Today, our blog hosts a brief interview with Bogdan-Alexandru Onose, Vice President from IDEA.
Bogdan, welcome. We are happy to host you in the #meet the D-HYDROFLEX team blog series. IDEA is among the D-HYDROFLEX partners that are involved in HPP BRATIA demonstration and validation.
Q: Would you like to introduce yourself to get to know you?
A: My name is Bogdan-Alexandru Onose with a PhD. in Repowering Solutions for Photovoltaic Parks and a MSc. in Renewable Energy Sources, both from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania. My expertise covers a wide range of energy applications such as: renewable energy sources (mainly PV, wind, heat pumps), energy management, smart and micro-grids, energy storage, building modelling, digital twins, ICT, industry 4.0.
Q: Could you describe your company’s role on the project?
A: IDEA is an R&D NGO with active involvement in energy efficiency, renewable energy and energy management at building and systems level.
In D-HYDROFLEX project, IDEA has the role of the coordinator in the Romanian demonstrator(DEMO #2) – the Bratia Hydroelectric Power Plant and is responsible for the implementation and validation of the D-HYDROFLEX solutions.
Q: What are the main objectives of your contribution within D-HYDROFLEX?
A: The focus of IDEA within D-HYDROFLEX, is to help develop a fault detection and predictive maintenance system based on advanced data processing by using data from the SCADA system with a combination of algorithms will be used to detect and classify anomalies, as well as to detect tendencies and anticipate equipment deteriorating condition.
The second focus will be on energy production forecasting, based on available data related to the power station operation and heterogeneous and exogenous data related to the regional environment, with machine learning based algorithms to forecast the power station production at different time scales. These algorithms will be improved with market generated data to forecast revenues.
Q: What are the main challenges of your work on the project, and how do you tackle them?
A: One of the main challenges for IDEA in D-HYDROFLEX is to help develop and implement hybridization techniques that will be tested aiming to increase the flexibility of the DEMO#2 – BRATIA HPP by facilitating their connection to other RES via local smart grids and/or VPP.
Q: What do you expect from the project? How will the project affect the energy ecosystem?
A: The development of D-HYDROFLEX will provide further knowledge in Increasing smart readiness of the HPP for operation and preventive maintenance purposes. Also, hybridization techniques aimed to increase the flexibility of HPPs by facilitating their connection to other RES via local smart grids and/or VPP, will allow the IDEA team to extend their capabilities and offer a more complex support to local actors from industry and public sector.
IDEA’s national and international partnerships involve the most appropriate and diversified range of partners, in order to benefit from different profiles and specific expertise that produces relevant and high-quality results in the field of R&D, ICT and education, that can be easily transfer to local policy makers for development of improved platforms for micro-hydro energy actions and increase awareness of the end user.
Bogdan, thank you for being with us today!
Another # meet the D-HYDROFLEX team blog story is completed. Stay tuned to learn more on our workforce team!
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