Objectives

The project aims to deliver a comprehensive set of results to advance the energy landscape. 

Expected Outcomes

• A Social Science Framework complemented by innovative multi-dimensional incentives to encourage energy citizens’ participation in a consumer-centric energy and demand response market.
• AI-based consumers clustering and market segmentation algorithms enhancing understanding and engagement.
• An interactive decision support tool and facilitation services, for consumer activation and energy community planning.
• The establishment of an Energy Data Space compliant digital backbone for consumer and community-level data-driven activation, interoperable DR, and privacy-preserving federated learning.
• A peer-to-peer digital marketplace for tokenized energy and non-energy assets evaluation and reciprocal compensation.
• Data-driven services and apps for energy efficiency and activation performance management, optimizing consumer activation at both the local community and aggregated levels.
• Edge monitoring hubs that will automate demand response management, contributing to grid operation and active participation in electricity markets.
• A Business Sandbox to explore novel sharing economy and social innovation-based business models.
• Methodologies and guidelines for the setup, upscaling, and replication of energy communities, ensuring a holistic approach to community-centric energy initiatives.

Impacts

Economic:

• 13-15% cost reduction in the energy bill for activated energy consumers.
• 15% increased energy efficiency.

Technological:

• Harmonise and extend existing automation-oriented standards (e.g. Family if IEC standards), business DR standards (OpenADR2.0), ontologies (SAREF), and languages (EFI).
• 45% increased energy data sharing by active consumers after 5 years.
• 10 new data-driven services to facilitate consumer activation and market participation.

Societal:

• 30-35 energy communities created, set up, and/or upscaled/replicated after five years from the project starting date.
• >1500 consumers engaged and >1000 consumers activated.
• 40% average yearly increase of the share of consumers energy market participation via energy communities.
• > 500 active consumers engaged in automated DR.
• 15-20% carbon emission reduction in the areas of the 6 pilots due to increased decentralised management of energy infrastructures.