Energy Market Design and Flexibility
Regulations Working Group: Energy Market Design and Flexibility (Annual Report 2022) (May 2023)
The BRIDGE Regulatory Working Group fosters knowledge sharing among HEU and H2020 projects affected by or addressing different regulatory aspects in the Energy domain. In the last years, several topics have been addressed, resulting in most cases on specific reports that can be shared not only within the BRIDGE community but with a larger audience. The BRIDGE Regulatory working group is currently composed of 63 projects.
Regulation Working Group: Annual report 2021
Regulation Working Group: Annual report 2021 (May 2022)
The report describes the main action undertaken by BRIDGE Regulatory Working Group, author of the document, during 2021. Among the main solutions adopted, the Working Group proposed a new mechanism to deal with the constant internal staff rotation, facilitating the continuation of activities by new projects joining the initiative. Moreover, the Working Group examined how best practices and regulatory recommendations from the projects could support the activities of the Action Plan for the Digitalization of the Energy Sector.
Guidelines for implementing the prescribed technology
In this report, the Scalability and Replicability Assessment (SRA) is described as a solid methodology to support EU research projects on quantification of their replicability and scalability potential. Along with this methodology, the Scalability and Replicability Task Force defined a common repository for helping projects in implementing the guidelines included. The common repository and the SRA are included in the EIRIE platform of European Commission.
BRIDGE Action#3
BRIDGE Action#3: Interoperability of flexibility assets 2.0 (May 2022)
The report produced in 2022 by the Data Management Working Group offers updates on the development of Action #3, which focuses on Interoperability of flexibility assets. The extensive work carried out from 2020 to 2022 resulted in a list of six findings and recommendations, mapped to the areas of the Digitalisation of Energy Action Plan (DoEAP), under development by the European Commission.
Interoperability of flexibility assets
The report, prepared by the Consumer & citizen engagement working group in 2022, describes the development of the working group's activities, based on the 2020-2022 work plan, with the ultimate goal of creating a structured, cross-cutting understanding of the role and methodologies of engagement in European R&I projects.
BRIDGE Action#4
BRIDGE Action#4: Contribution from BRIDGE projects to standardisation (May 2022)
After analysing standards development organisations and standardisation topics, in this report the Data Management Working Group proposes a list of topics, findings and recommendations associated with the potential creation of a BRIDGE standardisation user group. The document identifies 4 main topics: (1) Internal Co-ordination; (2) External Co-ordination; (3) Standardisation Topics; (4) Standardisation Topics Management; and proposes associated findings and recommendations for each of them.
BRIDGE Action#1
BRIDGE Action#1: Set up a use case repository 2.0: Data Management Working Group (May 2022)
Pursuing the initiatives undertaken within Action #1, the Data Management Working Group describes in this report the continuation of activities aimed at the development of a use case repository. In particular, this document deals with the validation process of the repository, for which all projects were invited to test the tool and send feedback to improve it in new versions. Moreover, the report describes the status of the repository, next steps and conclusions, including information about the potential integration of the repository with other platforms.
Exploration of citizen engagement methodologies in European R&I projects
The report, prepared by the Consumer & citizen engagement working group in 2022, describes the development of the working group's activities, based on the 2020-2022 work plan, with the ultimate goal of creating a structured, cross-cutting understanding of the role and methodologies of engagement in European R&I projects.
Action #1- Set up a use case repository
Use Case Repository, Action #1- Set up a use case repository: Data Management Working Group (April 2021)
The final output of this report, drafted by the Data Management Working Group, is to describe the Use case repository that they developed under the Action #1. The repository is meant to be an easily accessible tool to align new BRIDGE projects started recently with ongoing or completed ones. The repository serves as a foundation for future research activities process and allows support for new use case formats to be added without modifying the existing configuration.
Economies of Energy Communities
Economies of Energy Communities: Review of electricity tariffs and business models (April 2021)
The report drafted by the Energy Communities and self-consumption Task Force focuses on the economic aspect of energy communities, which is split into two parts: (1) electricity tariffing and the potential link between the implementation of a local flexibility market and energy communities, encouraging increase share of renewable energy generation through energy communities; and (2) business models and services offered by energy communities and wider collective energy actions across the EU. In total, 20 Member States are reviewed to show the variation and similarities across EU.
