
On the 10th and 11th of September we had kick-off in the project South Baltic Digital Electromobility Enabling Services (SBEES).
In the project, which is co-financed by the EU South Baltic Interreg Programme, we will develop four services that will be necessary for the planning of the expansion of charging infrastructure, power grids, and power generation for electromobility.
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The Background of SBEES
The Rapid Change to Electric Vehicles
The EU has decided to ban the sales of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035 and rapidly phase out diesel trucks starting immediately. The phasing out of trucks will be done through a reduction of the emission levels that are allowed through a series of cuts starting in 2030. Truck manufacturers will need to reduce emissions or face large fines if they fail to sell enough electric trucks to reach the lower levels. They need to start to increase sales of electric trucks immediately to build demand for these vehicles.
The rapidly increasing fleets of electric vehicles will need very large amounts of electricity and power grid capacity for charging, much more than is available in any country. In total 40-45% of all power generated in the EU would be needed for transportation if all vehicles were electric. At present three percent of cars and less than one percent of trucks are electric.
Charging infrastructure will need to expand dramatically and the expansion of charging will increase the demand for power and grid capacity to unexpected levels. Utilities, municipalities, real estate companies, and many other types of companies and organizations that will take part in the change will need tools to map the need for charging and power storage, the utilisation of chargers will need to be monitored to identify areas where investments are needed, and Vehicle-to-Grid charging facilities that can support the grid with additional capacity need to be developed.
In case hydrogen would be used as a fuel, twice as much electricity will be needed for the production of hydrogen. If all vehicles in the EU would be driven on hydrogen, almost 100% of the electricity generated at present would have to be used for this purpose. SBEES will NOT develop services to plan the change to hydrogen fuelled transportation.
In SBEES four services will be developed, and they will be made publicly available.
One mapping service
One monitoring service
One service for the calculation of power storage needs
One service for vehicle-to-grid support
The project manager of SBEES, Mats Larsson, has since 2005 run a series of projects and written ten books to explore the amounts of resources, investments, and activities that will be needed to change to electric vehicles on a large scale.
His first book on the subject was “Global Energy Transformation” in 2009 and the latest is “The Severe Economic and Social Consequences of the Rapid Change to Electric Vehicles,” published in 2024.
Over the years he has built a network of contacts with organizations, companies, and experts that share his interest and that are also developing tools, services, and knowledge for the expansion of electromobility. Some of these organizations and companies are now partners of SBEES.
The Four Services to Be Developed
At present utilities, municipalities, governments, and other parties that will take a key role in the change to electric vehicle systems do not have a picture of the amount of charging infrastructure and grid capacity that will be needed, and where charging will need to take place. In SBEES we will develop services and tools that can be used to map the need for infrastructure expansion and reinforcement, monitor the utilisation of chargers, and plan the implementation of storage facilities for energy over different periods of time, and charging systems that can also, when needed, deliver electricity back to the grid.
The services that will be developed in SBEES are:
Mapping Service
A service for the mapping of the need for chargers and grid capacity in different parts of cities and towns.
Monitoring Service
This service will help with the monitoring of the use of existing public and semi-public chargers in areas in cities and towns to see where utilisation is high and where capacity expansion may be needed.
Storage Mapping Service
This service will help with the mapping of the need for storage facilities over short and long periods of time.
Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Service
This will be a control service for vehicle-to-grid charging and support of the grid through V2G chargers.
10 Partners
The partnership consists of 10 project partners:
IUC Syd, Sweden – Lead Partner
University of Stralsund, Germany – Responsible for storage mapping service
Chargex, Sweden – Responsible for monitoring service
P Malmö, Sweden – Responsible for vehicle-to-grid service
Klaipeda University, Lithuania - Responsible for preparing services for implementation in Lithuania
Gdansk University of Technology, Poland – Co-responsible for service implementation in Poland
City of Gdansk, Poland - Co-responsible for service implementation in Poland
Ostfalia University, Germany – Responsible for service implementation in Germany
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark – Co-responsible for service implementation in Denmark
Green Power Denmark, Danish E-Mobility, Denmark – Co-responsible for service implementation in Denmark
Project Duration
The project will last for three years (June 2024 to May 2027) and the budget is almost 2 million euro.


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