FLEXITRANSTORE aims to develop a next generation of Flexible Energy Grid, to provide the technical basis for the valorization of flexibility services, enhancing the existing European Internal Energy Market. ED is the project coordinator and responsible for the development of a wholesale market platform to provide flexibility services and support cross border auctioning and trading of energy. The platform will allow national electricity markets (bidding zones) following different market models, to participate in the common market, optimizing the coordination, the security and maximizing the social welfare of the integrated market.

BENEFFICE leverages novel IoT-enabled, low-cost, “plug-and-play” devices, energy disaggregation and an innovative empowerment and rewards approach based on an alternative monetary currency, so as to change consumers’ energy consumption behavior. ED is the project coordinator and adapts its IoT-based platform of esthes.isTM to allow easy deployment and integration of sensing infrastructure, thus capturing the users’ activities related with energy consumption, and subsequently providing recommendations of changing their behavior on energy efficiency.

Under Grand Agreement Preparation. The INTERRFACE project will design, develop and exploit an Interoperable pan-European Grid Services Architecture (IEGSA) to act as the interface between the power system (TSO and DSO) and the customers and allow the seamless and coordinated operation of all stakeholders to use and procure common services. INTERRFACE will demonstrate for the first time in the power sector the added value of sharing data among all?participants in the electricity system value chain (customers, grids, market), from local, regional to EU level. It will also enable TSOs, DSOs and customers to coordinate their efforts to maximise the potential of distributed energy resources (DERs), demand aggregators and grid assets, so as to procure energy services in a cost-efficient way and create consumer benefits. The consortium consists of 42 partners from many European countries, including TSOs, DSOs, Regulator, Associations, Market Operators, Aggregators, ESCOs, Universities, etc. INTERRFACE will prove its concept through large-scale real-life demonstrators.

To achieve its energy goals EU needs to establish a geographically large market by initially improving its cross-border electricity interconnections. A geographically large market, based on imports and exports of electricity, could increase the level of competition, boost the EU’s security of electricity supply and integrate more renewables into energy markets.

Electricity should, as far as possible, flow between Member States as easily as it currently flows within Member States, so as to increase sustainability potential and real competition as well as to drive economic efficiency of the energy system. To this end, FARCROSS aims to address this challenge by connecting major stakeholders of the energy value chain and demonstrating integrated hardware and software solutions that will facilitate the “unlocking” of the resources for the crossborder electricity flows and regional cooperation. The project will promote state-of-the-art technologies to enhance the exploitation/capacity/efficiency of transmission grid assets, either on the generation or the transmission level. The hardware and software solutions will increase grid observability to facilitate system operations at a regional level, exploit the full potential of transmission corridors for increased electricity flows that will facilitate transition to flow-based regional market coupling, consider cross-border connections and their specific ICT and grid infrastructure, planning to use a wide-area protection approach to ensure the safe integration of renewable energy sources into the grid, mitigate disturbances, increase power system stability. An innovative regional forecasting platform will be demonstrated for improved prognosis of renewable generation and demand response and a capacity reserves optimization tool will be tested to maximize cross-border flows. The non-harmonization of national regulation will be studied and measures will be recommended to avoid distortion of the technology benefits.