Pilots

Karno (a Belgian zero-carbon district heating developer) will upgrade its 4th generation low-temperature (35°C) network to improve integration in the electrical power grid. This includes (1) increasing flexibility by adapting to user behavior, (2) leveraging additional flex from storage and local PV, and (3) expanding the heating network.

The metropolitan area of Barcelona (AMB) aims to leverage flexibility from public building systems (heat pumps for heating and/or cooling, gas-based heating) and EV chargers, to (1) optimize self-consumption of local PV and solar thermal, and/or (2) enable participation to the Iberian electricity markets (e.g., TOU-based).

As an energy aggregator, WeSmart wants to leverage EMS-based control within the energy community at the Tour & Taxis site in Brussels, Belgium. This will encompass (1) real-time data acquisition from end users' smart meters, EV chargers and 10k rooftop PV panels, (2) recommendation-based DR from end users, and (3) validating economic viability accounting for user behavior.

Enea Operator from Poland will enable dynamic management of its office building's cooling and heating system, fed by a municipal heating grid. This will encompass (1) predictive monitoring and control of the office's and social rooms' thermostats, and (2) providing users with thermostat settings accounting for their comfort.

Enea Operator will maximally exploit flexibility of a high/medium voltage power station's cooling and heating, with minimal impact on comfort and assuring safety of technical staff. We will realize (1) non-intrusive monitoring and AI-based predictive control, and (2) dynamic heating and cooling management to unlock flexibility.

The Austrian flexibility aggregator and service provider Energie Kompass will market Wasserverband Südliches Burgenland's water works building's battery and operational flex. This will entail (1) upgrading the automations system of the water tanks, (2) optimizing its operation and scheduling exploiting the tanks as energy storage, and (3) improving VPP capability and functionality.

EWH, as a vertically integreated electricity supplier/DSO, generates electricity from local renewables and manages supply. EWH will exploit BlueBird technology to better manage its largest customers (i.e., hotels) to (1) identify and forecast their load and flexibility, and subsequently, (2) turn the hotels into smart-grid-ready buildings.