The Australian offshore wind sector is expanding, yet lacks a comprehensive, high-resolution national assessment of past and projected ocean wind climate. Understanding climate patterns over the next 30-50 years is vital for resource planning, safety, and the resilience of offshore wind infrastructure. This study applies the Bureau of Meteorology Atmospheric Regional Projections for Australia (BARPA) Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) seven-model ensemble to assess surface wind speed projections and their effect on offshore wind energy production. Across declared offshore wind farm regions, the projected signal of change is small and generally lower than seasonal and inter-annual variability. Areas with slight reductions in wind power density and production also show minor increases in variability, which may reduce turbine efficiency. These changes, however, fall within the uncertainty range of climate model projections, leaving future wind resource trends uncertain. Western Australia is an exception, showing a notable wintertime decrease in wind power density under both low-and high-emission scenarios. Overall, the reliability of wind energy production remains largely unaffected, with only slight reductions in the next 30 to 50 years, ranging from 0.1% to 2.6%, depending on the region.
This paper deals with subjects that are of essential concern to European and Spanish industries, and in doing so, it does not overlook social solidarity. In these stormy, crisis ridden times, recipes that applied to our more peaceful times are no longer of any practical use. This all calls for a change in the relationship between the individual and the organization. A new moral contract emerges, where the employee will not necessarily find that his loyal dedication is always rewarded by his being given a full time job for life. It will rather lead to conditions that allow continuous employability on an individual basis. The new concept of the social Europe takes solidarity as a down-to-earth condition for overcoming the crisis, instead of regarding it as support for conditions which may not be sympathethic towards today?s new realities. There is a need for competitiveness to be restored in European industry, but that competitiveness must be made to be compatible with the social and economic cohesion that characterises the European growth model.
This deliverable analyses lessons from energy applications, platforms, initiatives, and regulations to design a sustainable, consumer-focused energy ecosystem. The insights support the development of the ECLIPSE Common European Reference Framework (CERF), which will be tested in pilot sites. The analysis shows that energy monitoring has the potential to save energy and reduce energy billing. The applications and platforms provide personalised data in real-time, mostly from smart meters, such as energy consumption, historical data, carbon footprint, energy costs, and power demand. The applications also provide information about the customer’s environmental impact, power outages, energy-saving recommendations, and smart consumption advice. To improve existing Apps and platforms, new features such as energy efficiency benchmarks, billing simulations, consumption alerts, and maintenance tools are recommended. User-friendly design and open data formats will enhance transparency, security, and innovation. Real-time updates and IoT technologies will support data collection and monitoring. On the regulatory side, CERF aligns with EU policies promoting consumer empowerment, energy sharing, and real-time data access. Key directives focus on decarbonization, grid resilience, and infrastructure security, but challenges like interoperability and technological gaps remain. The project emphasizes AI, smart contracts, digital infrastructure, and cross-border collaboration to accelerate the energy transition and meet EU climate goals. In other words, the analysis of this deliverable suggests the importance of implementing a Common European Reference Framework that integrates different solutions in an efficient way to address the needs of all energy users and stakeholders and reach a win-win situation. Overall, the report highlights the importance of digital technology in mitigating the impact of environmental and geo-political challenges and engaging citizens as active participants in finding solutions to current problems. The insights and recommendations from this analysis serve as a strong foundation for developing the ECLIPSE Common European Reference Framework (CERF), which will be designed and developed in the next stages of the project and tested and validated at the project's pilot sites.
Power Line Communication (PLC) systems are facing increasing security threats as adversaries leverage low-cost Software-Defined Radios (SDRs) to launch physical-layer attacks, e.g., jamming and Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF), for communication disruption and unauthorized device tracking, respectively. This paper investigates the dual role of Radio Frequency (RF) wireless jamming for PLC environments, through two distinct scenarios: (i) friendly RF jamming for privacy preservation of (cabled) PLC devices against unauthorized RFF, and (ii) adversarial RF jamming to degrade the performance of legitimate RFF-based authentication systems. We conducted various systematic experiments using nine USRP X310 SDRs connected to actual PLC couplers exchanging signals modulated according to the Binary-Phase Shift Keying modulation scheme to analyze the behavior of RFF in PLC scenarios under different RF jamming levels. Our results demonstrate, for the first time, that strategic RF jamming effectively obscures device fingerprints in cabled PLC communications while maintaining communication quality, with bit error rates remaining acceptable across most configurations. We also demonstrate that device identification accuracy degrades significantly as the jamming intensity increases. Our findings establish fundamental trade-offs between privacy protection and authentication reliability, providing insights for the design of robust PLC systems.
This project management handbook defines how the ECLIPSE project will be executed, monitored and controlled, providing a summarized framework of the project and its purpose. The management plans represent the foundations for executing the project, including (i) project work plan together with pert chart and Gantt chart; (ii) work breakdown structure (WBS) detailing tasks, schedule, responsible partners and related deliverables; and (iii) required project efforts in person-months per work package and per task. Moreover, the project management plan describes the roles of different actors in the project management structure, the meeting schedules and template agendas for meetings and gives guidelines for performing the day-to-day project management activities, including (i) instructions and templates for technical reporting on activity and WP level; (ii) instructions and templates for administrative reports; and (iii) templates and naming/numbering conventions for technical and administrative files and documents. The purpose of this document is, therefore, to provide the guidelines, information and recommendations needed in order to facilitate the cooperation and exchange of information among partners in an efficient and agile way.
