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Giuseppe Gabriele researches how MPC and RL can optimize EV charging despite uncertainty.

On October 6-7 the BlueBird consortium met in Poznan, Poland for the sith project plenary meeting at the premises of PCSS and Enea Operator.

BlueBird’s Barcelona pilot uses a SmartBoard to shift EV charging toward renewable-energy periods, enabling smarter, more flexible, and user-engaged charging.

Mona Marie Bielig’s keynote at the Zählerfreunde Community Event shared BlueBird’s research on household energy flexibility.

At ICAP 2026, Seeburg Castle University researchers led a symposium on real-world environmental psychology experiments, featuring BlueBird project research and their new energy-transition field-trial evidence framework paper.

Publication of the paper "Quantifying the regulatory impact on Renewable Energy Community performance in Austria and Spain" in the scientific journal Energy Policy.

The University of Stuttgart is combining digital twins with a data-driven physical testbed to safely validate AI-based energy flexibility strategies for water pumping systems.

Presentation of BlueBird on the GSM 2026 Conference in Luzern, Switzerland.

WeSmart’s first Nexgen user webinar brought together 50 participants to showcase its energy community platform while highlighting how user engagement, knowledge sharing, and collaboration are key to turning innovative flexibility solutions into scalable real-world impact.

Presentation of the paper Forecasting what Matters: Decision-Focused RL for Controlled EV Charging with Unknown Departure Times by Giuseppe Gabriele on ACM e-Energy 2026.

Presentation of the paper The Cost-Emissions Trade-off Under Network Constraints by Kyril Kaufmann on the EEM26 conference.

Participants at the BlueBird Project session during the ECEEE Summer Study 2026 agreed that buildings can provide valuable, low-cost demand-side flexibility for the energy transition if policy frameworks better integrate them into energy system planning.

Bluebird evaluates the economic value of building flexibility by developing a Cost–Benefit Analysis framework and by analyzing how benefits, costs, and responsibilities are shared among the different stakeholders.

On May 19-21 the BlueBird consortium met in Copenhagen, Denmark for the fifth project plenary meeting at the premises of DTU.

Sonja Klingert highlighted on the 2026 Smart Greens conference that making buildings effective active participants in energy grids requires managing both technical and social flexibility.

Modeling the flexibility potential of the cold storage system of the Bad Hindelang Prinz-Luipold-Bad hotel

White paper describing how the DSO interface enables interoperable, semantic communication between energy markets, flexibility services, and building systems.

At Austria’s Lange Nacht der Forschung, BlueBird showed how everyday energy-use flexibility can support the energy transition and highlighted the importance of public engagement in science.

Sonja Klingert introduced the BlueBird project to the audience of the ECOEMPOWER conference “Uniting People and Practices Driving One Stop Shops for Energy Communities”.

Exciting progress is being made on the Trading Manager service developed within the project. The system enables the negotiation and management of building energy flexibility, acting as a bridge between the pilot interface and energy market frameworks.

How do we ensure that the people living and working in buildings are genuinely engaged with flexibility solutions and not just subjected to them?

On February 4 and 5 the BlueBird consortium met in Bad Hindelang, Germany for the fourth project plenary meeting in the beautiful hotel and pilot site Prinz-Luitpold-Bad.

The EU-funded BlueBird project has reached its first anniversary, celebrating twelve months of rapid progress toward integrating flexibility services into seven different pilot building typologies.

BlueBird was proudly showcased at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2025, one of the world’s leading events for urban innovation.

BlueBird has been submitted for the go!ODS Recognitions in the categories of Environment and Economy

Matthias Strobbe presented BlueBird at the final conference of the InEExS LIFE project, titled “The Future of Energy Efficiency: Insights and Replication from InEExS”.

In September Mona Bielig shared insights from BlueBird at two international conferences.

On September 23 and 24 the BlueBird consortium met in Stegersbach, Austria for the third project plenary meeting and a visit to the nearby waterworks of Oberwart.

Mona Bielig and Celina Kacperski presented BlueBird research at the 2025 International Conference of Environmental Psychology.

On June 16, Dr. Melanie Heck presented BlueBird on the 19th Symposium and Summer School on Service-Oriented Computing.

From May 21 til May 23 the BlueBird consortium met in Brussels for the second project plenary meeting and for several pilot visits.

Prof. Chris Develder gave an invited talk on the Sustainable Electric Power Generation under EU Conditions workshop, highlighting a number of AI techniques that will be used, improved and validated in BlueBird to make buildings truly flexible assets.

We are proud to be part of the Smart Energy Cluster and were delighted to participate in the 3rd Collaboration Workshop of this dynamic network of 30+ EU projects, all working together to accelerate the clean energy transition across Europe.

On Tuesday March 25 and Wednesday March 26 several BlueBird partners attended the BRIDGE General Assembly 2025.

Last month, the Horizon Europe project BlueBird kicked off, aiming to revolutionize the use of energy flexibility assets in the electricity domain by harnessing cutting-edge AI and data solutions.

Creating a toolset for the competitive adoption of buildings as energy flexibility assets.