2nd International SOLID-DER Conference on RES and DG
25-26 September 2008, Warsaw, Poland

Coordination Action to Consolidate RTD Activities
for Large-Scale Integration of DER
into the European Electricity Market
The integration of DER in the European electricity networks has become a key issue for energy producers, network operators, policy makers and the R&D community. In some countries it created already a number of challenges for the stability of the electricity supply system, thereby creating new barriers for further expansion of the share of DER in supply.

On the other hand in many Member States there exists still a lack of awareness and understanding of the possible benefits and role of DER in the electricity system, while environmental goals and security of supply issues ask more and more for solutions that DER could provide in the future.

The project SOLID-DER, a Coordination Action, will assess the barriers for further integration of DER, overcome both the lack of awareness of benefits of DER solutions and fragmentation in EU R&D results by consolidating all European DER research activities and report on its common findings.

In particular awareness of DER solutions and benefits will be raised in the new Member States, thereby addressing their specific issues and barriers and incorporate them in the existing EU DER R&D community.
The SOLID-DER Coordination Action will run from November 2005 to October 2008.

The projects’ aspiration is:
  1. To unite RTD forces to tackle key issues of DER integration by:
    • identifying both overall and specific priorities,
    • synchronising and distributing efforts, and
    • explaining the process to market players, technical and regulatory decision-makers

  2. and to establish an EU wide DER integration R&D community by including the NMS stakeholders into the existing ERA (European Research Area).