The general objective of the project could be summarized as follows: study, development, and evaluation of energy efficiency, clean environment, and also a full chain of solution approaches of energy related topics, for the support of the use of Green Energy in aspects of public interest (electric energy production, energy use in the buildings and electric mobiles)

The objectives of each partner are:

CPERI:

• optimization of the overall efficiency, and reduction of the CO2 footprint of the lignite power plants (by replacing partially the lignite with biomass)
• optimization of the management methods and combustion of biomass and byproducts
• promotion and optimization of co-producing technologies for the production of heat and power in central and decentralized plants
• capturing technologies, usage of CO2 in combination with water as raw material for the production of solar fuel
• development of advanced control systems of motor emissions and measurement taking/evaluation according to international standards
• development and evaluation of advanced catalyst systems for a wide range of energy applications
• development of biomass upgrading technology from low grade biomass to low and medium scale reactors
• production of biofuel from micro-algae and yeast cells, and also segregation and recovery of useful chemicals from bio-oils, using advanced segregation technologies
• automation and interconnection of power producing systems, and energy carriers of appropriate clients

ITI:

ITI will extend it’s current infrastructure with a multi-usage building, unique in Greece, which will become the so called “Energy Smart House”. This building, that will be designed and implemented during the project, will give an important strategic advantage to the institute, on the very high priority (in the EU list) section of examination/definition of optimization strategies for building energy usage. The results will immediately be available for use in households or businesses.

The two basic actions for achieving the functionality and utilization of the “Energy Smart House” are:

• In-depth study and analysis of the correlation between the users’ behavior and the energy consumption of the building
• Monitoring the interactions of the users with all the devices of the house and creating report models, which will be useful to the designing of new more energy efficient “Energy Smart Houses”

HIT:

HIT will extend it’s current infrastructure and will upgrade it’s technologic equipment by:

• the creation of an electric vehicle charging station, with a capacity of four 4-wheeled vehicles
• the year-long-leasing of two electric vehicles and the upgrade of the electric motorbikes and bicycles it already possesses
• the equipment of the aforementioned vehicles with suitable systems, for the collection of data, which will be sent automatically/regularly to the data collection center, allowing the dynamic communication of vehicle-infrastructure
• the upgrade of the dynamic motorcycle-car simulators, so that the movement of the electric vehicles can be simulated in order to train the drivers
• the upgrade of the Mobile Environmental Lab of HIT for the development of a detailed computation model of air pollution

 INA:

INA will extend and upgrade it’s current laboratory infrastructure in order to produce biomass and substances from plants and microorganisms. The suggested project has these goals:

• The use of yeast stems for the production of added value substances (cell factory)
• The use of micro-algae at a high density system of biomass or oil production for biofuel
• The evaluation and selection of plants that are cultivated extensively, which will yield high quality and large quantites of biofuel.