General information

Welcome to the SciGRID project webpage.

SciGRID is a three year project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the funding initative Zukunftsfähige Stromnetze. Its intention is to develop methods for the automated generation of models (i.e. maps) of existing electricity grids for research and other purposes. The focus will be on the European transmission grids, but the methods will be applicable more generally. Both the resulting methods and the derived data will be published free of charge under appropriate open source licenses in the course of the project and intends to increase the general availability of network models and their overall quality.

This project was initiated and is managed and performed by DLR Institute for Networked Energy Systems.

Project details:

Project title: Open Source Reference Model of European Transmission Networks for Scientific Analysis (Offenes Referenzmodell europäischer Übertragungsnetze für wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen)
Acronym: SciGRID (Scientific GRID)
Funding period: September 2014 - December 2017
Sponsoring body: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung), Germany
Funding code: 03SF0471
Project partner(s): DLR Institute for Networked Energy Systems (individual project)