ChArGED proposes a framework that aims to facilitate greater energy efficiency and reductions of wasted energy in public buildings. The framework leverages IoT-enabled devices to improve energy disaggregation mechanisms, whereas a social innovation process will be designed to help users understand the environmental implications of their actions. ED is the project coordinator and responsible for the application enablement platform (backend) development, as well as for the data/device/user management and complex event processing modules’ development, based on open-source tools.
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 is a part of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme and supports the EU Green Deal, the new EU growth strategy for a “greener” society. Its aim is to reduce wasted energy by changing the daily behaviour of people in their homes. The project leverages novel IoT-enabled, low-cost, and “plug-and-play” devices, energy disaggregation and an innovative motivation and rewards approach, based on an alternative digital currency, €Ο2!
ED is the project coordinator and adapts its IoT-based platform esthes.isTM to allow easy deployment and integration of sensing infrastructure, collection and storage of energy measurements and user preferences. Along with that, ED has undertaken the mobile application development, that allows the users to monitor their hourly, daily, weekly and monthly energy consumption and savings, receive personalised messages and recommendations related to energy efficiency and earn badges of different categories along with €Ο2 coins, which can be exchanged with Euros, through the CO2 app!
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 & DSO) and the customers and allow the seamless and coordinated operation of all stakeholders to use and procure common services. The vision is to support the energy transition and the trend towards digitalization of the power systems.
This new architecture allows more efficient coordination between the system operators and new market participants, by providing central access to flexibility providers to offer services to TSOs and DSOs, during balancing and congestion management procurement.
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.
The world envisioned by OneNet project will provide a seamless near real time integration of all the actors in the electricity network across countries. Its aim is to create the conditions for a synergistic operation that optimizes the overall energy management, while creating an open and fair market structure. This synergistic process is enabled by open IT architectures that guarantee continental level interoperability.
OneNet vision is based on three main pillars:
- Definition of a common market design for Europe
- Definition of a common IT Architecture and common IT Interfaces
- Verification of the proposed solutions in large field tests
ITwinERGY introduces a first of its kind Demand Response Framework, which enables the realization of novel business models, allowing electricity retailers and local energy communities to participate in energy markets under the role of an aggregator and in this way facilitate consumer representation in energy markets and flexibility transactions.
EUROPEAN DYNAMICS has undertaken to establish cooperation with projects supported under the H2020 umbrella, in order to make good use either of the experience gained during the project’s implementation phase, utilize tools and technologies developed or further analyze and reclaim their results towards achieving more accurate results during TwinERGY’s implementation phase.
EUROPEAN DYNAMICS will develop a social network platform to compare energy use between regions, neighborhoods, etc. as well as to provide incentives to consumers for a more effective participation and engagement. Finally, it will contribute in the data management layer development and integration activities, based on its wide involvement in interoperability practices in the energy domain.
BD4NRG vision is to unlock and exploit the economic potential of big data to enable improved operation for all the stakeholders in the energy value chain. This will be achieved through creating and deploying an elastic energy analytics reference framework, which includes a high-velocity flexible elastic data capture and management optimized stack coupled with effective near real time cross-domain and cross-stakeholder reusable data analytics specifically tailored to the extreme-scale smart energy grids environments.
BD4NRG platform creates the basis for new tools, systems and products that can create value from a digital electricity network. It is an enabler for new digital entrants to the electricity sector. BD4NRG will be rolling out innovations that meet the needs of European and global markets, regarding the integration, the processing and the exploitation of cross-sectorial big data for smart energy grid.
