Marianne Ekdahl, Communications Officer Press & Politics, ESS, marianne.ekdahl@esss.se 046-222 83 89
Please notify us if you are interested in transportation to the ESS-site after the press meeting.
ESS IN SHORT:
The European Spallation Source – the next generation facility for materials research and life science
The European Spallation Source (ESS) will be a multi-disciplinary research laboratory based on the world’s most powerful neutron source. ESS can be likened to a large microscope, where neutrons are used instead of light to study materials – ranging from polymers and pharmaceuticals to membranes and molecules – to gain knowledge about their structure and function. ESS will be up to 100 times better than existing facilities, opening up new possibilities for researchers in for example health, environment, climate, energy, transport sciences and cultural heritage.
ESS is an intergovernmental research infrastructure project, and it will be built in Lund in southern Scandinavia. At least 17 European countries will take part in the construction, financing and operation of the ESS. Sweden and Denmark will co-host the ESS and cover 50 percent of the 1,4 B€ investment costs and 20 percent of the operating costs together with the Nordic and Baltic states.
The European Spallation Source ESS AB is a public limited company, today owned by the Swedish and the Danish states. ESS AB is currently working on finalizing the ESS technical design, planning the future research at ESS, preparing for construction, and planning the future international ESS organisation. This is done in collaboration with a large number of international research institutes and laboratories. Construction is expected to start in 2013, the first neutrons to be produced in 2019 and the facility to be fully operational around 2025.
ESS is expected to support a user community of at least 5000 European researchers and will have great strategic importance for the development of the European Research Area. Near by there will be complementary laboratories, such as the synchrotron MAX IV in Lund and XFEL and PETRAIII in Hamburg.
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