The project aims to design, develop and demonstrate a set of tools to integrate the emerging decentralized ecosystem of RES and flexibility systems into the existing European energy system, efficiently and cost-effectively, to create a more stable, secure, and sustainable smart grid, with special attention to extreme weather conditions.

VPP4Islands aims to facilitate the integration of renewable systems, accelerate the transition towards smart and green energy and help Islands to exploit energy efficiency potential and innovative storage approaches, foster the active participation of citizens and become self-sufficient in energy, while reducing costs, GHG emissions and reliance on heavy fuel oil to generate power, and creating new intelligent business, growth and local skilled jobs.

TwinERGY will introduce a first-of-a-kind Digital Twin framework that will incorporate the required intelligence for optimizing demand response at the local level without compromising the well-being of consumers and their daily schedules and operations. TwinERGY enables positive changes on how citizens and communities consume energy by empowering them to track their energy use and to proactively participate in the market.

The project aims to develop next-generation energy service applications for demand response, home automation, and convenience. It focuses on creating innovative demand response mechanisms, improving consumption forecasting through advanced models, leveraging digital twins for flexibility, and designing profit-sharing business models. It also seeks to support a regulatory framework to accelerate pattern-based demand response adoption.

SDN-microSENSE intends to provide a set of secure, privacy-enabled and resilient to cyberattacks tools, thus ensuring the normal operation of EPES as well as the integrity and the confidentiality of communications. DN-microSENSE aims at providing and demonstrating a secure, resilient to cyber-attacks, privacy-enabled, and protected against data breaches solution for decentralised Electrical Power and Energy Systems (EPES).

The ROBINSON project focuses on decarbonising industrialised islands by integrating renewable energy sources, storage technologies, and innovative energy management systems. Key objectives include developing a flexible Energy Management System (EMS), optimising renewable energy integration, biomass and wastewater valorisation, and validating innovative technologies. Measurable outcomes include reduced CO2 emissions, improved energy reliability, and new business opportunities. Research areas encompass energy system optimisation, renewable integration, and hydrogen technology advancement, aligning with European sustainability and decarbonisation goals.

The project focuses on enhancing energy autonomy and efficiency in urban areas through the establishment of energy islands empowered by citizen communities. Key objectives include maximizing renewable energy integration, fostering community engagement, and enhancing economic viability. Measurable outcomes include increased energy autonomy levels, community participation rates, economic attractiveness of renewable systems, and replicability potential across Europe.

The energy market is rapidly transforming and so is the role of the consumer. Yesterday’s passive consumers are central actors in today’s energy markets. As new prosumers, energy markets can benefit from their generation, consumption, and storage capabilities. The EU-funded ReDREAM project will enable the effective participation of consumers and prosumers in the energy market.

The project aims to offer a cyber-shield armour to European EPES infrastructure enabling cooperative detection of large scale, cyber-human security and privacy incidents and attacks, guarantee the continuity of operations and minimize cascading effects in the infrastructure itself, the environment, the citizens and the end-users at reasonable cost.

The project provided a seamless near real-time integration of all the actors in the electricity network across countries with a view to creating the conditions for a synergistic operation that optimizes the overall energy management while creating an open and fair market structure. This synergistic process is enabled by open IT architectures that guarantee continental-level interoperability.