BlueBird

To achieve the EU's Green Deal and sustainability targets, its power grid has seen a drastic increase renewable energy resources. This causes balancing the electricity supply and demand to be ever more challenging and calls for increased flexibility in the electricity system. Hence, flexibility schemes lie at the core of the EU's holy grail to realize the required energy transition.

BlueBird focuses on unlocking such energy flexibility from buildings, and thus will deliver a comprehensive and validated toolset, to fully allow competitive adoption of buildings as energy flexibility assets. BlueBird's toolset will build on standard ontologies to support a smooth integration of services towards energy market players (i.e.,TSO, DSO, aggregators) while maximally aligning with end-user's (i.e., building managers, occupants) requirements and acceptance criteria.

Objectives

The project has 5 key objectives:

1. Provide multi-carrier flexibility services for buildings, integrating energy and non-energy carriers, empowering end-users with control.
2. Facilitate the flexibility trading between build- ings and the energy market stakeholders.
3. Evaluate BlueBird in 7 demonstrators with residential, public, commercial, office and industrial buildings.
4. Maximize adoption based on (1) business models and successful value networks, and (2) a set of feasibility studies for on-site storage and renewables.
5. Deliver a highly replicable, standardized, benefit-demonstrated Replicability Package.