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SUNVIBE

Smart Upgraded iNverter architectures for Versatile and flexible Integration of PV-Based systEms

Suite5 in SUNVIBE

In SUNVIBE, Suite5 leads the work packages behind the project's transversal digital layer (WP10–WP11) and develops the SUNVIBE data space for PV–inverter–battery–grid integration. The work delivers a harmonised semantic model covering inverters, batteries, PV modules, EVs and demand-side resources, extending open standards and ontologies — IEC 61850, 61968 and 61970, SAREF4ENER and SAREF4GRID, SunSpec, OpenADR 3.0, Modbus and OCPP — to the flexibility concepts and emerging assets they currently model poorly. Around that model sits the machinery that makes it usable: a standards-based connector for harvesting inverter data over SunSpec Modbus, data governance, sovereignty and quality-enhancement services, an API gateway for sharing curated data with other components and stakeholders, and MQTT/Kafka publish–subscribe channels for raw real-time streams. The data space is deployed across all three pilots, in Finland, France and Spain, giving the project's predictive maintenance, digital twin and coordinated PV–storage tools a common view of the same assets.

Suite5 also develops SUNVIBE's data-driven predictive flexibility services: an application environment for aggregators and flexibility managers, built around a VPP Configuration Engine that groups distributed assets into market-compliant flexibility products. The engine works from AI-driven flexibility profiles and accounts for DER capabilities, location-specific constraints, contractual commitments and market participation thresholds, reconfiguring products as grid conditions, asset availability and market signals change. Both the data space and the flexibility services are Suite5-owned results, carried into the company's commercial portfolio after the project.

About the project

SUNVIBE develops smart, upgradeable inverter architectures for solar photovoltaic systems, built on European expertise. The goal is more efficient and more flexible integration of PV-based systems into the grid, while reducing Europe’s dependence on non-EU suppliers of a critical PV component.

The project validates its technology in three pilot environments. One is hosted in Finland by Solarigo at the Karpalosuo site near Haapajärvi, where an approximately 6 MW central inverter developed by Hitachi and assembled in Europe will be installed in 2028, with performance monitoring beginning in 2029. Pre-testing is carried out by Hitachi and Turku University of Applied Sciences.

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