ENPOWER power in our hands

ENPOWER will design, develop and demonstrate SSH-driven methodologies, interactive and closed-loop tools and data-driven services for energy activated citizens and energy-secure communities towards a citizen-centric energy system. We combine leading edge ICT with social / behavioural dimension, and with sharing economy and value stacking governance and business models, to deliver:

• A Social Science Framework for energy citizens activation and innovative multi-dimensional incentives for citizens’ participation in a consumer-centric energy and demand response (DR) markets;
• AI-based consumers clustering and market segmentation algorithms;
• Interactive tool and facilitation services for consumers ‘activation’ and energy community planning;
• Energy Data Space as the digital backbone infrastructure to support consumer and community-level data-driven ‘activation’, and interoperable automated privacy and sovereignty-preserving DR;
• P2P DLT/Blockchain digital marketplace for tokenised energy and non-energy assets valuation and reciprocal compensation;
• Data-driven services and apps for energy efficiency, sharing and activation performance management;
• Consumer activation optimised management, considering local community management vs aggregated management (to support local grid operation and active participation in electricity markets);
• Edge monitoring hubs for automated DR;
• Business Sandbox with novel sharing economy and social innovation -based business models;
• Methodologies and guidelines for evaluating different energy community setups, including upscaling and replication.

ENPOWER will validate and replicate the overall social, technological, organisational/business framework along 6 pilots (covering different geographical and socio-economic contexts) to increase local (and system-level) energy efficiency, while at the same time aiming at increasing local security of supply, through consumers activation and community-level aggregation.

Expected Outcomes:

• Demonstrate in real life interactive communication and support tools to engage citizens in the energy transition and to support them throughout the process of creating, constituting, and developing an energy community, that are developed and fine-tuned based on field-tests
• Engagement of distributed active consumers and energy communities at broad scale, including through innovative incentive mechanisms
• Enabled new market roles and market participants
• Enabled automated participation
• Residential and SME related DR contributing to increased level of flexibility and to the development of new flexibility products
• Identified drivers and rules beyond marginal pricing which can steer the transactions within the energy communities
• Developing mechanisms to support the creation, growth and capacity building of energy communities

HAEE’s role:

• Regulatory/Legal framework gap analysis
• End user / business requirements
• Co-design the ENPOWER data-driven consumer-centric services
• Consumers engagement and social acceptance assessment (Task Leader)
• Preparation of the Greek pilot – Chalki island
• Awareness to the interested public/media and overall outreach (Task Leader)

Participants:

1. ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION (EL) - Coordinator
2. Dst – Design Strategy Technology (IT)
3. INESC TEC - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIADE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES, TECNOLOGIA E CIENCIA (PT)
4. FUNDACION CARTIF (ES)
5. COMSENSUS, KOMUNIKACIJE IN SENZORIKA, DOO (SI)
6. EUROPEAN DYNAMICS LUXEMBOURG SA (LU)
7. AUDENCIA (FR)
8. REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT (BE)
9. ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH (ICLEI EUROPASEKRETARIAT GMBH) (DE)
10. UNIVERSITAT BASEL (CH)
11. BLUEPRINT ENERGY SOLUTIONS GMBH (AT)
12. OURPOWER ENERGIEGENOSSENSCHAFT SCE MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNG (AT)
13. COOPERNICO - COOPERATIVA DE DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTAVEL CRL (PT)
14. WATT-IS SA (PT)
15. Cooperativa Eléctrica do Vale D'Este CRL (PT)
16. Energy Community of Chalki "Chalkion" (EL)
17. ELLINIKI ETAIREIA ENERGEIAKIS OIKONOMIAS (EL)
18. GREEN ENERGY AGGREGATOR SERVICES SA (EL)
19. PARITY PLATFORM IDIOTIKI KEFALAIOUXIKI ETAIREIA (EL)
20. EPRI EUROPE DAC (IE)
21. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK (IE)
22. DC Six Technologies Limited (IE)
23. MOL TEIC (IE)
24. ESB INNOVATION ROI LIMITED (IE)
25. Békéscsaba Energia ESCO Kft. (HU)
26. Enasco Cleantech Alliance LLC. (HU)
27. MONTAJES ELECTRICOS CUERVA S.L. (ES)
28. TURNING TABLES SOCIEDAD LIMITADA (ES)