- A living lab with 500m² independent of the rest of the building for electricity, heat and air processing, illustrating the smart building concept. This allows setting up any regulation strategy, and keep the user inside the loop
- Decentralised energy production and network platform, with various sources and loads, which can be associated in several different power network topologies
- Supervision applied to energy platform (various available SCADA)
- Real-time simulation with Power Hardware in the Loop platform, using RT-Lab system from OPAL-RT (3 multi-cores targets) and two 10 kVA power interface among various equipment
- Another OPAL-RT simulator for power electronics converter emulation, with a much higher bandwidth, to validate the control strategy before realization
PREDIS is an innovation and training centre on distributed energy and smart grids. More specifically, it is a demonstration tool on the smart management of the energy representing physical energy networks as similar as possible to actual networks. This tool makes it possible to connect various modes of decentralised energy production to different uses through an expert monitoring system.
PREDIS occupies 2,500 m² in the buildings of the Grenoble INP – Ense³ school of engineering.
The PREDIS centre was jointly created by Ense³ and G2Elab, and is composed of a set of technological platforms geared towards production, distribution and uses of energy, which illustrate the "smart grid" concept and its derivatives, i.e. smart city, district and building.
The centre focuses on three aspects: training (not listed here), research and valorisation. It is at the heart of major regional and national French projects, which approved and/or certified PREDIS: the Renewable Energy cluster, Carnot Institute "Energies du Futur", and the Tenerrdis competitive cluster.
This centre has been set up with the cooperation of lecturers and researchers at Grenoble INP, scientific departments of UGA, and CNRS. A large number of partnerships are developed at PREDIS with the key players in the energy sector, CEA Grenoble and local authorities.