Valuing impacts of actions
Companies need to assess the overall impact of their sustainability actions in the economic, environmental, social or regulatory frames. The technical projects of the European Union or of multilateral organisations include the assessment of impact as one of the basic criteria for approval. Likewise, companies must protect their social and environmental reputation by valuing the impact of their actions. Qi Arrow proposes sustainability actions, assesses their impact and provides visibility and enhanced reputation to green companies.
Related Projects
Start Date: 2020
End Date: 2023
INCIT-EV
INCIT-EV, a EUR 18.6 million project led by RENAULT, aims to demonstrate an innovative set of charging infrastructures, technologies and their associated business models, ready to improve the EV user experience beyond early adopters, thus fostering the EV market share in the EU.
Five demo environments in urban, peri-urban and extra-urban conditions will be ready for the deployment of seven use cases, addressing: smart and bi-directional charging optimised at different aggregation levels, a dynamic wireless charging lane in an urban area, dynamic wireless charging for long distance (e-road prototype for TEN-T corridors), charging Hub in a park and ride facility, superfast charging systems for EU corridors, low-power DC bi-directional charging infrastructure for EVs, including two-wheelers and opportunity wireless charging for taxi queue lanes in airports and central stations.
With 33 participants, Qi has been assigned as WP9 leader and participates in a total of 15 tasks. WP9 intends to generate economic analysis of the five demos and seven use cases to find sustainable business models and a roadmap to speed up the introduction of the proven technologies in the marketplace.
Start Date: 2017
End Date: 2020
ITE
The Institute of Energy Technology of Valencia (ITE), hired Qi to reorganize its third-party services and identify the lines of strategic interest aligned with the new trends in European research programmes; specifically, identification of strategic research lines and related collaborative projects, internal reorganization associated with the new lines, identification of topics of interest in the European R&D framework programmes (Horizon2020 and HorizonEurope) and preparation of proposals including business models for the associated emerging technologies (impact section).
Start Date: 2016
End Date: 2019
CL WINDCON
CL-Windcon addressed multi-fidelity dynamic modelling and open and closed-loop advanced control algorithms at farm level by treating the entire wind farm as a comprehensive real-time optimisation problem. CL-Windcon has taken farm-level controls from the current non-existent or basic static approach to dynamic open and closed-loop control strategies.
Dynamic closed-loop wind farm control can deal with both time-varying inflow conditions and model mismatch/uncertainties, thereby removing important technological barriers. During the preparation phase, Qi elaborated the ‘impact assessment’ section and participated in the project as a partner, evaluating how the novel control algorithms affect the reliability of the wind farm. Qi also optimised the operation and maintenance costs, thereby easing the deployment of renewable wind energy within the energy mix and accelerating its roll-out. To finish, Qi evaluated the total economic worth of the new wind farm control algorithms, maximising the potential payoffs coming from the new technology and contributing to the European Security of Supply.
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