The FlexRICAN project unites three ESFRI infrastructures, three academic institutions and two industrial partners from Europe to bring sustainable solutions to large research infrastructures.
FlexRICAN will demonstrate how research infrastructures as electro-intensive actors can enhance energy flexibility for the European electrical grid and contribute to local heating networks through Waste Heat Recovery projects.
Research Infrastructures (RIs) are facilities with energy-intensive consumption and often non‑average demand profiles. All of this is driven by the complex scientific equipment being used, their strict operational requirements, and, for many RIs, the need to run as many hours as possible to provide availability to their users for decades.
The 4th FlexRICAN Consortium Meeting was held on March 11-13 in Nijmegen, Netherlands. HFML-FELIX of EMFL, a member of the FlexRICAN consortium, hosted the three-day event running from noon to noon. The first day of the event focused on the meeting objectives and the reporting by Work Package (WP) Leaders.
The FlexRICAN project reached its halfway point at the end of August 2025. This period proved crucial not only for the project timeline but also for the successful completion of several key deliverables and milestones. One of these deliverables is the Global Plan for Potential Exploitable Results (GPPER). As indicated
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