About the project

The SMILE project will demonstrate smart energy technologies on three different islands.

The pilot Islands

The pilot islands share topographic characteristics but have different policies, challenges, regulations and energy markets.

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Partners

The SMILE project is a collaboration of nineteen partners from various European countries and includes companies, research institutions, regional government and cluster organisations.

The Smart Islands Energy System (SMILE) project is a collaboration of nineteen partners from various European countries and is funded by the European Union’s ‘Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme’. The project will demonstrate nine different smart grid technologies on three different islands.The end goal of the project is to foster the market introduction of these nine technologies.

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SMart IsLand Energy systems – every story has an end…

Every story has an end. This is also the case for the H2020 SMILE project. The project started in May 2017 in Brussels. Now, four and a half years later, the project finished but it is only the beginning of another story: actually, the SMILE results are expected to be...

Energy Business Meetings at OMC 2021

On October 5 & 6, H2020 SMILE is participating at the B2B event Energy Business Meetings at OMC 2021. This event is approaching, among others, renewables, energy efficiency, low carbon economy to circular economy, in order to increase the awareness about the...

About the project

The Smart Islands Energy System project (SMILE) will demonstrate nine different smart energy technologies on three different islands. The end goal of the project is to foster the market introduction of these nine technologies.
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The pilot Islands

The Smart Islands Energy Systems (SMILE) project will implement three large-scale pilot projects in different regions of Europe with similar topographic characteristics but different policies, challenges, regulations and energy markets. This enables the project to develop and optimize new innovations in different environments, thereby allowing optimal testing and flatten the path towards wide market introduction.

Samsø (Denmark)

Madeira (Portugal)

Orkney Islands (UK)

Our partners

The SMILE project is a collaboration of nineteen partners from various European countries and includes companies, research institutions, regional governments and cluster organisations.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731249.

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